Si­mone Sant-Ghu­ran, lo­cal wed­ding ex­pert and Ed­i­tor-in-Chief of Trinidad­Wed­dings.com, has re­leased her wed­ding plan­ning guide book for en­gaged cou­ples, on Ama­zon. The book’s re­lease is just in time for the start of the bridal sea­son in T&T.

Shar­ing her in­spi­ra­tion for “Its Knot Dif­fi­cult!”, Sant-Ghu­ran said, “At the time of writ­ing this guide for en­gaged cou­ples, I’ve had 19 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence in the wed­ding in­dus­try. I’ve run the gamut and cov­ered all as­pects – from wed­ding plan­ning for cou­ples, teach­ing event man­age­ment pro­fes­sion­als, be­ing a speak­er at in­ter­na­tion­al bridal shows, host­ing my own bridal shows and events, wed­ding mag­a­zine pub­lish­ing, be­ing a wed­ding colum­nist for eleven years for a lead­ing na­tion­al news­pa­per in Trinidad and To­ba­go and a wed­ding con­trib­u­tor for oth­er lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al mag­a­zines and pub­li­ca­tions.

“I say this on­ly to re-as­sure read­ers that I’ve tak­en all those years of ex­pe­ri­ence, and of see­ing the good and the bad parts of the wed­ding in­dus­try, in or­der to be able to dis­till the con­tent in this guide. I want­ed to sim­pli­fy the mys­tery that’s wed­ding plan­ning and to bring back the joy that wed­ding plan­ning should be!

“I first had the idea for writ­ing a book dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. Sad­ly, that was a time when the event in­dus­try ground to a halt but the sil­ver lin­ing was that I had more time to think about a fu­ture di­rec­tion! How­ev­er, ac­tive work on the book start­ed last Sep­tem­ber. My mo­ti­va­tion to do it was to give en­gaged cou­ples who want­ed to DIY their wed­ding, a com­pre­hen­sive re­source.

“Over the years, many cou­ples have told me that af­ter they be­come en­gaged, they have no clue where to even start? This book is a good place to be­gin the jour­ney! Per­son­al­ly, it’s al­so a piece of lega­cy work for me, some­thing to rep­re­sent the time I’ve ded­i­cat­ed to this in­dus­try and a re­source that will live on, af­ter I re­tire!”

The book is filled with in­sid­er wed­ding tips, ideas and check­lists and is an ide­al re­source for the do-it-your­self (DIY) bride or for any­one in­ter­est­ed in learn­ing the ba­sics of wed­ding plan­ning. It al­so in­cludes a re­source from The Naughty Grape Store, Trinidad on choos­ing your wed­ding drinks list.