Celebrating Love's Special Moments

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 EventIn the Beginning - St Valentine's DayFirst Step - The EngagementMeeting of the Giants - The In-LawsOut of the Box - The Bridal ShowerPretty Maids all in a Row - The Bridesmaids' PartyBoys Night Out - The Bucks' PartyGathering of the Clans - Rehearsal DinnerOh What a Sight! - Viewing the GiftsAnd Two shall become One - The WeddingAlone at Last - The HoneymoonAt Home - Open HouseHome Sweet Home - Blessing of the HouseTry to Remember - Wedding AnniversaryOnce More with Feelings - Renewing of VowsWhen Love is All there is - The CommitmentWelcome to the World - Baby NamingThe Two of Them - Mothers' and Fathers' DayGoodbye to All That - SeparationWhat Next? - RetirementEmpty Nest - Alone but not LonelyAshes to Ashes - Celebrating LifePart Two - Setting the ScenePart Three - CateringBibliography