Books by Sharon Naylor

[Steven Galvez]

The Busy Bride's Essential Wedding Checklists -- A supremely organized list of To-Do's in every area of your wedding plans, including shopping lists, delegation lists, worksheets, and creative ideas for the wedding. Grooms love the checklist book for organizing their partnership tasks for the wedding. All wedding experts agree that being organized cuts down on wedding stress and extra expenses.

The Bridesmaid Handbook -- The NEW rules for today's bridesmaids, with creative ideas on how to make the bride's life easier, working from a distance, money-saving ideas, style ideas, and worksheets for the ultimate in organization to make you the best bridesmaid possible.

Your Special Wedding Toasts -- Since the list of people who give toasts at weddings has grown (parents, bridesmaids, the couple, the couple's kids, and so on), this indispensable guidebook provides sample scripts, personalizing ideas, hundreds of quotes and translations for toasts given in the family's native language. This all-new guide will make your toast -- for any wedding weekend event -- unforgettable.

Your Special Wedding Vows -- A complete guidebook for writing the perfect wedding vows, with personalizing notes, quotes, religious and spiritual elements, personalizing factors, and a worksheet for you to use to write your vows together. Also included, vow ideas for second weddings, destination weddings and vows to be taken with children in blending families.

The Mother of the Bride Book -- A complete idea book and helpful guide for the mother whose role has changed in the past few years. Checklists, creative ideas, worksheets, fashion choices, and special sections for welcoming the new bride into the family are included.

Mother of the Groom -- Since more mothers of grooms are getting involved, this packed ideas and organization guide is perfect for showing her the way through the wedding plans, including cooperation and partnership ideas, details on the tasks she must fulfill as part of her partnership plan, budget ideas, fashion ideas, and fun extras are included.

The Groom’s Guide -- Since over 80% of grooms are full planning partners with the wedding plans, this new guide provides all the information they need to know in the clear, linear style grooms love. Full planning details, checklists, and advice on how to handle wedding-planning stress (as well as a stress-inflicted bride) are included. This book keeps the groom in the loop with insider information and ideas shared by other real-life grooms and family members to save them from hassles, mistakes, and budget-crunchers.

1000 Best Wedding Bargains -- Insider secrets for finding the best buys (and freebies) for the wedding. Web site resources are included, as are creative ideas for networking and using job skills to give you an edge in the wedding plans.

1000 Best Secrets For Your Perfect Wedding --Insider secrets from wedding experts to help you personalize your wedding and get perks and add-ons that other wedding couples don't know about. The key is personalizing the wedding, and this book gives priceless ideas in every category, including planning surprises for the bride, groom and families.

Your Day, Your Way: The Essential Handbook for the 21st Century Bride, co-author – A stylish, city-chic guide written with celebrity wedding gown designers Michelle Roth and Henry Roth, shares the top trends in city-chic weddings plus real-life wedding snapshots and stories from extra-special clients like Shaquille and Shaunie O'Neal.

[Steven Galvez]

The Ultimate Bridal Shower Idea Book -- Makes shower planning easier with endless lists and full, categorized details in many theme categories, games, menu options, favor ideas and resources, plus advice on planning co-ed showers and planning from a distance.

The Complete Outdoor Wedding Planner -- If you're planning an outdoor wedding, either all or part of the day being held outside with or without a tent, on the beach, in a garden, at a country club, at home, and more, this is THE guide you need. Complete with insider secrets, renting checklists, beautiful creativity ideas for the ceremony and celebration, solid Plan B advice in case of bad weather, and those unforeseen questions that other brides and grooms wish they would have known. All for the outdoor wedding of your dreams.

How to Plan an Elegant Wedding in 6 Months or Less -- An easy guide to get the wedding planned in less than a year, how to find available sites and vendors, how to avoid paying top dollar for less advance notice, and valuable insider information to get you to the I Do's more quickly and with less stress. Real-life anecdotes and Web resources make it a breeze.

1001 Ways to Have a Dazzling Second Wedding -- One of my most popular books, this one shares creative planning details and etiquette smarts for those who have taken the trip down the aisle before. Shares the top trends, tributes, insider secrets and stories from other encore wedding couples and wedding coordinators to help you plan the perfect day without any fear of restrictive Musts or Shoulds because it's not the first time. Reviews have called this one 'liberating and inspiring.'

It’s My Wedding Too: A Novel -- My debut novel featuring a comedic battle between an upper-crust romance novelist mother of the bride vs. an earth-mother of the groom who can't quite let go of her 'little boy.' Add in a heartbroken maid of honor who is obsessed with feng shui, an elopement, and inspiring messages about focusing on the marriage not just the wedding (plus warnings to mothers who have lost their perspective!), and fun and eccentric wedding experts, and this one is an escape from wedding stress. One of the first picks for the Sharon Naylor Bridal Book Club, It's My Wedding Too may be headed for the big screen, and two more wedding-themed novels are on the way.

The Essential Guide to Wedding Etiquette -- My newest, this one shares the REAL 21st century wedding etiquette rules: what's changed and what hasn't changed, how to avoid wedding etiquette disasters, how to show true grace and class in our hurry-up world, and answers to those sticky family diplomacy issues. Small in size, this guidebook gets right to the issues and has been reported as a favorite of busy couples, grooms especially for its bullet-list style.

Home from the Honeymoon: Expert tips on celebrating the exciting firsts of newlywed life, plus handling the challenges of adjusting to life after the wedding.

The Bride’s Survival Guide: 150 Mistakes You Should Avoid For the Perfect Wedding: Sharon guides you through the important steps to take in order to avoid the biggest, most expensive, most stressful and potentially wedding-wrecking mistakes as you plan your big day.

Love Bets: 300 Wagers to Spice Up Your Love Life: Make fun, friendly, romantic or racy bets with your man on everything from football games you watch together, video games you play together, family holiday happenings, what your annoying neighbor will do next, and all kinds of everyday events. Win a backrub, a footrub, or a task on your ToDo list completed by this weekend!

The Bride’s Diplomacy Guide: Get actual scripts on what to say to your meddling mom, bitter bridesmaid, pushy mom-in-law, that guest who wants to bring her kids to your adults-only reception, a vendor who doesn’t return your calls, and all of the people who didn’t make your guest list. Diplomatic solutions are the result of reading this essential handbook. You’ll solve the problem without hurting feelings.

The Bride and Groom Thank-You Guide: Find out how to word your thank-you’s so that they’re personalized to the guests, plus the perfect wording for gift cards, gifts you’ll return, guests who didn’t give you a gift (yet), guests who sent gifts before the wedding, guests who sent gifts without being invited to the wedding, and many more situations. Writing thank-you’s turns into an enjoyable task with the help of this book.