Hi everyone, this is my first post! My fiancé and I got engaged on November 29, 2010. We're planning our wedding for April 6, 2013. I’m so excited! I’m glad to see other brides planning weddings around that same time; it makes me feel a lot better about starting to plan so far in advance. When my fiancé and I first picked the date, a lot of our friends and family thought we were crazy to get engaged and wait that long to get married But oh well...The reason we are waiting is because my fiancé and I want to be completely done with college before we get married. If everything lands the way we plan, my fiancé should be graduating from culinary school a month before the wedding and I should be done with nursing school around that same time! We’ve done a little planning; so far we’ve picked our venue and it’s going to be at the Tuckahoe Mansion in Jensen Beach. My mother owns a restaurant and a cake business so we have the catering and cake figured out as well. But as far as everything else; linens, centerpieces, and the other little details...I have no idea yet. I’m not sure if I should be hiring a wedding planner to help me with everything? Well I can't wait to start sharing ideas with all the other April 2013 brides!