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Design Expert Sharon Hanby-Robie Helps Brides Create, Enjoy A Simple Wedding

Third Book in Spirit of Simple Living™ series Releases Feb 2007

NEW YORK, NY—Near the top of the list of stressful life events is one you might not expect: a wedding. Although a wedding is be a happy life event, it’s inevitably packed with expectations, expenses and lifelong implications. So how can a bride lower the stress level during her engagement period and really enjoy her wedding? One lifestyle expert is coming to the rescue with a beautiful book of practical advice. Sharon Hanby-Robie’s The Simple Wedding: A Faith-Filled Guide to Enjoying a Stress-Free Wedding ($17.99, trade paper, GuidepostsBooks) guides brides from the engagement through the ceremony and helps her avoid painful situations and family clashes. This beautifully illustrated book serves as a one-stop guide for brides (and their mothers) who desire a simple, spiritual and personally satisfying wedding.

“The reality is that planning a wedding is an enormous undertaking because it includes so many responsibilities. Your marriage will unite two families forever, and that is no easy feat,” writes Sharon in the introduction. “But don’t lose heart just yet. I am going to walk you through as many details as I can, offering both practical and spiritual advice on how to make this adventure as simple as possible.”

The Simple Wedding helps brides consider every aspect of wedding planning from a uniquely Christian perspective with an eye to simplicity. Sharon’s intensely practical direction is complemented by stories from her own and others’ personal experiences. Heartfelt prayers close each chapter. Also woven throughout the book are 16 full-color pages filled with photographs to illustrate the text. Important topics covered within the book are:

· Your Wedding, Your Way

· Special Challenges: Remarriage, Interfaith Weddings and Divorced Parents

· A Timeline Planner

· Time to Talk Money

· Gifts and Registries and Thank You Notes

· Music and Flowers

· A Sacred Ceremony

· Reception details, premarital counseling, wedding jitters

· And much more

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Over the past thirty years Sharon has helped families and individuals discover simplicity and peace they never dreamed possible. Her new book series, The Spirit of Simple Living™, helps readers discover the simple way of living—combining beauty and functionality with hope and spirituality. Each book in the series includes practical tips as well as full-color photographs. The first two titles in the series, The Simple Home and A Simple Christmas, released fall 2006. The Simple Wedding will release February 2007.

“I’m a 24/7 kind of gal,” Sharon confesses. “But peace, joy and passion are often sacrificed on the altars of busyness or creative ventures. I know, I’ve been there! Now I’ve learned to simplify my life, focusing on beauty, functionality and spirituality. The result is a life of passion and freedom, and it is available to everyone.”

Sharon Hanby-Robie is the resident home décor expert for QVC, Inc., a shopping network, and has had appearances on the DIY Network; PBS; HGTV; the Discovery Channel; The Maury Povich Show; and The Gale King Show. A Christian author, speaker, and television personality, it is Sharon’s goal to “help people discover their own personal style, and to give them the confidence to move forward with making choices that make sense for their families and lifestyle.” She has been an interior designer and member of the American Society of Interior Designers for more than thirty years, and she has worked for design firms and had her own business for nearly ten years. She is the author of My Name Isn’t Martha, But I Can Decorate My Home (Pocket), My Name Isn’t Martha, But I Can Renovate My Home (Pocket), and Beautiful Places, Spiritual Spaces (Northfield Press).

GuidepostsBooks publishes faith-based, inspirational books helping people in all walks of life achieve maximum personal and spiritual potential. GuidepostsBooks is the trade book imprint of Guideposts, one of the most beloved and widely-distributed publishers of inspirational books and magazines. Although Guideposts has published books for more than 40 years, GuidepostsBooks, launched in 2006, marks the first foray for Guideposts into general trade publishing under its own name. GuidepostsBooks editorial and marketing staff is based in New York City. Sales and distribution is handled by Ideals Publications, the retail arm of Guideposts, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Guideposts, a non-profit organization headquartered in Carmel, New York, was co-founded in 1945 by Ruth Stafford Peale and her late husband Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, one of the foremost motivational speakers of the twentieth century. His landmark book, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” has sold over 20 million copies in 42 languages worldwide. Guideposts is a trusted and forward-looking force for positive change empowered by a deep and determined desire to help others by providing life-changing information, products, and services for all in need. Guideposts is America’s pre-eminent publisher of inspirational books and magazines with annual book sales of over 6 million copies and a combined paid magazine circulation of over 4.3 million. Ideals Publications, based in Nashville, Tennessee, is the retail book sales and distribution outlet of Guideposts; including Guideposts Books, Candy Cane Press, Williamson Books, and Ideals Press.

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November 2006

A Simple Wedding: A Faith-Filled Guide to Enjoying a Stress-Free Wedding

By Sharon Hanby-Robie

Available February 2007 from GuidepostsBooks

www.guidepostsbooks.com www.SharonHanbyRobie.com

ISBN-13: 978-0-8249-4713-2 (ISBN-10: 0-8249-4713-4)

$17.00 US/$22.99 Canada

208 pages, trade paper with flaps, 1/color plus 16 pages 4/color

Trim size: 8 ½” x 9”

Wedding/Inspiration/Christian Living

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