What to Do- Venue Dates are Full

Totally up to you. You just have to decide which is more important to you, the venue or getting married in 2020. No right or wrong answer! Once you price a few other venues, you'll decide what feels like the best choice for you and your fiance. If it were me, I would probably find another venue simply because I can hardly wait 8 more months to marry my FH, let alone until 2021!

Yeah, this is a tough one. I think in that same situation, I might wait until 2021 for several reasons: 1. you already said you fell in love with the venue; 2. it's very affordable (for SoCal that's huge!) and closer to your family; and 3. it will give you even more time to plan and save--for me this would be a big one, since FH and I are paying for our wedding 100%, and the more time we have to save means we'll get more of the things we want, and will have to compromise less due to the tight budget.

But I can also see the other side, where you don't necessarily want to wait that much longer to marry your love. So, what it comes down to is if you are willing to wait. Good luck!

Maybe you can ask to be put on a wait list in case one event falls through. It happens all the time, people can't make deposits or they have to cancel. I would continue looking for other venues.

I'm from SoCal, do you mind if I ask what venue it was? Maybe I can suggest others that are similar.

You have to decide what is most important to you... the Venue or the time you get married.

Totally up to you. I'm so excited to get married I would be hard pressed to push it back another year to get the right venue. Only you can make this decision!

I would say push towards 2021 but ask if you can get 2020 rates as they filled up so quickly. Plus it gives you and your FH more time to plan and save up.

View Quoted Comment Totally agree with this! Plus you have the added benefit of time now...you can search for other venues and still have time to book at the place you love.

Personally, I would look for another venue. I wanted to be married as soon as possible to my husband so I definitely wouldn't have waited that long. If you are okay with waiting then I would say wait, but it really depends on how badly you want to get married. I loved the venue I got married at, but if it hadn't been available I would have picked somewhere else. My husband and I also really want to start a family and I'm traditional in the sense that I won't have children before marriage so that was also a factor that we took into consideration when we decided to get married.

What about a town that’s not too far from your selected venue?

You may save money by driving a little bit out of your way.

Congratulations and 🍀‼️

Oh, also ask that venue to ly you know if they have any cancellations.

Events get cancelled all the time.

Totally up to you but if I were you, I would wait to do it early 2021. I would still look around and see if there's anything else you find amazing within your budget. If not, definitely don't settle. Plus on the bright side, it gives you more time to save money for anything else what you would like to put towards your wedding.

Since you live in a warm sunny state, why not January 2021? Get it as close to 2020 as you can.

Totally up to you, but my feedback would be to go with the one you love and give yourself the extra time!! Don't settle for something different just because of availability- having more time to plan never hurts! I've found firsthand that the more time to plan the better. After giving myself exactly 2 years so plan, I'm SO SO happy I did. If the extra year doesn't create any problems for you or your families (life events, health concerns with elderly, etc.) then go for it!

If you absolutely love it and want to wait then wait otherwise start looking for other places. Venues book fast I went to look at my dream one and someone saw it literally two days before me that had the same date I was crushed but more set on the day I wanted to be married than the place!

We didn't want to wait til 2 years later and no venue was worth waiting for us. We have things to accomplish and vacations and family planning that fit with our desire to get married in 1 year. So I would really consider what you find most important and what fits your future life. If waiting is fine, then do so. If you don't think it is I always say there will be other venues.

Personally, I'd look for a few more venues before I decided. I almost pushed our wedding back to wait for a venue we could afford, but then I found this amazing place that wasn't even known because it's new to the wedding world. Because it's new to the wedding world the pricing is about 50% of other places out here. If you love your date, I'd keep looking.