You Said Yes to His Proposal - What's Next?



Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010

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Being engaged can be a fabulous time. It is a time where you are usually at your happiest. However, during this time you realize that you need to start planning your wedding and soon! This article addresses the things you should do first.

The first thing most people do is tell everyone they are engaged. Start with your parents, face to face would be best. Then decide on how to tell everyone else. You can have an engagement party, announce your engagement on a wedding website, announce in the local paper or send out traditional engagement announcements. Of course you can do a combination of all of the above.

The next thing you should think about is the guest list. Not just who might come but coming up with a final guest list rather quickly. It is important to have a finished guest list as soon as possible because it affects many areas of wedding planning. The amount of guests will affect the overall cost, the size of the ceremony and the reception and who gets notification of your engagement.

At the same time you and your fianc really need to sit down and discuss the wedding budget. The wedding budget is probably one of the least fun tasks in wedding planning to tackle but it is one of the most important ones. You need to figure out a dollar amount in which to keep the budget within as well as figuring out if you are paying for the wedding yourself or if family will be helping.

You and your fiance should also sit down and discuss each other's ideas of what you want the wedding to be like. There will undoubtedly be some areas where you do not see eye to eye on. You will need to discuss those areas in particular and compromise. Use this exercise as practice for years of comprise you will have together in your marriage.

Lastly you are going to have to choose the wedding date, the ceremony location and the reception location. People usually choose these three things together because you want locations which are relatively close to each other and ones which will fit into your wedding theme or feeling. Both locations need to be available on the same date.

All of these activities are part of big decisions. The good news is once you make the beginning decisions, the rest of the wedding planning will go more smoothly! Congratulations on your engagement and good luck with your wedding planning.

Pamela Kazmierczak enjoys writing wedding related articles. She is an expert in the wedding industry. Go to her website, Wedding Ideas or learn more about what to do when you first become Engaged. Stop by Today!
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