Frontier dresses, children's tiara's, $400 shoes...OH MY!!!
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Laura Wolf's 'DIARY OF A MAD BRIDE' catalogs the count down to Amy Thomas' big day and all of the craziness that ensues before hand. Beginning with Amy being a bridesmaid in one of her best friends wedding and swearing that if she ever got married she would not become a "bridezilla" as her friend had. The reader watches as Amy go from a level headed bride-to-be to an almost crazed "bridezilla" herself!
Wolf has written a hilarious account of how stressful planing a wedding can actually be. I laughed out loud numerous times and definitely recommend this book for anyone currently planning a wedding (surely you could use a laugh to de-stress a bit). Also, for all of you brides-to-be, this would make a great tag along gift for your loyal bridesmaids who've stuck with you throughout all the stages of planning and barely avoided any of your phone calls!
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for any girl who dreams of the big day
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i throughly enjoyed this book even though i'm not married and i'm not engaged you dont have to be any of this things to enjoy this book. you will laugh out loud at this book its that good! it goes through all the things you would woory about when your getting married and it's all from a girls point of view. absoloutly fantastic!
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For any girl who's been told she's not the marrying type
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Having just got engaged myself I felt as though I could totally relate to the central character in the book and her never ending plight to find the perfect wedding shoes and plan the perfect day (on a budget). From start to finish the book is hillarious from the dilemma over the maid of honour through to Bunny the invite printer. The author writes with such humour and honesty that the book is an absolute must for anyone about to get married and even more so for those who think they never will.
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A must for anyone contemplating a wedding
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As a newly wed of three months I only wish I could have read this book before my big day. Then I could have taken comfort in the fact that I am not the only person who ever became a wedding obsessed freak! From the proposal disappointment to the fear that even your nearest and dearest are trying to sabotage your big day, this book has it all and I laughed out loud throughout. Initially I was disappointed that this book was set in the US and braced myself for tales of a bride wondering how to spend several hundred thousand dollars in a Sex in the City style designer wedding extravaganza, but this was about a normal bride, with a normal budget and all the normal hiccups. Being of a certain age, all my friends are taking the plunge and they will all be receiving copies of this book so that Amy (and Prudence) can reassure them that this is just a passing phase of insanity and all will resume to normal soon. This book could so easily have degenerated into slush and over romanticism, but it didn't (thankfully). However Ms. Wolf's last few paragraphs had an old married woman like me feeling all misty eyed. This is a must read for anyone who's ever been married ( or more importantly, anyone who has ever tried to arrange a wedding)
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Sassy, self-deprecating and smart
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I found this book on my girlfriend's shelf and picked it up out of idle curiosity. Three days later I put it down with a contented sigh. Amy, the Mad Bride, is a wonderful character, very New York, very vital and the story Laura Wolf weaves around her is beautifully constructed. Always believable and always funny, this is one of the best books I've read for a long time.
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