So when it comes to weddings, it’s usually the lady who takes charge.

But not for Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo!

Nick seems to be a busy wedding planner… and family planner too!

During the Alex Maine store opening event in Hollywood, the former boy bander told In Touch he has been helping his fiancée Vanessa Minnillo prepare for their big day. “We’re a team, we’re in it together,” Nick confessed. “We make our decisions collectively.”

And those decisions even include planning for a baby. “I’m a big family person so a family has always been very important to me,” revealed Nick. “It’s definitely one of the things I look forward to the most.”

So how long will we have to wait before the couple decides to expand their family? Nick kept things vague, by saying, “Those things have a way of handling themselves, so we’ll see.”

I can’t wait until Nick and Vanessa have a baby — it will be so cute!

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Or was it the other way around?

Nick Lachey chatted with his “lifelong crush” on ET about how he popped the question to his longtime love Vanessa Minnillo, calling it his “best romantic effort.”

“You gotta take it in stages. If you set the bar too high than you set yourself up for failure,” Nick told Nancy of proposing to Vanessa late last year. ET caught up with the singer-turned-actor while he and his gal were guest starring on CBS’ “Hawaii Five-O.” “This was a carefully calculated plan,” he continued on about the proposal. “You have to set the romance but you have to take it in phases. This was phase one.”

Vanessa revealed that her hubby-to-be got down on both knees to ask her to marry him, a pose Nick referred to jokingly as the “full begging position.”

However, this excited bride still has some wedding planning to do. Vanessa admitted to ET, “Gosh, I gotta get started on that. … So much to do!”

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Newly engaged couple Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo prepare to depart LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) for some Holiday fun.

I wonder if he ever misses Jessica or has regrets about their split?

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It was recently rumored that Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo might be tying the knot while in Tuscany on New Year’s Eve, but don’t pop the cork for that celebratory glass of wine just yet.

She said, “He was joking, we’re not getting married in Italy. I think that’s the game of telephone, he said it sarcastically.”

Us Magazine reports:

Minnillo admitted she hasn’t even begun to contemplate her nuptial location.

“We’re enjoying the bliss of it,” she said. “I feel irresponsible for not having a date, but someone made a great point, when you’re dating everyone is always asking when you’re getting engaged. When you’re engaged everyone is always asking when you’re getting married. When you get married they start asking when you’re going to get pregnant. Instead of keeping up with the Jones’, we’re just enjoying it.”

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This sounds like such a romantic idea! Nick Lachey and fiancee Vanessa Minnillo might just be tying the knot in Italy on New Year’s Eve!

According to reports, that might just be the plan after the happy couple spend Christmas together here in the States.

Nick went on The Rachael Ray Show and said, “We’re going to be in Tuscany for New Year’s. Who knows, we may be married in Tuscany, too!”

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Of course, Lachey may not be the first to know where it’ll happen. He makes clear that Minnillo, 30, is calling the shots.

“I just basically told her, I said, ‘Tell me where to be, when to be there and what to wear, and I’ll be there,’ ” he says.

The singer also jokes that he should be off the hook for a Christmas present, given his recent very special gift. “I got her a nice ring,” he says. “Do I have to get her something else?”

Think they’re in a race to the altar with Jessica Simpson and her fiancee?

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If you thought that Jessica Simpson’s engagement announcement was timed strangely, then you’re not alone. It seems that she announced her news just as her ex, Nick Lachey announced his good news. Reportedly, they’re in a race to the altar!

Nick said in a recent interview, that he’s not listening to whoever poses the timing question about Jessica’s engagement news. He said, “I don’t have any thoughts on any of it. I don’t know what people are saying. I’m not the one to speculate on timing.”

When asked about how engaged life is going for him, he joked, “Well, we’re still engaged.”

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Nick Lachey wishes nothing but the best for ex Jessica Simpson, who got engaged to Eric Johnson a week after Lachey, 47 37 (whoops!) popped the question to Vanessa Minnillo.

“I will say the same thing I always say: I wish her the very best,” he told UsMagazine.com Monday.

As for his own engagement, he told Us he and Minnillo, 30, “still basking in the glow” of the news and “are enjoying that. I’m sure we’ll get on the other planning shortly. We are now just enjoying this experience.”

Asked why it took him so long to propose, he said, “All things have their appropriate time, so thank you.”

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