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If you plan a little at a time and get a lot done over summer you should be fine. As long as you're in the US I know you should absolutely be on winter break. Do you plan to honeymoon right after though? I know my school starts back right after the new year.

I got married Siri g student teaching. It’s doable. It will be stressful, but you can do it. I also planned around school break.

*during not siri g. What the heck auto correct. Lol

I don't think your decision is a bad one. I know that my school district gets 3 weeks off for Winter Break, which is typically the week of Christmas to the second week of January. I would imagine that you'd be taking a honeymoon at a later date. As long as you're organized in both your clinical requirements and planning, you'll be fine.

The final part of student teaching (when you are in the school full-time, start to finish, 5 days a week) is the most intense and I think planning a wedding while overlapping with lesson planning and teaching would be very stressful and probably not put you in the best mindset to excel at either. The part-time assignments (in school several days a week, but not all week long) prior to that would be manageable to overlap with wedding planning. Your first year or two of teaching full-time will feel like a lot as well.

This was my experience finishing undergrad (straight out of high school) in a K-12 ed program; if you are in an accelerated Master's program with some professional work experience behind you the experience might be a bit different.

Most teachers I know have done summer weddings. Winter break is much shorter than the summer break. However college breaks are longer than public school breaks, so you'll probably have a month to six weeks in the winter this year vs when you are teaching full time.

View Quoted Comment So what if I did it in the winter break right BEFORE I am student teaching full time? In fall of 2022 I am in the first part of residency but I am not student teaching full time yet, I am doing some days normal college courses and some days student teaching i believe. It is not until Spring of 23 so right AFTER we would be married, would be the final part of my student teaching

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Yes, I understood that from your original post.

I didn't find the semester prior to student-teaching full time particularly arduous, but I was always a good student and never struggled much with school.

Are you in a rush to get married young (this is assuming you went to undergrad straight from high school and will be 21/22 at the time)? There is a tremendous amount of personal growth that comes with the transition from being a student and in a highly structured environment in which many things are made easily accessible or provided for you to working full time, being "on your own", and becoming financially independent. If you haven't yet finished school and don't have a job lined up, I would perhaps focus on those things before planning a wedding. I feel like finishing college, getting your first full time job, and the first years of teaching are such monumental achievements on their own. I would worry that trying to plan a wedding during that time would take away from some of the joy of being in each of those moments and cherishing them for what they are on your own.

Having said that, what is right for one person might not be right for someone else. If you feel getting married December 2022 is a priority and the best choice for you, and you haven't found your coursework to be too challenging thus far, then I think it would be easier to plan a wedding before beginning student teaching then during. You can also plan the bulk of your wedding when you have more available time (during summer, breaks). There is quite a bit that happens in the last few weeks leading to your wedding that simply cannot be done in advance (collecting RSVPs, seating charts, etc) but the bulk of the work and planning can happen earlier. Assuming you are on a semester schedule and follow a traditional early-mid December conclusion to fall semester, followed by starting the spring semester up in late January-early February, you should have enough of a cushion around December 30th to plan without feeling overly stressed, and then have a little down time before diving into the swing of full-time student teaching. Also keeping your wedding modest will help, as might hiring a wedding planner or DOC if it is in your budget. December 2022 is still a ways out, so I think you have enough time to plan on your own if you are an organized person (which I hope is the case, as its a super valuable skill for teachers).