Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets To Creating Your Dream Wedding

Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner: Experts' Best Secrets to Creating Your Dream Wedding

Review"Allen helps brides tame the chaos and get to the altar on time." -- BRIDES AND BOUQUETS 2005 BOOK SMART Good advice to guide brides to the altar and beyond By Chandra Orr Copley News ServiceOne of the most popular wedding planners on the market. If Monica Geller("Friends")bought a wedding planner, this would be it. -- Jewish News of Greater PhoenixUse the tools and techniques the experts use for stress free planningEvery wedding moves through the same series of planning steps, but the time,money, energy and emotion invested can vary tremendously. Couples who usethe tools and techniques the experts use are prepared to do what matters,when it matters most. With the logistics in order, they have the freedom toenjoy the events leading up to their special day as well as time to relaxand plan their future life together.As they work their way through the planning stages, couples will find thattheir initial stress over planning their wedding day has disappeared.Couples committed to creating a memorable, meaningful wedding day will cometo view the wedding planning process not as an ordeal to get through, but asa fun experience.Judy Allen is a professional event planner and shows brides a step-by-stepapproach to minimize the complexity of planning the wedding day. When anevent is planned in these 10 stages, whether over six weeks or a year orlonger, the planner will always be in control of the process, will not goover budget and will find the whole process relaxed and stress free.The 10 stages:1. Visualization: Wedding-Day Dreams2. Decision Making: What Matters Most3. Designing a Realistic Blueprint4. Choosing the Perfect Wedding and Reception Site5. Selecting the Right Wedding Vendors6. Before You Sign on the Dotted Line: Questions to Ask7. Organizing Wedding-Day Timelines and Wedding-Day Flow8. Wedding-Day Flow Sheets9. Wedding Supplier Previews and Wedding-Day Rehearsal10. On-Site Wedding-Day OrchestrationAbout the AuthorJudy Allen is one of the world's leading authorities on staging, event. life experience and lifestyle design and the bestselling author of ten books for the professional, business and consumer markets. Allen, a master of creative design, has flawlessly executed successful special events - corporate, social, celebrity and wedding - for up to 2,000 guests at a time in more than 30 countries around the world. She has designed and produced memorable events such as Disney's worldwide theatrical opening-night gala for Beauty and the Beast, and the orchestration of Oscar-winning director Norman Jewison's 25th anniversary celebration for Fiddler on the Roof. Highly skilled in staging events that are strategically designed to be one-of-kind experiences and a master of transforming the energy of an event environment by engaging the senses with trademark primary design principles, Allen has worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, presidents and their executive staff, VIP and celebrity clients around the globe to create, implement and oversee their corporate business and social events.The many diverse events that Allen has designed and executed extend from complex one-day events to elaborate arrangements of theme productions taking place over the course of a week. These events ranged from very exclusive VIP events to multimillion-dollar, multimedia fantasy extravaganzas that involved high-tech stage and show productions.Allen, and her 2jproductions partner, Joe Shane, are now bringing their dynamic creative energy, innovative style and perceptive insight to home, life and lifestyle design and world class resorts around the world through Sensual Home Living