How did you pick your wedding date?

FH and I wanted to get married on 6/5 (we will be together 5 years) but the church did not have that date avail so we went with the weekend after.

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I love the spring and my parents got married in May so it was good luck!

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We wanted it to be at least a year (we got engaged in August) but neither of us wanted it to be in September...We picked the last possible weekend of daylight savings so we could save the most amount of money...And 10/24 it is!

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I wanted to get married in the winter so we choose a day in the 2nd month of the year cause 2 is Joes lucky # and Valentines day was available.

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He didn't want to get married in the heat & I didn't at to get married in the cold so it was Sept, Oct or NOV. The Sprig was eaithe rto close ( 04) or too far ( 05)
Then Sep seeemd too soon, and then I decided I wanted to get married before daylight savings time ended, so itahad to be Oct.
Some close friends families had other Oct weddigns to go to, so it had to be the 9th or 16th, and my church had neither so we went to another church & picked the 9th, b/c it was first, and they had it open, so that was that.

Very romantic, I know. . .

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I love the fall, and wanted to keep our wedding date as close to our anniversary as possible (was just 5 yrs this past Oct 12th)

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Our first date was Sept 8th 2000, got engaged Feb. 16th 2002. Knew that I did not want to get married in Feb. so we figured that we had our first date in Sept, so why not Sept. We knew that we wanted to wait at least 2 years so in 2004 the Sat that was around our dating anniversary is Sept 11th. We knew that we did not want to get married on Sept. 11th so we chose the next Sat which is Sept 18th.

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My FH chose our wedding date - we are getting married on the date that I first told him I loved him.

We originally wanted to get married on the date of which we started dating, but it was booked, so the next significant date to him was the day we chose. I thought it was the sweetest thing.

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Our anniversary is August 21, so we took the closest date.

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Posted by bridzilla

Our anniversary is August 21, so we took the closest date.

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We wanted a three day weekend because we have so many OOT guests and thought it would be more convenient for them. We wanted it in the fall because it's our favorite time of year. So we picked Labor Day.

The funny thing is, I always get Labor Day confused with Memorial Day, so when we initially booked the hall and church I told them "we want the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend"...because I'm that much of an idiot. It wasn't until I got the contract and saw MAY 29, 2004 that I knew I had totally screwed up.

But it all worked out in the end. And now I'm wishing it really was May because I don't think I can wait until September!

(sorry, can't spell!)

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OK, I think mine is the most "unromantic" reason .. but here goes.

Late last summer we booked a 10-day cruise to Caribbean.. its ALL we talk about, how much we'll look forward to it, etc.. and how much of our vacation time we're going to burn up in the process, etc.

Flash forward to this past December. We got engaged on 12/20. Off the bat we knew we did NOT want to wait until 2005 to get married, but also knew that if we picked any other date in 2004 we wouldn't have any more vacation days (or $$) left to take a honeymoon.. So we decide to plan the wedding date the weeekend BEFORE the cruise, upgrade to a suite, and make that our honeymoon! Our wedding is Sunday, July 25 - our cruise leaves on Friday, July 30.

An added bonus was that I always wanted a summer wedding -- so I'm lucky

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Posted by Sweetness

I love the fall, and wanted to keep our wedding date as close to our anniversary as possible (was just 5 yrs this past Oct 12th)

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We're Christmas-time babies and wanted something for "us" in the summer...for once! LOL

It was a toss up between July and September - my favorite months - weather-wise...September worked out for us wrt a couple of the vendors we really wanted.

Saturday's were out of the question b/c we wouldn't be able to make the pp minimum...so we chose the Friday of Labor day weekend.

Figured, what better way to end the summer than with a kick-a*s wedding?!

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we wanted to get married in April (towards the end) but MC didnt have any saturday nights open in april! So that left May or June as we really didnt want it to be too cold and we wanted our engagment to be less than a year! June won simply because it was the time when both the hall and the church had coinciding times open! No real significance although we will be on our honeymoon for our 5year dating anniversary!

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I knew that I wanted to get married in the fall, FH didn't care to much, but my date was pretty much chosen for me. We got enegaged this past Labor Day and I started looking for places right after that. When we finally found the place we loved, they had 2 dates available around that time- Sept. 4 (Labor Day weekend) or Oct. 9. We thought about LDW but if was only a week after our friends' wedding in Italy and it wasn't really "fall" enough for me, so we went with Oct. 9.

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I love the spring and his favorite number is 2.

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Basically I walked into the hall and said, what do you have open in the next 7 months... voila! That was my date and I got an amazing price.

My friend did this as well and got married at the Westbury Manor for $50pp

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We wanted to get married in the spring. Our date was picked at random but it turns out that it is FH's half B-day.

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we picked the date because it was at the beginning of a week and a half school vacation so i knew i could rest after it!

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January: Too close after Xmas and cold!
February: too cold and close to his bday
March: his bday & tax season
April: tax season & after his bday
May: ---- open ----
June: too hot
July: too hot and close to my bday
August: my bday and too hot
September: After my Bday
October: ---- open ----
November: Close to Xmas and getting cold
December: Xmas and Cold

That leaves me.
May: Got engaged in June 2003, May 2004 would have been too close and I couldnt wait for May 2005
October: Between my birthday and Xmas and meant almost a year and a half wait... do-able.

So October it was. Besides we love Fall and it's weather, cool, crisp and clean

When? Well that had to do with my own 'cycle' and how we both agreed the end of the month would be cooler and with more trees changing color. Changing of Seasons is so pretty. So after a quick overview of the calendar, a quick look and lucky/fair days with the Chinese calendar, we agreed to October 23.

1 0 2 3 0 4
numerically easy to recall.
1 Circle Zero 2 3 Circle Zero 4
Two Rings within our date.


Freak, aren't I?

Message edited 1/16/2004 5:46:27 PM.

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I didn't want winter or mid summer, He didn't want the fall that left May, June and Sept.
I really wanted May, Spet was too far. I called a few vendors I really wanted. My Photopragher doesn't book weddings in May b/c of Communions so we decided the first weekend in June.

Its perfect I get to be a June Bride

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FH is in law school and is going to summer school. So we only had 3 dates that would give us time to go on a honeymoon.

Orginally picked August 7 bc seven is my lucky number, but had to move it up a week to get Larkfield Manor.

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FH picked the date. We wanted to get married on our anniversary but that was a friday night and we wanted a sat. night. If we waited till 2005 it would have been a saturday and our 10 year anniversary but didnt want to wait that long. FH said lets get married on the June 26th cause its the first time we kissed as boyfriend and Girlfriend (when we were 14 and 16) and it will be the first time we kiss as husband and wife. How could I not say yes!

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I'm a teacher and I def. didn't want to postpone our honeymoon, so we decided on the last weekend in June, since schools would be out by then. Getting married on a Sunday b/c in the Greek Orthodox faith, weddings take place on Sunday's.