All celebrations of love are like little dramas, needing the right scenes, the right script, the right players. Celebrating Love’s Special Moments is all about taking the event and placing it in the right context, with the appropriate accoutrements, to allow the players to make of it something to remember.
It deals with both formal and informal celebrations that surround love, whether expressed as a legal commitment, such as a wedding, or an emotional one such as retirement. To the old well -known occasions have been added a few innovations, including the celebration of separation when disillusioned partners are ready to break away; perhaps even willing to search out another love.
So, wherever the readers happen to be in life right now - in love and loving it!, married and deliriously happy at it, bringing home a bundle of joy and amazed at their cleverness at producing it, separating and ready for self-discovery - this book is for them. Whether rich or poor, young or mature, party animal or just animal, this book will show how to celebrate love as an individualist, how to celebrate it as a traditionalist, and how to enjoy it irrespective.
Part One - The Event
In the Beginning - St Valentine’s Day
First Step - The Engagement
Meeting of the Giants - The In-Laws
Out of the Box - The Bridal Shower
Pretty Maids all in a Row - The Bridesmaids’ Party
Boys Night Out - The Bucks’ Party
Gathering of the Clans - Rehearsal Dinner
Oh What a Sight! - Viewing the Gifts
And Two shall become One - The Wedding
Alone at Last - The Honeymoon
At Home - Open House
Home Sweet Home - Blessing of the House
Try to Remember - Wedding Anniversary
Once More with Feelings - Renewing of Vows
When Love is All there is - The Commitment
Welcome to the World - Baby Naming
The Two of Them - Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day
Goodbye to All That - Separation
What Next? - Retirement
Empty Nest - Alone but not Lonely
Ashes to Ashes - Celebrating Life
Part Two - Setting the Scene
Part Three - Catering
Bibliography
It deals with both formal and informal celebrations that surround love, whether expressed as a legal commitment, such as a wedding, or an emotional one such as retirement. To the old well -known occasions have been added a few innovations, including the celebration of separation when disillusioned partners are ready to break away; perhaps even willing to search out another love.
So, wherever the readers happen to be in life right now - in love and loving it!, married and deliriously happy at it, bringing home a bundle of joy and amazed at their cleverness at producing it, separating and ready for self-discovery - this book is for them. Whether rich or poor, young or mature, party animal or just animal, this book will show how to celebrate love as an individualist, how to celebrate it as a traditionalist, and how to enjoy it irrespective.
Part One - The Event
In the Beginning - St Valentine’s Day
First Step - The Engagement
Meeting of the Giants - The In-Laws
Out of the Box - The Bridal Shower
Pretty Maids all in a Row - The Bridesmaids’ Party
Boys Night Out - The Bucks’ Party
Gathering of the Clans - Rehearsal Dinner
Oh What a Sight! - Viewing the Gifts
And Two shall become One - The Wedding
Alone at Last - The Honeymoon
At Home - Open House
Home Sweet Home - Blessing of the House
Try to Remember - Wedding Anniversary
Once More with Feelings - Renewing of Vows
When Love is All there is - The Commitment
Welcome to the World - Baby Naming
The Two of Them - Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day
Goodbye to All That - Separation
What Next? - Retirement
Empty Nest - Alone but not Lonely
Ashes to Ashes - Celebrating Life
Part Two - Setting the Scene
Part Three - Catering
Bibliography
