After you get engaged, it is natural to slowly return to normal life. Yes, you are getting married, and yes, there is some wedding planning to do. However, for most brides-to-be and grooms-to-be, there are weeks where there is nothing that needs to be done related to your engagement, and no parties, planning, or announcements to make. That being said, engagement is a time when people want to be excited and pursuing their futures, so it only makes sense to want to have other activities that keep the emotions running high.
If you get engaged during the holidays, it can be even harder to go from holiday excitement and joyful surprise to the cold, darker months of the year. Use these ideas to keep the engagement time exciting together, but also to make your winter a positive, productive, and emotionally healthy time for you.
Design a Home Blueprint Together
Whether you will be getting married and moving into a big house, or continuing to live in the same small shared apartment, you and your spouse-to-be deserve the chance to rearrange some furniture in honor of this big occasion! Find some pieces of graph paper, some scissors and pens, and draw up a schematic for your house. It can be fun to make little cut-out versions of the furniture you have together, as well as any potential furniture you are considering buying together. New sofa, anyone"
What?s nice about this little daydream session is that it gives you a chance to ?rearrange the furniture? without actually sweati...