The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner: Worksheets, Checklists, Etiquette, Calendars, and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend From the author of The Knot Complete Guide to Weddings in the Real World, a thoroughly modern, must-have workbook to help you pull off the perfect wedding.With so many nerve-wracking details to tend to, planning the perfect wedding can seem an impossible task. Now The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner guides you step-by-step through the countless stages of planning your big day. Packed with easy-to-follow checklists and worksheets, and the… Product details and pricing info |
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53 Customer Reviews Posted
- Excellent Book for future Brides
- I bought this book for a future bride.and she loved it. It had places for all kinds of information that a future bride will need for planning..a place for phone numbers and names of companys and people your during business with.
There was also informaion about the way things are done with the reception
and other event planning.
It served her very well in planning her wedding. She also liked the fact that it was full sized...not a pocket planner. - 2006-12-27, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Unreasonable
- I've read three different wedding planning books, and this one is absolutely the worst. I actually took this book quite seriously when I first began planning my wedding, but then after going through all the different tasks involved with planning the wedding, I re-read the book to see if I missed anything or could do anything better. After spending a few hours re-reading this book, I was shocked at all the misleading information in it... not to mention the snobbiness of the person/people who wrote it! I was so mad I almost threw this useless book straight in the garbage!
For example, the "average" costs and price ranges of nearly every item they list is WAY off. I think they must assume that every bride is going to spend $100,000 to get hitched... and that mommy and daddy are paying for everything (they even give you a "tip" advising you to "act" grateful for your parents' money).
The tips they give for couples on a budget are the most harmful and misleading part. We are planning a wedding on a budget, as are most brides and grooms now-a-days who aren't the children of millionaires. For example, in response to one of the questions asking if it is okay to have a cash bar at the reception, they advise you to NEVER EVER EVER have a cash bar, and, if it is absolutely necessary to save money, limit the number of hours your guests can get alcoholic beverages. HUH? So a bride and groom, trying to save money, will now think they are bad hosts because The Knot told them they have to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars they do not have just so their guests can get drunk.
Another thing, as I mentioned before, is that their price estimates are way off. For example, they lists wedding gowns as being between $700 and $15,000. While that can certainly be true, you can find a WIDE selection of wonderfully beautiful wedding dresses for FAR less than $700! In fact, there are entire chains of wedding stores in which almost every dress is under $500! The problem with this is that some poor unsuspecting bride is probably going to pay way more for her dress (a dress she will only wear once, mind you) than she needs to, just because this book told her the low range for a wedding gown is $700. (Just so you are aware, future brides, I bought my wedding gown, a Gloria Vanderbuilt a-line gown with a five-foot train, all lace above the waist and along the hem of the dress, for $250 at David's Bridal. Do NOT be fooled by the price ranges in this book! You CAN and WILL get a beautiful dress that everyone will love for FAR less than this book estimates!)
Also, they are missing important information in the photography section... the digital revolution. They talk about black-and-white film... FORGET FILM!!! Nearly every photographer now uses both film and digital, and oftentimes a digital camera will give you as-good or BETTER quality than film. Plus, you can choose from black-and-white, full color, partial color, or sepia on any photo taken. Also, in the video department, practically no one puts their wedding footage on videotape anymore. This book is completely out-of-date.
Wedding invitations do NOT have to be done by a professional. While it's nice to have beautiful-looking invitations, you CAN get this by making them at home. Invitation kits can be purchased for very little money, but they have everything you need to create beautiful invitations in a very short amount of time with very little effort on your part. You can do this for a large, formal affair, not just a "small or less formal affair" like this book suggests. And with the number of fonts you have on modern computers, and people's tendency to have bad handwriting in an age where everything is typed, why on EARTH would you hand-write a hundred and fifty address envelopes, like this book advises?!? Like I said, out-of-date.
Honestly, you'd be better off figuring it out yourself than listening to anything written in this book. There are VERY few actually useful tips in here and most of it is common sense (if you're not an idiot, that is). This book is written by snobs who think that every wedding must be a fairytale wedding that costs tens of thousands of dollars (if not hundreds of thousands) and provide horrible advise for brides who have no experience with organizing a wedding and are trying to do so without going bankrupt before they even begin their lives together with their new husbands. AVOID! - 2006-08-14, 117 of 120 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- I have never received this book
- I ordered this book in June and here it is August and I have never received it. I never have any problems with the private dealers they are prompt and efficient. Don't know why it should be any different from amazon. Last tracking I could find on it was in Phila. some where. I don't live in Phila., nor do I have time to spend tracking. If I had that kind of time I would just go to the store.
- 2006-08-13, 3 of 18 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Just what I needed . . .
- The book was very helpful in beginning to plan my wedding. It is in workbook format so you can be sure that everything is covered. What I found extremely helpful was a list of questions in each section to ask about your ceremony site, reception hall, wedding dress consultant, florist, DJ, band, photographer, etc. etc. The book covers the fine details that may be overlooked when overwhelmed with wedding planning. I highly recommend.
- 2006-07-01, 4 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Wedding professional recommendation
- I am a bride and a videographer in the North Jersey/New York areas and I purchased this guide for my own wedding. I found it useful however it wasn't as practical as a few other guides. It's a great book to get started.
Janice Robinson
WeddingsByJanice.com
Video Productions
"Where Passion Meets Art" - 2006-06-09, 4 of 10 people found this review helpful, Rated:
