Close friends getting married around the same time as you?

On my mom's side of the family, there are 4 of us who are engaged and planning weddings for next year. I am the only one with a date set in stone, but one of them is shooting for 2 weeks before us. This means a lot of family members will have to pick and choose which of the 4 weddings they want to go to because everyone will have to travel for all of the weddings (at most 3-4 hours so we aren't talking huge distances, but enough that its hard to travel so much, especially with kids). We have not asked each other to be in our weddings- personally I am not close enough to any of them to do that and that would just add extra stress to us all.

DH and I were both in a wedding 2 weeks before ours. They got engaged after us. Set a date way too soon, then pushed it back to September 6th. It really wasn't that bad! It gave us a weekend to forget about planning our own and relax. Now a week before ours, I wouldn't have been ok with being in it, but 2 weeks was fine.

Someone is bound to say you don't own the weeks leading up to your wedding, which is technically correct, but your friends are asking a lot having you in their weddings the the two weeks immediately before your own wedding. Hopefully they will be understanding of your position, and make sure you extend the same to them. Be upfront about the amount of time and money you can commit now so there are no misunderstandings later.

I'm kind of the opposite. One of my best friends got engaged about a week before I met my FH last year. They had planned their wedding for April 2015. When FH and I got engaged over the summer, what worked best for us was to get married in March 2015. My friend ended up pushing her wedding back to June for venue reasons so I feel a little bit better about that, I'm in hers but because she lives out of state and works retail she declined to be in mine as she didn't feel she would have the time/money to be fully committed to mine.

Our good friends are getting married 2 weeks after us and they let us know they took that into consideration when planning theirs since we already had the date set before they got engaged. I think it's awesome! Now, I have someone to talk to about wedding stuff without fearing I'm boring other people who aren't excited about weddings. I am going to ask her to be a bridesmaid and hope she says yes. I would have done Maid of Honor but realized that may be too much to worry about. Though I don't expect much from my bridal party. She didn't ask me to be in her bridal party (Pretty sure she's done asking people) and I have no problem with that. She picked friends from school that she's had for ages. We've only been friends for 2 years. I'm excited about it and so is she.

Well, I feel better knowing this is kinda common. I was starting to stress about what I can get myself into, but if you ladies can do it so can I!

@KaylaP- it is good to know that it was a relaxing weekend for you! Thank you for the story.

I am getting married 8/6/22, been engaged for over a year. My daughter got engaged a couple months ago and decided to have her wedding THE WEEK before mine! I can't help but feel a little hurt even though i should be really happy for her!