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I vote fall but I'm biased since we're having a fall wedding. I've wanted a fall wedding for as long as I can remember. I live in an area where the fall foliage is unbelievable and considering our wedding is in early October, the weather should still be pretty mild.
ETA: I didnt finish my thoughts before I posted.
A 9 month engagement is nothing. Ours will be 16 months and I don't even think thats all that bad. 5 months will be tough and finding vendors may be tricky. To be honest, you'll have to book things quick even for a fall wedding. We booked our vendors about 15 months before our wedding date and we still had to compromise on dates to get the vendors we wanted because they were already booked for many dates in October.
I think you're going to find that setting a June date at this point will leave you with the "leftover" venues and photographers. Even an October date is pushing it a bit. For example, my photographer is highly sought after - she just made a blog post declaring that she has 2 dates left....for all of 2011. I think venue and photographer limitations will make that decision for you!
I agree that venues and vendors might be tough to book at this point for June, however I think that timing would be a lot better if you're not sure where you'll be in October. We graduated in May and married in June, then moved halfway across the country in August. We hadn't really planned on moving from OK to FL until I got an acceptance letter in March after we set our wedding date back in the previous July.
I know it would be a long time, but I'd suggest giving next June some consideration. You'd have plenty of time to plan and book everything you want, you'll both have more time to build up time off with a job and you'll likely be settled with more money to take a honeymoon.
I had a spring wedding and even though I LOVED it, my second choice was an October wedding and I constantly think about all the other things I wanted to do for a fall wedding. Believe me, 9 months FLYS by when your planning a wedding. You'll LOVE the extra time.
I personally love October. I love all the colors, the crisp air, the leaves, the EVERYTHING! lol I wanted to have pumpkins as centerpieces with big round white flowers pouring out of them. Oh all the ideas I have for an October wedding...
Anywho, I vote fall! So many creative ideas come with fall and its not a wedding overload season.
You could check with the vendors your interested in and see when they are available and go from there. I'm torn between the place I want to have my wedding, it'll be a destination wedding so I'm going to get with vendors for both places and the different venues for the ceremony & then just compare which works the best. You could do that with the dates, see which one you have better options with. I've noticed down here that some places are even having "specials" where if you pay the package off up front & its with in a certain time period you get a discount.
Thanks for all your opinions! They are very helpful!
We've decided that a Sunday late afternoon wedding is much more "us"...so actually finding a venue and vendors for our city won't be too terribly challenging on shorter notice.
And our photographer is my future father-in-law's best friend and he's sort of just on stand-by for us until we choose a date....so that's not an issue either.
soonerpsych...next June is defintely not an option...FI and I have been dating for 6 years and we're waiting til marriage to live together, sleep together, etc. We are both finally ready...and we're ready. Waiting another year would be absolute torcher. But a nice idea nonetheless, thanks!
Anyways, I'd love to hear from some other brides that got married straight out of college...how did you handle the whole new job and wedding plans and taking off work for a honeymoon and not knowing the next step of your lives til pretty late in the wedding planning process?
:)
I vote Fall/Winter, but obviously bias! I think discounts/beautiful crisp weather is best!
Hi Bees! I just registered after having read soooo many posts on many subjects. Although I plan to get involved in various topics, how do I find the emerald cut lovers posts?
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OK Bees...here's my dilemma. I've been engaged now for over a month and groomie and I are trying to nail down our venue really soon so we can get to planning everything else.
Originally, I wanted a late Spring wedding (aka June)
Then we decided a Fall wedding would be better (aka October)
Now I am just so confused! Both times have their pros and cons and I just can't figure out what I want.
Both FI and I are graduating from college in May so at this point, neither of us know exactly where we'll have jobs or really when those will start.
Here are the pros and cons of each date...PLEASE offer your opinions to help us decide!
June Wedding Pros:
-Beautiful weather and flowers
-We would probably be getting married on my parent's anniversary
-It's likely that neither of us would have started a job yet so we wouldn't be nailed down to anything preventing us from honeymooning
June Wedding Cons:
-It's in like 5 1/2 months (is that long enough to plan a wedding?!)
-Neither of us will have a substantial amount of money saved up to take a honeymoon with or start payments on any type of apartment lease
-I'm still in a rental lease until July 30
October Wedding Pros:
-Beautiful weather (maybe?)
-We will probably both be at jobs at this point and may have some cash flow going to take a honeymoon and pay for housing
October Wedding Cons:
-It's in 9 months (do I want to wait that long?!)
-We might both be tied into jobs that will prevent us from taking much time off to take a honeymoon and what not
-We might have jobs in a different city from where our wedding is which would make last minute plans and things difficult and we'd have to travel home for the wedding
I'm sure there are lots of other pros and cons I can't think of right now...so if you would please call them to my attention that would be great.
Thanks for your input!