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I Do. I Did. Now What?!: Life After the Wedding Dress | 
 enlarge | Author: Jenny Lee
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 600429
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0761133208
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.81
UPC: 019628133205
EAN: 9780761133209
ASIN: 0761133208
Publication Date: February 1, 2004
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Product Description
Hello. My Name is Jenny. And I'm a Wife
Her Vera Wang gown still warm, Jenny Lee explores the subject no friend would ever talk about: what happens after the band stops playing and the guests go home. Covering finances, the freakish occurrences of getting beaten at Scrabble, meeting other couples, and establishing principles ("It's not that I can't cook. I don't cook."), it's the hilarious, all-too-true story of what it means to be a wife—with a real-life husband, one television remote, and the sneaking suspicion that he's using your very, very expensive, very, very hard-to-find shampoo.
Book Description
In time for bridal season comes the paperback edition of I Do. I Did. Now What?! (25,000 copies in print). Bridal Guide magazine gave I Do. I Did. Now What?! an "A+." "A budding Erma Bombeck" said Red Streak/Chicago Sun-Times about Jenny Lee. And Publishers Weekly compared her to Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, praising the book as a "frank, witty account of coming to terms with what matrimony really means."
Plenty of books can help you plan a wedding. And plenty of friends can debate the merits of tiara vs. headpiece. But once the band stops playing and the friends go home, you are on your own--no longer the carefree single whose life revolves around nights on the town and Jimmy Choo shoes. Jenny Lee found this out the hard way, and deals with it the hilarious way in a one-year chronicle of being a newlywed. Covering finances, the freakish occurrence of getting beaten at Scrabble, the Perfect Fight, principles ("It's not that I can't cook. I don't cook."), and what to do when you discover he's using your very, very expensive, very, very hard-to-find shampoo . . . it's the terrifically funny, all-too-true story of life with a new husband. And the one book that has the guts to ask: Am I really legally bound to a man who leaves mustard-smeared knives on clean kitchen towels?
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 SO HILARIOUS & SO TRUE!!! July 10, 2007
These anecdotes will have you rolling! Hysterically funny and witty! I'm Korean-American like Lee and even though she doesn't delve too much into the whole racial/cultural issue just the stories about newlywed life are too candid to be made up! The part where she jumps up and says: "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE DOING THIS! YOU'RE SPOILING HIM!" when Lee's traditional mother brings her new son-in-law his favorite drink (lemon-lime Gatorade - just like my own husband!) on a silver tray with a crystal highball glass filled with ice. This is something my own mother has actually done.
The Great Dinner Debate is something we, to this day, still struggle with.
Anyway, this is a fast-paced, endearing, comical read. Once you pick it up you won't be able to put it down!
For Better or for Worse November 10, 2006
Jenny Lee has provided the wedded and soon-to-be wed communtiy with a hilarious account of what married life is really like. Her hialrious anecdotes and sage advice, marinated in good humor, are thoroughly enjoyable.
 why get married? July 14, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
people are very divided on this book, but i wasn't into it. i guess the author is trying to be funny but she is so shallow, petty, and self centered, it seems to me that she wanted a wedding and not a marriage. last time i checked i enjoy hanging out with my husband, don't really care if he beats me at scrabble, or uses my shampoo. because those things don't matter. i guess if the book was funnier or more insightful i could have gotten beyond the whinning. but when you start the book basically complaining that you went to st. lucia, i can hardly relate.
Great for anyone who's newly married January 2, 2006
I love this book! The first time I read it, I just could not stop laughing. And now, after a year, I am rereading it. It still cracks me up. I can relate to so many of the same experiences which Jenny Lee writes about. It is a very light fun read. Her writing is comical and very easy to read. I just bought her newest book "skinny bitching" and can't wait to start reading it.
 I Do. I Did. Now What?! Life After the Wedding Dress December 12, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While it was a fun book to read, it was not at all what I thought it would be. I was looking for a book to help me with my nerves about my own wedding. The book jacket promises; how to meet other couples, cleaning compromises, and other mysteries solved. I really didn't see what mysteries it solved, nor to it answer any of the other promises. Like I said before it was fun to read, its short and quick, but does it answer any questions, I didn't think so. I also read The Conscious Bride by Sheryl Nissinen. When I looked at it the first couple of times I thought it was a book trying to talk you out of getting married, not so. It really makes you think about different aspects of your engagement and relationship, now that was a helpful book!
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