Carrie Underwood Wedding Mike Fisher

American Idol alum Carrie Underwood is busy with wedding preparations for her upcoming nuptials to fiance (and professional hocker player), Mike Fisher. The latest scoop whispered in our ear suggests the party is getting started over at The Ritz-Carlton, Reynolds Plantation, in Greensboro.

The couple, who met at one of Underwood’s concerts, will wed at The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, in Greensboro, Ga., and have booked the entire hotel for the event and their guests, according to Radar Online.

The ceremony will reportedly cost more than $500,000, with the cost of the hotel alone expecting to reach $268,000.

After a year of dating, the two got engaged when Fisher, 30, proposed in December 2009.

Although the former “American Idol” champ imagined a small and intimate wedding, she told Usmagazine.com in Januarythat just couldn’t be possible.

“There are so many people,” Underwood, 27, said to the magazine. “He has a huge family; they’re all really close. My family is big, but we’re not that tight-knit. His is about three times the size of mine.”