Who did you check in with before setting your wedding date?

I guess I'm in the minority!! We checked with both our immediate families first for conflicts, and I also sent out a quick message to my bridesmaids (even though I hadn't officially asked them to be my bridesmaids yet)! I was really glad I asked because my college roommate and best friend was already committed as a bridesmaid in another wedding on one of the weekends we were looking at!

No one, we didn't even think to ask.

It didn't even occur to me to ask anyone. My Fiance and I decided the time of year we (he) wanted and then we picked a date that worked based on price and availability with our venue. Are you supposed to check in with others? LOL

No one but ourselves. But, we did schedule around my nieces and nephews school so they could be involved since it's a DW. Which made condo prices jump quite a bit since it will now be held in the busy season...

We didn't really check with anyone on the date. We knew it'd be far out enough that family and friends would be able to make it. I realize that not everyone's loved ones are in that kind of position though.

What we did check with family on first though was the location. FH's grandmother has a difficult time riding in cars for longer than 20 minutes. We checking in with FH's family before signing off on the venue and made sure all the VIPs knew the date.

I’m surprised more people didn’t check with family and friends before booking their date! We checked with our parents, and I checked with my (unofficial at the time) bridesmaids. It was such a big decision (involving a big non-refundable deposit), I couldn’t imagine not consulting with our VIPs first!

I didn't check with anyone. I picked a date and booked the venue.. I knew my VIPS bdays and booked around that. However, I did change the date because my uncle couldn't come... sooo maybe check with your VIPS haha

Not a single person.

We checked with EVERYONE! To save money, we had our wedding on a Monday and only had 15 guests. Although we knew our immediate families would be there, we made sure our few friends could take time off work to go. Whew! They all said yes.

Didnt ask anyone but our whole family is local. It had to be the last 2 weeks of July because of baseball/football/softball season for out kids and niece and nephew. FH didnt want the 21st because his first wedding was April 21st so July 28th it was.

Only my mom, but I knew she would be available. If they want to be there, they will!

We didn't check with anyone.

Well our wedding is two years away so we didn't feel the need to check-in with anyone. I let my closest friends know because most of them are out-of-state and may need to save up to come. One of our friends is having a destination wedding next year so we wanted them to be able to plan accordingly.

No one. We picked a date we wanted and hoped everyone could make it. Our immediate family is really flexible so we weren't worried about them.

Before we picked a day, all of our VIPs made it known that no matter what day we chose, they would be there. It was really amazing to feel all of the love and support, as well as hearing them reiterate that this day was ours and as such should be whatever we want it to be. We didn't really need to check with anyone after that, so we chose our day.

We picked our date and didnt consult anyone. We picked what we thought would be a great month for weather and a nice day for us. We're not consulting with anyone on anything that we are planning especially because we are the ones that are paying for everything

We checked with FMIL because she is Jewish and we are getting married on Rosh Hashanah. She doesn't really celebrate Jewish holidays other than Hanukkah, but we wanted her to check in with the few family members who do observe other Jewish holidays to make sure they would be okay with us getting married during Rosh Hashanah. They loved the idea.

My FH and I totally chose the date and possible dates ourselves and then checked with immediate (parents, siblings, grandparents) just to make sure there wasn't anything already planned that weekend like a family reunion. I'm not sure what we would have done if there had been an event already scheduled.

Running skirt! I have a few of them and they make a day out so much easier. It's that or yoga pants for me.

I let family know approximately when we were thinking as we were looking at venues. We very high level tried to ensure no conflicts with big things we knew immediate family had going on, but folks had two years of notice so generally speaking they were able to work around us.

The BIGGER issues planning for our fall wedding is that two of the biggest conferences in the state usually happen within a couple of weeks of when we were looking so that makes hotel blocks a challenge, plus hotel blocks are basically a no-go during home game weekends for our college football team - so the bigger deal was ensuring we picked a Saturday during an away game NOT during a conference so that folks traveling would actually have a place to stay and not have inflated hotel rates!