Thank you to everyone who posted a congratulatory comment regarding my engagement. It’s indeed a very exciting time! We are both very excited, and like any newly engaged couple – eager to plan.

The other day I signed up to The Knot because I realized that I have no idea what all goes into planning a wedding. Dresses, invitations, cake, music, photography, flowers…? It seems never ending. The first thing they present you with upon signing up is a checklist of about 170 things to do. This is where I faint.

The good news is that some of the items were fluff and I could check off 20 of them right away. That leaves me with about 155 to go. :)

I suppose I'm not too bad off. We already have a few surprises planned for our guests and expect this to be a very unique wedding for them. (But that’s all I can say about that. ;) ) I think I have a photographer picked out (I hope she accepts!) and I’m going dress shopping tomorrow. We’ll be making plans for our honeymoon this week, and possibly even scheduling our band. I started the guest list and we have an entire 14 guests so far! Progress…

I know that some of my readers are far less anti-bride than I am, so if you have any thoughts or any helpful tips and hints, now would be the time to lay it all out for me. And of course I would be forever grateful. The only thing I can offer is that we want to keep it simple.