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How to Wear White
A Pocketbook for the Bride to Be
- Author: Francesca Beauman
- Category: Non-fiction Parenting / Relationships How-to
About How to Wear White
Getting married is full of more pressure and pitfalls than ever before. Brides today are widely expected to be able to explain the science of diamonds to an inquisitive nephew, quote Tolstoy on marriage to a lascivious uncle, and tango with the best man in Louboutins – ideally, all at the same time. HOW TO WEAR WHITE: A Pocketbook for the Bride to Be is a book about getting married that is like no other. Historian Francesca Beauman has collected everything you will need to know (and a few things you probably won’t) as you embark on the mindboggling journey that is modern marriage. A mixture of facts and figures, advice and quotes, this definitive new handbook is (like its predecessor HOW THE CRACK AN EGG WITH ONE HAND) an indispensable and authoritative survival guide that will allow brides-to-be to tackle any problem with humour, style, and grace.
From the totally frivolous to the deeply serious, from the cultural to the historical, from the physics of falling in love to celebrity wedding dress designers, HOW TO WEAR WHITE is an intelligent, classy and eclectic guide to everything a twenty-first-century bride needs to know. It is a book that women will buy for friends, daughters and sisters – and cherish for themselves. True, you may not ever need to know the names of all of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands, the origin of the word ‘honeymoon’ or how to plan a wedding in the Antarctic, but isn’t it fabulous to know that you do?
About the Author
Francesca Beauman is a historian and journalist. Born in London, Francesca was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Cambridge University. She spent a decade as a television presenter, and is now the author of four books: a history of the pineapple entitled The Pineapple: king of fruits, The Woman’s Book, How to Crack an Egg with One Hand: a pocketbook for the new mother, and Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: a history of the Lonely Hearts ad, 1695-2010. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, film director James Bobin, and her two young children.