title: The Elegant Wedding and the Budget-Savvy Bride: How to Have the Wedding of Your Dreams for Half the Price
author:  Deborah McCoy 
description: These three books offer all the up-to-date advice on weddings that this year's crop of couples might need. Going to the Chapel, compiled by the editors of Signature Bride magazine, is aimed at black couples and includes ways to add African elements to a "traditional" wedding or to use authentic African customs throughout. Included are Yoruba and Christian Nigerian suggestions as well as Muslim practices. One of the most popular sites on the World Wide Web is theknot.com, which serves over 250,000 visitors per month. Its editorial staff has put together a print guidebook to all the nuances of wedding and honeymoon planning. This guide includes everything that Emily Post ever mentioned but will be more appealing to the cybergeneration. McCoy concentrates on getting the most for your wedding dollar. Her book is concise and well organized, with worksheets, resource lists, and even wedding cake recipes. Her chapter on selecting diamonds is outstanding. Any of these titles will be a good choice for public libraries. Those serving a large, diverse population will want them all. Those that can only manage one or two will have to consider their current collections and the needs of their particular clientele.?Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH<BR>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ## Chapter One
  
  
  ### PRICE
  
  
  
  
  
  No logical person would wear a tuxedo in the afternoon sunshine in a tropical
  place like Kilauea Cove. Then again, nothing about a formal wedding event was
  logical. Cutting perfectly healthy flowers from their places of growth,
  preparing expensive food to allow it to sit unrefrigerated on banquet tables,
  dancing in public afterward—all illogical.
  
  
  Price Robertson tugged at his shirt collar and straightened his bowtie.
  
  
  “Hey, Price.” The groom himself approached, walking like the football player
  he was. “Best man duties—check, check. Thanks for flying out.”
  
  
  “No problem.”
  
  
  “While you’re here, stay a while.” McCoy spoke over the rising music from the
  DJ. “I overheard a few of the female guests hinting they’d like to get to know
  the best man—well.”
  
  
  “Too bad I’m taking off tonight.” Price cleared his throat. “Red-eye back to