planning

Parker Brown, the public face of a wedding planning business who is very successful in her career, decides to take a chance with her heart when she allows her flirtation with mechanic Malcomb Kavanaugh to go to the next level.

Mackensie "Mac" Elliot has been happy to capture other people's happy memories as a wedding photographer for the company she founded with her three childhood friends, but a chance encounter with Carter Maguire, a stable English teacher, forces her to recognize the emotional damage caused by her dysfunctional parents.

Provides detailed guidelines and materials for developing a crisis management plan for schools, offering advice on putting together a crisis team, describing techniques for crisis and grief counseling for children, and including activities for various ages.

Describes presentations and workshop ideas and strategies designed to help educators organize and conduct effective presentations for other teaching adults.

Describes career opportunities available in event planning and related fields, featuring on-the-job accounts, with information on possible earnings, training and education requirements, and outlook, and including lists of professional associations.

Bridal magazine writer Lucky Quinn, having been promoted to editor in chief after the folding of two competitors and taken the position of her mentor, realizes it is lonely at the top as her promotion spreads and reveals details about the lives of four women working for her.

After going into business for herself as a wedding planner, Isabel Bookbinder busies herself with her first client, a millionaire pop starlet, after learning that her own best friend is newly engaged to her brother and moving in with her boyfriend, Will, but as perfect as things seem to put Isabel in the position to wear the white dress, not everything goes as planned.

Ambitious young accountant Ivan Davis's plan to promote business network events among the rich and famous in southern California brings him to the attention of Lucina Gallo, reigning diva of San Diego's nightlife culture, and they form a partnership that is so successful Ivan is soon unable to draw a line between business and pleasure, and begins to wonder how much money and power is enough.