Re: 2011 Brides
Mine is a princess cut solitaire diamond on a platinum band! He picked it out and I am totally in love with it!! The first couple days I did not wear it all the time because I was scared of loosing it. But then I got scared I would misplace it and started wearing it 24/7! LOL. Fiance was smart and has it insured. Thank god. Diamond is pretty big and I still get scared of the “what if I loose it”. InshAllah that will never happen tho!!!
I did not get him an engagement ring… living in the US it is customarily only the girl gets a ring. My parents gave him a watch instead which is traditional in our family.
For the wedding we will exchange bands. For this we are going shopping together for it… I already have an idea of what I want…
Um… big major things have been finalized… still have not found a dj though and I will continue to stress about my dresses until I get them (having them made in Pakistan). Those are my biggest stresses as of right now. I am letting my mom do the majority of the planning… it is fine with me. 
I am basically in the same boat as you… haha. Omg .. it is so hard to find a MUA here. I am one myself… but thought it would be nice to be pampered and get my makeup done by someone else.
For the baraat I was lucky and found an Arab girl who is an MUA and used to work for MAC … she does hair too! So that was perfect.
For walima … could not find anyone so I have decided I am just going to do my own makeup. Ill be pampered for the shaadi…and walima is less stressful anyways. So might as well stop stressing about where to find a MUA and just do it myself