Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Weddingvolume 2
ISBN: 9780520240087 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture--romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important...
The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage...
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216,43 zł |
A More Perfect Union: How I Survived the Happiest Day of My Life
ISBN: 9780743277372 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hana Schank had never given much thought to her wedding, or to marriage in general, for that matter. That, is until she found herself newly engaged and trying to plan the "Happiest Day of Her Life": spending weeks crafting save-the-date cards, worrying incessantly about every minute detail -- even matching her cocktails to her wedding colors -- and obsessively reading Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. Hana soon decides that if she is going to follow traditions like wearing white and walking down the aisle with flowers, she wants to know why. In her search, she turns up several interesting...
Hana Schank had never given much thought to her wedding, or to marriage in general, for that matter. That, is until she found herself newly engaged an...
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77,26 zł |
There Goes the Bride: Making Up Your Mind, Calling It Off & Moving on
ISBN: 9780787967482 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) There Goes the Bride is your personal guide to calling off a wedding-- maybe your own It walks the reader through the reasons, logistics, and emotions associated with breaking an engagement and provides down-to-earth advice, support, and encouragement from women who have been there. Rachel Safier-- the widely recognized expert on the topics of cold feet and broken engagements-- addresses all your concerns, including figuring out if it's more than just cold feet, dealing with friends and family who don't understand, giving back the ring, and more. Filled with stories from sixty-two...
There Goes the Bride is your personal guide to calling off a wedding-- maybe your own It walks the reader through the reasons, logistics, and ...
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87,64 zł |
Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual
ISBN: 9780805811414 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Using intercultural weddings as its focus, this volume examines what occurs when the signs and codes of different cultures come into contact and influence one another. It is aimed at scholars and advanced level students of interpersonal, non-verbal, intercultural communication and language.
Using intercultural weddings as its focus, this volume examines what occurs when the signs and codes of different cultures come into contact and influ...
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702,94 zł |
Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual
ISBN: 9780805811421 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Using intercultural weddings as its focus, this volume examines what occurs when the signs and codes of different cultures come into contact and influence one another. It is aimed at scholars and advanced level students of interpersonal, non-verbal, intercultural communication and language.
Using intercultural weddings as its focus, this volume examines what occurs when the signs and codes of different cultures come into contact and influ...
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197,81 zł |
Mom's Field Guide
ISBN: 9781932311204 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When the author's son was deployed to Iraq in 2004, she felt overwhelmed with fear and anxiety. After thousands of hours of research and her own first-hand experience along with many lessons she learned from other military families, she wrote Mom's Field Guide: What You Need to Know to Make It Through Your Loved One's Military Deployment.
When the author's son was deployed to Iraq in 2004, she felt overwhelmed with fear and anxiety. After thousands of hours of research and her own first...
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85,68 zł |
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
ISBN: 9780143113843 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry?an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry?including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy...
Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of...
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103,07 zł |
It's Our Day: America's Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005
ISBN: 9780700615599 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) What's white, costs billions of dollars, and embodies the American dream? For years, a white-gowned bride, multi-tiered white cake, and shiny gold rings have been the central icons for a grand American tradition that remains vibrant despite changing times. Now Katherine Jellison gives us a comprehensive cultural history of American weddings since World War II, examining the development of our precise and expensive standards for celebrating weddings and the staying power of this phenomenon in the face of enormous social, political, and economic upheaval. Jellison's book is the first to...
What's white, costs billions of dollars, and embodies the American dream? For years, a white-gowned bride, multi-tiered white cake, and shiny gold...
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246,73 zł |
1001 Ways to Say Thank You
ISBN: 9780968085387 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sample letters and thousands of heartfelt, ready-to-use phrases, conveniently arranged by key word in thesaurus form, quickly provide exactly the right words to express feelings with warmth, grace, and ease.
Sample letters and thousands of heartfelt, ready-to-use phrases, conveniently arranged by key word in thesaurus form, quickly provide exactly the righ...
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85,68 zł |
Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition
ISBN: 9780812220452 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Named "Best of the Best from the University Presses" for 2007 by the American Library Association Weddings today are a $70-billion business, yet no one has explained how the industry has become such a significant component of the American economy. In Brides, Inc., Vicki Howard goes behind the scenes of the various firms involved--from jewelers to caterers--to explore the origins of the lavish American wedding, demonstrating the important role commercial interests have played in shaping traditions most of us take for granted. Howard reveals how many of our customs and... Named "Best of the Best from the University Presses" for 2007 by the American Library Association Weddings today are a $70-billion business, ... |
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131,49 zł |
Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America
ISBN: 9780739138540 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Bollywood Weddings explores how Indian-American Hindus negotiate two vastly different wedding cultures: those of mainstream America and of Hindu India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and drawing on recent advances in material culture studies, Ramdya suggests that Bollywood, whose Indian origins grants it authenticity from the Hindu perspective and whose emphasis on romance accommodates American values, emerges as the key mediating third culture that allows Indian-American Hindus to reinforce their community's identity as ethnic and American even as it confirms that success in...
Bollywood Weddings explores how Indian-American Hindus negotiate two vastly different wedding cultures: those of mainstream America and of Hindu India...
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482,33 zł |
Every Man's Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing: Ace Your Wedding Dance and Keep Cool on a Cruise, at a Formal, and in Dance Classes
ISBN: 9780930251444 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Learn the basic principles common to all music and dance, enabling you to walk onto any dance floor and perform an admirable dance, with any partner, to any music, with confidence and grace.
This book is for non-dancers, newbies and beginners. Part guerrilla manual and part cotillion handbook, this book is an insider's guide to social dancing:
Learn the basic principles common to all music and dance, enabling you to walk onto any dance floor and perform an admirable dance, with any partner, ...
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62,29 zł |
Stag Night - the Best Mans Guide to Organising a Stag Weekend or Batchelor Party: 2011
ISBN: 9781907685095 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The definitive guide for organising stag weekends and stag nights - the best selling guide for several years running. This updated 3rd edition includes travel guides and everything the best man needs to plan the trip including: good websites to check out, speeches, forfeits, drinking games, and a host of case studies and legendary stag weekend true stories to learn from.
The definitive guide for organising stag weekends and stag nights - the best selling guide for several years running. This updated 3rd edition include...
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81,52 zł |
Royal Wedding Poems
ISBN: 9780956764515 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An anthology of Royal Wedding Poems collected on the streets of St Andrews, to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton. Playful and endearing reflections from the public. With special contributions from literature students and international poets, this book offers many treasures that delight the reader and capture the vibrant public enthusiasm ahead of the wedding. (the 10th PoemCatcher title and 1st birthday celebration)
An anthology of Royal Wedding Poems collected on the streets of St Andrews, to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton. Playf...
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85,62 zł |
How to Start a Home-Based Wedding Planning Business
ISBN: 9780762795482 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Planning weddings is a growing business area.The author is one of our top-selling home-based business authors and is herself a successful event and wedding planner."
Planning weddings is a growing business area.The author is one of our top-selling home-based business authors and is herself a successful event and we...
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82,16 zł |
The Art of the Wedding Cake
ISBN: 9780764339240 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Planning your wedding is all about the details, and this book will help make one detail much easier, understandable, and fun -- the wedding cake. Through 346 images, a delicious variety of cakes will whet your appetite and spark your creativity, as well as help you decide on the type, style, and design for your big day. Do you prefer the splendor of an all-white cake or one with modern simplicity? White buttercream roses and lilies or fondant flowers and leaves? Maybe you'd like icing lace to match your wedding dress? The choices are made much easier by using this wedding cake guide. Details...
Planning your wedding is all about the details, and this book will help make one detail much easier, understandable, and fun -- the wedding cake. Thro...
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153,42 zł |
The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings
ISBN: 9781615190546 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The original wedding planner for gay and lesbian couples--as fun and inspiring as ever in an updated third edition The original wedding planner for gay and lesbian couples--as fun and inspiring as ever in an updated third edition |
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120,00 zł |
Leon Vincent's Eventful Success: A Guide to a successful wedding or event
ISBN: 9781463435608 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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178,82 zł |
For This Reason: Devotions for Couples Preparing for Marriage and the Already Married Offering God's Encouragement for Your Life Togeth
ISBN: 9780788027000 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Jesus tells us that a holy love is sacrificial, forgiving, and unconditional. He knew that loving like this would not be easy, but he did promise us that if we pursued his love, our hearts, our minds, and our spirits would be transformed. This is the essence of relationship: a love that changes everything.
It should come as no surprise, then, that when we enter into a marriage covenant, our greatest commandment is to love one another. But how do we put that love into action when life gets tough? How do we remember to sacrifice for one another when the outside world demands everything... Jesus tells us that a holy love is sacrificial, forgiving, and unconditional. He knew that loving like this would not be easy, but he did promise us t...
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62,29 zł |
Simple Wedding Ceremony Planning Guide
ISBN: 9781300427346 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Simple Wedding Ceremony Planning Guide brings the experience and know-how of Steve Durkac, a pastor and beach wedding officiant who has officiated over 1300 ceremonies for destination do-it-yourself brides along the Gulf Coast. Steve will guide you in choosing your most meaningful and memorable ways to exchange vows, rings, presentation, pronouncements, and special features like the sand ceremony.
The Simple Wedding Ceremony Planning Guide brings the experience and know-how of Steve Durkac, a pastor and beach wedding officiant who has officiated...
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72,15 zł |