cover image The Best Friend's Guide to Planning a Wedding: How to Find a Dress, Return the Shoes, Hire a Caterer, Fire a Photographer, Choose a Florist, Book a Ba

The Best Friend's Guide to Planning a Wedding: How to Find a Dress, Return the Shoes, Hire a Caterer, Fire a Photographer, Choose a Florist, Book a Ba

Laura Webb Carrigan, Lara Webb Carrigan. William Morrow & Company, $25 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-06-039301-4

Lara Webb Carrigan shares the wisdom of her own experience in The Best Friend's Guide to Planning a Wedding: How to Find a Dress, Return the Shoes, Hire a Caterer, Fire the Photographer, Choose a Florist, Book a Band, and Still Wind Up Married at the End of It All. She counsels that choosing the right kind of wedding for the couple is the most important decision to be made, and all plans should come from that. Carrigan illustrates her points with anecdotes gathered in her many interviews with suppliers, couples, brides-to-be and others. This best friend reminds readers about things they should do now (rather than after the rites), and hangs in until it's all a lovely memory. (Jan.)