Don't Rush Into Planning Immediately After Engagement

Give yourselves a few weeks before the logistics start. Around 20% of proposals happen in December, so a large share of couples get engaged in the same fortnight and hit vendor enquiries at once, which makes the pressure to move immediately feel real when it is mostly seasonal. Take two to four weeks to simply be engaged. Use them to talk between yourselves about what you want before anyone else offers an opinion, and keep a shared document for the ideas that surface so nothing depends on remembering a conversation. Research venues and vendors casually in that window, with no deposits and no appointments. Nothing you can book in month one gets harder in month two.