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# A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for a Beautiful, Affordable, and Stress-free Celebration

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A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner , A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want -- without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. You'll discover: The real purpose of engagement (hint: it's not just about the planning) How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy? How to communicate decisions to your family Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it Wedding Zen can be yours. Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches: the Team Practical brides. So here's to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace.

Review: A must read survival guide for to-be-weds - As a wedding planner, I read a whole lot of wedding books. I also don't like most of them. When I find one that I LOVE, of course I have to shout it out. Here's my thoughts on why you should read A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration , if you haven't already. Meg Keene is a refreshingly reasonable, calm voice in the increasingly unreasonable, frenzied genre of Wedding Planning media. A Practical Wedding is an honest, thoughtful, and thought-provoking guide for traversing the journey of planning a wedding that is sensible yet fun. Keene's voice resonates throughout the book - she comes across as that wise, sincere friend that you turn to when you need to be talked off of a ledge. As any good wedding book does, A Practical Wedding covers the standard items and etiquette that make up a wedding celebration - budget, vendor selection, ceremony considerations, and organization. However, there are several key features that set A Practical Wedding apart from the countless tomes heaped upon women as soon as someone `puts a ring on it' and catapult it into the elite category of great wedding books. History and justifying what's important. Keene takes the time to give the reader a brief history of the American wedding and point out that all the "Things You Must Have to Get Married" which you've been hearing about and stressing over are, for the most part, recent inventions. What is particularly fantastic is that after explaining that some traditions are inventions by the Wedding Industry, Keene points out to her readers that if they find meaning or enjoyment in said traditions, they should, by all means embrace them to the fullest. She gives those planning a wedding permission to do what is meaningful to them and let the rest go, and sometimes, permission from an authority is exactly what a to-be-wed needs. Gender neutrality and marriage equality. Even though the large majority of her readers will likely be brides planning to marry grooms, Keene takes great care to not alienate based upon gender or sexual preference. It is refreshing to read a wedding book that has quotes and passages from a groom's point of view as well as inclusion of same-sex weddings. To me, it's important to acknowledge that a wedding is a wedding is a wedding. A great wedding book transcends being pigeon-holed as a "straight" or "gay" wedding book. Regardless of who is marrying whom, the elements that make up a wedding do not change. Sensible DIY (or as Keene calls it DITogether). The chapter focusing on DIY projects is by far, the most in-depth and honest writing I've read on the topic. With a plethora of style blogs, magazines, and television shows bombarding to-be-weds with images of perfect, handcrafted wedding elements, it is easy to catch DIY fever, which left untreated can lead to DYI mania. Keene discusses the various reasons people DIY, how to get it done and most importantly when to let it go. Big Difficulties & Huge Conversations. Most wedding books are all flowers and table settings and pretty, pretty princess business. Before reading A PracticalWedding, I would have been hard pressed to think of a wedding planning book that actually discusses the really weighty topics like calling the whole thing off or planning in the midst of tragedy. Keene discusses the tough stuff - difficult aspects like strife, compromise and letting go. She also encourages her readers to have the important discussions necessary to forming the foundation of a solid marriage (faith, finances, values and intentions). It may not be pretty princess stuff, but these are the topics that you'll be dealing with long after the flowers have wilted and the tables have been cleared. Additionally, Keene bucks wedding book tradition and lets her readers in on some secrets that many in the wedding industry don't want anyone to know - planning a wedding is not easy, there will likely be tears & arguments, things will go wrong, and ultimately it's not about doing everything under the sun to have one perfect day but doing all that you possibly can to have one gloriously imperfect life. One of my favorite quotes from the book is: "Weddings are like most good things in life: really hard and really worth it." With all of the insight and honesty in the pages of A Practical Wedding, it just got a little easier.
Review: Indispensable!!! - This book helps with a lot of the general overview of planning, the steps to take, and what to prioritize. But the most helpful thing about it I found was how it felt more like you're hearing a confession and wisdom from Meg Keane as if she's a best friend who wants to help you at every step, stressor, and joke along the way. There's much reading advice about out there about wedding planning, budgets and To-Do lists, sure. But the author here covers the real priorities beyond the ultimately less significant stuff (looking at you, color palette!) and reminds you about your relationship with your future spouse, how to tackle hurdles you might encounter with your family during the wedding planning process, enjoy the engagement period, and the wedding itself of course. There's no "right" way to have a wedding, and Meg does a great job of helping every bride & groom to really center themselves and not lose track of the true important things during a time in life when it can feel as if every single planning decision they make is equally super important (Hint: They're not). I bought this book a few weeks after I got engaged, and read through most of it early on. I kept a lot of it in the back of my mind any time I got stressed or was unsure of what to prioritize, put on the back burner, or realize "Eh, screw it" about some little detail I might get hung up on. Huge help.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #151,823 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Wedding Budgets #22 in Event Planning #667 in Marriage |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 775 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read survival guide for to-be-weds
*by M***G on January 13, 2012*

As a wedding planner, I read a whole lot of wedding books. I also don't like most of them. When I find one that I LOVE, of course I have to shout it out. Here's my thoughts on why you should read A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration , if you haven't already. Meg Keene is a refreshingly reasonable, calm voice in the increasingly unreasonable, frenzied genre of Wedding Planning media. A Practical Wedding is an honest, thoughtful, and thought-provoking guide for traversing the journey of planning a wedding that is sensible yet fun. Keene's voice resonates throughout the book - she comes across as that wise, sincere friend that you turn to when you need to be talked off of a ledge. As any good wedding book does, A Practical Wedding covers the standard items and etiquette that make up a wedding celebration - budget, vendor selection, ceremony considerations, and organization. However, there are several key features that set A Practical Wedding apart from the countless tomes heaped upon women as soon as someone `puts a ring on it' and catapult it into the elite category of great wedding books. History and justifying what's important. Keene takes the time to give the reader a brief history of the American wedding and point out that all the "Things You Must Have to Get Married" which you've been hearing about and stressing over are, for the most part, recent inventions. What is particularly fantastic is that after explaining that some traditions are inventions by the Wedding Industry, Keene points out to her readers that if they find meaning or enjoyment in said traditions, they should, by all means embrace them to the fullest. She gives those planning a wedding permission to do what is meaningful to them and let the rest go, and sometimes, permission from an authority is exactly what a to-be-wed needs. Gender neutrality and marriage equality. Even though the large majority of her readers will likely be brides planning to marry grooms, Keene takes great care to not alienate based upon gender or sexual preference. It is refreshing to read a wedding book that has quotes and passages from a groom's point of view as well as inclusion of same-sex weddings. To me, it's important to acknowledge that a wedding is a wedding is a wedding. A great wedding book transcends being pigeon-holed as a "straight" or "gay" wedding book. Regardless of who is marrying whom, the elements that make up a wedding do not change. Sensible DIY (or as Keene calls it DITogether). The chapter focusing on DIY projects is by far, the most in-depth and honest writing I've read on the topic. With a plethora of style blogs, magazines, and television shows bombarding to-be-weds with images of perfect, handcrafted wedding elements, it is easy to catch DIY fever, which left untreated can lead to DYI mania. Keene discusses the various reasons people DIY, how to get it done and most importantly when to let it go. Big Difficulties & Huge Conversations. Most wedding books are all flowers and table settings and pretty, pretty princess business. Before reading A PracticalWedding, I would have been hard pressed to think of a wedding planning book that actually discusses the really weighty topics like calling the whole thing off or planning in the midst of tragedy. Keene discusses the tough stuff - difficult aspects like strife, compromise and letting go. She also encourages her readers to have the important discussions necessary to forming the foundation of a solid marriage (faith, finances, values and intentions). It may not be pretty princess stuff, but these are the topics that you'll be dealing with long after the flowers have wilted and the tables have been cleared. Additionally, Keene bucks wedding book tradition and lets her readers in on some secrets that many in the wedding industry don't want anyone to know - planning a wedding is not easy, there will likely be tears & arguments, things will go wrong, and ultimately it's not about doing everything under the sun to have one perfect day but doing all that you possibly can to have one gloriously imperfect life. One of my favorite quotes from the book is: "Weddings are like most good things in life: really hard and really worth it." With all of the insight and honesty in the pages of A Practical Wedding, it just got a little easier.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Indispensable!!!
*by R***D on May 1, 2026*

This book helps with a lot of the general overview of planning, the steps to take, and what to prioritize. But the most helpful thing about it I found was how it felt more like you're hearing a confession and wisdom from Meg Keane as if she's a best friend who wants to help you at every step, stressor, and joke along the way. There's much reading advice about out there about wedding planning, budgets and To-Do lists, sure. But the author here covers the real priorities beyond the ultimately less significant stuff (looking at you, color palette!) and reminds you about your relationship with your future spouse, how to tackle hurdles you might encounter with your family during the wedding planning process, enjoy the engagement period, and the wedding itself of course. There's no "right" way to have a wedding, and Meg does a great job of helping every bride & groom to really center themselves and not lose track of the true important things during a time in life when it can feel as if every single planning decision they make is equally super important (Hint: They're not). I bought this book a few weeks after I got engaged, and read through most of it early on. I kept a lot of it in the back of my mind any time I got stressed or was unsure of what to prioritize, put on the back burner, or realize "Eh, screw it" about some little detail I might get hung up on. Huge help.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really good book. A lot of it is just common ...
*by N***E on November 16, 2017*

Really good book. A lot of it is just common sense - but honestly, you NEED common sense when you're wedding planning. You need a voice of reason to cut through all the BS that you hear from every vendor/family member/website/magazine/Pinterest board. It is a calm, logical voice Reading this book is the first thing I did after getting engaged and before really starting to plan my wedding. I think it's mostly helpful at the very beginning because it kind of helps you think through what you really want and develop a good attitude toward wedding planning. There aren't a lot of "concrete" wedding planning tips in here - it doesn't talk about the different types of napkin folds or how to calculate how much booze to buy or how to start the process of changing your name. What it does do it makes you think about what kind of celebration you want, and gives supportive advice for navigating the emotional drama and frustration that can come with planning.

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