The Everything Wedding Book by Shelly Hagen - an Ok Reference Guide, but Only for "traditional" Brides

I have the Revised and Expanded Second Edition of The Everything Wedding Book. This edition came out in 2000 but there are various editions which are all similar. Now.. on with the review!

Conclusion
I decided to start with the end to summarize my thoughts! This book is a good book, but I feel it's better for the bride that wants to follow traditions and do everything JUST RIGHT. However, if you are a bride like me, you may end up annoyed by a lot of what they want you to do, or how they tell you what you "should" do. I believe in traditions and etiquette to a point, but I don't like being told that you must do something a certain way as I believe each bride should do what she feels is best. So while this is a good reference to everything you'd ever want to know about the "right way to do things", you should be prepared to disagree with some of their thoughts. If you want the perfect wedding, and feel it must be perfectly traditional as well, than this book will work for you. If you feel a perfect wedding can be whatever you wish it to be, than this book still works as a reference but not as an end-all answer to all of your questions.

With that, here's some info on the book itself and why you may want to pick up a copy, or probably just save your money :)

The Layout
This 370 page book is broken into 4 parts focusing on Getting Started, The Wedding Ceremony, The Reception and Beyond, and finally Worksheets. Each section is further broken down into chapters that are supposed to cover every single aspect of you wedding. Some aspects are more detailed than others which seems to be based on how important the book thinks that aspect is. They seemed to choose the appropriate sections to expand on so I'm not complaining about that.