Congratulations! You just got engaged! After saying yes, shedding some tears, jumping up and down, telling all of your loved ones and updating your Facebook status, what do you do now?

Here are top 8 tips that will help you successfully navigate — and truly enjoy — this exciting time in your life



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1. Choose Your Engagement Ring

For many of newly-engaged brides-to-be, the fiirst exciting job on the wedding planning path will be picking the pretty sparkler! While some men are good at picking rings and always leave their ladies stunned, not every groom-to-be is so brave and what could be a better way to begin a new phase of your life than shopping for your engagement ring?

2. Find Your A Box For Your Ring

For when it isn’t sparkling away on your finger, you will definitely be wanting somewhere pretty to keep it safe, so while shopping for that special ring, don’t forget to take a peek at ring boxes that befit your perfect sparkler. Bear in mind that ring boxes shouldn’t be boring, but elegant and befittingly beautiful.

3. Follow A Few Wedding Blogs

Long gone are the days when brides-to-be were limited to subscribing to expensive and sadly un-inspiring wedding magazines loaded with advertising. Today the world wide web is awash with beautifully unique (and largely free!) wedding blogs to fit every imaginable wedding style, size, theme, budget and location. So find and follow a few, choose those whose voice and aesthetic you love and just see how quickly the ideas start flowing. Don’t forget to look local too, especially when starting the search for your wedding professionals.

4. Set a Date

After the initial excitement characterized by “Congratulations!” and “Ooooh, let me see your ring…” you will be asked “When’s the big day?” A LOT! So, set a date – even if it’s just narrowing down a year and season! And you can always start looking at Save the Dates if it is too soon for invites. But don’t rush into it, remember these are your guests first impression of your wedding, and we all know how important first impressions are!

5. Treat Yourself to a Manicure

For the next month or so everyone’s eyes will be on your ring finger, which makes getting engaged the perfect excuse for a spot of pampering. Take the opportunity to spend some time with the girls (because there will be p-l-e-n-t-y of time to spend with your new fiance over the coming months, or years, of wedding planning) and book in a manicure for you and your Mum, sister or/and besties.

6. Book an Engagement Session
If I could change one thing wedding planning journey, it would be to have made the time to organise an Engagement session before our big day! Your engagement is an event well worth celebrating and capturing, so with all the excitement of wedding planning and dress shopping don’t forget to record it. Plus, an engagement shoot is the perfect opportunity to get a little practice in front the camera with your photographer!

If you’re planning a engagement shoot, try to create engagement photos that are natural, romantic and express your personalities.

7. Agree On A Budget
This number will affect every decision and purchase you make, so before you start planning (or even looking – for there is nothing worse than falling in love with a wedding dress only to find it is way out of your price range!) set a budget and agree with your groom to stick to it!

8. Have Fun and Celebrate!
Most of all, if you are basking in the glow of a proposal, bask a while longer. Yes, it’s true you have a lot of decisions to make in the next few months but, for now, take some time to enjoy being engaged. Book a weekend away with your fiance, throw a party, have a family meal; however you want to do it, before you start down the wedding planning path, just take a breath and with your nearest and dearest celebrate being engaged!