Bride To Be Stuff!

Are you about to become a bride to be? Are you at the stage where you think he might propose? Are you wondering how he's going to do it? What the ring will look like? Are you thinking about bridal showers and wedding dress shopping?

Getting hitched brings with it all sorts of changes in your life—least of all that you will be sharing your life with a guy—and guys just think differently than we do.

Remember the book about Venus and Mars? Well it turns out that there are major differences in the way a man's brain works as opposed to a woman's.

Getting engaged is something that girls think (or fantasize) about a lot throughout their lives (it's just part of our make up) while the guys are just dickin' around, coasting through life playing sports and video games. They often don't have a clue about proposals, romance, or the engagement process.

The Big Proposal: Has it Happened Yet?

Many guys know what they want to do but have no idea how to go about doing it. All our male friends totally sweat out the engagement process and especially the proposal.

They know they want to make it special because they know how important it is (especially for the girl) but they get totally stuck. Others think they have the whole thing in the bag, but they're only thinking of what they would like if they were a girl and that often doesn't work out so well.

We girls need to stick together for all the other soon-to-be fiancées. There are 3 ways you can help.... Up for it?

We've created a help forum for wedding proposal advice and would appreciate YOUR comments or suggestions to help these guys out. These guys are stuck and desperate!

And for the guys who figured out how to propose, we let them post their ideas so that us girls could review them and see if their ideas are as good as they think they are. Guess what? They often aren't!

And finally, if you have a great idea or a fantasy proposal that you'd like to share, tell us about it on our creative marriage proposals page—it may just make it into our annual review of best marriage proposal ideas.

So let's stick together girls and pay it forward and help the guys out there come up with the ideal proposals for their girls. Wouldn't you appreciate someone doing that for you?

Tips and Advice for the Bride To Be

First things first, a must-read for every bride to be is our Top Ten Tips on being newly engaged. We bet you'll be surprised by some of the items on the list. Who knew?

Next is your bridal gift registry. Yep, you need to register as soon as possible! why? Because a gift registry is not about being selfish or greedy, it's about making it easier for your loved ones and other people who want to buy you something for your engagement or wedding. They appreciate knowing that there is a list somewhere of everything you want and need.

Then comes the all-important DRESS! For any of you on a budget (which means just about everyone) this is important. So it's time for all you bride to be (s) to read our story about the yearly Running of the Brides Sale at Filenes Basement. It happens many times a year in different cities around the U.S. Three of us here have done it with great success and got HUGE bargains on our wedding dresses.

If you're planning on attending the sale you have to read our Top Ten Tips for Running of the Brides. After having done it so many times, we consider ourselves experts on the subject and want to pass along these valuable tips to get you ready and ensure your success.

And while we're on the topic of Top Tens we want to share our Best 10 Bridal Shower Games with you. We know they're silly games but isn't that the whole point?

Finally, a music-related list...our best engagement songs. They're perfect for an engagement party or even for your wedding and will definitely get you started on your own playlist. The song list also includes a compilation of those all time classic wedding songs (you know the ones, totally cheesy, but sooooo much fun!)

Oh yeah... We also learned some surprising facts about the cost to attend a wedding as a guest. Yep, that's right, as a GUEST!

As a bride to be, we all think about the cost of throwing a wedding but never consider how much it may cost our guests to attend all the parties leading up to the big day and the wedding itself.

Since we never thought about it, we figured you probably hadn't either so we turned the whole thing into an infographic called "Til Debt Do Us Part". It's definitely worth taking a look at.

You're going to have to start thinking about all this bride to be stuff and we're hoping to fill this section with all sorts of top ten lists, so if there's a list in particular that you'd like to see, let us know...

Meanwhile... Congrats!