Relocating to Texas so canceled our California wedding-need advice on fall weather

Early October I would expect temperatures to still be in the 90s and I wouldn’t do an outdoor wedding. Towards the end of October it cools down to high 70s and low 80s for highs.

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Does it get much cooler at night?

I used to live in Texas, a good amount of my family and friends still live in Dallas, Austin and Houston. It was 90 early October and it suddenly dropped to 50 by mid October. It's incredibly bipolar weather there.

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Oh boy. Thank you

Doubtful that you would need heaters. Our weather in Texas is still pretty warm around that time of year. I got married on 10.24 (this year) the high was right around 80* and I think the low was upper 60*, due to the rain late in the evening. I’m sure you’ll have some amazing options in “Hill Country” for ways to make your reception nothing short of fabulous. Best of luck!

Family lives in the north Dallas area. A couple weeks ago, the temperatures dropped 50 degrees in a day -- 90 one day, 40 the next. They also had a crazy really damaging tornado rip right through Dallas two weeks ago. I think the only thing you can count on in October is that the weather is unpredictable.... (However, from May through mid-October it was unbearably hot and humid pretty much every day! Welcome to Texas! LOL!)

Either really hot or really cold. October is funny like that. Also it’s been raining a lot around this time too.

We were in Austin for a year and moved in the middle of October and our first week there it just poured. To the point the roads were flooding. Maybe consider having the wedding in September instead? Winters in Austin can be bipolar like the other posters have mentioned.

Baaby lol Texas has good days and bad days. Sun could be shinning, bird could be singing with the butterflies and 5 minutes later here come some black a** rain clouds. It could be hot one day, rain and hot or cold and windy, so make sure you have a back up plan if your going to do a outdoor ceremony or whole wedding.

No heaters! I live in Texas. It was in the 80s todayXD

I can relate, grew up in California but currently live in Houston. Early October was still hitting the 90's this year, however now we're 50's and 60's. One thing you'll notice about Texas is that it doesn't cool off at night like California does. It stays relatively the same temperature all day. You will definitely need a rain plan, have a backup place in case you need to move things indoors.

View Quoted Comment No Texas doesn’t usually get much cooler at night. I wouldn’t do an outdoor wedding in Texas without an indoor backup plan.

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Thank you!

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We do have an indoor plan in case it rains

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Good to know! Our original date in beginning of September so maybe we'll re-visit that.

View Quoted Comment Great! I would also use the indoor option if the weather is too warm as well.

I live in San Antonio, and I think late September/early October is the best time—if you don’t like cold weather. It starts getting cooler late October to December.

Unfortunately, our weather here is so unpredictable. But on the plus side, there's not a single month that an outdoor wedding is impossible like most states. It was pretty hot this October, but that's not true of every year. For example, yesterday it was about 70+ degrees here and today it was around 30-45 degrees. (I'm in Fort Worth). I would just go with your gut for planning and make the last minute adjustments for weather as needed!