forkids's Full Review: Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine
Well, phew, it’s not me getting married this time but I feel a need to poke my nose in anyhow. One of the first things I buy for anyone I know that just got engaged is a copy of Martha Stewart’s Weddings and if I know them really well and are a blood relative, they get a copy of The Best of Martha Stewart Living Weddings. The first is a magazine and the second is a coffee table-style book.
Both chock full of tasteful ideas to help you get inspired with your wedding plans. Every single bride-to-be I know runs right out for the mandatory purchases of whatever bridal mag is on the newsstand. My favorite at the time was Elegant Bride only because it had prettier dresses than all of the others. Most of the bridal magazines offer the same cookie cutter style information, the same advertisers, the same foofy dresses. I was most successful with a few books and one mag.
Today, with my buddy getting married it is Martha Stewart Weddings all the way. I told her not to bother with anything else. Sure, glance through a few but stay true to this one. What is different about Martha’s specialty magazines is her ability to capture the unique, yes expensive, but we’re talking about inspiration. Martha Stewart Living only drums up a three rating from me because of a lot of fluff for everyday living, the Weddings mag garners a five. Weddings are about fantasy and creating a mood that will be remembered forever. We all want our wedding day to be perfect, everything we have ever dreamed about as a little girl or a big girl for that matter.
What Martha offers is a look into the classy way of doing things. No, don’t feel intimidated by her magazine, take her advice and content and whittle it into how you want the end result to be. Look at the dresses for ideas and then go fit it into your budget. If you are a dressmaker or know a dressmaker bring this magazine to show the seamstress your ideas, because Martha Stewart Weddings will do the work for you. The ads themselves offer ideas you may want to pursue in the dress shop.
Martha Stewart’s wedding cakes are copied by some of the best. She has the most beautiful cakes I have ever seen and would take to my baker today as I did 7 years ago when I got married. Her designs are exquisite and new. A wedding is one time when someone else does a lot of the work (the bakery, the dressmaker, the band, the florist, etc) and here is the perfect place to find the ideas you can give to someone else to carry out. Isn’t that how Martha expects it anyway?
My bouquet ideas were a culmination of ideas found in magazines and books. Martha’s mag would be the place I would look first and last. This is the place I could find the majority of my ideas and then add my personal touch. This and Martha’s book would really keep me organized.
The magazine starts off with a planner with ideas you may never have thought of. Plan, plan and more planning: (Wedding planner, budget planner, guest list planner, honeymoon planner)
Her Good Things are always filled with ideas, some hysterically stupid (How 'bout making your own tissue pouches for your guests so when the tears start to flow everyone is ready? First the sturdy paper....) and some just plain clever (beautifully printed bird seed packets for tossing at the bride instead of the harmful-to-birds rice). This time maybe you can get help to carry some of these ideas to fruition. Remember a wedding is a special day and this is the time to go a little crazier than you normally would. Your creative and time-generous Aunt Nellie might be able to do some of these things.
Not only is this an important magazine for Brides-to-Be but for the families as well. Get a copy for your mom or mother-in-law-to-be. They will find ideas and etiquette tips not offered in other magazines of this type.
Reading through it again, makes me happy for my friend and happy for the prospect of saving one for my single sister. Pass these issues around and around, they will not go out of style.
Subscribe for 1 year for $16, this price includes 4 issues, or pay $5.50 per copy. I would recommend buying this on the newsstand as four issues might be overkill. Two issues would probably be enough and don’t forget the book, The Best of Martha Stewart Living Weddings.
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