Celebrating your new home
Award-winning actress Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) opens her home in Malibu, California, to readers and offers tips, techniques and advice on how to create personal spaces within one’s own home in her new book Making Yourself at Home. She encourages budding home decorators to discover their own style and turn their homes into havens of peace, joy, and serenity.

Seymour inspires readers to use what they already have to make their homes beautiful and elegant - an approach that is both affordable and practical. The book also includes how-to ideas for invitations, place settings and décor, and is a natural for newlyweds to use as a source when decorating.

Jane Seymour is a multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner and recipient of the Officer of the British Empire (OEB). She is also an artist, lecturer, children’s advocate, and fashion/home designer. She resides in Malibu with her husband, actor/director, James Keach, and their children. Visit www.janeseymour.com or www.dk.com. (Making Yourself at Home by Jane Seymour, DK Publishing, 978-0-7566-2892-5/Hardcover/191 pages).

A TIMELESS TOOL
Bestselling author June Cotner has put together an endearing compilation of prayers, poems, toasts and blessings in her new book, To Have and To Hold, that is designed to encourage newlyweds and help maintain the love that brought them together in matrimony. The book is a timeless tool that married couples can use as a natural personal source.

One of the blessings in the book is entitled:

Seven Wedding Blessings
Because you have chosen a life together,
May your joy deepen
May your wisdom increase
May your passion for life and each other intensify
May your compassion for yourselves and others expand
May our support and gentleness toward each other grow
May your generosity to yourselves, each other, and your community be enhanced
May goodness abide with you always and may you flourish and prosper together.
- Davi Walders

Good shower or wedding gift for couples that are beginning their journey through life together. (To Have and To Hold by June Cotner, Center Street Hardcover, Pages: 160, ISBN: 1-931722-91-9, ISBN 13: 978-1-931722-91-9). ). You can visit June Cotner’s website at www.junecotner.com or the publisher’s at www.centerstreet.com.

FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN MARRIAGE, THEN THE IN-LAWS!
We can’t pick our families or who we fall in love with, but there are some answers to coping with in-laws in the book, How to Survive Your In-Laws. It has tools and laughs for readers searching for support or guidance in making relationships stronger with their in-laws.

Special editor, Andrea Syrtash, interviewed hundreds of couples as well as the families that come with them and has put them in a book that provides tips, stories and testimonies from real people that could help other couples make more informed decisions on how to adjust to a variety of potential in-law situations.

The chapter topics include: Meeting future in-laws for the first time; Handling cultural differences and language barriers; Learning to be part of the family; Enduring the pros and cons of family get-togethers; Handing the kids over to their grandparents; Deal with the other in-laws: your spouse’s brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles. 

How to Survive Your In-Laws (Hundreds of Heads www.HundredsofHeads.com)

Making It Work
Despite the soaring rate of divorce, undoubtedly, every couple that marries expects that their relationship will be in the small percentage that not only survives, but thrives. The book, Making it Work, explains that a marriage filled with unfailing love, generosity, commitment, fulfillment, happiness and trust, can be more than just a fleeting desire or distant dream. 

After the dissolution of her own marriage, author Catherine Aniebonam was elevated from the depths of doubt and confusion by a spiritual encounter and conversation with God.  She applies her experience and her revelations to assist frustrated couples regardless of the current state of their relationship or the amount of self or professional counseling they may have already utilized. Strategies are provided for improving and rebuilding relationships, as well as encouragement and helpful hints on living through the difficult and lonely times of the most common marital woe, when one partner's indifference leaves the other frustrated, confused, and in doubt.

Beginning as a collection of relationship-building advice, the first section of the book is inspired to help improve relationships. The second section contains inspirational guidance to restore hope and heal the soul. Ending with a worksheet to be done alone and then as a couple provides a self-improvement and faith-building guide.

Making It Work, is self-published book by Catherine Aniebonan visit www.tower.com

After You Walk Down the Aisle
The First 90 Days of Marriage is filled with pull-no-punches honesty, down-to-earth advice, and useful ways to put it all into practice. It covers such topics as: how to stay madly in love through life’s ups and downs, how to tackle life as a team, and how to handle conflict in a healthy way. Using real-life examples, the book uncovers typical newly wed challenges.

Authors Eric Lundy and Leslie Lundy explains in the book how to use those crucial first 90 days to develop necessary habits of kindness, forgiveness, fun, warmth, reconciliation, and patience.

The First 90 Days of Marriage by Eric and Leslie Lundy (W Publishing Group, wwww.publishinggroup.com).

www.WeddingsHoneymoons.com | the Newlyweds | July 18, 2010