Reason you chose your wedding date?

I would have preferred going with the 15th, since its our anniversary falls on the 15th, but since its sort of a destination wedding, we decided it do it during the week, it works out better for everyone, it is cheaper for us, and actually is so happens to be FHs fathers birthday,

We had our first date on June 26, 2009.

We got engaged on June 26, 2014.

It was inevitable that our wedding day would be June 26, 2015.

We chose the Saturday after my daughter's classes end so that she could definitely come. If she stays in Providence for a summer semester or travels for an internship like she did this year, she will still definitely be available on that one Saturday for sure.

I think that you had a really good reason to choose Father's Day and I'm very sorry about your loss of your dad.

My condolences to you about your father. I'm sure having it on Father's Day would help you, since otherwise FD would be a difficult day to face otherwise. I chose the month of April because it's not too hot, not too cold. I didn't want a fall wedding really just because my fiance and I both have our birthdays during it, plus with the holidays nearby, it's just too much. I love even numbers and always favored the number 22. My mom passed away when I was 14, and her birthday was on April 24th. So that is why I chose April 22nd. I didn't choose the 24th, because we didn't want our wedding to be on a Sunday. It's a good thing we didn't choose that date anyway, because my maid of honor and her husband who's a groomsman have a wedding that day!

Originally, I wanted October, but it was too expensive. Then I wanted April because it correlated with Spring Break, but it was booked at our dream venue. May and June were also too expensive. July was too hot, so instead of picking a random date, we choose the 10th because it is our dating anniversary and the date we got engaged. Plus, our venue is $1500 cheaper, so that helped a bunch. However, I like your reason better. Edit: Also, congratulations and welcome!!!

Had to be a weekday, because we wanted the registra.

2017 because it's our tenth year together.

Couldn't have it on the day we got engaged (April 26th), as that's now FMIL's anniversary.

Couldn't have it on the day we got together (May 17th), as my dad wouldn't be off (emergency service relief worker, not much wiggle room in their holidays)

So we took the day we got engaged, and the month we got together in - 26th of May.

So sorry for your loss... I can't even begin to imagine. I think that is a great day to honor your father with your marriage. It's your wedding and you can pick any day you want. The only negative thing that might happen is that you may have some guests unable to show up because they are spending time with their fathers/father figures on that weekend. I chose May 5th for our date because that is our dating anniversary. Also - Cinco de Mayo - easy to remember and so much fun!

August 29th is our dating anniversary, but doing it that day meant that our honeymoon would run into football season (we're huge sports fans, so this is a big deal, lol), so we moved it up a week. June would have been awesome, but it's peak wedding season and the prices were too high. We also looked at July, but FH's cousin was supposed to be getting married that month and we had a lot of similar guests, so we tried to space it out. They ended up eloping. Just goes to show you that you shouldn't plan too much around other people. May didn't give us enough time and we didn't want to wait until fall/winter. Anyway, we're happy with our date.

We are getting married in a popular beach town, so we knew we wanted a date after Labor Day so we were "off-season" but the weather would still be nice. We figured people wouldn't want to travel if they had just gone away for the holiday, so we picked the 19th.

Our 10 year dating anniversary is September 24th of this year. But I didn't want to have the wedding on a Thursday, so we went with the closest Saturday the 26th.

So sorry for your loss! What a special way to honor your father. We started dating 9.28.08 but the 28th doesn't fall on a Saturday. We were thinking the 26th but a friend's mother (i knew the mother) passed away last year on the 26th and I just didn't feel right having a wedding on that day. (Not saying that you doing it for your father is wrong at all!! It's so hard to convey a tone when your only reading it not hearing it) so we decided to choose Nov 7th.

My dad passed away almost a year ago, about 4 months before we got engaged. So when we got engaged, we were going to do Sept 30, because that was my parents wedding anniversary. But Sept 30th wasn't going to fall on a Saturday for a while so we just picked an entirely random date

No real reason. I wanted a fallish wedding but October can be really cold here so September it was. My friends birthday is the 19 and I didn't want to share the weekend with her and we have lots of travellers so we made t the long weekend for people travelling.

Very sorry to hear about your dad. Your day will be very sentimental!

We chose our date for a variety of reasons.. the number 1 reason was because we started dating in February 2005. We got engaged in April 2014 and wanted time to plan - we didn't think that February 2015 was enough time to plan, save money to pay for it all, and give our guests time to save so they could travel to our DW (for them not for us). We picked February 13, 2016 because it was the closest Saturday to our dating anniversary.. also, it's a holiday weekend - so it allows families to travel more easily (work/school schedule wise). Also February is not a popular wedding month, so we have been able to get a lot of freebies or discounts on adding "extras" (i.e. three extra hours, a second photographer, and a lighting assistant for just $150). Flowers were a little more expensive, but not by much. Plus we looked at the months - heat, birthdays, holidays.. I love the cold, so that didn't veto any cold months out (FH didn't have a preference when it came to cold/hot weather).

I'm sorry to hear about your father, but I love the significance behind why you chose your date. That makes it even more special. FH wanted a fall wedding, which is when my parents got married. We're getting married on my parents' 28th anniversary in my childhood church, which is also the same spot that they got married.

Normally I am against weddings on holidays, but yours has such a beautiful and deep meaning. I almost cried reading it! It is a beautiful way to honor your dad and I am sure he will be right by your side in spirit. My dad died 3 yrs ago in November rather untimely as he was a young 64 yrs old, from cancer. I always knew I wanted a Fall wedding. I stayed away from the month of November because it is the anniversary of his death, and instead chose October, but for very different reasons. Our 1st date was in October, it is still Fall.

We met on 11/18/2012 and were told that the number 18 is a good luck number. Don't know if it's true but this has truly been the best relationship I've ever been in. My Dad has dialysis every Saturday and I didn't want him to have to make any adjustments to his schedule so Friday the 18th was it

It was a mix of things. we have always loved halloween, so we wanted that.

I didn't use much of any vendors, so it wasn't a matter of having to figure out when a bunch of people were available. and it was always meant to be small and private, so we weren't too worried about people's schedules except a select few. so the fact it was a weekday was fine.

I knew the venue I wanted, it was open that day so I booked it!

I thought about going with summer, but it was July when I went to look at the chapel in the church- it's a old building without central air, so it was so hot you could barely breathe!

the guy showing the place even said that 'October will be so nice! it's cooler, and not too cool. ' vs the 'I can't breathe' feeling you get in there when it's summer!

so that was my practical part of it all as well.

Ican understand people wanting to pick special days for their wedding, but sometimes it comes down to when it will work for the venue and others.

No real reason other than i tried to make it easy for fh to remember lol. Also we both love fall. Her in MN you never know what the weather will be but for the most part the first part of september is still nice for outdoors.

We wanted at least a year to plan everything out. Got engaged in Dec. We live in FL so we didn't want to do anything in the summer because of the rain and heat. We decided sometime during the fall/winter. Nov and Dec were automatically out because of the holidays, so we chose Jan. We picked the 15 and the place we wanted to get married at that date wouldn't work, so chose the next week, the 22 was a Friday. MOH suggested to change it to Saturday, we looked at the date and our anniversary will be 1/23!... FH better not forget that one!