The Bridal Wave: A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years

Overview

It starts with the IGBN (I've Got Big News) phone calls and a mailbox full of Save the Dates. Next comes the meltdown: I always thought I'd be married by now. Why does she have a ring on her finger and I don't? Soon you're buying outrageously expensive china, dancing the electric slide with the groom's dull but available cousin, and envisioning a long and single life for you and a dozen or so cats. But fear not!

Now Erin Torneo and Valerie Cabrera Krause show you how to surf The Bridal Wave on your own terms. This hilarious and practical guide to surviving the wedding blitz reveals the sanity-saving secrets to dealing with all manner of matri-mania, including how to

* manage finances during the costly wedding season
* turn brutal self-examination ("What's wrong with me?") into empowering self-reflection ("Nothing!")
* cope with envy and feelings of competition
* deal with lobridemized friends
* avoid settling for Mr. Wrong just to fit the timeline in your head
* actually enjoy being a bridesmaid, despite the dress

Like the best of friends, Erin and Valerie will help you separate fact from fairy tale-and stay sane, whether you're coupled-up, single and looking, or single and just fine, thank you very much!

"For any woman who is currently trapped in the middle of a Bridal Wave-this book is your lifesaver!"
-Liz Tuccillo, co-author of He's Just Not That Into You

"A funny and genuinely helpful book that should be on ever single woman's shelf."
-Karen McCullah Lutz, author of Legally Blonde

"Torneo and Krause's advice will be eagerly gobbled up by legions of women."
-Celeste Perron, author of Playing House

"Will ease your wedding panic with humor and intelligence."
-Andrea Lavinthal, co-author of The Hookup Handbook

Editorial Reviews

For anyone who's thought to herself something like, "even my college roommate with Tourette's has a ring," the release of Torneo and Cabrera's tough but sincere guide to "keeping the crazies in check" in the wake of friends' weddings may spell relief. With care, humor, and a thorough understanding of the fine line between envy and disgust padded by single women watching friends get swept through the marriage mill, Torneo and Cabrera manage to keep everything in perspective. There are practical, if at times obvious, suggestions (tired of "lobridemized" friends? Hang out with guy friends who could care less), an empathetic and illuminating look inside the mind of the "bridal drone," and ways to get through the wedding season without overspending. Other chapters cover everything from pre-wedding parties to silencing the "when are you going to get married?" chorus to determining what marriage trajectory works for you-including, yes, whether your current boyfriend is real marriage material. The authors aren't interested in emotional depth, nor in taking on the multi-billion dollar wedding industry, but they have given voice to a particular set of young women, and this winning book should be a comforting and vindicating addition to their libraries.
Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

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Imprint

Random House

Filesize

746.45 KB

Number of Pages

256

eBook ISBN

9780345498038