Let's take a quick look at your to-do list:

1. Pick a theme and color palette


2. Find a florist, caterer, baker, a location, officiant and a few other essential vendors


3. Buy your dream wedding dress


4. Find the right favors that both matches your theme AND doesn’t break your budget


5. Order your invitations


6. Pick your bridesmaids and their dresses

Of course this is just a very short list of what you have to do as the bride. But don’t forget it’s not just you getting married. Your groom is a big part of planning a wedding. He just doesn’t know it yet.

It’s very common for grooms to think that their job is pretty much over once they ask you to marry them and they hand over a ring. Your groom’s to-do list probably reads: Attend bachelor party, pick-up tux, show up at wedding, go on honeymoon. Right?

Well, it’s about time grooms got a new wedding planning to-do list.

Get your guy involved in something he’s probably really excited about…the honeymoon. Ask him to pick a few options for your most romantic vacation ever and then present them to you.

All week I’ll be featuring some fabulous honeymoon destinations you may want to email to your fiance. But before you starting sending him hints of where you want to go, here are a few more to-dos you should add to your groom’s wedding planning list:

• Research potential videographers


• Research potentional bands and/or DJs


• Put together a playlist and a do not playlist


• Finalize his choice of groomsmen and ask them to be in the bridal party


• Start looking into wedding bands — he can start with the jeweler he bought your ring from


• Draw up a guest list — his friends, colleagues as well as the relatives and friends his parents want to invite


• Find out how much his parents are planning on contributing to the wedding budget — you may want to make this one his first to-do