We have been promoting this book on the site since it initially came out a few months ago, I finally got the time to sit down and write this review. So…
How do you plan the best wedding reception ever? Peter Merry of Merry Weddings has set out to give you, the brides planning advice to accomplish exactly that with the Best Wedding Reception… Ever! .
‘Creating a fun, unique, and memorable wedding reception can be very similar to creating a blockbuster movie.’ – The Best Wedding Reception.. Ever!
Reading through the book’s 193 pages you quickly come to realize two things: One this book is about more than just the wedding reception, it covers pre planning and some aspects of the wedding
ceremony are brieflytouched on. Two, it is his opinion that the key to a successful wedding reception lies almost exclusively in the hands of the reception entertainment and/or master of ceremonies.
The book is broken down into 3 distinct sections.
1 Beginning Your Production
2 Creating Your Timeline
3 Adding Your Personal Style
’The top three aspects of a successful reception are the location, the photographer and the entertainment.’ – The Best Wedding Reception.. Ever!
For Peter, the perfect reception doesn’t start at the reception but months or years before you even arrive, with the choosing of your dates and times, venues and vendors. The impact of which day of the week you have your wedding on is analyzed and broken down to the affect it will have on the fun. The various types of vendors and services are reviewed as to the effect their services will have on your wedding. Unlike some wedding planning books, Peter Merry does not tell the reader what they should do but analyzes their good points and their bad points. Peter promotes some of the best advice there is, make sure all your vendors are team players working for a common goal, the bride and groom.
Section two is where the fun reading began, once again laying out the ground work of pros and cons for most decisions Peter begins interweaving personal stories that he has experienced as a disc jockey and tales from other wedding vendors. Here he talks about traditions and new twists on the old tradition. Section two is a breakdown of how most weddings flow, most especially the reception.
Section three is the idea section. Planning and analyzing is left behind as nothing but new and interesting ideas are presented for events at the wedding and the reception, mixed with real life ante dotes from brides & grooms and wedding vendors. This is a great section if you are one of those looking for new ideas or different twists on the same idea to share with your clients. Here you will learn about the ‘the cake smash with a sneak attack’, ‘the surprise right bearer’, ‘multi-media toasts (a real new one for me and something that may be turned into a profitable offering for enterprising videographers) and one of my favorites ‘the Star Trek garter removal’.
“The Best Wedding Reception… Ever!” was a pleasant surprise. A well written breakdown and analyst of what makes a wedding and reception run smoothly and brings the fun out. It is chock full of good information without being bossy for any bride, groom and even wedding vendor, laying out the pros and cons of many wedding planning decisions.
I highly recommend if you are planning a wedding reception to purchase a copy of the Best Wedding Reception… Ever! By Peter Merry!
