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No, I’m kidding; you won’t lose your mind. Just everyone else’s who has to listen to you for the next several months. To mitigate that damage, here’s a few recommendations from someone who just wanted to elope but now finds herself planning not one but TWO ceremonies (one local, one destination, don’t ask). In other words, wedding planning books for people who hate planning weddings.
Miss Manners’ Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding by Judith and Jacobina Martin
No DJ? No dance floor? No stamped response card included in the invitiations?! This is not one of the nightmares you wake up from, frantic to re-check for the eighth time that your dinner napkins complement the color of your maid of honor’s third cousin’s wife’s eyes. This book is a refreshing look at how weddings could be done if things like bridal magazines and designer gravy boats did not exist. Just be sure to read it before you start planning lest its moral tone reduce you to a whimpering puddle of self-doubt about 
details that are too late to change.
Bridal Bargains by Denise Fields
Meet the yellow pages of great wedding deals. If you don’t feel the need to see your flowers in person before the wedding and don’t mind a little DIY, you’ll revel in the multitudes of vendor listings and quick tips that take the legwork out of shopping around. Just keep in mind that this recommendation is coming from someone who bought her wedding dress on the Internet.
Signature Sasha by Sasha Souza
Eventually, you get to a point in wedding planning where you stop reading the words on a page and start just staring at the pictures (though, hopefully, not on this blog). If you’re searching for some visual inspiration, look no further than Signature Sasha. Entire chapters are devoted to color, theme and tone, and though we may not all be able to afford to rent a tent for 200 in the Hamptons, we can at least get an idea for 
some really cool centerpieces.
Beyond Vegas by Lisa Tabb
If you do find yourself lucky enough to have friends and family still willing speak to you if you run off to Vegas, this is the book for you. The authors of this book renewed their vows no fewer than ten times in order to provide details for getting married in twenty-five different countries. They even rate the requirements in terms of time and difficulty. Enjoy your elopement while the rest of us are buried alive in cake samples.
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