Unique Wedding Ideas, Wedding Style & Planning Books: Two In Depth Reviews
These books are stunning, giving you hundreds of pages of unique wedding ideas that won't break your bank. Jo Gartin's Weddings An Inspiring Guide for the Stylish Bride is a terrific 160 page wedding idea book and style guide. Jo is a famous wedding planner to the stars, listed by Vogue as "best wedding coordinator", and contributor to InStyle Weddings so you better listen to what she has to say.  She reveals to you her wedding secrets with a big section on bridal gowns, tons of photos of her custom beautiful unique and modern wedding invitation ideas, save the date card ideas, reception seating card table ideas, and wedding reception ideas with very clever menu designs.  She gives you tips for high end traditional wedding dresses, down to affordable $300 wedding dresses, slippers, and bridesmaids dresses.  She also has lots of photos and tips for wedding reception flowers, boutonnieres, bridal bouquets, and wedding centerpiece ideas.  She even covers your wedding reception cocktail hour with nice modern drink presentations and hors D'oeuvres, wedding cake ideas, and dessert ideas for your reception hall, and a directory of resources for the beautiful designs in her book. She breaks the mold for brides, teaching you to ditch the confines of tradition to open up your imagination and be truly unique without breaking the bank, creating your own wow factor, and leaving your wedding guests breathless.  Every bride planning a wedding MUST get this book in my opinion you simply should not proceed without it, then give it as a gift to your friends who get married after you. 

Here's another excellent wedding style book: Diann Valentine's Weddings Valentine Style, Rich Inspiration for Every Woman's Dream Day is a coffee table sized 300 page book chock full of wedding idea photos, and is so good that professional wedding planners reference it for inspiration. Diann Valentine is another wedding planner for Hollywood, athletes, and pop stars, and featured in InStyle Celebrity Weddings, Essence, O: The Oprah Magazine, VH1 Rock N' Roll Weddings.  Her wedding style book set a new bar and raises the standard for all wedding style idea books going forward. After reading this wedding planning book and getting inspired by the ideas and photos, you'll be able to help other brides plan their weddings also. Her book documents for you several celebrity weddings she has crafted, and has the elegant fresh new ideas that blend old with new in weddings.  She has excellent tips for choosing the right wedding dress for your color. The weddings in her book will inspire you with great ideas for your own wedding that can be scaled down to any bride's budget.  Diann speaks directly to you, the real world bride with a common budget, and has sample budgets, pricing, and tips. It even has some good emphasis on African American brides too, overlooked by most mainstream bridal magazines.  You should get her book and Jo Gartin's Weddings An Inspiring Guide for the Stylish Bride. These style books below are very important investments for planning your wedding, which will leave your guests in awe.

Wedding Planners
Wedding planners are a MUST for planning a wedding. Most of these planners cover all stages of your wedding, with worksheets, wedding tips, wedding budgets, timetables, checklists, to-do lists, receipts, and more. Don't start your wedding plans without one of these wedding planners. Get one that is spiral bound for easier use.

Wedding Cake Books, Pictures of Unique Wedding Cakes
These books are the most popular wedding cake books on Amazon, chock full of pictures of beautiful designer wedding cakes and wedding cake toppers.  These books have wedding cake designs and recipes so can make your own wedding cake, or just get wedding cake ideas from these books, and take the photos of the most unique wedding cakes into a baker who can make one for your reception. You can also see our gallery of wedding cake photos by clicking here: Unique Wedding Cake Photos Gallery

Wedding flower books and bridal bouquets:
 

Books for Bridal Shower Ideas, Bridal Shower Invitations
Before you send out invitations and throw a bridal shower party, get a couple of wedding shower books to help you with planning this special day for your bride, including tips on how to word bridal shower invitations.  The books also give you great ideas for planning your bridal shower themes and decorations, and bridal gift ideas for the maid of honor.  These books also teach bridal shower etiquette.  The bride will think it was planned by a professional.