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IThese texts can be used by a couple intending to be married, or as useful reference texts for the celebrant. They include texts describing conventional and unconventional wedding formats, religious ceremonies, and handfastings.
| A Contemporary Handbook for Weddings & Funerals , Aubrey Malphurs & Keith Willhite ISBN 0825431867 |
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Our Price $28.00, Weight 450 grams, PB, In Stock
A compilation of tested ideas and resources by pastors, this handbook provides just the tool pastors need. Written by experienced, familiar authors, this book deals with difficult situations, like the death of a child and second marriages.  |
| Anti-Bride Etiquette Guide, Carolyn Gerin & Kathleen Hughes ISBN 0811844587 |
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Our Price $28.00, Weight 250 grams, PB, Ordered on Demand
The rules - and how to bend them. This is an invaluable tool for today's bride, as she copes with the minefield of blended families, diverse bridesmaids, money matters and family feuds. Anti-Bride Etiquette guide gives lots of tips for sticky situations, and suggestions for how to remain in control and celebrate the day as stress-free as possible. A must for every bride. |
| Anti-Bride Guide, Carolyn Gerin & Stephanie Rosenbaum ISBN 0811829677 |
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Our Price $34.00, Weight 460 grams, HC, In Stock
Tying the knot outside of the box. You love your sweetie, your friends and your family much more than you love etiquette, and you want to have a fabulous wedding, your way. This book provides fabulous ideas to show you how to do 'just that'. Throw away the rule books - you wont need them. Today's bride makes up the rules to suit herself and her man, and has the party of her dreams. |
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| A World of Ways to Say 'I Do', Noah & Jordan Benshea ISBN 0071422951 |
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Our Price $23.50, weight 240 grams, HC, In Stock .
Draw on a wealth of wedding resources to enhance your vows, readings, programs, thank-you notes, even your wedding website. This reach array of global and historical perspectives on matrimony will help to shape your ceremony inot one that respects traditino and reflects your unique personalities. |
| Bride Ideas , ISBN 0811856275 |
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Our Price $22.95, weight 370 grams, HC, In Stock .
The ulitmate practical and creative planning tool for your wedding. Bride Ideas captures all your inspirations, ideas, lists, and to-dos - an organsier for everything firth at your fingertips. A fold-out Master List keeps your plans on track, friendly prompts insure you won't overlook important details, and peel-and-stick tabs allow you to customise your own quick references. Not too large or bulky - easy to carry with you while you make those important decisions. |
| Ceremonies of the Heart, Becky Butler, ISBN 1878067877 |
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Our Price $32.50, weight 520 grams, PB, In Stock .
Filled with ideas on creating unique rituals, the book describes the transforative experiences of twenty seven lesbian couples who celebrated their relationships in wide-ranging ways - from a gala wedding with gowns and cake to a high-spirited Buddhist event under desert skies. This book is a joyous affirmation of the passionate and enduring love between women.
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| Ceremonies & Celebrations, Dally Messenger, ISBN 0734400136 |
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Our Price $27.00, weight 300 grams, PB, Being Reprinted - Due late April.
This handbook contains vows, tributes and readings suitable for all manner of contemporary occasions - weddings, funerals, graduations, stepfamily unions, even divorce! Each occasion is handled with sensitivity and relevance, guaranteeing the handbook remains a classic for civil celebrants and those seeking a ceremony with a personal touch. |
| Ceremonies & Celebrations, Dally Messenger, |
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Our Price $33.60, weight 60 grams, CD, In Stock.
CD version of the book. For celebrants and couples - could anything be easier when putting your ceremony
together?
Every poem, quote, vow, and introduction (etc!) in Dally Messenger's book
at your keyboarding fingertips in Microsoft Word! |
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| Create Your Own Inspiring Wedding Ceremony, Wendy Haynes, ISBN 097573380X |
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Our Price $25.00, weight 325 grams, PB, In Stock
Wendy Haynes is a civil marriage celebrant based in Coffs Harbour and has conducted many ceremonies including weddings, namings, commitments and funerals. In this book she gives ideas and tips on how to structure your own ceremony from start to finish, writing your own vows and developing a ceremony structure that is very personal. |
| The Creative Jewish Wedding Book, Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, ISBN 1580231942 |
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Our Price $33.00, weight 700grams, PB, In Stock
Enrich your wedding with your own creative use of Jewish ritual and tradition. Express your individuality and spirituality on your wedding day. This book gives practical and creative advice on all aspects of planning the Jewish wedding and in creating a ceremony that understands the possibilities presented by modern beliefs combined with established tradition and faith. |
| Equal Rites, Kittredge Cherry & Zalmon Sherwood, eds, ISBN 0664255353 |
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Our Price $38.00, weight 310 grams, PB, On Order
This much needed collection of worship services, ceremonies, and celebrations is attuned to the unique needs of sexual minorities. The rites, written primarily by lesbians and gay men, include liturgies of spiritual beginnings, healing, blessings, holy communion and pride and empowerment. Also included are funeral and memorial services, seasonal and holiday rites and convenant rites for couples. |
| From this day forward, Dorothy Shorne |
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Our Price $30.00, weight 340 gms, PB, S, In Stock
A detailed analysis of Wedding Ceremonies compiled by an Australian celebrant, detailing ceremony format, delivery options and suggestions for ritual. Useful for either the celebrant or the couple to be married, the reader is taken through each step of planning their ceremony, with information on including others, incorporating naming ceremonies with the wedding, and much more. Sample Handfasting, Renewal and Commitment ceremonies are also given. |
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| The Funeral and Wedding Handbook, Robert Blair , ISBN 0788018825 |
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Our Price $37.00, weight 440 grams, PB, In Stock
A resource book for Pastors who are called upon to provide both wedding and funeral services. It shares a wealth of ideas that help you tailor services to individual needs, making these complicated occasions ones of impact and success, both for the couple or family involved, and for the ministry. |
| Gay and Lesbian Weddings, David Toussant with Heather Leo , ISBN 0345475747 |
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Our Price $28.00, weight 420 grams, PB, In Stock
Comprehensive, fresh and funny, covering everything you need to know to plan the wedding of your dreams. Unlike other wedding planners, this one tackles the issues your heterosexual friends never had to consiter. For instance, do you come out to Aunt Gloria before she receives the invitation and the shock of her life? Which father of the bride pays for a lesbian wedding? Full of advice. Suitable for the couple but not so relevant for celebrants. |
| Handfasted and Heartjoined, Lady Maeve Rhea, ISBN 0806521945 |
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Our Price $23.50, weight 225 grams, PB, In Stock
A handfasting is a magickal rite in which two people who seek to join their lives enter into a contract before their gods and their loved ones to abide together, physically and spiritually. Here you will find sample ceremonies, practical advice on planning your handfasting, preparatory rituals and spiritual exercises. |
| Handfasting and Wedding Rituals, Raven Kaldera & Tannin Schwartzstein, ISBN 0738704709 |
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Our price $32.50, weight 675 grams, PB, In Stock .
For many Pagans, planning a wedding presents a unique set of challenges. Handfasting & Wedding Rituals has everything you need to plan the perfect Pagan wedding. You'll find advice and examples to help you with planning the basic weddign, writing the vows, and constructing the rituals, along with practical tips and great ideas about everything from low-cost wedding favours to candle and bonfire safety. |
| Handfasting: a practical guide, Mary Neasham , ISBN 0954296311 |
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Our Price $29.00, weight 240 grams, PB, In Stock
Ever wondered where the words 'Honeymoon' and 'Tying the Knot' derive from? These words are associated with the pre-Christian marriage rite of Handfasting. Handfasting A Practical Guide takes you on an historical journey, describing customs and traditions associated with betrothal, from times and places when our forebears were in tune with the changing seasons and natural rhythms of their world. Going beyond church or civil ceremonies, Handfasting offers deeper meaning and union to couples joining in marriage. |
| How to say 'I Do' , Mandy & June Newman , IBN 1741144337 |
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Our Price $24.95, weight 250 grams, PB, In Stock
A guide to creating your own unique wedding ceremony, with inspiration for the conventional, the non-conventional, the interfaith or intercultural marriage, a second or third marriage or a same sex or a commitment ceremony. |
| Gay and Lesbian Weddings, David Toussaint and Heather Leo, IBN 0345475747 |
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Our Price $28.00, weight 420 grams, PB, In Stock
Comprehensive, fresh and funny, covering everything you need to know to plan the wedding of your dreams. Unlike other wedding planners, this one tackles the issues your heterosexual friends never had to consiter. For instance, do you come out to Aunt Gloria before she receives the invitation and the shock of her life? Which father of the bride pays for a lesbian wedding? Full of advice. Suitable for the couple but not for celebrants. |
| I Do, Sydney Barbara Metrick, IBN 1587610906 |
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Our Price $26.00, weight 320 grams, PB, In Stock
The perfect guide for couples who want to know how to make those important decisions - after the big one on getting married. You are told how to choose your celebrant, how to design your ceremony, and how to walk the minefield of family politics that accompanies a wedding. Loads of suggestions, including readings and poems. |
Inspirational - for readings and inspirational words in composing ceremonies, look in Poetry & Inspiration
| Joining Hands & Hearts, Susanna Stefanachi Macomb & Andrea Thompson, ISBN 0743436989 |
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Our Price $25.00, weight 370 grams, PB, In Stock
Interfaith, intercultural wedding celebrations with a deep appreciation of ritual and spirituality. Written sensitively yet with humour, this book shows a deep understanding of the growing needs of the marriage ceremony in our multi-cultural society. There is much suggestion that can be used and adapted for secular ceremonies also, whether by the celebrant creating ceremonies for clients, or for a couple planning their special day. |
| Magickal Weddings , Joy Ferguson, ISBN 1550224611 |
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Our Price $25.00, weight 240 grams, PB, In Stock
A handbook to help you bring romantic handfasting traditions from antiquity into modern-day ceremonies. Is is also a practical wedding planning guide, to help any couple plan their handfasting. It discusses the history of handfasting, appropriate timing, appropriate rituals and tools, establishing your 'sacred space' and ways of including others in the ceremony. A useful guide for a couple planning their ceremony, and reference text for the celebrant. |
| Marriage , Uniting Church in Australia, ISBN 1864072407 |
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Our Price $6.95, weight 50 grams, PB, In Stock
This booklet gives the order of service for Marriage conducted within and according to the teachings of the Uniting Church. |
Music suitable for weddings, look in the Music section.
Poetry - suitable for weddings, funerals or other ceremonies - look in the Poetry Category.
| Sacred Threshold , Gertrud Mueller Nelson & Christopher Witt, ISBN 0385485395 |
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Our Price $23.00, weight 350 grams, PB, In Stock
Perfect for couples of all religious backgrounds, Sacred Threshold gives general principles for creating a wedding with religious spirit, and offers guidance on choosing the right place, participants, symbols, prayers, format, readings, and music. A detailed guide for the spiritual wedding. |
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| Scrapbooking your Wedding, Memory Makers, ISBN 1892127466 |
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Our Price $34.50, weight 410 grams, PB, In Stock
Ideas for preserving the precious memories associated with a wedding, showing the reader the techniques and creative ways of presenting their memorabilia. It will hold cherished memories for generations to come. Inspiring tips, tricks and ideas. |
| Sharing the Future, Jane Wynne Willson, ISBN 0901825115 |
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Our Price $23.00, weight 135 grams, PB, In Stock.
A practical guide to non-religious wedding ceremonies, published by the British Humanist Association. Also by this author: Funerals without God, and Sharing the Future. |
| The Knot guide to Wedding Vows and Traditions, Carly Roney, IBSN 0767902483 |
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Our Price $28.50. weight 450 grams, PB, In Stock
Compiled from entries on www.theknot.com, an American Wedding Website. A complete guide to wedding vows, toasts, and readings that is a good resource for wedding couples, bridal parties and families. Draws on wedding traditions from around the world, and includes references to music, etiquette, writing toasts, and more. |
| The New Jewish Wedding, Anita Diamant, IBSN 074320255 |
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Our Price $24.00. weight 350 grams, PB, In Stock
This book offers step-by-step buidance to planning a Jewish wedding ceremony and the party that follows - from hiring a rabbi and wording the invitation to organizing a processional and hiring a caterer. There is also a chapter for converts, non-Jews, and same sex couples.
Also by this author: 'The New Jewish Baby Book'. |
| Timeless Traditions , Lisl M Spangenberg ISBN 0789305194 |
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Our Price $40.00. weight 750 grams, PB, In Stock
This volume is an indispensible, comprehensive guide to the wedding traditions of the major faiths and more than one hundred countries and peoples, spanning the cultures and regions of past and present. Timeless Traditions focusses on each step along the path to marriage, from pre-wedding to cermonial rituals and from celebratory to post-wedding traditions. |
| Weddings from the Heart, Daphne Rose Kingma, IBN 1573248614 |
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Our Price $28.00, weight 350 grams, PB, In Stock
How to create a wedding ceremony that celebrates the true uniqueness of you two. Weddings from the Heart offers an array of possibilities - everything you need to create your own ceremony or personalize a traditional ceremony. Covers vows, quotes and poems, wedding customs and suggestions for personal touches. |
| Wedding Readings & Musical Ideas, Rev. John Wynburne & Alison Gibbs, IBN 057202861X |
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Our Price $28.00, weight 340 grams, PB, In Stock
Words to remember for a lifetime. Music to carry you away. Combine them both for a perfect day. The style and language vary from the simplest and most contemporary, to the very traditional. Some are humorous, some thought-provoking, but all are chosen to match in some way the emotions and intentions that surround a marriage. The choice of musical ideas is designed to establish a mood and enhance the atmosphere. |
| Weddings; the magic of creating your own ceremony, Bassayne, H & L Jaynowitz, IBSN 1885221924 |
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Our Price $32.00, weight 380 grams, PB, In Stock
This book takes you step by step in creating a wedding ceremony that will be inspiring, festive and memorable. Secular or religious, traditional or contemporary, interfaith or cross-cultural, the advice given assists in devising a ceremony that is unique for each couple. An excellent reference text for the celebrant. |
| Wedding Words Vows, Jennifer Cegielski, IBSN 1584794283 |
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Our Price $22.50, weight 295 grams, HC, In Stock
There are few times in your life when the words you speak are filled with such meaning and emotion. Whether you exchange religious vows passed down through generations or write your own declaration of marrige, your wedding vows are a very public pronouncement of your love for another person. This book presents everything you need to know about the promises you'll make at your wedding. |
| We Pledge Our Hearts, Edward Searl, ISBN 1558965033 |
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Our Price $20.00, weight 192 grams, PB, In Stock
This is a collection of many old favourites and new readings and meditations as well. They are sweet, loving, audacious, inspiring, whimsical; some for sharing with others and some deeply personal. All celebrate love and marriage. |
Abbreviations:HC Hard Cover
PB Paper Back
RRP Recommended Retail Price
S Spiral Bound
SH Second Hand
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