Which is more important to you: your date or your venue?

The date! We are getting married on our 7th anniversary of dating. We opted for a longer engagement as well so we have time to secure the venue we want as well

Venue for sure! We were limited geographically (FH wanted to get married in his home parish in rural Indiana) which didn’t have a lot of options for venues. Luckily we found a barn venue close by that was affordable, all-inclusive, and just plain beautiful!

Originally we were going to wait until after I finished nursing school to get married and we would have been able to pick our date first and then our venue. About a month ago though I had a friend pass away at the age of 33 and it just reminded me that we never know how much time we have together and we decided to just do it. Now we had to pick our date based on venue availability.

Our venue kind of set the date. We fell in love with a venue and because we are both teachers, felt like it was best to do it towards the end of summer. I’ve always wanted a fall wedding but our wedding is out of state from where we live so doing it in the summer gives us plenty of time to go take care of any last minute details. Our venue had one Saturday open on July so we took it!

We are getting married on the anniversary of the day we met. The official wedding will be in the courthouse. Then we will have the ceremony and reception the Saturday following. We thought it was important to keep a date that was special to us.

Both were incredibly important to me. I wanted a June wedding in the year I graduated and luckily for me the venue I fell in love with offered that date.

We chose the date and then found a Vendor with availability.

Definitely the date for me. Everything else fell into place after that.

To me both because if you choose a date the venue have to be available that date. Some venues be book on certain dates so its best to make sure they aline together.

Venue for us! We selected a venue and then decided on a date based on what was available. Since we are having a destination wedding, we had to take season into consideration as well but we were never tied to a specific date. Our chosen venue meant so much more for us!

The where was more important and from there we looked at availability and chose our favorite date. We also had to change our date later on to get the videographer we wanted. So overall having the vendors we wanted mattered the most.

I chose my date based on my fiancé’s days off and my venue told me the dates they had open! I was looking for my dream venue, the time of year didn’t matter to me. As long as I marry the love of my life at the place I’ve dreamed of that’s all that matters!

We had our eye on a wedding venue (The Black Pearl on the Columbia) for a few months before he proposed, so we decided to pick our date based on the venue's availability! That being said, we weren't set on a particular month. We just wanted it to be spring/summer time. We are hoping that most of our close friends and family can attend because we are telling them the date 10 months in advance. If you have special family/friends who you need to plan around, then picking the date around the venue may be necessary. Some venues are booked a year out and specific dates are hard to find. I would suggest picking two months that you love and asking the venue what they have available.

We picked our date based on a summer wedding & we booked so far in advance that we had our opinions open which date to choose.

We had a set date in mind but with the venue we picked they had a town event going on that whole weekend. We could of still had our Wedding then we decided to just move our wedding up 2 weeks. So there wouldn't be the crazy traffic during our wedding

We wanted to get married on our anniversary (Nov 7th) super bad, but ultimately, it was the venue that was going to be the deciding factor. Luckily we got both

We chose the wedding venue first and then picked a date from there!

The date is most important to us. Venues will be figured out, but our date has significance to us. Our dating anniversary is on July 4th, and our wedding will be celebrated on our 10 year dating anniversary. Everything else will fall into place for that day!

Mine was definitely more important to me.

Our venue was the priority. Our anniversary is in February, and we definitely didn’t want a winter wedding. So we were ok with being flexible. We did, however, want a Saturday wedding- but upon learning the difference in cost for Friday vs Saturday at our venue, we went with a Friday. Totally fine 😊