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The things you need to know to take the next steps, all in one place. Skip around. You don't need to read in order.

The venue has three dates. Your family wants summer. She wants spring. How to set a wedding date when everyone has an opinion, including you.
A destination wedding sounds perfect until the guest list drops to twenty. The tradeoffs that matter, from costs to family politics.
Newly engaged. Tell her parents before it hits Instagram. The order matters, the timing matters, and getting it wrong is harder to undo than you'd think.
The guest list is where most engagement arguments start. How to figure out the numbers, handle the difficult relatives, and agree on a final list.
Barn or ballroom? Beach or city hall? Settling on a wedding style that fits both of you takes longer than most couples expect.
A good wedding planner pays for herself. A bad one doesn't. What to look for, and whether you need one.
Who pays for what at a wedding? The traditional split, how couples handle it now, and which conversations to have early.
Just engaged and staring at a blank page. The five things to tackle first, in order, before the planning gets complicated.