Post by stingsharkruns on May 17, 2012 13:07:25 GMT -5
Our original date was Apr 25th, which is after spring break but before it gets to hot (We got married on the beach). That date didn't work out for venue reasons so we changed the venue and moved the date up to Feb 7th.. (before spring break) .
Post by futurepivko on May 17, 2012 13:09:46 GMT -5
We had to do an early spring wedding or winter wedding (because of H's job), and had to wait a year because of MIL's job (shes an neonatal and labory and delivery nurse and has her schedule for the year set in the beginning of each year) and I did NOT winter. So we were planning on March. March wouldn't work because of Lent, and the other date in Lent we could do before May was April 30th. So we went with that.
I picked my day way before William and Kate and I still got asked if I chose it because of them. Uh, no.
We wanted a summer wedding, and for the ceremony to be outside. June was the most logical month for us, too much further into the summer it be too hot.
we wanted a date close to the 23rd...everything started between us on May 23rd, but by the time we got engaged May was out of the question to give people enough time to make travel plans and us enough time to plan the wedding, so we settled on AUG 25th, it is 1 day after my grandparents anniversary, and I did not want another July wedding, my first one was in July.
We wanted to get married in the winter of 2005. 2, 5, and 27 have always been my "lucky numbers" so 02/27/05 seemed as good a time as any to get married.
We got married at the end of March. DH wanted spring so he wouldn't roast in his tux, and ended on March because my family farms and my dad didn't want to have to worry about planting corn the weekend of our wedding. We had it narrowed down to the first and last weekends of that month, and decided to go with the last weekend since we figured there would be a smaller chance of crappy weather by then.
Post by Velvetshady on May 17, 2012 13:31:26 GMT -5
We wanted my aunt to marry us (she is a minister) but she travels a lot. We took dates she was available and mapped them to dates our top three venue choices had available and it left us with one date in the Fall, none in the Spring, and a few in the Summer--we didn't want the summer, so Fall it was.
We picked the month based on weather and our vacation time. We narrowed it down to two Saturdays due to holidays, and then went with the date that was available for both the church and reception venue.
I finished my residency July 1, so it had to be after that, but not too, too long after as we wanted to be married/settled/have me get on his insurance, etc. Our venue was 20% cheaper on the Sunday of a holiday weekend. We picked the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, which worked out for travel, etc. for a lot of our OOT guests. A hurricane blew in on Saturday and the weather was awful for our rehearsal dinner Sat night, but the wedding day was glorious and we were able to save some $$ too.
I graduated in May and FH starts summer school in July. Plus we're moving 12+ hours away. So we had to fit in there. Then we wanted to make sure there was enough time between our wedding and Mother's Day/Father's Day.
My venue had lots of choices. We got engaged in the fall, so we wanted about a year to plan - that meant a spring (April-June) wedding was too soon, or too far off. DH was scared of being hot in the summer (July/Aug, even September), and travel could be problematic in the winter for much of the family (November -March). So, we picked : October.
You've got guts to plan an outdoor venue. I couldn't do it. I had a beautiful day, but 10 days leading up to it was record flooding rain and I would have been a wreck if I had to worry about it.
At the time I was traveling for work a lot and we wanted a summer wedding. August was the only month that worked and the first two Saturdays were family birthdays so we went with the third Saturday.
Unfortunately we didn't realize the date fell on the same weekend as the Lumberjack World Championships in a local town until after we had already put down deposits so hotel rooms for OOT guests ended up being spread out between multiple locations.
I wanted a Spring wedding. I like the weather since it is warmer but not usually hot. We chose May. April weather is very iffy in Michigan and June is the height of wedding season.
I just picked a random Saturday we were in Hawaii. I did zero planned before I even got to hawaii. Nothing. Not even someone lined up to marry us.
I figured we would have it on a Saturday on the beach. Once we started planning all our tours and trips the Saturday I wanted was not available since I wanted us to fly to the big island that day. It was the only day to do this tour I wanted to do.
So I said whatever, lets get married on Tuesday since we have nothing planned that day. I let the conceirge at the hotel figure it all out and let me know the details. I think the whole wedding was less than $500.00 I wanted simple simple simple!!
After the wedding we stopped and had snow cones on the way back to our hotel.
We knew we wanted to get married on the beach, but did not want to do it in peak tourist season, so that narrowed it down to May or September. We figured we had a better shot at warmer weather in September. We chose our specific date because it was the Saturday after September 15, which is when the town takes down the parking meters
DH and I couldn't agree on a date. I wanted a long engagement (2+ years) while he wanted a short engagement (~1 year).
We knew what the venue would be and my mom told us we needed to decide because they were booking up quickly. We went to the venue and looked at their available dates and just kind of picked it on the spot. It had no special meaning or anything.