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I'm curious, how far did everyone book their venue? I'm looking to do May 2013 and scared if SO waits too long to officially pop thequestion that the venue won't be available. And I just have to get married on this particular day. It's very special and significant !! So please, share your expertise with me!! :) thank you!
It was definitely less than a year. I think we finally decided on a date in April or May of 2011? It might have even been June. However, this is completely due to the area. Some more popular areas/venues do book up quite a bit faster.
haha - thats a year and a half away lady! I don't think you need to be worried about that!!
9 months for us - and they still had 1 open week in Sept. and 2 in Oct.
several places I researched said right on their websites they won't book more than a year in advance as a policy.
I've noticed a lot of your posts (because I remember Ariel - haha) and I have one teensy bit of advice for you ... slow down, and deal with one thing at a time!!!! if you're actively worrying about your venue before you're even engaged, you're not going to enjoy yourself to the fullest because you're going to be so amped up about the next thing to worry about.
A year and four months, but even at 18 months we couldn't get the date we originally wanted at the venue we chose (though that saved us £2000 on hire fees alone).
I looked in June/July of 2010 for Sept of 2011 and there weren't any churches/venues that lined up for us. We went with March 2012 and had our pick. Our area books waaay out, though, it's not uncommon to have to book a year+ out.
If you and your SO are pretty close to an engagement, maybe ask him about securing the location? You may not have to commit but instead see if they'll just keep a hold on it and let you know if someone else calls for that same date. Then it's crunch time and you book or let it go.
We booked ours about exactly a year before when we'll be getting married. I was in the same situation and I actually ended up booking the venue a couple of weeks before he proposed!! I just didn't wanted to chance it and I wanted the date and venue and knew he would be popping the question soon :)
@MissTX: I'm also getting married in May 2013 and I am hoping we finalize a venue end of this month. I've been contacting and touring venues since the fall. I don't mind booking early so we can lock the 2012 price before increase later on. Only problem is that I hope we don't have regrets and think that we'll find something else.
I booked 10 months out and I was lucky that ceremony space was available for that date. I'd say book it at least a year out if possible.
We booked ours about 15 months ahead of time, and the guy told us there was another couple looking at our date as well. In my area, some venues won't let you book until a year to the day, but there is one venue I know for sure that Saturdays in the summer are booked up 2 full years ahead of time.
If there is a date you absolutely must have, and its a Saturday, I would say just get it done as soon as possible. You will feel SO much better knowing its yours! Good luck:)
I booked in July of 2011 and i'm getting married in Oct 2012...so 15 months.
Booked Jan 1 2009 for Sept 2010 but that was because we knew the venue opens booking on Jan 1 and were warned that the whole season books at the begining of Jan a year prior. We first visited the venue early Oct. 2008 and all of the 2009 season was booked out. If you have a specific venue in mind, give them a call and ask when they typically book events and how popular your day is. In our case we wanted the shoulder season as the venue was more flexible on how many hours you could book but even though it was not high season it was still booked out over a year in advance.
We put a hold on the room 13 months out, which gave us three weeks to decide... A week into this we were called and asked what our intentions were as another coupleawaited the date. So we put the deposit down then and there
We booked it exactly one year out. And it was the last weekend that venue had for 2011 (it ended up being later in the year than I wanted). Otherwise to get the venue we wanted we would have had to wait until May or June of this year to get married.
I booked mine very shortly we got engaged. I booked it right before Thanksgiving for 03/16/2013. We knew this was the place we wanted to get married at and didn't want to risk losing it by waiting.
We got engaged Dec 25, I emailed the venue Dec 28, we toured it Dec 30 and we signed the contract Jan 7, which is about 6 months and 3ish weeks from our wedding. Honestly... had we been engaged longer, I still would have done it asap. I want the venue *I* want, not what is available. I see your date is 2013... I'd still book it sooner rather than later! Our venue had booked up all their Sat's in July and August over a year before, and most of their Friday's were gone as well.
ETA: I didn't realize until after I posted you aren't engaged yet. Honestly, pressuring him to pop the question JUST for a venue isn't a great idea. If that is the day it HAS to be, then there are other venues and other places that you can use. At this point you likely don't have numbesr, pricing, budgets, etc that all come along with picking a venue too. Relax, enjoy the pre-engagement time and when the time comes to pick a venue, THEN panic :)
We booked in July, a month after the engagement, 15 mos before the wedding. (and we had to change our date to get it! They were booked solid into 2013)
We were turned down 2 times now about our month... and we are 20 months out. We are hoping to have it finalized and have deposits put down this month.
We booked our venue 15 months out. Our first pick for date was being held already! Venues book fast here though.
But I agree with PP, slow down, enjoy your engagement. This is a happy time not a stressful time. And for gosh sake let your FH propose before you book a venue!!
We booked eight months out. We got engaged in mid-March 2011 and book the venue in mid-April. There were still quite a few options available when we booked, as well.
It really depends on the area you want to get married. The beaches down here in NC have venues booked YEARS in advance...and around Raleigh there is huge wedding competition and tons of people getting married, so things fill up fast. Our venue was the first thing we booked and it was 11 months in advance...and even then the venue had very limited June 2012 saturdays available. That's one of the reasons we're getting married on a Friday in early June! Good luck!
ETA: We'd only been engaged for about 5 weeks when we booked. We'll be engaged slightly less than a year total.
ETA (again): I def agree with PPs that advise dont' use the venue as a reason to pressure him into propsing. But IMO, there's no harm in calling the venue, asking their March 2013 availability, their hold policies, prices, etc. Many venues we spoke with would hold a date for up to a month free of charge, so that could be an option to help buy you some time, if you're really worried about it.
We booked ours Feb 2011 for our June 2012 wedding. At that time at least half the weekends were booked.
We booked 15 months in advance, and they were already booked on the date we wanted. It depends on where you're getting married, though - our spot is a popular destination wedding spot.
13 months- we are having our wedding at the end of summer though. Where I live at least early spring is not very disarable for a wedding because of the weather, so those dates would be more likely to be available longer. I agree with a PP, call up the venue and just ask around. It doesn't hurt to ask if the venue is open, and ask how quickly it tends to book for that season.
I actually put the deposit down before he proposed (which he knew about and approved). We knew where we wanted to get married and the season. He was going to propose before we moved in together and i didn't want to live together for very long without being married. So I booked in March 2010 for our Oct 2010 wedding, he proposed in April.
16 months AND we're still stuck with a Monday date since all the Saturday's from May - September in 2012 were already booked up when I booked our venue last March!!!!!! That being said our venue is KNOWN as being an extremely popular wedding venue so books up fast. I definitely don't think you'd find this everywhere, or even many places at all!
I booked our original venue about 8 months ahead and then changed to a new venue with 5 months to go
14 months. I knew the place would be booked solid the week I wanted, so I did it early.
@MissTX: I booked 2 years out. We are getting married in 18 months and I have booked EVERYTHING =D
Not long enough. We booked 12 months in advance for a summer wedding, and they were already all booked june - beginning of Sept of all but 2 Saturdays that didnt work for me. And only had 4 Sunday available. Slim pickings...
It was the first thing that I booked after I got engaged, so about 10 months out. I was way behind though, because several venues I looked at were already booked.
15 months, and it was our pick number 4 and it was the one venue I didn't want to pick, a hall. But we get ot for 3 full days, for the same amount as the heritage building for 12 hours.
First venue was booked into 2013 already and had been for some time(a huge restored heritage building), 2nd venue booked our date the week before we went to see it(Winery), and 3rd venue booked the morning of our visit(Golf Club).
We booked in late July/early August 2010 (can’t remember exactly) for our October 2011 wedding. There were only a handful of dates left for Fall 2011 so we were happy we booked so early. May is a popular wedding month so I wouldn't put it off too much longer if you have a specific venue in mind.
We booked 7 months in advance. We did have to change our original date so that we could get the venue we wanted, but I'm glad we chose that date in the end.
Booking our venue was basically the first thing we did after getting engaged. We booked it in early March, so 11 months before our day!
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