Reason you chose your wedding date?

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I originally wanted a May wedding but we got engaged this past April and we knew we would need more than a year to save since we're paying for most of it ourselves and live in NJ where everything is super expensive. So our next choice was September since its still nice out (I hate the cold). FH was against a Friday or Sunday wedding at first but we decided that a Sunday of a holiday weekend when most people have off on Monday would be OK so we were going to try Labor Day weekend. Someone had just taken that date when we decided on our venue so the next holiday weekend was Columbus Day weekend. So that's how we ended up with Oct 9, 2016.

Sorry to hear about your dad our date choice was purely logical. March was too cold, June was too hot, my parents can only get time off on weeks in the middle of the month, and Friday was vastly cheaper. Nothing sentimental here lol

I originally wanted to get married on my grandparents anniversary of February 15, they would be married for 65 years this past February. I lost my grandfather 4 years ago in February and my grandmother a year ago this past March. I was raised by my grandparents and so was FH was raised by his grandmother. FH's work schedule wouldn't work out right with planning so I chose the 20th. It's still in the same week so I'm still happy.

What's funny is that after choosing our date, it was brought to our attention that our date is the same forwards, as it is backwards. 6-19-16. A few of my friends asked if that was why we chose our date.

Well FH wanted Halloween but I said hell no. Plus my brother and his wifes anniversary is Nov 1st. We looked at weekends and paydays and the 10th was the best date. I wanted an spring wedding but we agreed on a fall wedding.

I'm extremely sorry about your father and I think that's absolutely amazing that you will be honoring him in that special way. As for us we got together in January. Texas is cold in January so that cancelled a winter wedding (thought of it) we got engaged this February on Valentine's Day I know ... So cliche haha. Well February weddings for Valentine's Day are really expensive so that was out. Lastly we thought of June because I've always wanted to be a June bride. Our date has no significance other than nothing is happening that day In our families, it's a Friday that we can afford and I love even numbers! So that's our reason lol

We decided on a summer wedding and an americana theme of sorts, so July was it for us. As for the date, 7-11-15, we needed a Saturday and bonus, 7+4=11+4=15!

We were going for May 21 because of its proximity to our anniversary. However, the photographer I'm in love with isn't available for that date, plus we live in the desert so May would be crazy hot, so we're considering changing it to a month earlier based solely off his availability and temperature.

We wanted to get married in March and when I registered for WW, it asked me for a date. I simply chose middle of the month. It worked out beautifully! It's the weekend that starts spring break and the date was almost gone with venue but got it at last minute. Yay!

I wanted September because the weather is best in the Bay Area then. We got engaged in February and I thought planning for this September would be not enough time, especially for my friends and family that have to travel. My friend is in school (MOHs boyfriend), so I wanted to do it before he's back in school. So we ended up picking the first weekend in September. We only realised that it's labor day weekend after we looked at venues. We figured since it's a Sunday wedding, a long weekend is actually even better for those coming from SoCal, so they don't have to take any days off for us.

After we settled on the date, we also realised that we actually started talking on 04/09 (we met on OkCupid).

I'm a teacher, so there was no way I could get married during the school year. I am just way too busy with work, and can only take 4 personal days a year so we wouldn't really be able to take time off before the wedding or after for the honeymoon. So summer was really our only choice! We found a venue that we loved, and then we chose the date they had available that was best for us. We wanted something on a Saturday night, not 4th of July and not in the beginning of June or end of August (school year). There's no special story!

Sorry about your father.

We wanted to get married in Fall 2015 (a year and a half after we got engaged). Our original date was Oct. 3, but our venue went bankrupt so we had to scramble to find another one that had availability that fall - only Saturday available at our alternative was Sept. 12. It'll be a little warmer so actually ended up working out for the best

That is very sweet, Carrie. We were not nearly so sentimental. I was in graduate school, so we looked at when school would start in the fall, subtracted 10 days for the honeymoon, another week to make sure we got thank-you notes out before school started again, and that was our date. Sad thing was, my best friend from graduate school did the exact same math and came up with the same date, so we missed each other's weddings.

I love how you're honoring you're father. That's such a nice idea. FH and I got engaged last August and I was originally planning for this upcoming fall but then I was nervous planning would be rushed. We had bought our first home together April 2014 so I then decided April was a good month for us and chose April 24th.

Our venue only had July left for 2016. Out of all of the July dates, I gravitated toward 7/16/16 the most. No reason, really. We originally wanted our wedding date on our dating anniversary, 1/29/16, but decided we did not want to have a winter wedding!

I already posted this somewhere but here it goes again!

10-16-16

It's a full moon, which means the beginning and ending. We end our lives alone and join as one for all eternity. Our venue is a private lake with boat rides all nights so the full moon adds to the beauty of it. Being a Sunday is a plus as it's cheaper and will help curb some of the drinking.

I also find it really interesting to see why and how people choose their wedding dates. I find more often than not, the people I know just pick a general Saturday a certain amount of time from their engagement, or a month they like in general and then see what options the venue has. I can't imagine letting a venue determine my anniversary date, so we picked the date first, then a place, etc.

We had been together for 10 years when we got engaged, and our current anniversary is Feb 17th, which always competes with Valentine's Day. I used to joke that if we ever decided to get married, it would be 6 months later - in the middle of nowhere - no holidays, birthdays or any other competition that way. This also lets us have 2 distinct romantic holidays a year to just celebrate our love, and six months apart to space it out perfectly!

So, we got engaged after 10 years, and I wanted a 2-year engagement or so, and when I saw that the closest date to 8/17 was 8/15/15 - it was perfect!! Easy to remember, enough time to plan, and almost exactly six months after our meeting-date-iversary!

We originally wanted a destination wedding, so we picked our date based on when our HM spot would be the hottest, with the least rain, and the warmest water. School for my FH's neices and a few family birthdays played into it as well.

FH only gets one day off a week every single week. His boss told him the only time he would be able to take a week off would be September, which is their slow month. We got engaged in March and thought September of this year wouldn't give us enough time to plan and save, so 2016 it is. I knew I wanted a Friday and originally chose 09/16/16 because it's easy to remember, but September 2nd kept popping into my head. Come to find out, that's the day my Grandmother died. That might be morbid to some people, but it makes me feel a special connection to her by having it on that day.