{"id":171,"date":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2007\/06\/12\/wedding-bells-at-bea\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:00:00","slug":"wedding-bells-at-bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Bells at BEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted my rather "serious" thoughts on BEA. This week I thought I’d post a completely ridiculous BEA-related musing: What if my friend Tim<\/a> had decided to host his Saturday wedding at the Javits Center? Sure, his forthcoming book<\/a> might be about the Black Death<\/a>, which hardly seems like a wedding-appropriate theme, but I think a BEA wedding would nevertheless have boosted his book sales. Complete absurdity = publicity = sales, no?<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m picturing:<\/p>\n

The wedding venue: Either the Boyds Mills Press<\/a> booth, as Front Street<\/a> is Tim’s publisher, or (to accommodate a larger crowd) one of those seating areas where you can watch cooking demonstrations and the like. In either case, finding an aisle would certainly not have been a problem.<\/p>\n

The guest attire: Wedding-themed badge holders<\/p>\n

The wedding party: Costumed characters, which are never in short supply at BEA<\/p>\n

The music: Compliments of Putamayo<\/a>, which is always present at the show and has a grand reputation for partnering well with booksellers<\/p>\n

The reading: Publishers could have competed to have their ARCs featured during this portion of the service.<\/p>\n

The officiator: I think David McCullough<\/a> might have made the best choice out of this year’s BEA attendees, but Stephen Colbert<\/a> would also have been memorable in this role… Any other nominees?<\/p>\n

The recessional: Did anyone give out promotional rice packets this year? Maybe birdseed? Those might be the only two promo items I didn’t see. Surely SOMEONE did bubble stuff.<\/p>\n

The reception: Take your pick of any number of publisher parties that could easily have accommodated our crowd of wedding-watchers. A Spiderwick<\/a> reception might have been cool. Then again, Holiday House<\/a> sounds like an appropriate place for a wedding reception.<\/p>\n

The favors: All the swag your commemorative totebags could carry.<\/p>\n

The vehicle whisking the bride and groom away: the Harry Potter Knight Bus<\/a>, naturally.<\/p>\n

What pieces of the BEA wedding puzzle am I missing? You tell me. (No, really, tell me. I’m getting a genuine laugh out of this, which will continue until someone decides this is actually a great publicity stunt and DOES get married at BEA, at which point I will cry for ever having shared this ridiculous idea!!)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted my rather “serious” thoughts on BEA. This week I thought I’d post a completely ridiculous BEA-related musing: What if my friend Tim had decided to host his Saturday wedding at the Javits Center? Sure, his forthcoming book might be about the Black Death, which hardly seems like a wedding-appropriate theme, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}