July 2015
Print Version of e-Book Just Released
Print Version of e-Book Just Released
Contact: Cornelia Powell
The Handkerchief
Has Been Thrown!
Something Old & Something New for
Same-Sex Couples
~Musings on Love, Weddings & Handkerchiefs~
The voice of conscious weddings for almost thirty
years, wedding folklorist and costume historian Cornelia Powell now creates an anthology for gay and lesbian couples.
Here is The Handkerchief Has Been Thrown!
Something Old & Something New for Same-Sex Couples. (First released in 2013 as a Kindle e-Book, the book has been revised and is now available on Amazon in a print version.)
Historically, the handkerchief has long
“represented the bond between lovers.” So using it as her muse for this book,
Cornelia wraps her stories with bits of wedding folklore, fashion fancy and
ritual wisdom then moves us beyond romance and ceremony into ways that open
hearts. (As one reviewer commented: “Who
knew something as practical as the handkerchief could be so thought-provoking,
entertaining, mysterious—even sexy?”)
In the author’s unique way of storytelling, the
book is full of tales like the seductive language of flowers and the princely
charm of pocket squares, but it also shares the underlying magic of the wedding
rite-of-passage. Plus…
·
it
entices with stories of sensuous pre-wedding rituals of fragrant, healing baths
in ancient Greece (and why today’s brides and grooms should do the same) and
what love-tokens you really ought to be tossing at your wedding reception;
·
it tells
how romantics throughout history flirted with a well-placed hanky, yet offers
endearing ways to use handkerchiefs at a wedding;
·
it
explains why we have kings and troubadours to thank for our modern notion of “amour” as well as why surrendering to
love is a sign of strength;
·
it even
shares the benefits of taking deep, languid breaths because the more at ease a
person’s body, mind and spirit the more loving their relationships;
·
the book
discloses how not to fall into the
cookie-cutter, commercial-formula trap of mainstream weddings, but instead
become a trailblazer in bringing intimacy back to wedding celebrations;
·
it
reveals tips from “don’t go down the aisle without a serviceable hanky” to the
secrets of how to keep your heart open in a less than agreeable world;
·
and now
that marriage is more available for same-sex couples, the book encourages
devoted couples to be leaders in creating a new archetype of marriage—one of
“spiritual partnership.”
In compiling this anthology—selecting bits from
her books and blogs, favorite essays and articles, adding new insights and
observations—Cornelia shares conversations about our currently changing social
culture. She asks: “If marriage is said to add strength for the social good—yet
is a social structure that’s been deteriorating of late—why not include all couples in on re-building the
viability of this institution?”
Cornelia is also the author of Amazon bestseller The Bride’s Ritual Guide: Look Inside to Find Yourself and the recently released The
End of the Fairy-Tale Bride {Volume One} For Better or Worse, How Princess
Diana Rescued the Great White Wedding. (She’s at work on Volume Two!) She
contributes articles to various magazines and with the appeal of the popular
British period drama Downton Abbey, the wedding and
fashion historian is in demand to speak at venues around the country. Cornelia
was the keynote speaker in the spring of 2014 at the prestigious Winterthur
Museum in Delaware during their exhibition of “Costumes of Downton Abbey” and at the premiere of the “Dressing
Downton: Changing Fashion for Changing Times” exhibit at the Biltmore House
in Asheville, NC in the spring of 2015.
The author first
made headlines in the world of weddings with her nationally celebrated bridal
art-to-wear, namesake shop in Atlanta,
Georgia, in the 1980s and ‘90s. During this time Cornelia and her shop were
featured in numerous magazines and books including Hearst Publication’s The Business of Bliss: How to Profit from
Doing What You Love, highlighting women entrepreneurs presented in Victoria magazine. She is a former Vogue
magazine associate editor and also served on the Board of Directors of the
Costume Society of America. ~
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