FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Page & Palette, 32 S. Section St. in Fairhope, will welcome author Cornelia Powell on Saturday, Jan. 16, from 2–4 p.m.

She will sign copies of her just-released book, “The Bride’s Ritual Guide: Look Inside to Find Yourself.”

It is an example of why Powell has been known as “the bride’s sage” for more than 25 years.

While others focus on the trappings of the wedding, Powell focuses on the intimacy of the bride’s rite of passage. She brings her wise, soothing voice — unique to the wedding industry — to what will become an essential gift book for brides of all ages and a pleasure for every woman who loves matters of the heart.

For this book, Powell took the familiar “something old, something new” bridal rhyme —dear to generations of women — and revealed a feminine language of deep connection and self-discovery for modern brides.

With this more introspective twist, she then created a collection of “RitualWise Bridal Notes” that will rewrite how brides prepare for their wedding.

These 50 “Bridal Notes” become a relaxing “ritual reverie” for the reader by combining Powell’s storytelling magic with bridal folklore, goddess legends, deep-breathing ease, costume history and fairy godmother-like intuitive wisdom.

Every bride to be now gets to discover the depth of her own heart and experience wedding planning as a rite of passage of deepening relationship.

This entertaining yet introspective and reassuring guidebook also provides a “Wisdom Journal” section with quotes of “borrowed” wisdom from women’s voices, along with space for a bride to jot down her own insights and inspirations.

The invitation to “look inside to find yourself” is always present throughout the book as the reader finds herself immersed in the heritage of women’s loving support and encouragement.

Powell first made headlines in the world of weddings with her innovative and nationally recognized bridal art-to-wear store in Atlanta in the 1980s and ’90s.

Continuing as the spokesperson for “conscious weddings,” she later brought the same intimacy and awareness to a world audience in her online magazine, Weddings of Grace (www.weddingsofgrace.com).

Her elegant new blog, Letters to a Bride (www.corneliapowellweddings.blogspot.com), delivers “Dear Bride-to-be” messages of ease and reassurance to a woman’s life at a time when she can use lots of both.

In “The Bride’s Ritual Guide: Look Inside to Find Yourself,” Powell maps out this womanly pathway of beauty and self-discovery.

For more information, call (251) 928-5295, or visit www.pageandpalette.com.