Wedding Dates too Close?

There are 4 months in between. I don't think it should be an issue...my cousins (brothers) had their weddings 4 months apart last year and there was not a problem! Families love these things so they will attend both I'm sure!

It is alot to do in a short period of time for both you and the wedding party. Only being 4 months apart; they will finish their wedding then it will be your turn. I hope that the family wont feel like it too much good luck

4 months is plenty of time in between. But, you may wind up with the situation where "Joe is getting married first, so we have to help him. We'll help you when he's married"...at which point, everyone may be wedding'd-out and won't be much good to you. As long as you are prepared for less help, it seems reasonable.

Plenty of time! And its its fine if they r talking and not offical yet.

Too close together would be like 3 weeks apart, not 4 months.

Our wedding will be the third in four months among FHs immediate family - his sister in April, his brother in June, and us in FIVE DAYS. Plus his other sister graduated high school in May. So I don't think two weddings four months apart are too close.

Honestly, I think anything over 2 months is plenty. Four should mostly mitigate the problem that Danielle describes--there will be some recovery time before you need a lot of help doing stuff for your wedding (I don't know how much DIY you're planning, but if you're only doing 50 guests, it should still be doable). And if the overlap is mainly on the groom's side of the WP, then it sounds like the larger expense of BM dresses (& going to find them, getting fitted, etc.) will be more widely dispersed anyway.

Finally, if your fiance's best friend & his GF are making wedding plans... well, basically they ARE engaged, even if they don't have a ring yet. Sounds like their timeline is a little different from yours, but as my mother always said, if everyone liked the same things, there wouldn't be enough to go around. You may come to appreciate having someone around who's planning a wedding RELATIVELY close to yours... Brides are always on here complaining about lack of interest!

That's plenty of time. I had two friends who got married within 2 WEEKS of each other. Talk about madness...thank goodness I wasn't in one of the bridal parties.

The selfish side of me would not want anybody else in my family getting married anytime BEFORE me.. but maybe the two of you can help each other and give advice

4 months is fine!! We have a friend that is getting married mid-March of next year and we are getting married in May. They WANTED to get married two weeks after us and I told them that we would be on our honeymoon and wouldn't be able to make the wedding--if they wanted to go ahead with the wedding, fine, but we wouldn't be able to be there and we weren't going to change our honeymoon plans. She said she always dreamed of a May wedding... they ended up changing it to March. ::shrugs:: I think it's going to be hard for FH and I us because we'll be doing last minute stuff and putting money on the honeymoon (better deals for cruises at the last minute) and we'll be spending money on all their wedding stuff. At least FH isn't a groomsman or anything!!

You guys should be fine..4 months is a long period of time..

I agree 4 months is PLENTY of time. I was in 2 weddings this past April and May. Both were cousins in each others weddings - one wedding was April 24th and the other was May 22nd - almost all the same guests and everything worked out fine!!!

4 months is good, I wouldn't worry. Some good friends of ours got engaged 6 months after us (we have only been engaged for a year) and their wedding is in 2 weeks, ours is in 4! We can't even go to their wedding because my fh lives in another state. It was either take time off for their wedding or our own. Their parents and my fh's parents are best friends. So my fh's entire family has been invited, but NONE of them can attend, for the same reason that my fiance and I cannot attend.

I would be thrilled if they moved back their wedding date 2 or 3 months so that we all could actually attend!

4 months is plenty of time! My sisters got married August 1st and September 12th of last year and we even threw the 2nd one's bachelorette party 2 weeks before the 1st one's wedding. It was hectic but worked out! I'd think you'd have no problem!

I am getting married in Feb and my younger cousin is getting married four months later, it is no problems. PLENTY of time gap :-) It is funny how she and I been engaged same time, she was furious that I got engaged right after her, so I didn;t wanted my wedding date to be close with hers.

In 2007 I was a BM in my Uncle's wedding AND 2 weeks later in my cousin's wedding... This July I'm a BM in my FH's cousins weddings, one on the 2nd and one on the 31st coming up... His family has a lot of wedding related events (2 Engagement Parties, 2 Bridal Showers, 2 Bachelorette Parties 2 cultural things I don't know how to translate, another 2 things where the women help the girl move into her new home (which requires gifts), then one of them is doing this other little "family unity ceremony" never been to one before so that'll be interesting) Basically we have something wedding related to do every weekend since Febuary 20- July 31... It's F'n exhausting because we're in the wedding party and are involved with EVERYTHING, but other than that we couldn't be happier for the both of them and it's totally doable... especially if you give them fair warning so save for things... But needless to say I can't wait until August 1st lol

I'm getting married Sept. 25th and my cousin is getting married Oct. 24th (which is what I had orig. wanted for my date!) my cousin and I are NOT close at all, in fact he's a big muscle head gym jock type and i'm overweight so he like...won't even associate with me (cuz he's an a$$hole i guess). At first i was kind of like...its too much of a financial burden on our families to have 2 weddings in a months time.. but yaknow what, I got engaged first, he only announced his Engagement last winter, and mine has been 'announced' since Feb of 09. I chose my date first, etc. So ...it is what it is! I did however make sure my STD's were sent out way early (and his bride hasnt sent out anything yet/at all)..so if anything our family will be more likely to come to mine anyway cuz it comes up first and they've been planning on it I'm mean. OH WELL.

I think 4 months apart is just fine. My FH and i threw out Sept 2010, May 2011 and went back and forth and finally decided Sept 2010... our good friends are getting married Oct 2010.. so its close, but only 1 set of friends are going to both so its fine.

I think 4 months is fine. My brothers getting married a month ahead of FH and I.

And FH sister is getting married 4 months are us.