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My FI and I originally wanted to get married on 10-10-10, but due to the venue we would like to have it at being unable to host weddings on the weekend, we changed our date to Oct 11, 2010. Even though I would LOVE to wed on 10-10-10, for my FI and I, the venue that we have chosen is more important.
Please share your stories!
We met on 08/08/08, got engaged on 08/04/09 (8 month anniversary) and planned a wedding on 08/08/09 but had to cancel due to immigration issues. We still haven't set another date but I would love if it was on 08/08/10 which is a Sunday.
We picked out our venue and told them we were interested in a summer or fall wedding and asked what they had available? Well a bunch of dates! Two days later, after mulling it over, we decided on May 30. That had suddenly been snapped up! The next dates were June 13 and June 20. June 13 was when a sorority sister of mine was getting married and we had a good chunk of friends overlapping (i decided against going to hers...we weren't close or anything) so we rolled with June 20.
We are getting married on 10/9/10 which will be the 6 year anniversary of when he first asked me to be his girlfriend.
We just kind of picked a random date. We knew we wanted our wedding during a "nice weather" month. Ohio can be very unpredictable so it didn't really matter if it was May-Sept because we were taking a gamble anyway. His birthday is early June, his mom's is late May, we didnt' want it to conflict with Mother's day, and we didn't want it to be too hot. So May 22 was what we came up with. Also, we're having a 22 month engagement so we didn't have to worry about venues getting snatched up or anything like that.
We picked July 24th, 2010 because it will be our three anniversary of when we started dating/ first met.
Ours was pretty random also!
We wanted a early September wedding but I didn't want a long-weekend wedding and the next Saturday was 9/11/10 - ummm no thanks! and the following weekend was the 19th and now this is getting sketchy weather wise here in Canada because we wanted an outdoor ceremony.
So we moved backwards - one of his friends is getting married on Aug 28th and so we chose Aug 21st and luckily it worked with the venues that we chose!
We picked our date around other people's pregnancies and venue availability! LOL! The first date we wanted was too close to someone's due date, so we talked to our venue & there was only one date left in the room we wanted. So voila, our date was born!!!
The church we are using for our ceremony is the church where I went to college and it gets booked up 16 months in advance. So we had to give the wedding coordinator a few dates and she runs a lottery for people who want the same date, and we ended up with June 18, 2010. It kinda sucks because there is a lot going on in June (my birthday is the 19th, Father's Day is that weekend, my brother's anniversary is the 14th and my parents' anniversary is the 21st). Oh well, I wanted to have the ceremony at my college chapel so that is what we are stuck with.
I voted that the venue was free on that date but that's not entirely accurate. We originally wanted Sept 26th because it would be near the end of harvest but not so late that there wouldn't be any peaches. However, it's also my youngest sister's 21st birthday so she vetoed that. Then Wine Fest is the weekend before that (this one!) so that was out since it would have been a royal pain to get rooms or anything else - It completely takes over the town so September 12th it was! It ended up working out pretty well, even if we did forget about the peaches. :-)
i really wanted a spring wedding, and since 95% of our guests will be coming from out of town we decided to pick a the may long weekend (in canada)!! it was a very fast and easy decision :)
09.09.09..................I always wanted a September wedding and when we realized that it was the ninth month of 2009, it pretty much stuck. It was a somewhat destination wedding and ironically, 9 guests came. Our lucky number is now 9!
@bridedenise- i'm part chinese and so my chinese family have always insisted on 'lucky days' (the other half could hardly care less!) 09.09.09 in chinese culture, apparently is very lucky =) something like a long and happy marriage. congrats on your marriage a few days ago!
We picked 9-5-2010 because it is the day before Labor Day and so this helped for a couple of reasons:
1.) It's a Sunday. Almost everything is cheaper on Sunday.
2.) For our family/friends from out of town, they don't have to travel all night to get home for work next day (it's a federal holiday and most of our family/friends will be off).
3.) Our Family/Friends from out of town can also come in Saturday and not have to take off work on Friday to be at our wedding.
4.) Because it's the day before a federal holiday, even our local friends and family will be off so they can party like it's a Saturday night. :)
Side note: I came up with all of that and the date because Mr. Luna 'doesn't care, it's whatever you want dear.' :)
we started dating 7/4/08, got engaged on 7/11/09 and are getting hitched on 10/10/10. we chose it because it was a memorable date, and gave us a little over a year to plan and pay for the big day!
We swore we'd never get married during college football season. And.... November 7th was the only date available in 2009, so now we are that couple. But I'm glad - it happens to be a day both of our teams play "nobody" teams, and the fall weather should be nice, with low humidity, which is of major importance to my hair!
But the cool thing is that he proposed on 11.9.08, and we'll get married almost one year later on 11.7.09.
Well, originally we were planning for 1/29/11, which is our 5 year dating anniversary. However, because of family stuff (his brother having to travel for the wedding) and money issues (Saturdays are WAY more expensive than Fridays), we are thinking 1/7/11, which isn't really anything special...just what works for everyone.
I choose none of the above......
After 3 months of dating we KNEW that we were going to get married. We always talked hypothetically about getting married in May 2010. When I picked out my engagement ring, it just happens to have 15 diamonds (it is a 3 stone with 12 smaller diamonds surrounding the middle diamond). May 15th is a Saturday so we picked it because of the number of diamonds in my ring. My wedding band will also have 15 diamonds :) I guess 15 will be our lucky number now!
We knew we wanted to get married when the weather was nice and during the time FMIL is here (she spends 3 months here every year). We chose May 1st sort of at random. It sounded nice. We reserved the group site at the state park and just plain got lucky with our reception venue and our officiant! I think we booked them just in time.
We've been engaged since Dec 2008, and went browsing for venues in January. We fell in love with ours and they only had a couple dates available for May or June of 2010! We picked June 5 mostly because it fit our schedule AND the venue's schedule. We weren't expecting to have our venue so early on, but we've had no regrets. :)
We wanted to get married in June after graduation, and chose June 6 because it was 6/6/09 and sounded nice. It turned out to work really well because my husband ended up having to move us to our new place mid-July so we had time together before that happened.
I'm not engaged YET, but my bf and I have talked a lot about wedding plans. We plan to marry on 2/19/2011, which is my father's birthday. My father passed away in 2005, so I've struggled with the thought of no father/daughter dance and such things, so I thought getting married on his birthday would be a nice way to honor and remember him. And besides, my bf was never thrilled with my original idea of an outdoor garden wedding....he didnt want to be all hot and uncomfortable on his wedding day, so it's a win-win situation. :)
We're getting married on June 5, 2010 because it's between the end of the school year and the start of summer school for my mom and cousins in Ohio. Plus, it's a couple weeks before finals for the FI's little cousins here in California so they won't be missing out on an important weekend of studying when they come up to LA from San Diego. We would've preferred a long weekend, but Memorial Day is in the middle of my cousin's finals and I don't want her to screw up her freshman year.
Plus, we wanted to get as far away from my FI's little brother's wedding that is September 2010. They've been engaged much longer, but we're getting married first.
We graduated college on 5/10/08; 5/10 is also the day right in between our birthdays (5/7 and 5/13). We decided it was a good date that holds a little significance for us, and it turned out the venue was open on that date, too!
We wanted to get married the week after Easter, when the church was still decorated with all the Easter flowers.
I liked the number, it was smack dab during the middle of my school break and only 8 months from engagement (i wanted a year to plan and originally thought of 1/10/10 but fi wanted 6 month engagement and was eager to get the ball rolling). It seriously popped into my head when thinking of good dates. I think it's perfect and God's timing for us!
I checked at 3 different "dream venues" and guess what? All three had the same date available 10/24/09, 9/11/09 (and another date that I forget now)... I knew I didn't want 9/11 and the one that I loved the most was the one I picked ... October 24th!
We got engaged the day after Valentines day (2009) and did not want to wait over a year until late spring or summer wedding 2010 ...
=)
We knew we wanted to have the wedding in late spring/early summer, most likely May. We love the weather then and there are no conflicts with our schedule (school, sports, etc). We got engaged in late April and met with the event coordinator at our venue soon after. We did not want our wedding on a holiday weekend, so Memorial Day weekend was out. Also, the first weekend in May was graduation weekend and because we were getting married on a college campus, we didn't want to deal with that logistical nightmare. We were left with two dates--the 9th and the 16th. I prefer even numbers (I'm weird like that), so it was May 16!
We picked our date based on work schedules and venue availability/price. originally we thought New Year's but our venue had a major surcharge. We also liked that it falls on a 3 day weekend.
Our wedding is in June because:
- I'll be finished with my credential program by then.
- It will also be on our one year dating anniversary =)
We chose the date 10-10-10. We like the same digit or consectutive digit dates. Plus we knew we wanted a fall wedding after I finish school next spring. It's a long weekend and the venue we found, that had everything we wanted, was available. My hubby-to-be also likes the date because it's easy to remember and makes the math for calculating anniversaries easy!
Ours was a process of elimination... my mother asked us to get married after May 2010 because of her heavy commitments and wanting to able to be involved (which is fine). We also wanted to have it in the school holidays so that we could have a honeymoon (I'm a teacher). The autumn school hols are before May, and I didn't want to get married in winter, so that left the spring school hols.
A year is a bit longer (like, twice as long!) as we originally thought, but considering we didn't date for long before getting engaged I don't think it's a bad thing either :)
We would have loved July 15, which was the day of our first date and the day we got engaged. But next year, it's a Thursay, plus it's the Thursday after FSIL is getting married. And we didn't want to wait another year!
My date is pretty much based on when I know all my close family can come (they live in Australia, wedding is in London), in between work, university exams, etc. It's the one date I was sure everyone could be there, and everything else was secondary to that! Luckily, our church and the venue we loved were both available. Everything else is details.
We originally wanted 2.14.10-Valentine's Day is our day, but my parents were really against everything about it b/c I'll still be in school then for another 3 months, so we pushed it to 8.14.10. We're sad, but as soon as we changed the date, things really fell into place.
We picked a holiday weekend so our guests coming from out of town would be off of work (hopefully)! My FI is in the military so we chose July 4th.. and since I work at a school, we wanted to have it in the summer! Our date is perfect for so many reasons!
We originally wanted a winter wedding, but with so many of our family members traveling, a winter wedding in upstate NY was not a good idea. Then we thought about late June, so we would be able to enjoy the summer (I am a teacher). But after talking to my parents, who are paying for the wedding, asked if we could push it back a bit because they just moved 2000 miles. So, July 24, 2010 it is. I am so excited 
We basically pull out our calendar and tried to pick a date that I wont be in Afghanistan and that I will have enough time to plan after I get back. So we ended up with April 2011. The fiance wanted it in 2010 but it will be to hectic to be deployed and plan a wedding.
We are getting married on 12/31/2011. New Years has brought us great memories and we want to have our wedding day be another great New Years memory. But so we had to find a venue with an opening on our date rather than basing out date on their openings.
We're getting married on 9/18/2010. We picked September because it's FI's favorite month in San Diego - the weather is awesome then! Then we just picked the 18th, there is no rhyme or reason though.
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