How did you finally agree on a date

I would decide which season you want to get married in first, then find a venue. We "chose" a date before we had a venue and ended up with a different date because it was all our venue had available. So it will really come down to what venue you choose. I would stop discussing wedding plans with parents at least until you and FH have made the big decisions.

Our venue determined our date. We agreed to the season based upon how long we want to be engaged, then there were certain dates available that we chose from.

We chose a date based on what our venue had available. We wanted fall but we ended up with end of the summer beginning of fall. Which we were fine with. We knew which venue we wanted almost right away so that it made it easier.

View Quoted Comment Thankyou we actually plan to get married at his aunt and uncle's home in Colorado because of the beautiful view. I've been leaning more towards November which is probably what will stick, we want a fall/winter wedding.. and with Colorado that time of year it could be either one lol

Well, when we were first talking about it we had decided to get married on our "half-iverssary", August 15th. But when he proposed, we both decided to move it up because we just couldn't wait that long! Then we were sitting at our venue and figured out that April 4th was available...and we just looked at each other and knew lol. Doesn't have significance for us besides being my step mom's b-day, which I did not know until save the dates went out (we're not close). To us, the date is going to be made special for us. The wedding itself is just a bonus to our awesome marriage to be.

We both wanted a fall wedding. We agreed on October. I picked the 19th because it would have been my beloved Grandma's 100th birthday. Rob was fine with the date and the reason.

I knew I wanted a summer wedding because I’m a teacher and get summers off (if I don’t teach summer school). I wanted a June wedding so we’d have plenty of time before school started to get the name change done and go on our honeymoon. We ended up narrowing it down to Friday’s (to save money) and picked based on our venue’s availability!

March 28th will be our 4 year anniversary so we thought it would be perfect 🙂

We picked our date based off of when it’s comfortable to go up into the mountains here. June is the start of the nice seasons, but it’s before when it gets super rainy. There’s still a chance of snow in June, but that’s better than a 50/50 chance of rain in July and August (it’s a national park and they have no indoor rain location).

I would decide on a season and go from there. It sounds like you’re into a late fall/early winter wedding so I would start there and figure out what you want to do.

I know when my mom and step-dad got married it was Feb 14th, 2002 (which was a Thursday). So I understand the whole you not wanting your kids to miss a day or two of school. Just remember, November 28th is over Thanksgiving weekend, you might not have a lot of people traveling to come in for the wedding, especially with plane ticket prices, then hotel prices will be higher. A July 4th wedding would be good, but again that is a holiday, even though travel and lodging might not be as expensive as Thanksgiving weekend, it will probably still be expensive, plus in the middle of the summer depending on where you are planning on getting married, it might be too hot & humid on your wedding day. Dec 1st, seems to be the choice you really want to go with, just go with it. Yes the kids have to miss school. They can always bring their homework with and make a test up if they miss one. Dec 1st is special to both you and your fiancé. So just take the leap and go with it.

Originally wanted to get married on our anniversary date in September 2020, but our venue didn’t have that date available. Also wanted to consider weather, school, and events that happen in Chicago. We settled for August 1, 2020 and it worked out. In my opinion it’s you and your hubby that make the day special, so no matter what date you pick it’ll always be meaningful.

We decided on the season and then from there we narrowed down the months. Originally, we wanted a spring wedding near a holiday and Memorial Day was the pick (simply to try and make it easier for people since most of our loved ones would be off work)...but we had to move it up a week because one of my BMs couldn’t do that date.

We knew we wanted it to be fall or spring. We chose may 9 2020 because of the weather and because we are having an affordable wedding with under 100 people. Originally It was gonna be april or may 2021, then we moved it to october 2020, then decided screw it let's do may 2020 n the venue we decided on had the 2, 9, 23 n 29 available and we went with the 9th!

We needed to choose “off-season” to afford our dream venue. That was winter (Jan-Mar). We wanted as warm as possible so we chose March!

Of course choose what’s best for you, your beloved & your kids first.

Thanks ladies you've helped alot! Pretty sure we are going to stick with December 1st. Has the most meaning to us

Ours was pretty easy. We were talking about marriage and I said “it would be cool to get married on our 10 year anniversary!” And that was how we decided on our date lol. Then my mom checked the venue she told us about and it was available, so it worked out.

View Quoted Comment Love this! Our anniversary/wedding date falls on the day before Thanksgiving and if that means some people don’t make it, then that’s fine, cause of what it means to us. So happy for you!

First time I got married I wanted a Christmas-type wedding. (The church decorated, etc.) I got married in January which is also much cheaper in Chicago. This time it is more based on availability of the FH. He’s in school part-time. I also want to get married on lakefront in Chicago. Some of it is planned around that, temperature, graduations, etc.

We wanted a fall wedding and we picked from available dates. I prefer an odd number, and my husband had no opinion on the actual date itself. We have never been those to track our dating anniversary and don't get too stuck on dates with exception of my weird ocd-ness. (: