"The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom." This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change. But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or "Elvis" can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride's shoe, and lots of noise - they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 25 September 2011
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The five stories in this outstanding collection from Mankell (Faceless Killers) provide glimpses into Kurt Wallander's early life as a policeman as well as paint evocative portraits of contemporary Swedish society. An unremarkable businessman is poisoned in The Man on the Beach but—in typical Mankell fashion—the case is larger, more complex and more interesting than it first appears. In the volume's best entry, The Death of the Photographer, Simon Lamberg takes studio portraits of weddings and children, but a couple of nights each week, he uses his darkroom to distort published photographs of politicians and newsworthy people for a macabre personal scrapbook.
As you can imagine, everyone at Avon Romance is excited about the upcoming royal wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton. So when three talented authors—Stephanie Laurens, Gaelen Foley, and Loretta Chase—proposed this anthology we were thrilled. Each tale is a bit different, but each has a “royal touch” that I know you’re going to love.
This beautiful book features a stunning selection of chocolate celebration cakes to suit any special occasion-from birthdays to balls, weddings to anniversaries, Christmas to christenings. This unique book features over 20 spectacular chocolate cakes from the simple one-tier to the more extravagant five-tier creations and amazing chocolate table centerpieces. Chocolate Cakes for Weddings and Celebrations includes practical information on selecting from the range of dark, milk, and white chocolates, working with chocolate, and storing chocolate cakes.
The cakes presented in this collection would cost a fortune in any prestige bakery but most are surprisingly easy to assemble. It's amazing what a curl of chocolate, shards of toffee or a delicate arrangement of fresh flowers can add to even the simplest of cakes. This work shows how easy it all is with step-by-step photographs, and includes cakes for weddings, birthdays, christenings, engagements, Valentine's Day and Mothers Day as well as classics that have earned their fame many times over.
