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Title: The Perfect Wedding Reception : Stylish Ideas For Every Season by Maria McBride-Mellinger ISBN: 0-06-019298-4 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 05 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 (19 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: GROSSLY OVERPRICED; DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
Comment: The book is gorgeous -- until you realize that it is 99% photos and vague ideas, with no directions. Although not expecting step-by-step walk-throughs, I was unprepared for the lack of any hints on how to accomplish the projects shown. For example, it wouldn't have required very much space to mention the techniques used to make the favors. Okay, the reader would have to borrow library books or order books to show them how to make the projects, but at least they would have known where to start. [Money] for THIS? No way; this book arrived today, and has already been repackaged to return to Amazon tomorrow. If you have [money] you don't want, donate it to charity. Don't waste it on this!
Rating: 1
Summary: OSTENTATIOUS IDEAS FOR EVERY SEASON BUT NOT EVERY BRIDE
Comment: If Kennedy or Vanderbilt is your last name and I mean The Kennedys and The Vanderbilts, if Bill Gates is your wedding sponser or if you are a member of the Royal Family then this book is for you. If you live in the real world you may not want to bother reading a book that would embarrass even Martha Stewart. Even if your wedding budget isn't that of a small nation you can uncover some ideas to use on a realistic day of bliss. But I would leave out the "Honeymoon bed out in the open" next to a swamp unless you are marrying Jeff Corwin or the Crocodile Hunter. Look at page 116 and see if you would like to spend your wedding night there but McBride-Mellinger says "far from sight of the area's inhabitants". It's also far from sight of a bathroom,room service and Walgreen's to get some mosquito spray and close to sight for anything with four or six legs or even eight hairy ones that hopefully would be four groomsmen rather than a spider. As in all the weddings in the book, the cakes are works of art, the prettiest I've ever seen (pgs 106&107, 214&215 "a masterpiece" and the chapter on Confections) and the flowers are magnificent. If you read this book make sure to have a dictionary for all the $2.00 words as it must have been written with a word processor in one hand an a Thesaurus in the other. Also, a really good cook book will come in handy to try and figure out what everyone was eating. McBride-Mellinger is even so helpful as to tell you how to dress the "help" as if in this day and time the guests even know what to wear, where the "help" should go to the bathroom, and to prepare food incase they work more then four hours. But do show respect because Maria McBride-Mellinger has a very high opinion of herself and a much over inflated ego. "The Perfect Wedding Reception" is that: perfectly ostentatious,pretentious,over the top and prefectly not for middle class America. The book is a "perfect" waste of a good tree. For over 30 years I have been a floral artist and wedding planner with the experience of over 500 weddings in all parts of the US and Europe.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of Money!!
Comment: There are better books out there. This is a big waste of money. The book was not what I was expecting.
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Title: Wedding Details by Mary Norden ISBN: 0688174302 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 26 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Best of Martha Stewart Living : Weddings by Martha Stewart Living Magazine ISBN: 0609604260 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 07 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Perfect Wedding by Maria McBride-Mellinger ISBN: 0062586637 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Title: Weddings by Colin Cowie ISBN: 0316246611 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Bouquets:A Year of Flowers for the Bride by Heckman/Jung ISBN: 1556709668 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Pub. Date: 15 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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