Tell Me About Your Wedding Date!

We just picked a date that our venue was available in the summer. June, July and August have the same weather in New York, mostly. It doesn't matter what weekend you pick.

We originally were going to get married this October but FHs best friend was deployed in April. FH is an only child and his best friend is like his brother. We pushed back to 2018 but decided October was too far so we chose the earliest date that would be nice outdoors and have his BM present.

There were only two dates left for our venue this summer so we chose the one furthest from my friends' wedding.

Are you looking to have an outdoor wedding? Pick the least hot month. Whenever I've visited NYC it's been hot as hell.

We chose because it was solidly between semesters - no chance of overlap with finals or whatever and our anniversary

I think June can be a little cooler than July/August in the NE, but it's not guaranteed.

We chose our date because it wasn't winter, it wasn't close to my brother's wedding which is also this year, and it wasn't April/May which already has a ton of events in it for us.

ETA: something to keep in mind with June is some people may not be able to join because it is busy event season. I had a friend who couldn't come because her son was graduating HS (totally understandable).

We chose the last Saturday before harvest at the wineries in our area to give me the most time to plan. We knew we wanted a local outdoor wedding and neither of us wanted to wait a year to get married. Typically September and October are the best months weather-wise in California.

I teach as well (so does FH) so we chose August. ( I also teach summer school the month of July and know I will want to do that as many summers as I can extra money is never bad)... we went with our date knowing I didn't want the first week and then sitting down and looking at the dates (8/18/18) ... it also works that his BM should be able to get leave/released in time if we chose that date.

We are not doing a honeymoon right after the wedding (especially since FH keeps changing districts and always ends up with new teacher orientations)

My FH did not really care so much about the date, but we both agreed that we wanted a fall wedding. I got stuck on 10.7.17 because 10 + 7 = 17 and, well, it appeased my dorky narture. Lol. He is just rolling with it! ETA: I've never been to the NE, but I imagine the earlier in summer you choose, the less humidity you'll be dealing with

We picked a date as a joke... 9:30... it's easy for him to remember.

In NY June tends to be a little cooler than July and August. So I would probably go with the end of June after the school year or the end of August right before the school year. Where I am in Ny right now it's 62 degrees. Sometimes the weather tends to cool down the end of August too. My sister had her wedding the end of August last year as it wasn't extremely hot. I also work at a school, I'm a counselor and I am from NY. We choose June 22nd for our wedding. For me school pretty much slows down in June.

The venue we booked our wedding at actually has discounted prices in August because less people want to book then due to the heat. I would definitely go with June in New York.

We looked at weather history and choose the Saturday with the least rainfall historically.

Picked our date based on FH wanting there to be flowers and warm weather. We originally wanted march 2017, but opted to push it back to June 2018 in order to save. We are in southern Nj so march is so so for weather, could be nice or rain/snow. We were going to try and go for our anniversary in July, but opted for early June so guests werent sweating like pigs.

ETA: FH hasn't given much feedback, so this was HUGE for him to contribute this opinion

We knew we wanted to cruise for our honeymoon, but didn't have a specific date or itinerary in mind.

We started searching on our preferred cruise line (Disney) picked an itinerary we loved and then are getting married the Saturday before

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Just like you, we chose a range of a few months, then went with what our venue had available. I would probably pick the last weekend in June or mid-July so that you get some time after school is out to do last minute things, to avoid graduation season if that's a concern for your guests, and to avoid the high cost of 4th of July weekend travel. I think August in NYC may be too hot, even if you're not doing things outdoors. Then again, if a venue offers a significant discount for August, that may be a good enough reason to get married in August. If you haven't already, I would ask your VVIP guests if any of those weekends wouldn't work for them due to a planned trip, bad weekend to try to get off work, etc.

FH actually thought it all out. We started dating 8/7/10, he proposed on 8/7/15 and we will be getting married on 8/7/17. He wanted one date to remember (LOL). We are having a DW and it's on a monday, but as we said, everyone is on vacation, so it's the weekend to us anyways! Good luck choosing a date!

We did June because I'm always cold and couldn't imagine being in a dress in the winter, and late summer/early fall in Virginia is almost unbearably hot and muggy. We booked in September of 2016 and May 2018 was already taken at our venue of choice. We briefly considered late fall but there's so much going on for us every fall that we just thought it would get a bit stressful.

We went by availability for the time of year we wanted and the time of year was sentimental. Long story...

Almost 20 years ago, we were on our second date when we took a hike after a late lunch. It was December, a couple weeks before Christmas, and we were in the mountains. We crossed an icy pond over a pedestrian ski bridge that led from the main resort to the slopes. It was dusk, so the Christmas lights on the bridge were on and the bridge had a wreath in the center. The resort's large ballroom windows were in sight and there was some event there that night. We stopped on the bridge just to enjoy the peace and quiet. It was like a winter wonderland and for a Florida girl, it was amazing, like I'd just stepped into a snow globe or a Currier & Ives painting.

I said to my date "someday, I want to get married here." Given that she was a woman and this was in the late 90s, I never thought I would actually marry anyone, let alone her. Gay marriage wasn't a thing back then.

Fast forward 15 years and gay marriage is legal, so she proposed to me on Christmas Eve at my father's house. We looked at many venues and dates, but she insisted our wedding be in that ballroom I saw and loved from my fairy tale bridge all those years ago (even though neither of us still lived there; we'd moved a decade earlier). She also insisted it be at Christmas. So, we took a drive up there, checked the venue's availability, and booked for a week before Christmas. Our first look was on that bridge.

Elizabeth, that is absolutely the sweetest story! Thank you so much for sharing!