Planet Wedding: A Nuptial-pedia is the latest “planet” book by husband and wife team, Sandra and Harry Choron.

A meticulously researched bouquet of more than three hundred fascinating, informative, useful, and always entertaining lists, stories and revelations on all things nuptial. Illustrated with over 150 photographs and line drawings, Planet Wedding is a one-of-a-kind compendium for anyone who is getting married, planning a wedding, or is participating in a wedding.

The charming paperback—chock full of irresistible wedding data—features current topics (How to Have a Green Wedding) to the old-fashioned (Wedding Customs from Around the World). The Chorons have also collected amusing stories about real brides as well as serious tips on dating and marriage.

Wedding folklorist Cornelia Powell [www.WeddingsOfGrace.com] was asked to contribute one of her stories with a Victorian twist,  To Gather Orange Blossoms: The Story of the Orange Blossom Legend. With an ancient, exotic bridal heritage for Eastern brides, the orange blossom became a must for European and American brides in the nineteenth century: “When Queen Victoria chose to wear ‘a substantial wreath [of wax orange blossoms], undiluted by jewels, feathers, or any other bloom’ [explains historian Ann Monsarrat], for her 1840 wedding to her beloved Albert, the de rigueur floral theme for the era of ‘Victorian brides’ (and beyond) was indeed set.”

This is a book not only for modern, old-fashioned, and somewhere in-between brides, but also for all women who love stories of weddings and how they all come together! A true “nuptial-pedia,” it’s all covered here: the comical, the romantic, the historical, and the inspired.  Find book here.

[Contributed by Cornelia Powell: Read more of Cornelia’s stories that deepen a bride’s rite-of-passage as well as a woman’s journey of self-discovery in her online magazine, Weddings of Grace ]