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Learn to COOK - Simple Stunning Weddings: Designing and Creating Your Perfect Celebration
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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.22
EAN: 9781584793656
ISBN: 1584793651
Label: Harry N. Abrams
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2004-11-16
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Studio: Harry N. Abrams
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The three biggest trends in weddings today are simplicity, personalization, and color. Wedding design expert Karen Bussen highlights these elements as she shows couples how to design their own weddings without going crazy or broke.
Simple Stunning Weddings is the first wedding design book to focus on the where of the wedding. Location is the first and most important decision brides and grooms must make: everything else flows from that. Bussen showcases 12 popular wedding settings, including the city loft, country inn, art gallery, botanic garden, and private club, and demonstrates how to make them extraordinary. With the site as the starting point, she creates unifying themes with color, flowers, and personal touches. She explains how to deal with vendors, how to spend the wedding budget, and when it makes sense to hire a specialist.
Sharing all her trade secrets, Bussen teaches the power of simplicity and the impact of color, which can be tailored to any budget, always to stunning effect: substituting cotton tablecloths for silk in the same eye-dazzling color combinations, for example, or creating striking flower arrangements using only one or two types of blooms. Whether for a barefoot union on a beach or a formal affair in a hotel ballroom, this fully illustrated, information-filled book is like having Bussen on hand as your personal wedding designer. AUTHOR BIO: KAREN BUSSEN is one of Manhattan's most exciting wedding designers. Her work has been featured in such magazines as Modern Bride, Martha Stewart Weddings, Home, Food & Wine, and Interior Design. In the past six years, she has designed more than 100 weddings.
ELLEN SILVERMAN's photographs have appeared in Charmed Bracelets and New Soul Cooking (both STC).
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Summary: Great book-- beautiful pictures!
Comment: This is a great book for the unusual or creative wedding setting- full of great pictures and great ideas!
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Summary: Did Not Want the Book to Finish
Comment: What caught my attention about this book is the simplicity of it all. Too often we see so many wham bam showstopping wedding creations. Yet, the author's creations were just as if not more stunning than the 'hooplah'. The author provided great tips and ideas. She eased the readers mind by focusing on the little things and not the overwhelming things. The point she brought out was that in the end the wedding is about two becoming one. It's about love. She provided simple tips on how to create beautiful settings. Sometimes less is more, and that was the gist of what I got out of this book. I highly recommend to any that are practical, yet seeking elegance and simplicity. You don't need elaborate centerpieces to create that special look. Even the simplest of things can exhibit much more beauty.
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Summary: Gorgeous Visuals
Comment: Simple Stunning Weddings has beautiful visual images to get the gears turning towards planning a gorgeous event. The book didn't meet up to my expectations as far as being a guide for designing & creating the "perfect celebration", but I definitely appreciated the ideas it gave me & will use this book as a visual guide for color schemes, floral arrangements, etc.
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Summary: Nice Photos, Unhelpful Text
Comment: I was hoping that this book would help me get creative and plan my idea wedding. Some of the photos were nice to choose color schemes, but I really found more luck with that on the internet. The book is geared toward helping you choose the type of wedding that you want. I had already chosen my venue, so most of the book was not applicable. I found the text to provide really common sense descriptions and I don't think that I would have found it to be helpful at any stage of wedding planning.
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Summary: Big Fan of Karen Bussen
Comment: The title says it all, lots of pictures, ideas and suggestions to host your own simple and stunning wedding. Gives good comparisons of different types of weddings, ie hotel vs tent vs home. I highly recommend it!
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