Modern Wedding: Creating a Celebration That Looks and Feels Like You

I love this book. The book has so much information.

This is a beautiful book and will be very helpful for planning a beautiful and personal wedding day.

This book is completely out of touch with reality. The author introduces the book by saying that thankfully people are shifting away from mass produced weddings that people can hardly afford… then goes on to recommend manolo blahnik and Jimmy Choo shoes. She recommends staying away from “bridesmaid’s fashion lines altogether, due to poor quality and lack of originality” and to instead stick with designer dresses. She recommends starting a workout routine 6 months before the wedding (don’t want to be fat on your wedding day!). A gift suggestion for the groom is a Rolex Submariner watch (that’s a $9k watch). Also problematic is that almost all of the people photographed in this book are white, thin, heterosexual, and in their 20’s-30’s. There is nothing “modern” about these weddings. They are simply the weddings of the top 5% in this country (most wealthy and privileged). If you plan to pay $75k or more for your wedding this may be the book for you. It wasn’t for me.