The Nearly-Wed Handbook: How to Survive the Happiest Day of Your Life

by Dan Zevin

From the very beginning, you knew something was weird. On the first date, there were no awkward silences. No early warning signs of psychopathology on the second. By the third date, you were struck... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380975556
• ISBN13: 9780380975556
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Worth reading one more time!

I finished reading the book in one day, and I felt ... enlightened and some what relaxed towards my wedding planning. (I was doing 99% of the planning!) But this was 6 months before my wedding, and I read it again just one month before. Again, the book has helped me to relieve some of the stress. Now, 8 months later, I looked back and I knew that day was wonderful. My friend is getting married next March, and I am recommending this book to them.

Put Wedding Planning in Perspective, Humorously

Thank you Dan Zevin! Not only has Zevin helped me find the humor in planning my own wedding, but he's also helped me find a little more sanity in my life. After all, you can't take wedding planning to seriously when it's just one big circus.This book is a MUST READ for any bride- and groom-to-be.I would have prefered that this book was a requirement during our "Engaged Encounter" weekend, rather than listen to hokey married couples that have been married soo long, that they're soo far removed from the perils of today's modern wedding planning. I could relate to soo much of what Zevin talked about, it was hilarious!My Fiance was a bit put-off by my urging him to read this book until I started reading portions of it out-loud to him (the announcement to the parents and the choosing the reception site portions), only then did he relate to Zevin's sarcastic humor and experiences which "were no way related to him and his lovely wife Meg." He couldn't stop laughing.I have lots of friends that are getting married, and I'm going to urge that they get this book (it's a quick, easy and pleasurable read)...if they don't, I'll buy it for them.

Hilarious engagement gift

This is a great gift for any couple contemplating the plunge -- assuming they still have a sense of humor after the first trip to the wedding planner. I especially appreciated the budgeting worksheets!

Like a warm heating pad for muscle aches

This book is the perfect companion to stressful and confusing wedding planning. Whenever the planning and budgeting gets to be a bit too much, I open this book and laugh out loud at Dan's satirical version of the absurdity of the wedding planning ordeal that so many of us put ourselves through. When we're looking at books of invitations or choosing from myriads of flowers, and my fiancé starts to get that spaced-out look in his eyes, I can resuscitate him with this book to bring him back to Earth with a hearty laugh. I'm buying this for all of my engaged friends for Christmas.

This is a fantastic, hilarious, well-written book.

Dan Zevin is at least on a par with pulitzer prize-winning humorist Dave Barry. This book is a must-read for anyone who plans on getting married, and even for those who don't. His book "Entry Level Life: A Complete Guide To Masquerading As A Member Of The Real World" is just as funny and should be a part of everyone's collection as well.