Reason you chose your wedding date?

Really sorry to hear about your Dad. That's pretty rough for I've lost a parent as well almost 3 years ago. Totally understand. I was pretty restricted on dates. We got engaged in August of last year and I wanted at least a year to plan and save $$. But I couldn't have it past October 15th due to my FH hunting season. Couldn't do Saturday's due to Michigan football. Couldn't do September because I'm selfish and don't want to share my wedding with my birthday. So I chose October 2nd thinking 10-2 would be easy for my FH to remember and its on Friday to avoid football. Sorry that was a little more winded than you probably expected. Haha

Fh picked the 14th of August. Couple of reasons: Oregon is typically dry during August, its 2 days after the height of the Persids meteor shower, its a new moon, (so we can see the meteors better) and lastly; (and he had no idea) the 14th is my late sister's birthday. It was hard to imagine getting married without my sister, and he happened to pick her birthday, I couldn't say no. Btw she has been gone for more than 14yrs he never even met her or knows much about her. She passed away on my 25th birthday. (i am 39now)

There wasn't any sentimental reason in our date choice. We knew we would have a short engagement (3-4 months), and being that we wanted to go to city hall, it would need to be a weekday. I also wanted to get married in the fall. I was thinking October at first, but September worked better with our schedules.

We had only the month of July to choose from. One weekend was my mother's birthday and I wanted her day to remain solely about her. In the Bible, 7 is the number of completion and 16 is the number of love. So for us, 7/16/16 made perfect sense.

We chose January because we needed a year to save... Got engaged in December...and also because we wanted it after the holidays (venues were less expensive after the holidays too). Then we chose the 16th because our venue was already booked the weekend before

We chose our date due to employment and school, since it was far enough after my FW's college graduation that she didn't feel the need to rush planning along with her school work but far enough out so we could move if we needed to right after she graduated.

We chose ours because it is the date we originally got together and became a couple. We are getting married on the 6th anniversary of that day. We've been together so long that that has been our day for so long that we didn't want another.

Awh, such a special reason to pick Father's Day!! I'm so sorry about your Dad, but he will still be there on your wedding day and will be so proud of you!

I don't have a sentimental reason for picking mine. In NJ, it's teacher's convention on the Thursday and Friday after my wedding, so I was hoping to take Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off (already having thursday and friday) so that I could go on a honeymoon.

We choose our date because it's the anniversary of when we first met.

I have been married twice. The one and ONLY reason I chose my wedding dates was to get the result I wanted for my wedding and reception. I wanted the best shot of having everyone be able to attend so I polled the VIPs and close friends and chose a day that had the most people I loved available. Both of my parents died when I was a child and their birthdays, their anniversary, etc did not play a part in my decision. I just wanted to make sure people could attend with the least amount of inconvenience.

I do want to share this with you OP - my 4th DD got married on Father's Day weekend in 2014. The overwhelming majority of guests were local. She has many many friends and is well loved. She had about 63% attendance at her wedding. Why? She chose PRIME wedding season for her wedding so she was competing with a lot of weddings going on as well as graduations and open houses. Several of her friends had family weddings to attend so they had to decline hers. If she had it to do over she would have chosen a different month. Just sharing so you have another perspective to consider.

I'm so sorry to hear about your father. I think its sweet that you've chosen Father's Day as your date. I understand the sentimentality of choosing a date that makes you feel closer to him- I have my bridal portraits scheduled for the anniversary of my sister's passing. Its been 21 years next month and its crazy to think she's been gone that long.

Our wedding date is 10 years from when we met. Once we decided that we wanted an early fall wedding and realized we pretty much had our pick of dates at the time of booking, we decided to pick the last weekend in Sept. We have never done much to celebrate anniversaries and don't actually know the date of when we met, but we know it was the last Saturday in September. I love the idea of celebrating 10 years together by getting married.

I wanted September and I wanted a Saturday. My venue had my date and Labor Day weekend open. I refuse to get married on a holiday weekend, so the 26th it is. Nothing special about it.

FH wanted the beginning of October our venue only had end of Sept open. Close enough.

We don't have any sentimental attachment to our date. FH realized that if we did it on 6/25 we can include the 4th of July holiday into our honeymoon and not have to take the extra vacation day.

@Shayna your FH is a smart man! I don't have any real sentiment to my day. We have been engaged for 2 years was going to get married last year in Jamaica but didn't work out. So in May we started back planning and wanted more time to save so we picked September and a random date at a local venue.

I LOVE fall and October is my favorite month. 10.10.15 sounded like the perfect date!

We didn't want to wait til next fall, but didn't want a hot n steamy mid-summer wedding so we chose late spring/early summer on a date that would work for my job. We work Saturdays and most people can't come, that day at least a few extra could but now I'm regretting making that a factor. Also, it happens to be the same week that two previous long term relationships ended and I'm trading in jewlery from those relationships to help pay for our rings. Seems symbolic in a way but really it's total coincidence.

Sorry about your father.

Our anniversary for being together is March 17th. In order to make it easy for FH to remember what year we got married we (actually I) chose 2017.

I knew I wanted June... I'm a teacher so I didn't want to go back to work the week after the wedding. The first Saturday we are still in school, the second Saturday is right after we finish/my parents anniversary, the third Saturday my nephew/ring bearer is still in school in NY (our wedding is in FL) so that left us with the last Saturday. Not very sentimental but more strategic.