Found out about this book a few days ago, because I was looking up random wedding stuff online, after a conversation with my friend at Somebody else's wedding. And found a blog by this author. I enjoy filling my brain with useless bits of knowledge (useless in this case as I'm not getting married) and here I am with a copy of this book.

As a child, I always assumed one day I would have a big fairytale wedding, when I eventually met Mr Right and we got married. The older and wiser I have got led me to question my childhood assumptions. Also in recent years I have been to quite a few weddings and to be honest, they scare me. They are so totally not me. I came across this book (and associated website) after being at a very large, expensive wedding this Easter. There a girlfriend and I were saying that this really wasn't for us and discussing jokey elopement plans. Back home and sober, I made some interesting discoveries.

This book isn't quite what I expected. It is mainly about the authors own offbeat wedding, with snippets of collaboration from other couples that she researched for the book. I somehow thought I was buying a collection of lost of different wedding stories (with a chapter dedicated to each couples wedding kind of thing). But this book contains more useful and practical advice for planning your own wedding, using the authors experiences to guide you. I'm not actually planning on getting hitched in the near future. So not so relevant for me, but still and interesting read. I now know that if I EVER do get married, I think I just want to elope!

I also feel the book could have benefited from pictures. Perhaps lots and being a a coffee table book... I'm sure I remember reading that that was what the author was originally aiming for. I would recommend this book to any friend who is engaged or thinking about it.

Going to my first ever BookCrossing meet up. Should have been a picnic in Regents Park, but Mother Nature had better ideas. Now we are going for a pub lunch in the Allsop Arms near Marylebone/Baker Street. I have a large bag of books to share, so though it easiest to make release notes now (I really don’t want to bring any back). So go forth brave little books! Thanks for letting me read you. I hope you find many new readers to delight.

I picked the book up at the Allsop Arms meetup. As I am already married (and my wedding was so laid back and stress free I did not read this kind of books even on the run up to it) I only took this to wild release it. I know many a bride will love reading all things Weddings before their big day, so hopefully this book will be picked up by someone who will enjoy it.

I left this in the Wimbledon train station book swap shelf on platform 8.