Short Planning Time

You have plenty of time!!! Congrats on the engagement! We got engaged Septembet 2019 and will be married April 2020. You just need to figure out a rough guest list, budget, venue, and photographer asap. Wedding wire has been great for staying organized - use the checklists and make sure you mark things off as you go. Totally doable - just make sure you start booking things now.

For us, this was plenty of time. We ended up doing a DW which allowed us to pick our dream venue, florist, photographer etc. My theory is, that if we would have tried for a Sat/Sun wedding we would have less luck. With all the options available I can guarantee you a beautiful wedding though. Start calling venues and gathering ideas
asap. Everything else falls into place.

I got engaged this past November and am getting married July 11, 2020. My sister also had a 7 month engagement. So yes it's possible. I just bought my dress today so I think actively staying on top of planning will work. 🙂

This is doable as long as you keep things simple and are somewhat flexible with the details. So little time to plan also means less time to save money and fewer venues/vendors with availability, plus the issue of getting invitations and save the dates out on time. If you have a super specific or extravagant vision for the big day, I would say wait for a bit longer. Yes it sucks not being married (I know the feeling) but if you want things to be "perfect" it's always better to have more time. That being said you can still have an amazing, beautiful wedding with a short planning time!

Yes! Our engagement is about 9mo. First thing is book ur venue asap! Your month is in the middle of prime wedding season. After that I would move onto catering. Once u have those locked in to secure ur date you can plan everything else.

Definitely possible. I planned everything in 11 weeks. Create your budget first and find your venue. There are lots of helpful tools on this site as well as all of the people here to help you along the way. Congratulations and Good Luck!

It is possible, but I would get all your vendors hired ASAP!

Thats our wedding date too! We got engaged on Labor Day but we lost most of the last few months due to the holidays. We’re having a large wedding (300ish we’re expecting to show of 500ish we’ll likely invite) because my fiancé has a HUGE family. Luckily we aren’t super picky and picked the majors quickly. Venue we knew and booked right away then I got my dress (1st fitting in Feb and I’m scared because I’m so indecisive & it was diff than I expected but, meh. What do you do! Hoping I still love it!) We picked classic B&W for color scheme to eliminate all of the dilemmas with specific color shades clashing. We are doing a 3 option main corse buffet style of catering. But now we are going to take Q1 to try to book the photographer, cake & coordinate with the decorator then we should be okay. As long as you aren’t too specific about every little detail and have funds to book what you need to as soon as needed, you should be just fine!

You can do it! My engagement is only 8 months! Engaged in August and our wedding is in 3 months in April! You have to get things like the venue and dress squared away quickly. But I think 8 months is plenty of time! I think I'd go crazy if our engagement was longer. I kind of wish ours had only been 6 months.

As soon as you've found your venue and major vendors, you'll be fine. Daughter got engaged 18 months before their wedding date, but had all the major bookings done within 2 months (16 months ahead of the date) and everything except the really last minute stuff was done in less than 6 months -- at the time, she was kind of bummed that she had to wait a full year when everything was really done. As long as your venue/vendors are available, you can do planning pretty quick!

However, if you want a designer dress from a smaller salon, you need to select and order your dress asap. If you're planning on David's or another mass marketer, you're totally fine and have plenty of time.

View Quoted Comment Thank you ladies for all of the encouragement and great advice! I’m taking it all in! I needed/need it! Can’t wait to officially become a MRS!

Engaged 12/31/18. Married 8/24/19.

And DH got mono in January and I got the flu in April.... and we had to change ceremony plans in May.

*Totally* doable, you just need to be incredibly clear and yet flexible on what you want... and organized and able to move fast. I recommend sample sales for your dress, as you'll not have enough time to order one.

We cut out a lot of "extras" and focused on what was important to us, put our time and energy there, and it turned out great.