Planning a Wedding Is Unveiled Step by Step with Joyce Scardina Becker’s new book Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding

Weddings are meant to be dreams come true. Surrounded by family and friends in the splendor of their chosen setting, it is the bride and groom’s day to shine. But the road to the altar can be filled with potholes. According to Joyce Scardina Becker, an award-winning wedding designer and founding director of a university program for wedding planners, “Many couples become overwhelmed with planning their wedding because they suffer from information overload and don’t know where to begin”.

Guided by over 25 years of experience, Ms. Scardina Becker has designed a foolproof recipe for producing a flawless celebration in Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding. While other wedding guides are organized by topic, this enlightening and concise book walks brides and grooms down the aisle step-by-step. Organized around a 52-week timeline, Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding gives couples a systematic structure for planning their nuptials – along with a healthy dose of savvy how-to’s. By reading one chapter each week, the couple learns all the necessary wedding planning steps in an orderly, informative and manageable manner. (Of course, if the bride and groom have more or less than a year to plan their wedding, they can slow down or speed up the rate at which they read the chapters.)

According to Diane Forden, Editor in Chief of Bridal Guide magazine, “Joyce Scardina Becker's experience as a wedding consultant is obvious on every page of this book. Her insight, invaluable advice and smart ideas are sure to ease the wedding planning process for engaged couples everywhere.” Antonia van der Meer, Editor in Chief of Modern Bride and Elegant Bride magazines, calls Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding “a well-organized, thoughtful and enormously helpful guide to the modern bride seeking thorough and creative solutions to wedding planning.”

In the words of Sam Whiting, writer for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, “San Franciscan Joyce Becker knows how to throw a party.” As President of Events of Distinction, a renowned event design and planning company, Ms. Scardina Becker creates innovative celebrations in one of the world’s most exquisite wedding environments. A former contributing editor to TheKnot.com, Ms. Scardina Becker is the Founding Director of the Wedding Consulting Certificate Program at California State University, East Bay, and a recipient of the “WESTIE” award for event management excellence from the International Special Events Society. Her weddings and expert advice have been featured in numerous publications, including Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Bridal Guide, Bride’s, Special Events Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, citysearch.com and msn.com.

Published by St. Martin’s Press, Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding is available in bookstores everywhere or at all major on-line booksellers, including amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. For more information, contact Dana Becker; 415-751-0211 or www.eventsofdistinction.com

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