How Did You Pick Your Wedding Date?

We picked the season based on our work schedules and the date based on when the venue we wanted was available. No special meaning behind the date! We picked the date/booked the venue about 15 months in advance

We chose our dating anniversary! I always knew I wanted a fall wedding, and our dating anniversary was in the fall, so it just worked out. Plus, now we don’t have to wonder about whether we should celebrate one or both of the dates. We chose our date about 3 mos after getting engaged, which should have been a little under 2 yrs before our wedding day. However, thanks to Covid, we have had to postpone. So now it will be 3 years prior to our wedding date.

Our date is coincidentally about a week after our dating anniversary. We chose that date because I have a good family friend getting married two weeks prior and we wouldn't be able to afford to fly back to the US for both of our weddings that year if they were scheduled further apart than that. Our date also works best for those in FH's family who only have vacation time in the summer.

I wanted our dating anniversary, as it was a Saturday, but the ILs are usually out of the country on that date (and they were).

We chose our date less than 2 months after getting engaged, because we planned in less than 8 months. We based our decision around season, family conflicts, and venue availability.

It ended up being 5 days before DH's birthday, but he's totally ok with it, so... I got to marry someone still in their 20s! (...I am... Not.)

We picked our original date of 10/22/2020 based on what was available in October, but since we have postponed to 4/22/2021 we chose that date based on our dating anniversary.

Convience for us. Our date is the last day of my lease, which I'll move out of my apartment and move into his.

Our wedding date is the day that we started dating and also the day that he proposed. We had a minimony on our original date but our big wedding is a random date. We chose the end of March because our venue offered us an amazing discount which saved us thousands of dollars because it isn't wedding season and they don't get as many events during March.

He proposed in July of 2019 during a family reunion. The day after, we were at dinner & his cousin asked if we had set a date. Rules for dating a firefighter is nothing is planned during the summer as he might be gone on a wild land assignment & you spend your anniversary alone. Summer is out & we didn’t want a winter wedding. My daughter was going to get married in 2020 & I didn’t want to steal her thunder so that year was out. His cousin said “why not April 3rd of ‘21?” We’re like what’s the significance of that date? She pointed out “think about it 4/3/21 blast off!” We loved the ring to it. The venue we fell in love with had that date available!

We got engaged in August 2018 and we knew didn't want too long of an engagement so that meant we wanted to get married in 2019. My brother, his brother and my sister were all engaged and also getting married in 2019. My brother's wedding was in April and my sister's was scheduled for October, but later canceled after we booked our date. His brother got engaged two days prior to us so we were looking at venues at the same time. I wanted to get married in October, but since my sister was supposed to be getting married then we decided against it. Instead we were going to get married in September and we told everyone that was our plan. However, his brother's wife decided she also wanted to get married in September. Their venue only had August 31 or dates in December available so they went with August 31. We decided against September at that point. Based on everyone else's weddings, we decided on a summer wedding. Our venue didn't have any dates in June available and only two dates in July. We picked one of the dates in July. It really didn't have any special meaning or anything to us.

I always knew I wanted to get married in the fall. But literally everyone I know ever has gotten married in October and I didn’t want to be like everyone else, so I decided November was my month (September was completely out because I call it hell month...we have a birthday every few DAYS and I said absolutely not). I actually considered changing from fall to winter and doing January or February but when I was really honest with myself, I decided against it because those are 2 of my least favorite months of the year. We knew we wanted a Friday wedding because the minimum number of people everywhere was a lot smaller, and my best friend’s birthday is the first week of November so I picked November 12th. Nothing too special!

Dumb as it sounds I told him "I don't want to be 37 and just getting married if you want to have kids with me" so deadline became April 2022 (my birthday is in May). I thought of November 2021 but with covid no way next year. So April seemed good just before peak season for venues and it had 5 Fridays as I want a Friday wedding. Date is not nailed down but either 1st, 22nd, or 29th. We started dating on September 30th so it would be cute in my mind to have it as close in number and we can keep marking down the months the same as we have been.

We knew that we wanted to have at least a year long engagement to give us plenty of time in order to plan and also in the hopes that most to all this COVID stuff would pass by then, but also not wanting to wait too long to get married.

We decided on the 23rd of October because it was past our "busy times of the year" for work and it makes it a bit more special for me is because that is my late Grandfather's birthday who passed back in February this year. He and my son had such a special connection and so it holds a special meaning for both of us.
We picked our date over a year in advance, he proposed on June 20th.

We had always planned on getting married in March and had planned for this year then I got pregnant and my son was due in March so we decided to wait until after he was born. I had a lot of complications with him. He was born early and he’s our little miracle baby so we decided to get married on what was supposed to be our rainbow baby’s due date.

We knew we wanted a spring wedding and a short engagement. I emailed a ton of venues inquiring about their spring availability, and when we narrowed down our choices to two, picked a free date they had in common and went with it.

I wanted a Spring wedding and in Colorado April is an off season month so we chose a saturday in April,

We chose the season, winter, because we love the snow and did not want to deal with the heat. We then chose the month because it snows more often in certain months than others and we didn’t want massive snowstorms.
Then we just went with a date that was available at our venue.

I let my husband decide based on his work schedule so our date did not have any real significance aha. BUT it was my best friend's birthday. she was our maid of honor.

Fall is my favorite season and I always wanted a fall wedding so we chose 10/10/20 which is also two days after our dating anniversary 10/8/09! I thought that was perfect! It was close to our dating anniversary and it's a cool number pattern! We chose the date about a month after being engaged so then we could start looking for a venue right away.

I knew I wanted an October wedding, and we did not want to wait more than 1 year to get married. So, we started looking at venues that had October 2019 dates available. Once we found our dream venue, we booked the last Saturday in October they had available. This is how we picked our wedding date.

We picked our venue/date about 10 months before our wedding.

We cycled through a LOT of dates xD As is, it's not set in stone that December 29th 2020 will be the date since my parents can no longer come out, and we can do it any time between December 18th and January 3rd xD. We pushed up our date because my FH is joining the Air Force, and because we have a child together, he can't leave for basic training unless we're married. Before this decision was made, we had landed on January 2022 (chosen because FH liked the idea of a winter wedding in Colorado)