The Wedding Expert: 400 Things You Need to Know to Plan Your Big Day

From a true expert and icon in the wedding industry, the editor-in-chief of Today’s Bride magazine, comes the ultimate handbook for brides planning their big days.

In The Wedding Expert, Bettie Bradley, a wedding industry veteran and the editor-in-chief of Today’s Bride magazine, shares with brides and grooms more than 400 things that, over the course of her thirty-year career, she’s learned are vital to the wedding planning process and to keeping everyone involved happy. Whether it’s announcing the news with loved ones and colleagues (hold off on that Facebook status until Mom knows!), planning your budget and negotiating with vendors (email with your vendors where possible–paper trails are good, just in case), finding interesting ways to marry your family’s traditions with your modern style, deciding the size of the wedding (they who pay get final say!), or remembering to show appreciation to your loved ones, Bettie Bradley offers practical, thoughtful, and expert advice to make every wedding day a success.

Sweetly designed, bursting with over 400 tips and ideas, and featuring sample budgets and invitations, quizzes, and even Bettiequette–wedding etiquette, Bettie Bradley-style–The Wedding Expert is a charming and indispensible guide for the biggest day of your life.