For a no-nonsense guide to wedding planning, Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding: From Engagement to Honeymoon, A Week-by-Week Guide to Planning the Happiest Day of Your Life can’t be beat. This thoroughly inclusive guide sets out the steps to plan your dream wedding in a year or less. Written by Joyce Scardina Becker, certified wedding consultant and contributing editor to theKnot.com, Countdown provides a logical framework for someone who likes a structured timeline for everything, and will certainly set Type-A couples down the path to wedding-planning bliss. Sarah E. White is a freelance writer in Arkansas.
Valiant Women is a vital and engrossing attempt to correct the record and rightfully celebrate the achievements of female veterans of World War II.
