Instant Weddings

Author : Jennifer L. Shawne
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781452111445

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Instant Weddings by Jennifer L. Shawne Pdf

How to pull off a stylish dream wedding when time is of the essence? Answers abound in Instant Weddings, the hip and illustrated handbook for aspiring quicklyweds who want more than a Las Vegas moment. Where most wedding guides emphasize perfection and glamour, Instant Weddings celebrates creativity, ingenuity, and flexibility, proving that you can have your fabulous last-minute cake and eat it too. Handy checklists cut to the chase, condensed timelines keep the couple on the fast track, and practical tips pulled from real-life weddings make for an indispensable resource. For anyone who suspects that a wedding planned in 16 months has nothing on one planned in 16 weeks, Instant Weddings offers instant gratification.

Author : Jane Merrill,Chris Filstrup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313392115

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The Wedding Night by Jane Merrill,Chris Filstrup Pdf

This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night—its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages. Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between the sheets." Covering a kaleidoscopic array of cultural expressions, this unique study zooms in on what's quintessential and shares insights into the history of intimacy through the ages. The book traces the formalization of the wedding night in the ancient Near East and classical world, provides many examples of historically significant unions in European and American history, and describes the lively variety of traditions leading up to the present. Spicing their narrative with many piquant quotes from contemporary sources, the authors explore the rich cultural context for the wedding night—processions, royal rituals, apparel, food-related traditions, and pranks—throughout Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Separate chapters examine sex guides, jokes, and the bed as a special conjugal space.

Author : Chrys Ingraham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135928568

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White Weddings by Chrys Ingraham Pdf

This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism. It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage. This second edition includes many new and updated features including: full coverage of the wedding industrial complex; gay marriage and its relationship to white weddings and heterosexuality and demographics shifts as to who is marrying whom and why, nationally and internationally.

Author : Lisa O'Connell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108485685

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The Origins of the English Marriage Plot by Lisa O'Connell Pdf

Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English literature and culture as well as feminist literary history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hearst Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1588163830

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Town & Country Elegant Wedding Planner by Anonim Pdf

Planning a wedding can be stressful, but brides-to-be know they can trust Town & Country to make the process easy and emphasize the cool, calm, and elegant. With this beautiful, invaluable planner, brides can keep track of the countless details that go into arranging the festivities. The package itself is lovely: it comes complete with a hidden spiral, 6 tabbed pages with pockets to hold everything from receipts to notes, a 3-piece cloth case, ribbon marker, and romantic photographs. Inside, sections cover prenuptial activities (such as wedding announcements, buying rings, and setting a budget); wedding attire and flowers; music and photography; the rehearsal, ceremony, and reception; and the honeymoon. On the lined pages, you can write down all the details of each stage: names, telephone numbers, description of services, estimates, and more. With advice, to-do lists, and the ultimate wedding timeline, this planner will help turn a dream into that special, perfect day.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195169218

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf

A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.

Author : Amy Jacobellis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105101465

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200 Job Ideas - Start Working Today by Amy Jacobellis Pdf

Author : Ada Calhoun
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393254808

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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun Pdf

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”

Author : The Project on Vegas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375234

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Strip Cultures by The Project on Vegas Pdf

On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America’s most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—is refashioned as an element of decor.

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472557513

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Women in Shakespeare by Alison Findlay Pdf

This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives.

Author : Bridal Guide Magazine,Diane Forden
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780446566131

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Bridal Guide (R) Magazine's New Etiquette for Today's Bride by Bridal Guide Magazine,Diane Forden Pdf

With more than 2.5 million weddings per year in the U.S., this guide is an absolute necessity when it comes to answering not only customary etiquette questions, but also the thornier, more modern problems that today's brides face. Bridal Guide is the #1 bridal magazine for female readers 18-34. The As a foremost expert on all things wedding-related, the editor-in-chief of the magazine -- and the author of this book! -- has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today show, and E! Style, among others. This guide is committed to helping you find bridal market promotions, including launch parties, tie-ins with advertisers, contests, and bridal fashion shows. This is the third book in Bridal Guide's wedding series. For more from Diane Forden, check out How to Plan the Perfect Wedding...Without Going Broke! and How to Choose the Perfect Wedding Gown.

Author : Rebecca Mead
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440634024

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One Perfect Day by Rebecca Mead Pdf

Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.

Author : Albert J. Mortiz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453599457

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BEYOND SAN ANDREAS by Albert J. Mortiz Pdf

A group of professionals joined together for a camping trip and develop their skills, alertness and knowledge. Camping trip was disrupted by a big earthquake and their daring escape, filled with fun and hard work to freedom. The every day scenario at work; the pressure, fun, problem solving, love and devotion. The night intruders attacked one of the Team member and how they captured the criminal. The celebration, the traditions and superstition about marriage. The wedding party and stories about European travel, an experience filled with adventure and laughter. The choices and decisions of their life, the betrayal, and trust about love and devotion. The wedding and the spectacular survival from death and the final destination; to oblivion.

Author : Annabel Beeforth
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781613748145

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Style Me Vintage: Weddings by Annabel Beeforth Pdf

Originally published: London: Pavilion Books, 2013.

Author : Jennifer L. Shawne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Weddings
ISBN : 081184854X

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Instant Wedding Planner by Jennifer L. Shawne Pdf

Going to the chapel . . . tomorrow? Saving time doesn't mean forfeiting originality, creativity, or panache. Many busy brides today don't have stacks of time for planning wedding. With the Instant Wedding Planner, there's no reason why a stylish, inventive, and fantastic wedding can't be accomplished in nearly any timespan.