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Is one year enough time to plan?

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Rebecca, on May 13, 2019 at 9:37 AM

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My fiancé and I just got engaged about a week ago after 4 and half years together and I obviously jumped right into planning mode! We are a little at odds over possible wedding dates. If I could, I would get married by the end of this year, but my fiancé (probably wisely) nixed that idea given that we are completely on our own budget wise as my parents are not helping - so next year it is.
I’m feeling like we could pull everything together by the end of May 2020, given that neither of us wants a big extravagant wedding. My fiancé though wants to push it until Sept/Oct of 2020, which to me feels entirely too far away, mostly because I have been yearning to be a mom for over a year now (it’s definitely gotten worse in the last 6 months) but he’s been pretty set on not having kids until we are “settled.” So to me - pushing back the wedding means pushing back mom-life too.
Logically I know that pushing it back will give us more time to plan/save, but at the same time I think why push it back if we can do it in a year?
Looking for insight from anyone who has planned their wedding in a year or less..
Thanks in advance!

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Master October 2019
Meghan · on May 13, 2019 at 11:22 AM
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We got engaged in November of 2018 and are getting married in October of 2019. So we are planning our wedding in 11 months. Honestly, I can not believe how quickly it is coming together! I started looking online (the knot and wedding wire) for venues and vendor right away, but really started the serious planning in January of 2019. We had our venue, our photographer, my dress, our caterer, and our florist all booked within the first 2-3 months. We also have a planner, which helps out a lot! We are having a wedding of approximately 100 guests.
I say all this to say... you can absolutely plan a wedding in 1 year or less. If you can hire a planner, I'd suggest it. Or if you have friends and family that are willing to help you, accept the help!
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Master May 2019
Chandra · on May 13, 2019 at 11:31 AM
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We got engaged may 25 last year and married May 11 this year. Planning in that amount of time was fine but almost all of our money was gifted from parents so we didn't necessarily have to save too much.
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Master December 2019
Courtney · on May 13, 2019 at 11:58 AM
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Most weddings do take 12-18 months to plan from engagement to wedding day (ours is 14 months). We weren't getting a whole lot of help so we needed the time to space out payments and purchases.
Your FH is be very logical about this, and that's a great quality for a future dad.
A friend of mine had a 6 month engagement and she was stressed out up until the morning of the wedding. Everything was on a consolidated schedule and she felt like she couldn't enjoy the engaged period.
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Master May 2020
Tara · on May 13, 2019 at 12:15 PM
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Depends on what kind of wedding you want. You could definitely do one this year if you were okay with a courthouse ceremony.
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Master July 2019
Hannah · on May 13, 2019 at 12:28 PM
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We got engaged March 2018 and are getting married July 2019, so a little over a year. Honestly, everything is done except the seating chart because I need all the RSVPs back before I can make the table assignments. There were also several months where I did zero wedding planning because it was too early to start certain projects.
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Savvy June 2019
Tracy · on May 13, 2019 at 12:41 PM
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Girl, my fiancé and I have been together for almost 2 years. In April he decided let’s not put this off anymore and get married at the courthouse now. I told him I wanted it to be blessed & not a stranger signing doing a quick non-emotional thing. We agreed on June...yep 2 months to plan!

Yes you you can do in 1 year, my first wedding I did in 5 months.🤣🤣
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Savvy August 2020
Morgan · on May 13, 2019 at 1:03 PM
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I agree with everyone else on here, it really all depends on your budget and your dedication to planning asap. When we were looking for venues last year (for a 2020 wedding) venues were telling us that 2019 was mostly booked and booking 2 years out was starting to be the new fad. If you think that you can gather everything in that 1 year period it can most definitely be done!

Don't put too much pressure/stress on yourself because wedding planning is supposed to be fun!
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Expert September 2019
Jordan · on May 13, 2019 at 1:19 PM
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One year is enough time as long as money isn't an issue. My fiance and I got engaged on 12/02/18 and held off planning until after the new year. I hit the ground running and booked the venue 1/2/2019 and our wedding will be 9/28/2019. So we will have been engaged for just under 10 months when we get married.
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Devoted August 2019
Ali · on May 13, 2019 at 7:07 PM
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I got engaged in October 2018 and we are getting married August 2019 so that's less then a year and we did it we are already all done planning lol.
Budget wise our venue cost us 13500 that includes food and cash bar ceremony and bridal suite for the night.
Dress was 1700
Veil 85
Tux 350
Invitations 200 for 100 people
Hair 70 doing my own makeup
Photographer 1600
DJ 1750
Flowers 1800 (you can do it yourself for cheaper)
Random decorations 500
Hope this helps
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Expert August 2019
Madelyn · on May 13, 2019 at 7:12 PM
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FH and I got engaged Labor Day weekend last year and our wedding is August 3, 2019. So we will have planned it in 11 months. A year is completely doable if you have a vision for what you want and you feel confident that you can save the necessary money by then! Best of luck wedding planning!
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Devoted December 2019
Samantha · on May 13, 2019 at 7:12 PM
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Definitely get your budget/ guest list together first and do a little research on your “must haves” to get an idea of what these things would cost. If your budget seems to work, you can definitely plan in a year! I got engaged on 12/25/18 and we are getting married 12/7/19. We didn’t really get going on wedding planning until the end of January and so far so good :-) good luck!!!!!
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Mrs. Juliana · on May 13, 2019 at 7:46 PM
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Like PP said it is definitely doable with proper planning and budgeting. We got engaged Jan 2019 and are getting married Aug 2019. Luckily we are getting a lot of help from my family. I think 1 year is the perfect amount of time to pace yourself to make your vision come to light especially if you don’t have a planner . Good luck!
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Savvy November 2019
Shannon · on May 13, 2019 at 8:08 PM
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8 month engagement here and I think it’s plenty of time- agree find a venue first! You can get a dress off the rack easily. People tried to tell me it was too soon, but it’s just a party at the end of the day.
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Savvy August 2019
Carrie · on May 13, 2019 at 8:14 PM
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My fiancé proposed to me December of 2017 and we are getting married this August. I will say yes waiting so long to finally be married and start a family can be hard because you’re ready. But at the same time it does give you time to also enjoy your engagement and have fun with each other before being the wife and mother you want to be. You only get engaged once enjoy yourselves and the planning process because really the time flies so quickly.
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Melanie · on May 13, 2019 at 8:18 PM
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Determine your budget and how much time you have to plan the wedding. We planned and budgeted for 18 months of planning because of how busy we are.
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Champion July 2019
Veronica · on May 13, 2019 at 8:23 PM
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We got engaged in August 2018 and we are getting married in July 2019. We have had no problems planning our wedding in 11 months. We started by figuring out our budget, then approximately when we wanted to get married, and then booked our venue. We booked our venue within a month of being engaged.
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Rebecca · on May 13, 2019 at 9:55 PM
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Thank you everyone for your excellent advice!!!!
We have a venue in mind because my aunt works at a winery and offered to host it there but I am still waiting to here back about cost of having it there. We’ve started working on a guest list already so perhaps we’ll go from there after we figure out our guest count.
We don’t want a courthouse wedding but we don’t want anything took extravagant either. Right now it’s looking like 100-ish guests. I’m definitely down to DIY some decor because we did that for my sister’s wedding years ago.
And maybe even a food truck and a cupcake bar instead of more formal food and wedding cake.
I feel like I have so many ideas that I don’t know what to run with!
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Super September 2019
ASMini914 · on May 13, 2019 at 10:11 PM
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I’m planning ours within 9 months, which honestly feels so long! That being said we had finances already in order and we weren’t trying to save while also planning.
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Savvy September 2020
Caroline · on May 14, 2019 at 10:33 AM
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We made ours September 2020 so we have plenty of planning time as well as time to save money and plan for our time after the wedding. A year or a little more is a good idea!
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VIP February 2020
Lauren · on May 14, 2019 at 10:43 AM
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You can totally do it in a year! I got engaged last month, and we’re getting married in February! This, actually, seems like a long engagement to me because one of my brothers was engaged for 6 months, and the other one was only engaged for 4 months. It just depends if you have the funds and venues are available. Start looking at venues ASAP because May is a really popular time to get married so venues get booked quickly!
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