The Perfect Wedding Reception: Stylish Ideas For Every Season
June 26, 2010 by admin
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The Perfect Wedding Reception: Stylish Ideas For Every Season
Once couples decide to say “I do” there are dozens and dozens of decisions to be made. It’s hard to know where to begin and even more difficult to fit all the dozens of details together into one wonderful event. Thankfully Maria McBride-Mellinger, author of acclaimed bridal books, stylishly illustrates just how to create a dreamy reception that will be forever memorable. The Perfect Wedding Reception features exquisite wedding celebrations designed by Maria McBride-Mellinger that capture the mag
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Review by A. Maxham for The Perfect Wedding Reception: Stylish Ideas For Every Season
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I wanted to get some sort of book for ideas because all that the brick-thick bridal magazines do is show you wedding gown after wedding gown with the occasional bridesmaids gown thrown in for variety. I wanted ideas for place settings, place cards, flower arrangements, cakes, favors, and even menus and was getting frustrated.When I ordered this book, I was a little concerned because it is advertised as a reception for each of the four seasons. I’m having a winter wedding, so I was thinking “Oh Great- I’m only going to be able to use a fourth of this book.” I was WRONG! Generally speaking this book manages to give you ideas for how to give your wedding (or any formal event) the *feel* of the season, but also gives you detailed ideas that may generalize throughout the year. For example: The spring bouquet with some modification would be beautiful for my December bouquet. In addition to the seasonal advice, there are sections called “Fine points” dealing with general details such as “confections” (desserts), table accents (for formal, semi-formal and informal occasions), flowers, etc. The ideas that seem to be lacking in the literally foot-tall stack of bridal magazines are here in this book.Yes, some of the ideas in the book are sorta pricey, but some are less pricey and very do-it-yourself (e.g. Juniper shrubs in galvanized tin buckets, covering the topsoil with moss and tying a silver mesh ribbon around the trunk- VERY cute, and highly do-able).I highly recommend this book! I do wish there were a book for each of the seasons, but until then, don’t be afraid of this one!
Review by andrea stieff for The Perfect Wedding Reception: Stylish Ideas For Every Season
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As a special event floral designer, I have a HUGE library of books from all over the world and this is the BEST one I’ve found so far.I constantly stress to my clients to look at the big picture when planning a wedding, not just one aspect at a time, such as flowers, colors, linens…This books shows how all the elements of a wedding can work together to give you a wonderful event that looks fantastic. Use this book as a jumping off point for your own wedding, it is full of inspiration,and you can adapt many of the ideas to suit your own color scheme and setting.This book is a MUST HAVE for Brides and anyone in the wedding business.
Review by Kristy M. for The Perfect Wedding Reception: Stylish Ideas For Every Season
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This book has wonderful pictures of four weddings, one in each season. The pictures are truly extraordinary, but they are almost exclusively of these four weddings, so there aren’t tons of different ideas for each season, rather one “theme” idea for each season. One thing that disappointed me was that her summer wedding was a casual one on the beach, so if you want more formal ideas for a summer wedding you are out of luck. Like other reviewers have said, most of these perfect presentations would be completely out of a lot of people’s price range, but you could definitely pull a few ideas that you loved from her spreads and make it work on a smaller budget. By and large this is a good supplementary book on reception ideas, with tons of photos and some good “idea” text (as opposed to “how-to” text.)
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In preparation for our wedding, I ordered just about every book that I thought looked appealing and got great reviews, literally HUNDREDS of dollars’ worth of books! This and its companion, The Perfect Wedding, stood out among the rest.I liked it for the following reasons:
1. Beautiful pictures of original ideas. There were lots of pictures and lots of ideas. Obviously you aren’t going to find a book that has absolutely every idea for flowers or cakes (it would be HUGE!), but the ones that this book included were very nice.
2. Good mix of pictures and text. About 3/5 of the book was pictures and ideas. It was divided up into 4 sections representing the 4 seasons, so you could get ideas for your specific season (getting inspiration from the best of your season is a great idea!). The other 2/5 of the book was resources with phone number, addresses, websites, etc., so you could actually get ahold of the people who put together the beautiful things in this book or go to the places that would give you more of a similar idea.
3. Not just for the wealthy. Granted that I personally am not too concerned with books geared for my budget, this book gave ideas for all ranges of budgets. Of course, some of the cakes, flowers, etc., must have been expensive, but she also gives ideas that are more budget-conscious.I would recommend this book, no question. It’s better than Colin Cowie’s, on par with Martha’s, and definitely much better than Vera Wang’s.Buy this book!
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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!