APW Book & Tour
A Practical Wedding: Creative Solutions for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration
You can get the book at a bookseller near you, or online at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Indie Bound
The Tour!
Thursday 1/12: The San Francisco Book Launch Party
Starting at 6pm, speaking at 7pm, Green Apple Books
Please RSVP to San Francisco here!
Thursday & Friday 1/19 & 1/20: Altitude Design Summit
Speaker, Building Relationships with Ad Networks and Sponsors
Sunday 1/22: Denver Books & Brunch
11am, Japoix Restaurant, ~$20 brunch buffet with bottomless mimosas
Please RSVP to Denver here!
Wednesday 1/25: Cambridge Book Talk, Q&A, and Informal Drinks
7pm, Porter Square Books
Please RSVP to Boston here!
Saturday 1/28: Brooklyn Book Talk And Full Scale After Party Madness
2pm, Park Slope Barnes & Noble
After party 3:30pm-5:00pm within walking distance. Details given out at the bookstore.
Please RSVP to New York here!
Monday 1/30: DC (ok, Arlington) Book Talk
7pm, One More Page Books
Please RSVP to DC-ish here!
Thursday 2/2: Atlanta Book Talk, co-hosted by Leah and Mark and Wedding Day Hooray
7pm-9pm, Young Blood Gallery
Please RSVP to Atlanta here!
Tuesday 2/7: Austin Book Talk, Feminism and Weddings
7pm, BookWoman, talk on Feminism and Weddings
Please RSVP to Austin here!
Sunday 2/12: LA (ok, Pasadena) Book Talk
1pm, Vroman’s Stationery Store
Please RSVP to LA-ish here!
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Reviews!
Keene's wedding planning guide is a fresh, sane voice in a field of guides pushing big budget weddings. Required reading for all newly engaged couples. —Library Journal
So you're planning a wedding! And you're really glad you found this blog because it reflects your values, and because it comes complete with a whole community of people to help hold your hand through the process. Hurrah! Confetti! But the thing about blogs is, while we can provide you with a ton of up-to-the-moment resources: Sane Vendors, Reader Approved Venues, How-To Projects, Real Weddings, and Advice, blogs are just not set up to guide you through planning a wedding from beginning to end. Books do that. And, unfortunately for me, when I was getting married most of the wedding books were totally insane.
So I wrote a wedding book. A useful, sane, no-nonsense wedding book. One you can use as your bible for planning, give to your mom to calm her down, and give to your girlfriends when they get engaged. It walks you through finding a venue and figuring out your relationship with tradition. It shares real wedding budgets, important questions you should ask before you get hitched, and actual wedding history (and it separates true tradition from the tradition being sold to you). It's a guide for how to actually plan the thing (with spreadsheets) and how to be in the moment the day of. It even addresses the hard stuff, and it discusses the rest of your lives (because that's the whole point).
The blog is nice. I even think the blog is pretty damn great. But if you're planning a wedding, any kind of wedding, you really should get the book. No joke.
And! You can read all about the writing and creating of the APW book right here... (do it!)
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