Engagement: 10 months or 22 months?

I think you have time to do spring 2015. but youll need to find a venue and book it asap! start there and if you cant find anything push the date back.

if it makes you feel better, im a may 2015 bride and all i have is a venue, photographer and DJ lol

I would do 10 months! My husband and I had a long engagement and if I could go back I would have gotten married sooner. We had a 2 year and 4 month engagement and have also been together 10 years. The bad thing about the long engagement was that I felt like I was wishing my life away just to get to the wedding. 10 months is plenty of time to plan a wedding! Good luck!

10 months is not that much of a rush. More than enough time to plan, you just have to get started now ... but MORE than doable. If I had been with my FH for ten years there is no way that I'd consider waiting another 22 months to tie the knot. I'd be jumping on a venue ASAP and starting the planning process.

About 10 months is what we did and we felt a little rushed.

I had about 13 months to plan because my fiance didn't want to wait two years. I had a very specific time of year in mind due to my immediate family's travel availability.

I thought it was daunting but the most important thing to get out of the way is budget, venue, guest list, photographer. Nail down a venue and date and build from there (based on your guest list size)

Dresses might take a while to come in unless you buy a sample so I'd start dress shopping soon also.

To go along with what @Courtney said, my FH and I have had a long engagement (not as long as Courtney's) of 15 months (will be 17 by wedding time) and I constantly feel myself wishing for time to go faster and not enjoying what's going on now! I easily would have picked an earlier date if our venue had one available. Get that ball rollin' sister!

Although we had a year long engagement, we didn't start our planning until 10 months in, mostly because we were trying to figure out a guest list, budget, and we are getting married out of town so we couldn't go shopping for venues until the mid-10 month mark. So far, it's been super easy and all I have left to book is the florist and baker, which we are doing next month! Do the 10 months!

We found an all inclusive place and literally could be done in 6 months. see whats out there for venues and options and budget etc and plan from there.

10 months is plenty of time.

Our engagement is just about 2 years and some days it feels painfullyyyyyy long!!

You still have time to have your wedding in 2015. But you definitely need to get moving and start booking vendors.

By the way: Congratulations!

By the time we get married FH and I will have been engaged for 16 months. I feel like it was too much time. I couldn't imagine waiting 22! I think I seriously spent like 6 months doing nothing wedding related because I couldn't. After you book everything with vendors they don't want to meet with you to finalize plans until months before the wedding.

I say go with 10!

Keep us updated on what you choose!

My vote is spring 2015. Just get on it now for a venue. I don't think my brain could handle a longer engagement. Too much wedding brain for too long of a period. Unless you need to save up, but also considering your grandparent's health, sooner vs. later.

I did 10 months and it is the perfect amount of time

Wow! Overwhelming response for the shorter engagement. I'd have to say, I'm actually surprised about it. I was planning to set up some meetings with venues anyways to get a feel for what's available, but now it seems like a must!

I am doing a 21 month engagement. There are pro's and con's to it.

Pros:

-I get to choose any vendor I want because no one was booked for my date yet when I started searching.

-FH and I get to enjoy being engaged.

-No rush on anything. I hate being rushed so that was a major plus.

Cons:

-The wait sucks sometimes (I guess that is really the only con.)

10 months

We did 10 months and it was a perfect amount of time. We also booked our ceremony and reception spaces about 2 weeks after we got engaged.

We did 8 months, and that seemed long. 10 is fine!

10 months is quite enough time! If you have to order your dress from somewhere, just know it takes around 8 months to get it! I had about a year to plan, and I'm pretty much done.

ETA: We also set that date with the mindset of holy crap my grandpa is 92 and your (his) has stage 4 breast cancer. Let's get this ball rolling ASAP! I would be devastated if my grandparents weren't there for our big day.

2015! A shorter engagement is easier because you don't have as much time to second-guess yourself and you get to be married sooner!