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Engagement - Tips and Advice for Your Engagement

Engagement is that special period between your marriage proposal and your wedding. Though it's easy to just focus on your wedding day, there are parties and celebrations, personal changes, and unique opportunities to express love. Here's all you need to know to make your engagement awesome.
Making Your Engagement Special
Your engagement is a special period in your life of anticipation, celebration and love. Though it's easy just to think of it as just a countdown to your wedding day, you should realize that this is an important time that you'll (hopefully) never have again. Here's how to make your engagement something unique and wonderful.
Throwing an Engagement Party -- Celebrating Your Engagement With Family and Friends
Engagement parties can be a fun way to announce and celebrate your engagement, but not everyone has one. Here's advice on whether you should have one, and what it should be like.
How to Throw an Engagement Party
When your loved ones have decided to tie the knot, it's only natural that you'd want to celebrate them with a fabulous engagement party. Since this isn't just any old party, so be sure you follow these simple rules and tips to make it a success.
The Best Advice I Ever Gave an Engaged Couple
As a wedding coordinator, there is some advice that is so invaluable, I tell it to every bride- and groom-to-be I know.
The First Ten Things You Should Do
If you're a newly engaged couple, click here for a list of the first ten things you should do to start your wedding planning off right.
Announcing Your Engagement - Etiquette on Engagement Announcements
Looking to announce your engagement but not sure where to start? Here's the steps you should take, the etiquette on whom to tell first, samples of engagement announcement wording, and advice on where to announce your engagement.
Newly Engaged Wedding Planning Questionnaire - Avoid Arguments by Filling out a Simple Questionnaire for the Newly Engaged
Fill out this simple questionnaire to help set look, style, tone and budget of your wedding without arguments!

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