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Just Said Yes September 2011

Wedding Dates too Close?

Jen, on July 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM

Posted in Etiquette and Advice 27

Help! My fiancee and I got engaged in February and are planning a wedding for Sept 4, 2011. His best friend (which is basically like family, he even lived with them for short periods of time) is talking with his girlfriend about getting married and want to get married as quickly as possible are...

Help! My fiancee and I got engaged in February and are planning a wedding for Sept 4, 2011. His best friend (which is basically like family, he even lived with them for short periods of time) is talking with his girlfriend about getting married and want to get married as quickly as possible are looking at May 2011 (yes, that's correct they aren't engaged yet). The problem is that most of our guests are going to be the same guests that are going to be on there list, we only have about 50 people. I feel like our guests will be getting hit with alot of stuff in a very short period of time, especially the people in the bridal party for the groom.

More than likely my fiancee would be asked to be in his best friends wedding, and my fiancee has already asked this best friend to be his best man and he accepted. That is 2 bachelor parties, 2 weddings to contribute, etc.

Is this time frame of them possibly doing a May wedding to close to our wedding that is set for September?

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  • Amie326 - formally known as"."
    Super March 2011
    Amie326 - formally known as"." ·
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  • JJ
    Master December 2009
    JJ ·
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    Should be just fine...we had a few friends who all got married within a month of each other. A crazy wedding year! And then nothing....so sad. :0

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  • jlam
    Master August 2011
    jlam ·
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    I think 4 months is a good amount of time in between. I really wouldn't make it any closer though because expenses add up and I think it's important to let the bride/groom have their moment to have people focus on them. Smiley smile

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  • J. Holland
    Expert August 2010
    J. Holland ·
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    I just posted something similar about our wedding date, 4 months is plenty of time for guest that you have in common to recuperate and be ready to party again!

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  • L
    VIP April 2011
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    Thats not that close... I just read jillane's post about how she had 3 family members set dates around her one the weekend before hers and 2 the weekends after hers! 4 months is still a reasonable gap

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  • Edith
    Dedicated August 2019
    Edith ·
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    Well we had a simalar situation but it was with my fiance's daughter. We got engaged in september of 09 and his daughter got engaged december of 09 and we had planned ours for changed our date June 30th of 2010 and after that his daughter planned theirs for that same june just a different day. So I talked it over with my fiance' and we just changed our date to the next month because we wanted her to have her special day. But some of our guests are the same but his daughter is one of the brides maids in my wedding so it all worked out.

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  • M
    Dedicated August 2010
    MH ·
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    The couple that introduced us is getting married this month, about a month before ours! For the sake of the guests I wish we had four months between weddings! Although, they introduced us we aren't really that close so we didn't follow the date setting that much. But based on the RSVP's (minus the crazy last minute hold outs) it looks the mutual friends we thought might skip ours are also coming! Maybe consider date changing if both weddings are in distinct locations and asking a lot of people to travel.

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