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"Back when I got engaged (you know, way back, eight whole weeks ago), you guys asked if I&amp;#x27;d be blogging about my adventures in wedding planning. Well...I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell you then (and believe me, it drove me nuts!), but that&amp;#x27;s exactly what I&amp;#x27;ll be doing. And let me tell you, I need your help like you wouldn&amp;#x27;t believe! At the time, I was so focused on my quest for the ring that I never really stopped to think about what happened after AP (that&amp;#x27;s the fiance for those of you I don&amp;#x27;t know yet) popped the question. Over the next few days, I&amp;#x27;ll fill you in on all the post-engagement mayhem, but for today, I want to know this: How long should you wait after you get engaged to plan your wedding? I have one friend who swears you should wait at least two months. Um, hello, that would mean I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done a thing until this week! I&amp;#x27;m way too Type A for that. Still, I figured I would wait at least a week or two before diving into full-fledged wedding planning. I mean, you want to enjoy the engagement for while, right? Well, I waited approximately 2.5 hours. Yep, I went from looking at AP and saying, &amp;quot;$%@$ does this mean we have to plan a wedding now?&amp;quot; to scooping up every bridal magazine I could less than three hours later. Five hours after that, I had a date picked out. Two hours after that, I had a different date chosen. Eight hours after that (hey, I had to sleep), I had a location--and yet another new date. My stack of wedding magazines was definitely bigger than this one.Two months later, I ended up with a completely different date. August 14, 2010, if you&amp;#x27;re wondering. Little did I know then that these were just a few of the decisions that were in my future. And that&amp;#x27;s where you guys come in. I&amp;#x27;m going to ask for your input--and actually put things to vote--on all different aspects of the wedding. I know you&amp;#x27;ll be (brutally) honest, and I really can&amp;#x27;t wait to hear what you have to say. How long did you wait to start wedding planning? Do I sound nuts already? (OK, you can keep that answer to yourself.) Anyone else at the same point in the engagement process as me? Anyone having an August wedding? Or going to an August wedding? More from the Engagement Diaries * Have You Ever Been Completely Convinced Your Man Was Going to Propose--and Then He Didn&amp;#x27;t? * Analyze This: An Engagement WTF (Plus, Do You Know Your Ring Size?) * At What Age Do You Want to Get Married? More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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