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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Weddings zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/6/2005
1. The Wedding Guide for the Grownup Bride
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From Amazon.com: I'm getting married for the first time at age 43, I've got a three-foot shelf filled with wedding planners and guides euphoric friends and family members have purchased for me, and I'm starting to hate looking at all that bridal stuff. What's wrong with this picture? Now that I've read The Wedding Guide for the Grownup Bride, I know for sure: Nothing. I'm just typical a midlife bride, marrying a man who has been on his own for twenty years. We're not focusing on what we look like walking down the aisle. We're dreaming about family life and growing old together.
The Wedding Guide for the Grownup Bride is the book I needed to read. This is the book that's made me happy and excited and a good deal more relaxed about The Big Event. The first part, "Forget the Wedding, Prepare for Marriage," covers all the major issues that adults who are used to being sole decision-makers have to learn to collaborate on and get clear about--like finances and how much space one's belongings take up and whether to eat out or in. The author offers living proof that husbands and wives can make these adjustments with humor and grace.
The second part of the book covers the wedding
from start to finish, emphasizing above all else how it's not about image or
etiquette so much as it is about making choices--generally, with your future
husband at your side--that reflect who you are as individuals and where you
are in your lives. This may or may not correspond to a certain color of table
linen or type of centerpiece. One great bit of advice Christiansen has is to
focus on perfecting one or two aspects of the ceremony and reception that are
close to your heart--for some couples, it's music, for others, flowers or
photos. (No matter how busy you are, doesn't that sound like fun?) The third
section of the book covers life after the wedding, and it's a little sketchy
and lacking in authority compared to the first two parts--perhaps because the
author is still a newlywed. I only wish the Christiansen's were planning to
become parents. I'm sure the sequel to
Grownup Bride
would be great.
2. Anti-Bride Guide: Tying the Knot Outside of the Box
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From Amazon.com: I'm a recently engaged girl who is a bit tired
of the traditional (read: tired) wedding and the marshmallow dress. While
painfully browsing through the fluff at my local bookseller, I came across the
Anti-Bride Guide. I was saved. I
opened this book to find a validation of every feeling I have about
weddings--not that they're generally bad, but that I want my wedding to REALLY
reflect my relationship with my fiancé, my commitment to my friends and
family, and last but not least, be a rockin' party!
Anti-Bride Guide gives examples
of fun, eclectic weddings as raging parties, spiritual rites, intimate
communions, and everything in between. The questionnaires are very helpful in
nailing down exactly what I want, and the organization is fantastic. One other
thing I'm loving: the prevailing emphasis in the wedding industry--
buybuybuystuffstuffstuff--is absent in this book. Sure, there's a whole
chapter about your dress and tiaras, but I never have to take a reading break
to sweat about my budget! I'd recommend this book to anyone who is planning a
wedding, and just can't get inspired by Modern Bride or
Emily Post. It's a fun, creative, and
most importantly, personal look at what should be a fun, creative and MOST
IMPORTANTLY personal event.
3. The Complete Outdoor Wedding Planner
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From Amazon.com: Let nature be your wedding chapel with help from The Complete Outdoor Wedding Planner. Whether you're thinking about exchanging vows on a sandy beach, a majestic mountaintop, or simply the friendly confines of your own backyard, you can enjoy the elegant, breathtaking wedding you've always envisioned. Wedding expert Sharon Naylor takes you step-by-step through planning the perfect outdoor wedding day--from special and important considerations for outdoor locations to creating a fabulous reception under the stars. You'll discover an array of tips, hints, resources, and answers to vital questions, including:
"The Complete Outdoor Wedding Planner is the most comprehensive guide yet for those planning an outdoor wedding. She covers every detail and offers lots of smart advice so brides and grooms can enjoy a beautiful, worry-free celebration." —Diane Forden, Editor in Chief, Bridal Guide
1. The Wedding Singer: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]
Original Release Date: 1998
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From Amazon.com: Sounding like a flashback of the first few years of MTV, the soundtrack of The Wedding Singer starts as an intended goof and ends up quite listenable, thanks. While a couple of these songs (Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie" in particular) had already fallen off the cultural radar by 1985, when the movie's action takes place, what's most impressive is the staying power most of them hold. If anything, the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way" sounds even better than it did then, and of course "How Soon Is Now," and "Blue Monday" are classics that have transcended their era: Just ask Matt Pinfield. Or Adam Sandler. Or Morrissey.
Original Release Date: 1997
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From Amazon.com: My husband and I had a small elegant wedding (immediate family only). We wanted classy classical music for our ceremony. There were so many great songs on this CD that we had trouble choosing which ones to use! We settled on #1 (Hornpipe from the Water Music) and #16 (the traditional Wedding March). One would have thought the church was filled with a world-famous orchestra. I don't think anyone could go wrong with Classical Wedding if you want to use prerecorded classical music at your wedding.
3. Runaway Bride: Music from the Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK]
Original Release Date: 1999
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From Amazon.com: Ahh, the sounds of love. Hearing the soundtrack to the romantic comedy Runaway Bride, you'll get plenty of them. The Dixie Chicks, Eric Clapton, Martina McBride and Shawn Colvin all lend new tracks to this sometimes-rootsy, sometimes-pop compilation. U2's classic anthem "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" starts things off, but Cupid quickly strikes with McBride's "I Love You," Clapton's intimate charmer "Blue Eyes Blue," and Marc Anthony's "You Sang to Me." Miles Davis's gorgeous "It Never Entered My Mind" is the one surprise cut, but the new tracks are the real highlight here.
(1995) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
Ever since the late '70s when the Australian
New Wave was in full surge, Down Under directors have delivered movies that
often hit you like news from another planet. Offbeat characters, weird
narrative twists, and a tart mixture of laughs and catastrophe--this is the
juice that fuels such flicks as
Proof,
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,
Strictly Ballroom,
Heavenly Creatures, and most certainly
Muriel's Wedding.
Directed by P.J. Hogan (who would go on to helm the Hollywood hit
My Best Friend's Wedding), this little
gem follows tradition by featuring an authentic misfit: Muriel (Toni
Collette), a great overweight horse of a girl obsessed with getting married
and the music of ABBA. Appropriately, we first meet Muriel at a wedding, all
trussed up in a leopardskin number she's boosted for the occasion. When her
snotty peers insist that she give up the bridal bouquet to someone who might
actually get hitched, when one of the guests turns out to be a clerk in the
very store where Muriel ripped off her outfit--you gotta laugh, she's such an
unmitigated mess. A loser, her philandering politician father (Bill Hunter)
calls her--along with his doormat wife and his other couch-potato offspring.
But this movie's no exercise in geek-bashing. As Muriel takes up with feisty
Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) and moves from Porpoise Spit to the big city, her
good-hearted grin and zest for life draw us in despite hilarious gaffes and
mishaps. (Making out with a boy for the first time, Muriel suddenly finds
herself awash in styrofoam: the oaf has unzipped the beanbag chair instead of
her skin-tight leather pants.)
Muriel's Wedding
covers territory Hollywood would banish from a comedy--Rhonda's cancer, the
suicide of Muriel's mother, a marriage of convenience to an arrogant
athlete--yet, like its heroine, it never loses its sense of humor, its will to
move on to whatever good thing might happen next. Everyone in the
idiosyncratic cast is terrific, but it's Toni Collette's Dancing Queen
who makes
Muriel's Wedding
a cinematic celebration you won't forget.
(1993) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
This 1993 international hit by Ang
Lee is a funny and poignant story of a gay, Taiwanese-American man who goes to
some lengths to fool his visiting family that he's actually straight. The
results are far more complicated and entertaining than anyone could have
guessed. The film seems all the more rich now since Lee has become a major
Hollywood director: that same sensitivity and mild bemusement he brought to
such stories of manners as
3.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
(1994) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: A surprise hit and one of the highest grossing
films ever to come out of Great Britain, this effortlessly enchanting romantic
comedy finds confirmed bachelor Hugh Grant (Nine
Months) attending weddings with his single friends as they all
lament not being able to commit. Grant keeps running into an attractive
American (Andie MacDowell) at these festivities and begins a long-running
affair with her, even as he attends her own wedding, the funeral of one of his
best friends, and his own pending nuptials. Featuring a spirited supporting
cast including Kristin Scott Thomas (The
English Patient) as the acerbic friend quietly in love with
Grant, this touching and funny film with a mischievous sense of humor and some
truly heartbreaking moments is destined to become one of the classic romantic
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