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mine is just practical, but it works out well! Tell me how you picked or will pick (if you are a waiting bee)
I guess I should explain, mine is the last day in the year before my venue is open to the public until 6pm. we have to pay to rent it all day and it closes at 11 so any closer to summer and out reception would be super short! Also Spring break works out well for all our academicly inclined guests.
it was the weekend before they raised the rates for the venue and the rooms for high season. We missed the price hike by a day! Plus, it was the last available slot in 2009. Prac-ti-cal!
Practical for us. None of the dates that would have held special meaning for us worked, due to our school/work schedules. I like the idea of having a new meaningful date, though :)
Eh, mine's not special at all. We wanted summer, it needed to be after college graduation time, needed to be not the weekend of h.s. graduation in my hometown, and but needed to be after FI's school let out for the summer. So June 12 it was.
Ours was practical. We wanted a certain photographer, and even 14 months in advance, she only had one weekend during the month we wanted, so we took it. We scheduled everything based on her availability, and it was worth it.
Ours was practical...we got engaged at the end of February and knew we wanted to get married by the end of 2009 - so we consulted with family (both our sisters are in grad school situations) and our work schedules.
Plus, we live in FL - our families are in Iowa, Washington State and Japan! So it was a series of practical compromises.
We wanted it to be special - our five year dating anniversary falls on a Saturday in January, but it was too late in the month (FI will be back in school by then) and Saturdays are like twice as expensive. So we're doing a more practical date a few weeks earlier.
Ours is practical; we didn't want to wait until summer and any earlier was too close to the holidays! Plus city hall only does weekday ceremonies so a Friday was the best option.
We chose our date because... Nov 28 2009
-date was during a holiday so it is not popular for weddings... so means it was cheaper! yay!
-DH loves Thanksgiving and Christmas and so he would always remember the date.
-We don't have much vacation so we did our wedding and visited family and friends for the holidays all at the same time.
-Thanksgiving dinner was awesome this year. It was a family reunion for both of us. We both had about 25 people for thanksgiving.
Definitely practical, between the church schedule and the city park for the reception, my school schedule, and my fiance's work schedule (he's a full time artist and will be slamming in the National Poetry Slam in St. Paul this year, woo). I didn't want to have an August wedding, because I don't want to melt in the summer heat, but you never can tell with Minnesota summers. It might also be freezing cold and raining!
We are getting married in a garden where we had our first date on the 6th year anniversary of our 1st date. I'm very excited about that. It is also practical. I'm an accounting grad student. I graduate May 2010 and I did not want the wedding to overshadow graduation. We live in FL so I did not want to get married in the hot months of July/August. We are HUGE Gator football fans , so we did not want to get married during football season. Then you have the holidays and my birthday (Dec 23rd). Then I am a tax accountant so we can definitely not get married before April 15th. So May is the first available date. It just also happens to be incredibly romantic :)
We're having 2 weddings - a special date followed by a practical one.
We really wanted to do January 14th, but it's a Thursday, so we're having a "little wedding" on 1/14 - getting married @ city hall with our immediate families and then doing a luncheon after. Then, the following night, we're having what we're calling the "big wedding" with another more personalized ceremony followed by a reception.
Ours is a little of both. FI wanted it as close to our dating anniversary as possible, so we just took the closet Saturday (because Saturday is more practical for our guests).
Ours is both. It is significant because it falls directly in the middle of the date of our birthdays and I am big into numbers. The date is 33111, so it is a full house, and it adds up to nine and is divisiable by 3; all lucky numbers. It is practical because it is the last day before the rates go up.
Oh and the most important, it is the anniversary of when my fiance proposed.
my date was chosen
a) in June: because we needed to get married in june for life circumstances(hubby's in school and it required a huge move and job change for me)
b) on a Friday: because for whatever reason i always wanted to get married on a Friday. (at the time I didn't know friday weddings would be cheaper...and ours was only very minimally cheaper)
c) the 19th: it was my grandmother's 70th birthday!
So far it looks like it will be sooner than expected but the church and venue are available-- probably because no one is nuts enough to plan a wedding in 2 months!
We originally picked our wedding date to be the first weekend in October becuase that was the first weekend at the venue with the discount price! We would have loved to get married in the summer though. BUT that date was already taken, so the venue offered us the next closest date at that same price, even though it is during "peak" season! So our date is the 18th of September. Just so happens that we started dating officially on the 17th of a month, and he proposed on the 19th of December. Also, my parents' 30 year anniversary is the 19th of september! :)
Our date was not exactly my first choice. *ahem* We wanted a Saturday in September. #1 will be Labor Day and we didn't want to interfere with our guests' holiday plans. #2 ended up as our by-default date. #3 will be Yom Kippur and none of our Jewish guests would have attended. #4 will be Rosh Hashanah and only some of our Jewish guests might have attended.
And no, this is BY FAR not the first time I've explained our choice of date. *sigh*
Started off as practical after changing the date 4 times, and then we decided on March 13, and then realized that that is exactly one month after my parents anniversary, so that was sweet.
We had to take into account my mom's blackout periods when she can't take vacation, my grandparents' ability to travel from Ukraine, my brother's finals and college graduation, Jewish and Catholic holidays, and prices at the venue.
We also wanted nice warm weather and a Sunday wedding. That left Labor Day weekend.
I've always wanted to get married on Halloween! But the 30th was a Saturday... so here we are.
Special.. NYE. We want to start the new year out as husband and wife. Also, we want to throw a fabulous NYE party for our family and friends.
Practical...We wanted either Sept. or early October. Due to Jewish holidays in Sept, and wanting a Friday to cut costs, the 24th was it! We actually really wanted 10-1-10, but it was booked already for an event :( Oh well!
Our date was 100% practical. But frankly, when it came time to pick a date, I was so thrilled to (finally) be marrying my wonderful husband, that I would have gotten married on a Monday at 4:00am if that's what worked!!!!
We run a seasonal business (as do most of our friends) so there was no option to get married (if we wanted all our friends to come) between May - October. So I got to choose from Nov. - April. I didn't care. So I chose a date. Just as we were about to book the venue, my Dad called me in a panic (from the venue) and said, "you can't get married on the ___th!!! It's the Ohio State/Michigan game!!!" It sounds ridiculous, but it was true. All you Ohio bees out there know!! So we moved it back a week. It ended up being the weekend right before Thanksgiving - not my first choice, but it worked out fine!
We had to have it in March- the only month to really be in AZ! We wanted guests to have a little spring break and see some baseball. Other than that, our venue had one Saturday left, so we booked the 13th!
Totally practical. We did it the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend so guests would be able to travel and our reception location had less of a minimum spend requirement. It worked out perfect for us!
June 5 2010
Both, my FH wanted spring, I wanted summer, its his grandpas wedding date and my grandpas birthday
Couldnt bee a better date
both. we wanted spring, but couldn't get the date we wanted due to vendor/rabbi conflicts so we kept pushing the date up, we didn't want it to be too hot because it's all going to be outside. we ended up picking the same date that we met on (actually a day before, but we met on leap year so that doesn't count) and the day we got engaged. perfect for me because i'm horrible at remembering anniversary dates!
totally practical!
it would have been nice to have it on our anniversary (dec 29th) but so close to NYE we knew alot of our guests wouldn't make it. I've always loved fall and october is a perfect fall wedding month :)
Ours was practical all the way. We got engaged in March 09 and chose summer 2010 pretty much right off the bat. We chose 18 months planning instead of six because my parents have been in the middle of a huge international move in 2009 and we were worried that 6 months planning would be hard on us.
We chose labor day weekend because it is a good bet weather wise and provided enough time for planning.
A date significance happened by chance after we booked our venue. Our dating anniversary is May 5, 07 FI proposed on March 5, 09 and we are getting married September 5, 2010. FI thinks I am nuts, but I like the number 5 coincidence!
"our" venue had 3 days open. May 30, June 13, and June 20. After a few days, we called and said we wanted May 30, but it got taken. She had the 13th and 20th available but the 13th was a sorority sister's wedding and our guest list overlapped (even tho we aren't friends, but we share friends) so we picked the 20th.
The day before halloween was most def. NOT my first, 2nd, or 3rd choice... but hey, it's the one that worked!
mine is a very odd story. my fiance unknowingly proposed to me on his dad and step-mom's anniversary. we then picked a date for our wedding and afterward told his mom and realized that our wedding date will end up being the sum of the dates of his mom and step-dad's anniversary and my parent's anniversary, who were both married in august. it was all very weird.
Ours is both!!!! My fiance and I started dating on July 24 and were engaged on Dec 24th so we really wanted a 24. We knew we wanted a fall wedding and we wanted to take our time and enjoy being engaged. SO September 24, 2011 was just perfect!!!
So practical, but it worked out for the best. Since we're getting married in March we got lots of discounts (since it's considered to be off season for weddings apparently). Main reason we decided on it was due to weather, it won't be as hot as the summer when I am off from work, and that the week after the wedding I have spring break, a whole week off! Whoo-hoo!
Our Korean wedding is based on when my sister is flying back to Canada from Hong Kong (ie. she is stopping in Seoul on the way) to minimize flight costs. The Canadian wedding is based on when FI and I have holidays. However....our date is also conflicting with Ramadan meaning that we have a huge dinner headache for some of our guests. So, practical for us, not good for some guests, but we couldn't make it any other time.
Its our anniversary! He proposed on our second one... so we decided why not keep it all together? Its umm... labor day weekend actually the year we want to get married... uh we'll see how that goes.
its almost exactly a year from his proposal (he proposed on sept 1 and im getting married on sept 4th)
and being labor day weekend, its a time when most are off and since its a semi destination its perfect for OOT guests
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