title: Dear Abby on Planning Your Wedding
author:  Abigail Van Buren 
description: The author is nothing if not upbeat about the current wedding sceneHelen Gurley Brown's use of italics pales beside the workout "Dear Abby" gives the exclamation point in her new book. "Brave new weddings" are knocking "the socks off the old folks!" Brides and grooms are footing the bills! Mothers "look younger and act younger. . .!" The problem with all this boundless enthusiasm is that it makes Abby look rather quaint; the reader may yearn for the clear-headed wit of Miss Manners. What we really want from Abby, yet don't get enough of, is true wedding weirdness. (Where are more letters like the ones that ask about proper guest behavior at a nudist wedding?) Instead, her book is filled with unimaginative answers to etiquette questions ("If you are asking friends to drive you in their cars, offer to pay for gas") and blank ruled pages for making lists of wedding minutiae (e.g., budgeted vs. actual costs of a church rental), while the letters from readers either gush about humble-yet-perfect weddings ("Gee, we had a great time," writes one peppy bride) or ask now-predictable questions ("Should my father's new girlfriend stand in the receiving line?"). <BR>Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: BLISSED OUT (CHELSEA & MAX’S
  WEDDING)
  
  ABBY BROOKS
  LITTLE BIRD PUBLISHING, LLC
  
  CONTENTS
  Copyright
  Dedication
  Connect With Abby Brooks
  Also by Abby Brooks
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Also by Abby Brooks
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Abby Brooks
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