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Hawai‘i Wedding Guru Releases New Book for Brides
Getting married in Hawai‘i is a special experience, but even in paradise, planning a wedding has its challenges! In Wedding Belles: Ideas & Inspiration from Island Brides, local wedding guru Tanna Dang, guides soon-to-be brides on a smooth trip down the aisle.
Dang has rounded up more than 70 real-life recent brides to spill the beans on topics such as how to include families in the planning process, local traditions, special wedding-day details, and horror stories and their (eventually) happy endings. Wedding Belles isn’t the typical “how-to” wedding book. Although packed with useful sidebars filled with personal tips and advice from Dang—after years as a wedding professional, she’s amassed a staggering amount of nuptial knowledge—the book’s main focus is on the stories and photos the brides share. “There are lots of books out there that list vendors or tell you how to plan your wedding, but they tend to show only a few personal examples.” Dang says. “I thought having real, local brides share, in their own words, what they learned through the wedding planning process would be a great way for new brides to find amazing ideas and advice they can trust.”
Author Tanna Dang and her husband, Bryson, are the owners of The Wedding Café at Ward Warehouse, a resource center for brides. Bryson thinks the business is a perfect fit for the self-confessed wedding addict: “Tanna was always talking about weddings—our wedding, our friend’s wedding, her cousin’s wedding, everything was weddings!” At the Café, it’s Dang’s job to talk nothing but weddings. She has been a trusted sounding board for hundreds of Hawai‘i’s brides. Prior to taking over The Wedding Café in January 2005—a mere month after her own wedding—Dang worked for Hawai‘i Bride & Groom magazine. She is a graduate of Punahou School and the University of Hawai‘i, with a degree in journalism and communications.
Wedding Belles: Ideas & Inspiration from Island Brides (ISBN 978-09815086-6-5) will be available in January 2009 priced at $22.95 at The Wedding Café, bookstores and other retail outlets, from online booksellers, or direct from the publisher at www.bookshawaii.net. Contact Watermark Publishing, 1088 Bishop St., Suite 310, Honolulu, HI 96813; telephone (808) 587-7766; toll-free (866) 900-BOOK; fax (808) 521-3461; e-mail sales (at) bookshawaii.net.
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