For the Bride

by Colin Cowie

Book Overview

From celebrity stylemaker and wedding guru Colin Cowie comes the ultimate style guide for the modern bride. Like its companion volume, For the Groom, For the Bride offers expert guidance on everything... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385334427
• ISBN13: 9780385334426
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Not intimidating, very informative and inspiring.

This book is as much guidance on how tobe an elegant lady as it is a wedding planner. His advice ranges from subtle to downright blatant, so there's very little the open-minded bride will miss. Even if you already have every wedding book in the entire world, I feel this one is necessary.Regarding the etiquette advice, I like Cowie's book the best. Many books for "fabulous girls" and "what no one tells you" etc tend to deal with things the bride has already left behind her: dating, shacking-up (how else to put that?), and how to manage breakups easily. The Cowie book has much more class, and is really about how to personify graciousness and elegance. It's an important lesson to learn as you are getting married, for as Cowie says, you are showing the world who you are now, in these all-important moments. I would not recommend getting the companion to this "For the Groom" unless you are sure he will want to read it. I bought the two books together and my fiance has yet to do anything but sneer at it. However, I am reading the groom book as well, and find it amusing, as different topics are covered in each book, and it wouldn't hurt to have the bride read the groom book and vice versa. This would make a wonderful engagement gift, and though Cowie is text-heavy in the book and does not show picture after picture, I appreciated that, as I did want to read a book about planning and etiquette, rather than look at yet another picture book. One tiny annoying thing, there's a lot of name-dropped from celebs, but sometimes it's warranted. He tells you great ideas from celeb weddings, which do serve to make you think creatively. This book stands out from the crowd in great ways.

Amazing

I cannot express how much I enjoyed reading this book. It was instructional and had some very clever ideas I had not seen in the other fifty wedding books I've read in the last few months, however the photographs were even more impressive. I highly recommend this to any bride, although especially to those attempting to plan a semi-formal-formal elegant wedding.

ESSENTIAL

It is so easy to get swept away by the monumental task of planning a wedding. Reading a few pages of Colin's book each evening before sleep has been a wonderful reminder of what really matters: cherishing my husband-to-be, caring for him and for our families, being warm and gracious. Being engaged is a wonderful opportunity to shine, while all eyes are smiling on you, and to set the tone for your future life together as a couple.Full of useful suggestions and gentle humor, Colin's book is an inspiration.

The Book For Brides-To- Be

I am a wedding consultant and was fortunate enough to get an autographed copy. "For the Bride" is beautifully written and a must for all brides that are interested in socially accepted and gracious living. I found it very inspiring and practical. I highly recommend it to all my clients. It is a book you want to run out and buy the minute the ring is on the finger. It is the top of the line in wedding reading.

Absolutely gorgeous and practical!

Exactly what every bride needs to know about planning her perfect wedding - style, etiquette, logistics. Even though I can't afford to hire Colin to plan my wedding, I now know how to apply his unique approach. This book is everything the other planning books are not - gorgeous and fun! It feels like I'm treating myself to a special meeting with Colin Cowie, not trudging through the tedious details. FOR THE GROOM is even better - everything you wished your fiance already knew. They look so great next to each other!