- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (Jan 2 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553380826
- ISBN-13: 978-0553380828
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.5 x 20.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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#227,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #85 in Books > Home & Garden > Weddings > Planning
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Product Description
From Library Journal
Here's a guide for couples willing to break some traditional rules. Behan and Shaw, who eloped with his wife in 1997, offer a short history of elopement and talk about reasons modern couples elope: stress reduction, finances, and the desire to be unique. They define elopement today as anything other than the big, traditional wedding and discuss options ranging from minimally planned escape elopements to some of the hybrid wedding-elopement choices like surprise weddings, dinner-party weddings, destination weddings, and theme weddings also covered extensively in Robin Kring's Storybook Weddings (Meadowbrook, 1998). Sidebars feature happy couples discussing their elopements, while a quiz helps readers identify which elopement option is right for them. Sections on communicating the big decision to others and elopement etiquette are quite helpful. More than half of the book discusses where to wed, offering tips on web sites, wedding packages, and favorite, romantic, and exotic locales. For all collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Can't cope? Elope!
Admit it. You always thought eloping sounded kind of romantic, right? Too bad everyone expects you to have The Big Wedding -- the kind you always thought you wanted. So now that you're engaged and knee-deep in wedding planning, why are you secretly wishing you could just fly off to a tropical island and say your I do's in your bathing suit?
Well, you can! There are many different ways to elope -- and not all of them involve running off in the middle of the night. These days, "eloping" is anything other than a traditional wedding -- from a steps-of-city-hall ceremony with just the two of you, to a fun-filled "destination wedding" with your family and closest friends.
Let's Elope is filled with creative ideas for exchanging your vows in a memorable, personalized way that won't necessarily cost you a fortune -- or your sanity. Let's Elope includes:
* A brief history of weddings -- and why people first began to elope
* A quiz to help you decide if eloping is right for you
* Inspiring anecdotes from real-life couples who chose to opt out of a traditional wedding
* Elopement etiquette, including how to break the news to your family and friends
* Information on how to plan destination weddings, country weekend weddings, and surprise weddings
* Up-to-the-minute addresses, phone numbers, and Web sites for the world's top elopement spots
* Tons of ideas about what to do with all the money you saved!
Admit it. You always thought eloping sounded kind of romantic, right? Too bad everyone expects you to have The Big Wedding -- the kind you always thought you wanted. So now that you're engaged and knee-deep in wedding planning, why are you secretly wishing you could just fly off to a tropical island and say your I do's in your bathing suit?
Well, you can! There are many different ways to elope -- and not all of them involve running off in the middle of the night. These days, "eloping" is anything other than a traditional wedding -- from a steps-of-city-hall ceremony with just the two of you, to a fun-filled "destination wedding" with your family and closest friends.
Let's Elope is filled with creative ideas for exchanging your vows in a memorable, personalized way that won't necessarily cost you a fortune -- or your sanity. Let's Elope includes:
* A brief history of weddings -- and why people first began to elope
* A quiz to help you decide if eloping is right for you
* Inspiring anecdotes from real-life couples who chose to opt out of a traditional wedding
* Elopement etiquette, including how to break the news to your family and friends
* Information on how to plan destination weddings, country weekend weddings, and surprise weddings
* Up-to-the-minute addresses, phone numbers, and Web sites for the world's top elopement spots
* Tons of ideas about what to do with all the money you saved!
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Couples that've eloped can often pinpoint the exact moment when the idea hit them: the night they came home late from work and cringed at a stack of wedding planners on their bedside table; the phone call from Mom or Dad asking them how the invitation list was coming along; or the end-of-month bill-paying session when they just couldn't make things add up. Read the first page
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Couples that've eloped can often pinpoint the exact moment when the idea hit them: the night they came home late from work and cringed at a stack of wedding planners on their bedside table; the phone call from Mom or Dad asking them how the invitation list was coming along; or the end-of-month bill-paying session when they just couldn't make things add up. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful for non-traditional wedding planners,
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This review is from: Let's Elope: The Definitive Guide to Eloping, Destination Weddings, and Other Creative Wedding Options (Paperback)
This book was very helpful for dealing with the issues of a non-traditional wedding. I would highly recommend it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great choice with tons of options!,
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This review is from: Let's Elope: The Definitive Guide to Eloping, Destination Weddings, and Other Creative Wedding Options (Paperback)
My fiancee & I became engaged in July '02 - we'd been living together and buying a home was a bigger priority than getting married. We finally decided it was time to tie the knot, but didn't want to spend a ton of money on a wedding we both didn't want. I ordered "Let's Elope" and found that our options were limitless. From cruises, to Vegas, to Disney World, the options were endless - this book provided many resources in terms of finding a location, researching our options within a location, and even ways to make the ceremony personal! A word of caution: this book is not a wedding planner, it is a resource guide. If you want a wedding planner, go search for Martha Stewart. But if eloping is on your mind and you are considering it as an option - definately invest in this book. We did, and have no regrets...we had FUN!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book---despite the mistakes!,
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This review is from: Let's Elope: The Definitive Guide to Eloping, Destination Weddings, and Other Creative Wedding Options (Paperback)
I loved this book until I tried to call some of the companies listed. Quite a few of the numbers listed were inaccurate. I realize that vendors do change their numbers, but in these cases the numbers were wrong by only one or two digits. Fortunately, most of the people answering these numbers knew about it and gave me the correct number.
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