• Spread the news of your engagement among family and friends



• Arrange for your families to meet.



• Announce your engagement in the local newspaper.



• Set budgets for the wedding ceremony, reception, and honeymoon.



• Make a preliminary guest list.



• Set your wedding date; reserve ceremony and reception sites.



• Choose an officiate; meet with him/her.
  
  
• Notify those who you'd like to be in your wedding party (best man, bridesmaids, other attendants and ushers).
  
  
• Book a photographer.
  
  
• Choose a caterer, and if seperate, a baker for your wedding cake.
  
  
• Choose a florist.
  
  
• Book musicians - for ceremony and reception.
  
  
• Begin shopping for your wedding gown and bridal party clothes.
  
  
• Begin brainstorming a honeymoon destination.

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