5 July 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Dancing With the Stars' Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are only engaged, but they've discovered what makes a happy marriage. "It's all about compromise," Chmerkovskiy, 29, says. "When we agree on stuff, that's the best part of [wedding] planning." A key part of this has been setting reasonable expectations. While initially thinking he wanted the wedding in a castle - the one used in the 1998 movie Meet Joe Black - Chmerkovskiy now says the idea has gone by the wayside. "We're probably going to do something in Manhattan, I don't know what," he told People Saturday before celebrating the Fourth of July »

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