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Top Ten Things Every Bridezilla Needs-#3
Bridezilla Must-Have #3 Essential Bride Literature. Forget all the "Best Bridal Bargains" and "Dirt Poor Wedding Planning" propaganda. Those are for less blessed and beautiful brides and have nothing to do with you! Bridezillas only need one book to make sure their bridal bidding is completed: Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride. This fabulous book explains how Kelly's amazing style rocketed her to box office fame, and eventually caught her the eye of a bonafide prince! When your Groomie-to-be is giving you grief about the loads of money you've spent on the wedding, just cite this hard-nosed literary source as an example of how you could be doing so much worse - and anyway, doesn't he think you deserve to be treated like the princess you truly are? Plus there are tons of great tips on how to have a bona fide bridezilla princess wedding. Brilliant bubble bath reading!
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Bridezilla Reviews: A Thousand Days In Venice, by Marlena De Blasi
We love a good escapist romance, at least outside of the fainting women and swashbuckling men bodice-ripper genre. There's nothing quite as escapist and romantic as a tale of falling in love with a Venetian stranger and flying to Italy to become his bride, as in A Thousand Days in Venice, by Marlena De Blasi, a true story of a woman who does just that. A delicious read for any time of year, this one works especially well during the cold winters when you'd like to curl up in front of a fire in a palazzo of your own. The luscious-sounding recipes even got us interested in cooking for a hot minute - luckily, that urge passed, and we just set to Citysearching for the nearest Italian restaurant. And if you think your own wedding planning has been trying, revel in the madcap adventures as Marlena navigates the vast and mysterious world of Venetian marriages, from underage seamstresses to bishops insistent that a Catholic wedding will take months. As the Italians insist, of course, the struggle only makes it sweeter. Read this one when you need to get away from it all, and when you're finished, start leaving this page up on your fiance's computer whenever he leaves the room.
Read It, Love It: A Thousand Days in Venice, by Marlena De Blasi
Chasing Harry Winston: The Watered-Down Cosmopolitan of Chick Lit
Touted by the publisher marketing department as "Sex and the City-eque", it turns out that is a very accurate description of Chasing Harry Winston, Lauren Weisberger's newest offering to the literary world and follow up novel to her major best seller The Devil Wears Prada. As someone who devoured The Devil Wears Prada the first time and then went back for second and third helpings over the years, you could definitely say I am a fan of Ms. Weisberger’s work.
Unfortunately Chasing Harry Winston hits a little too close to Sex and the City (SATC) for this reader. The three main characters can be drawn directly to the cast of SATC, minus Carrie Bradshaw (and who wants a SATC that's minus Carrie Bradshaw?) The result is a pretty formulaic and predictable story line. There were bright spots of banter, bonding and some downright sensible advice for the capturing and releasing of menzzzz, but overall this novel falls right into the marketing department's promotional "Beach Read of 2008" to be forgotten about come September.
Overall the novel is a fast read, designer names sprinkled in here and there to give it that glamorous feel and while I do heart SATC, seeing a diluted version of it print is like drinking a watered-down cosmopolitan. However, it delivers what it promises, young Manhattanites trying to make the most of who they are and what they have to give, leaning on each other for support and learning to be happy for one another. Bonus points for a cover that couldn't be more Bridezilla if it tried!
The Only Wedding Planning Book Worth Buying
A lesser bride might be content with a slim volume of trendy wedding tips, but Bridezillas will not settle for anything less than the godmother wedding planning book. Plus, carrying this considerable tome will give you those elusive Angelina arms you've been wanting for your strapless dress.
A Few Wedding Planning Gems Inside:
- Never Plan a Wedding During Daylight Savings Weekend
- Bridal Bodyguards-Mindy appoints a lookout to make sure her bride doesn't see any other bride on the Big Day. We concur!
- As you scout for your location, don't forget to case the bathroom situation and figure out if there's enough power on site to supply your whole event.
- Use photo booth photography to make your Save the Date cards.
- Don't forget your wedding shopping underwear! (Trying on wedding gowns is not a private experience)
Not blowing your budget on bridal magazines and picking up this timeless tome instead? Bridezilla calls that a "Weiss'' Investment. Bridezilla Bonus Tip: This book makes a great heirloom to hand down to future bridal generations.
BookZilla Review: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
Summer reading is supposed to be like a hot summer fling -- easy, fun and purely for entertainment. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched strives to be all of those things, but with cliche characters and plot that reads like adolescent fiction, it unfortunately falls flat. We suggest bridezillas tote a different book to the beach house this summer.
Written by Meg Cabot (author of The Princess Diaries), the third installment in the Queen of Babble series centers around weddings. It takes place in a posh, French-style bridal shop in Manhattan. While Lizzie is busy retrofitting vintage gowns for wealthy brides, her mind is on her own engagement to Luke -- a "good on paper" guy with a lot of cash, but not a lot of heart.
Enter Chaz - Luke's yokel best friend who seems to have a thing for Lizzie, Ava Geck - a Paris Hilton-meets-Britney Spears trainwreck, and Lizzie's supportive best friend Shari and you have something that's been done before. Queen of Babble Get Hitched is the literary equivalent to an episode of "Grey's Anatomy," - it's entertaining, but not earth shattering, and the characters get on your nerves. The best part about this book are the wedding tidbits, love quotes, and wedding disaster advice at the beginning of each chapter.
Despite its predictable plot and poorly developed characters, the book brings to light an important lesson for bridezilla: before you go after what you want, wedding or otherwise, you have to decide what that something is. Lizzie has to decide if she wants a three-carat Cartier ring from a man she might not love, or no marriage at all from a cargo-pants-clad guy who makes her heart flutter. Seems like bridezilla can have too many choices after all!
