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"On".. october bride here. I guess i didn't realize how popular it was!
i always wanted a fall wedding..but thought September was too popular and November could be too cold. No real significance to our date though :P
We're off-season: it's cheaper (we're getting married in January). Plus, I hate winter, so I figure this will give me something to look forward to for the first time ever during winter post-Christmas. Plus I wasn't too keen on the idea of everyone sweating like crazy at my wedding. And that would definitely include me, since my dress weighs about eight thousand pounds. And the date we picked had to be not during the school year (it'll be during winter break), since we'll both be grad students.
Hoping to have an "off-season" wedding, just to help out with the budget.
Off season for two reasons: 1) Hoping I can get some better deals 2) Wedding season is my busy season (because I'm in the industry) so I have less going on!
I am off season because: (1) I am off from school then, (2) I will always be off on my ann., (3) when I have kids they will be off from school and can stay with my parents when we go away for our ann. lol, (4) the date is cool.
I don't think it has made my wedding less expensive since choosing this date, but I am getting first choice at my vendors because after I got engaged they were just beginning to book for 2011.
i'm an off season bride! ive found we've been able to save a little bit by having our wedding in january, but i've also noticed winter weddings are starting to become popular, too ... have to say, i picked january because i love the snow and think a cold, snowy wedding is sublimely romantic :) -- can you tell i'm a minnesota-girl, born & raised?
@hsearle: I agree, winter weddings are romantic. I also think it is cool to go to a warm tropical honeymoon while everyone else is freezing.
I didn't know anything about this - - I'm an "on" season bride.
However, here in Seattle we are considered off season as the rain has set in and its quite quiet here in the city. Our hotel rates and venue rates are lower due to our date and the rainy season......
I never really thought about possibly getting better deals in the off season. Anyone had any luck with this?
@Jackie-O- Good point. I guess the weather aspect of on season varies throughout the country. :)
I guess I was thinking that it might be easier to plan an off season wedding in a shorter period of time, since the venues/vendors might not be in as high demand. I wonder if this is true.
"On" bride here! I am getting married in July, but so exciteddd because it is the day of my Grandparents 60th anniversary.
We have an off season wedding and the only off season discount we got was our reception site. For being off season and booking almost a year in advance, we saved $4700 off the food/bev/decor minimum. We've had a really easy time booking all of our vendors too. Everyone is available in April. I wouldn't do it any other way.
Well, according to your poll we are "on season" (August), but we are having our wedding in AZ, and in AZ, August is DEFINITELY off season :)
I'm an offie. I can't say that it's better because the day is still popular. I probably would have picked a different day in say October but Fiance was adament about 1-1-11.
trugem We're date twins!
I'm an on-y :) I am getting married in June...I always wanted a summer wedding....no date significance (yet!)
On-season as I'm an August bride... just over 4 months to go! I can't wait! I always knew I'd be a summer wedding gal!
@veganglam- That's a good idea! I never thought about planning my wedding during a time I don't normally enjoy, so as to make sure I enjoy it in the future. I'll have to keep that in mind when I am no longer waiting :)
We wanted a winter wedding or fall close to winter wedding because i wanted to use dark colors for our wedding i wanted a dark purple and i heard it was a rule to use dark colors in winter or soemthing LOL also in houston that is good weather not too hot and starting to get cold. i have a lot of dress so i wanted to feel good not sticky DANG houston humity!
September here! So, "on." We also considered October, so we would have been "on" either way.
I originally wanted to to do fall for the colors but we went with January for family reasons and I am glad now because FI will be off from school.
I'm getting married November 6, which is one week into "off" season, but we've scored great deals! Discounts, free stuff thrown in like a free guest book, and hours added with our photographer for a reduced price. Vendors in MN are totally willing to negotiate with pricing because it's off season and they won't have a ton of work during that time!
I'm an "on" season bride. It didn't affect the decision, it just has affected the cost of the wedding. We chose to pick a day that was closest to our anniversary, whic happens to be right in the beginning/middle of the season. murr.... darn vendors charging an arm and a leg just because everyone else is getting married around the same time....lol!
We were kind of in the middle--in DC July and August can be too miserable, so there's a dip in the season. We looked at several venues that had prices for April-June & September-October, a mid-range price for July & August, and then off season from November-March.
Off season. I love winter and I hate being warm. The idea of all those dress layers in summer- ugg. But then again I am from the frozen tundra. FI, I think would not have picked winter, but it was what worked out, esp as we didn't want to crowd FI's hunting times (he was willing to skip for the wedding but then it also meant he's always be gone on our anniversary.)
When we started to think about dates, fall is duck hunting season, then deer hunting season and now this year bear hunting season, then Christmas (I love Christmas but wasn't looking for a holiday wedding and FI hated the idea). Easter and therefore lent is late in 2011 so it was January/Feb or May as lent was march-may. FI's first wedding was in May so he wanted that month thrown out, and summer is dog shows and dog training season.
So February it is!!
I'm off-season. Having my wedding in April has saved me at least 3K already. Everything, and I mean everything, is cheaper. Plus I'm getting married on a Sunday for extra savings. I figure if I can save thousands of dollars by having my wedding one month out of season, I'm gonna do it. This way, I can have the elegant wedding I've always wanted and still stay within my fairly paltry (roughly 10K) budget. Plus, I want to have an indoor wedding anyway (I'm a control-freak and would be a basket-case if I was depending on the weather) so time of year really doesn't matter all that much.
Off, for a few reasons:
1) We don't like the warm weather. We live in Texas and it's "summer" here about 9 months out of the freakin' year so that affects our attitude. And I don't mean nice, soothing, warm... I mean hot, can't breathe, sweat always in your eyes, burn your palms on the steering wheel, walk 2 miles just to park in the shade kind of summer. Gross and yuck and enough is enough.
So we wanted it to be cold, and we're marrying in Iowa, and we might even get snow on our wedding day!!! Yay!!
2) we are full time students, Spring Break week was the only free time available that didn't interfere with my younger son visiting his Dad for Christmas, and wasn't a warm time or year (well not excessively so).
3) We realize now our fears were unfounded but we are a same sex couple. Last time we were planning our wedding for California and then Prop 8 came along and crushed those dreams. We were paranoid about the same thing happening in Iowa so we wanted to do it as soon as possible and March was the only realistic time to do it, again if we want to avoid summer weather.
I haven't had any problems planning, and I do suspect that our "off season" wedding allowed me to get such a GREAT deal on my ebay dress since there are less people looking right now. Maybe?
And I second the poster that said everyone is available in April. True dat! I've had no problems at all with vendors, everyone is available and ready to throw discounts at me to book.
Supply and demand is a beautiful concept.
I wanted to have our wedding in april, but it turned to late feb. b/c we couldn't find a date then between our families, the rabbi, and the venue. I didn't think about it being and on or off season wedding, I just wanted spring.
Off Season (November 5th , 2011) . It is actually our 5th year anniversary as a couple , our 7 year anniversary since we met , and I wanted a Winter wonderland wedding with lots of silver , blues and crystal .I wanted a winter wedding without the crazy MN winter weather so November was a good choice . . My vendors didn't give me as much discount as i wanted but i should say i am the one who hired the ones that don't much offer discounts regardless of the time :) They ahve been awesome so far .
Ours is off-season, and we indirectly picked our date due to on-season factors.
The same factors that cause more weddings in May through October (like better weather) dictate all sorts of other activities. I work at a renaissance festival during all of April and May; it runs then because of the good weather. Thus, my schedule was busy during all that time (working there eats all my weekends), and I really just needed June to relax. Thus, my wedding wasn't going to happen then.
Other factors made July through October not an option for us.
I was all about offseason as a budget bride, until I realized that the site/vendors we ended up choosing didn't offer any off-season discount.
Then I wasn't really willing to brave the possibility of bad weather. :\
ON- June is perfect... nothing else happens in June, no holidays no birthday, just relaxing start of summer great for every year anniversary vacation time.
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The other day Miss Taco posted about this article of wedding statistics at bridepop. I thought the pie chart about wedding months was interesting. It seems that the most popular months to get married are May-October. Obviously these are the warmest months in North America and include summer holidays for teachers/students.
My question is, are you an "on" season bride (May-October) or "off" season bride (November-April)? Did being "on" or "off" season influence your decision to pick a date? Has it affected your wedding in any way (i.e. ease or difficulty of getting vendors)?