Wedding Book of the Week: Occasional Therapy for The Wedding

By Dr Ellyn Gamberg, this book is subtitled “9 Sessions for Your Sanity and Survival” and apparently offers techniques, exercises and skills to help a bride, groom, parents or siblings and friends work together “while a wedding is planned and a lifetime together is launched”.

So that’s probably quite useful then.

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

Related: Why Women Shouldn’t Marry | iDo – Planning Your Wedding With Nothing But ‘Net | Questions to Ask Before Marrying

Wedding Book of the Week: So Why Have You Never Been Married

This week’s book is a bit different. So Why Have You Never Been Married: Ten Insights Into Why He Hasn’t Wed, is by 49-year-old, never-married, Carl Weisman.

According to Weisman’s online survey of 1533 respondents of more than 40 never-married heterosexual men, the number one reason given (48%) why they have yet to marry is they believe they haven’t found the right person. For the remainder, 13% just never made it a priority or attached any importance to marriage, 7% enjoy being single and 8% expressed no desire to ever get married. Weisman’s book delves into these details and shares intimate stories from nearly three dozen men.

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

Related: Never say “Never the bride” | Why Women Shouldn’t Marry | His Cold Feet

Wedding Book of the Week: Why Women Shouldn’t Marry

Yes, I know this seems like an odd pic for a wedding site, but it’s good to know about these things, don’t you think?

In Why Women Shouldn’t Marry: Being Single By Choice, mother-daughter co-authors Cynthia S. and Hillary B. Smith point out the pitfalls of marriage and remarriage, reveal statistics that back up the current trend [to stay single], and recount the experiences of women of all ages who no longer feel marriage is the only way to go. Interesting.

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

Related: Single ring from Singelringen | Split by Suzanne Finnamore | Celebrity Pre-nups

Wedding Book of the Week: Weddings Can Be Murder

It’s a while since I’ve featured a wedding crime book so what do you think of this one – Weddings Can Be Murder by Christie Craig. Carry on over the cut where a book trailer can explain the plot better than I ever could.

Craig has another book called Divorced, Desperate and Delicious, so if this one doesn’t appeal, that one might!

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

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WEtv “puts the ‘we’ into ‘weddings’”

This video by Sarah Haskins mocks the ridiculous wedding shows on the US’s We Channel. For most of this video, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Until the “Future Vision” bit when I laughed until I almost cried. Completely brilliant. [via Jezebel]

Related: Bulging Brides – because the big day is still “pounds away” | Bridezilla – a guide to etiquette | BBC: The Big Day

Wedding Book of the Week: The Wedding Book by Mindy Weiss

I’ve just been ogling Mindy Weiss’s beautiful house in O At Home magazine (my guiltiest guilty pleasure) and had to check out her books.

Her latest, The Wedding Book – subtitled “The Big Book for Your Big Day” – covers everything from announcing the engagement to preserving the wedding flowers and is getting rave reviews on Amazon.

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

Related: Mindy Weiss bridal emergency kit | Mindy Weiss Wedding Organiser | The Greatest Wedding Tips in the World

Meg Cabot on her elopement

I love author Meg Cabot and I’ve really enjoyed her Queen of Babble series, in which the main character is a wedding dress designer. Meg, however, eloped. Watch her talk about it here:

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

Related: Debates – eloping | Brides on Film #9: Mia from The Princess Diaries: A Royal Engagement

Wedding Book of the Week: iDo – Planning Your Wedding With Nothing But ‘Net

Honestly, I can’t tell you how much the title of this book irritates me. I know I’m funny about these things, but “Nothing But ‘Net”? It should be “Nothing But the Net” surely! (And I come from the north, where people are likely to say “t’net” and it still bugs me!)

That aside, this book, by Christa Terry (editor of one of our fave blogs Manolo for the Brides), is, as you would imagine, a guide to planning your wedding using nothing but the internet. Start here at Bridalwave and you’ll be fine.

For more books, wedding-related and otherwise, visit our female fiction site, Trashionista.

Related: Be a green bride with the new Green Wedding Guide | How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Wedding Consultant & Planning Business | The Greatest Wedding Tips in the World