Planning Timeline: Modern or Traditional?

Ehh I'm on the fence but I think it was more traditional. I started researching venues when I knew the proposal was close. But I promised him I wouldn't start making lists or planning until after we were officially engaged.

Modern. We were in a long-distance relationship (after having previously been living together), and I was having a tough time with the distance. My fiance encouraged me to start planning to help with the separation.

I'd looked at ideas, dresses, all kinds of things. By the time he proposed I had a shot list of venues to look at.

Modern. We talked about getting married, then talked again about the seriousness if getting married with a blended family, then qhat day did we want, then talked about where we wanted to get married & what kind of reception we wanted. Then I went venue hunting-turned out to be very expensive, we compromised to being closer to home, went venue hunting again- moved up reception 6mo, (less time to plan), talked about when to get engaged, booked all vendors before my offical announcement to my family on our family vacation. I wanted to tell my whole family since we were all out together. He still feels he needs to ask me when we finally pick out "the ring". He is not a social butterfly so he is planning something for just us 2.

Modern! I read the wedding wire article about what planning you can do before getting engaged, and browsed dresses and venues online.

I do think our actual wedding timeline, 6 months from engagement to wedding day, is much more traditional than the current average engagement length.

Traditional. We researched some possible venues here and there to get a feel of what we may like, but nothing crazy. I had a friend, however, that started booking things like 6 months before they were engaged. I would do research, but I'd never officially book anything until after getting engaged.

Traditional.

We had never even spoken about getting married officially before we got engaged. I told him that I like the idea of marriage, but that I didn't need it. I just wanted to spend my life with him. He told me that he never really thought about marriage because he doesn't want kids and is his mind, those 2 things went hand-in-hand. We never brought it up again after that, until 1.5yrs later when proposed.

I was actually shocked to hear him telling people his ideas for our wedding right after we proposed. I thought for sure it would be something we had to take slowly, but he was very excited.

Modern: We had our date, visited a venue, discussed main course menu, bought my engagement ring, and of course I had a Pinterest board before we even met.

Traditional. I still like a lot of things on my Pinterest inspo board, but the planning didn't really begin until we had enough money. We finally set a date and things started falling into place.

Modern. We talked about some things we liked and wanted for our wedding quite sometime before getting engaged which I think helped in the long run. I also bought a couple small things before getting engaged like gift planning, and our serving set and flute glasses. Of course I showed him pics to make sure he liked them before purchasing tho

We have been slowly planning since our engagement in 2017 because the new baby needed our full attention and we knew we would eventually work out the planning details when we felt were ready to finally tie the knot.

Traditional! I had done some pinterest browsing but that's it!

Modern, I sort of knew an engagement was coming and with the timeline we had, we wanted to start looking for affordable venues. Also it's kind of ironic but I bought my wedding dress the same day he proposed to me! He was fine with me going to look and getting a jumpstart on wedding dress shopping. We had plans later that day to go on a date. I had been wanting to go peach picking at our local orchard (which is where we had had our first date 3 years prior). He ended up proposing at the end of the date! That whole day was just magical!

Traditional! I daydreamed and did some research as I knew I wanted a destination wedding but I waited for the ring to start planning.

Modern - We booked our venue before getting engaged because we knew we wanted a date in 2019!

Modern! My mom and I bought my dress, shoes, signs, and centerpieces before the engagement. We, also, booked my photographer/videographer and photobooth ahead of time since they had a huge sale going on. I did a lot of research and toured our venue beforehand as well but didn't book it until afterwards. Our families were both fine with it since they knew when he was going to propose, and I was eager to start getting things done so I wouldn't be as pressed for time during the engagement! FH was super supportive of it too!

Traditional. I may have a board on Pinterest, but we didn’t officially start planning anything until after we got engaged.

I would say we went traditional.

I mean FH and I knew we would get married at some point so before we were engaged I created a wedding pinterest board so that I could pin anything I saw that was interesting so that I could refer to it once we actually got engaged and started planning.

Modern. I did get a head start on planning as far as colors and wedding party as well as potential venues

Kind of traditional. We agreed we were getting married and on which day we were getting married, but we started planning before he popped the question with the ring.