Wedding Sanity Savers: How to Handle the Stickiest Dilemmas, Scrapes, and Questions That Arise on the Road to Your Perfect Day - Softcover

Atkins, Dr. Dale; Gilbar, Annie

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9780767918749: Wedding Sanity Savers: How to Handle the Stickiest Dilemmas, Scrapes, and Questions That Arise on the Road to Your Perfect Day

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ISBN 10: 0767918746 ISBN 13: 9780767918749

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2005

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As a bride, you worry about finding the perfect dress, choosing the location for the reception, and keeping your wedding expenses within a certain budget. But beyond the straight ABCs of planning a wedding lie the more personal, emotional issues that can threaten to unravel your perfect day: jealous friends, bratty bridesmaids, complicated extended families, and pre-wedding jitters. Thankfully, help is here! From wedding and relationship experts Dr. Dale Atkins and Annie Gilbar comes Wedding Sanity Savers—the ultimate troubleshooting guide for the sticky situations that arise on the road to happily ever after.

From the day you get engaged until the day you say “I do,” Wedding Sanity Savers provides fresh, frank advice that you won’t find in other wedding books. With over 300 Q&As from real brides that tackle issues including body image, friends and exes, divorced parents, in-laws, merging religions and cultures, money questions, planning mishaps, sticking up for yourself, and more, Wedding Sanity Savers gives you the strategies you need to make tough decisions, finesse difficult scenarios, stay true to yourself, and keep smiling throughout it all.

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From the Inside Flap:

In their careers at WeddingChannel.com, Dr. Dale Atkins and Annie Gilbar have seen it all: the prenuptial meltdowns, bridal party fiascoes, financial woes made worse by an out-of-control catering budget. Now they share their valuable expertise in a book that goes beyond the mundane checklists of traditional wedding planners. Addressing the psychological road bumps that go with tying the knot, Wedding Sanity Savers shares questions and answers from Dr. Dale's unique online advice column and gets at the heart of what couples can do to ensure smooth sailing throughout the process.

Full of helpful strategies presented in a handy Q&A format, Wedding Sanity Savers covers the emotional hurdles of getting hitched, including what to do about domineering in-laws, feuding parents, the alcoholic relative who embarrasses herself at every family gathering, merging religions and cultures, body image, money squabbles, and dozens of other sources of strife. Gilbar and Dr. Dale also include entertaining stories of how celebrities (including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Demi Moore, and Jade Jagger) addressed tricky situations that arose at their weddings.

A rescue manual like no other, Wedding Sanity Savers turns jitters into smiles of relief.

About the Author:

A renowned psychologist and author, Dr. Dale Atkins is the creator, writer, and editor of the “Sanity Savers” column on WeddingChannel.com, as well as the host of Dr. Dale’s Life Issues, a talk-show series on PBS. Annie Gilbar is the host of the hit series Annie’s Eye on the Home Shopping Network, and was formerly one of the founding editors of InStyle magazine and the Executive Vice President and Editor in Chief of WeddingChannel.com.

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