Congratulations on Your Engagement!
What most people don’t tell you is that from the minute you get engaged, you become an Event Planner. There’s no way around it. It’s time to plan your wedding, your engagement party, your bridal shower, your rehearsal and dinner, your ceremony, your reception and your honeymoon. Each event needs a location, menu, guest list, invitations and budgets. (Except the honeymoon. You can skip the guest list and invitations on that one.)
This is a complicated process with lots of moving parts. (That’s why they make reality TV shows about it.) For now, just keep in mind one very important do and an even more important don’t Do: some homework. Learn all you can about the time and cost saving steps you can take while avoiding the obstacles and extra (totally avoidable) expenses. Don’t: buy into the hype and drama. Your wedding is the beginning of a journey. Start your adventure the way you want without all the expected crazy. (Yes, there will be crazy. Getting to your wedding day is like walking through a minefield. It’s best have a map before you begin.)
We’ve put together a growing list of websites and articles to start you on your way. Take a look, and start making a list of your priorities. Remember, you don’t want to get overwhelmed. Your wedding and all the other events, and people, and expenses, and planning, and details can become very stressful. This day is yours. It’s a step-by-step process. Use this information to determine how to make it the way you want it.
10 Ways to Make Sure Your Wedding Isn’t Boring
10 Wedding Questions You Didn’t Know To Ask [slideshow]
19 Problems Every Bride Deals With [slideshow]
25 Things No One Tells You About Wedding Planning
10 Mistakes Couples Make When Planning Their Honeymoon
5 Steps to Hiring a Wedding Planner
5 Ways Facebook Can Ruin Your Wedding [slideshow]
50 Favorite Wedding Details of 2017 [slideshow]
Bad Wedding Etiquette Comebacks
Budgeting for the Wedding: Biggest Knottie Wedding Splurges
Ceremony: Protestant Wedding Checklist
DIY Day-Of Prep: How to Make a Day-Of Wedding Kit
DIY Wedding Cake Tips: Preserving Your Top Wedding Cake Tier
Finding the Right Wedding Planner
Greatest Wedding Movie Moments of All Time [slideshow]
How to Change Your Last Name After the Wedding
Insurance 101: Engagement Ring Insurance
Interview Checklist for Potential Wedding Planners
Is Pre-wedding Counseling for You?
Just Engaged: Your First Wedding Planning To-Dos
Just Married: Your Post Wedding To-Dos
Most Creative Wedding Website Ideas We’ve Ever Seen [slideshow]
Planning Basics: How to Talk Money With Your Wedding Vendors
Q&A: Wedding Vendors: Do We Have to Feed Them?
Reception Sites: Points for Your Contract
S**t Brides Say (Watch the Video!)
Stress: 8 Easy Ways to Prevent Wedding Insanity
The Groom to English Translator
The Most Expensive and Cheapest Places for a Wedding
Top 10 New Wedding Trends for 2017! [slideshow]
Transportation: A Planning Worksheet
Transportation: Costs, Tips & Trends
Vendors: A Complete Guide to Contracts
Wedding Announcements: Contacts at Major Papers
Wedding Ceremony: Catholic Wedding Checklist
Wedding Ceremony: Eastern Orthodox Wedding Checklist
Wedding Ceremony: Jewish Wedding Checklist
Wedding Day Emergencies: 14 Swift Solutions
Wedding Guests: How to Make Out-of-Town Wedding Guests Feel at Home
Wedding Guests: Reception Seating How-Tos
Wedding Keepsakes: How to Preserve Your Gown
Wedding Newsletters: Why You Need One
Wedding Planners: 13 Questions to Ask
Wedding Planning Basics: 10 Biggest Wedding Planning Blunders to Avoid [slideshow]
Wedding Planning Basics: Ceremony Seating 101
Wedding Planning Basics: How to Prevent Wedding Gift Theft
Wedding Planning Basics: Tips On How To Splurge and Save On Your Wedding
Wedding Planning: Tech-Savvy Weddings
Wedding Planning: 10 Biggest Prewedding Mistakes
Wedding Planning: 10 Most Common Wedding Planning Mistakes [slideshow]
Wedding Planning: 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Every Bride [slideshow]
Wedding Planning: 10 Rules for Every Bride [slideshow]
Wedding Planning: 12-Month Wedding Calendar
Wedding Planning: 30 Expert Tips and Tricks
Wedding Planning: 7 Wedding-Planning Tips From Happily Ever Faster’s Melody Williams
Wedding Planning: 8 Wedding Planning Tips to Get Organized
Wedding Planning: Biggest Wedding Regrets
Wedding Planning: Confessions of Wedding Planners
Wedding Planning: Flirting With Disaster
Wedding Planning: How to Avoid Wedding Day Mishaps
Wedding Planning: How to Get a Marriage License
Wedding Planning: How to Plan Your Wedding at Work (Without Getting Fired)
Wedding Planning: Inside Your Groom’s Mind
Wedding Planning: Knotties Biggest Wedding Regrets
Wedding Planning: Lucky Wedding Dates
Wedding Planning: Q & A With Wedding Planner Steve Kemble
Wedding Planning: The 10 Wedding Rules You Can Break [slideshow]
Wedding Planning: The New Wedding Rules
Wedding Planning: The Worst Wedding Advice Ever
Wedding Planning: Top Tips from Wedding Planners Across the Country
Wedding Planning: Wedding Insurance 101
Wedding Planning: Wedding World Records
Wedding Planning: Welcome to The Knot
Wedding Planning: Worst Wedding Nightmares
Wedding Reception Planning: Finding a Wedding Reception Location
Wedding Receptions: 17 Ways to Spruce Up Your Site
Wedding Receptions: A Traditional Wedding Reception Timeline
Wedding Vendors: Tipping Cheat Sheet
Wedding Websites 101 [slideshow]
Year-End Roundup: Our 50 Favorite Real Wedding Details from 2017! [slideshow]