When most people get engaged they are overcome with happiness and a sense of well being and why not? They have found the person that makes them happy, someone they have chosen to spend the rest of their life with. Although this is a very happy time, eventually you must start planning your wedding. But what should you tackle first? Where do you start?
So what should you do first? One of the first things you should do is tell the persons closest to you about your engagement. Start with your parents. If at all possible, the parents should be told in person, with both of you present. After your parents you will need to tell other close family members, friends and then everyone else. There are different methods to announcing your engagement. Some popular methods include sending out formal announcements, having an engagement party or creating a wedding website and announcing your engagement and upcoming wedding details on the website.
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 fianc 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 need to decide the wedding date as well as the location of the ceremony and the reception. You need to choose places which are available on the wedding date which you have selected and which can accommodate how many guests you have chosen. You might also want your ceremony and reception site to fit well together. In other words you do not want one site to be formal and the other to be casual.
All of the above are essentials to wedding planning. The one thing you have to remember is that once those decisions are made, all of the smaller decisions will seem so much easier.
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