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We choose 11-11-11 because thats the day my FI thought of and i wanted a winter wedding. i wanted dark colors. plus i thought 11-11-11 was kinda cool it falls on a friday
Well, I am a teacher so I knew summer was the season for us. I wanted to get married at the end of June, because both of our families have a TON of July birthdays. 2 days after I got engaged one of my best friends (and a bridesmaid) called me and said she had been keeping a secret...she was pregnant and due on July 4th! I said no prob! I wouldn't want her to miss my wedding! We hadn't booked anything yet, so we decided we would do it at the end of July or beginning of August. We were very happy to book July 24 (lucky no ones birthday!) and we are actually sharing our anniversary with one of the GM and and his wife (they have been married 5 years).
it was the latest weekend we could go at our venue without having to pay spring prices (25% markup) :) the last weekend in feb 2011 was taken, so we went with presidents day. it's in texas, so we're hoping for sun and 55 degrees!
we chose our date because we had to work around everyone's college graduation schedules! that was definitely not easy lol
We chose 11/11/11
1-because both of our lucky numbers are 11
2-we both wanted a fall wedding
3- because its a friday wedding we SAVE OVER 7000$$$
We chose ours based around grad school calendar and our top choice venue's availability. We actually got the very last summer Saturday our venue had! It turns out that our date is almost the same as FIL's and FBIL/FSIL's anniversaries. Kind of cool!
Oh boy we had a hard time picking our date. We were engaged in 10/09 and I had always really wanted a fall wedding, so my first thought was fall 2010. Well then my brother set his date for august 2010, and we realized my fi's mom had already set her date for october 2010, and we wanted to give some clearance between those. doing it early enough before august seemed impractical because we were planning to buy a house, so we started looking at december 2010.... but found out its just as expensive as summer bc of holiday parties! Then we thought january 2011 until my fiance realized he wouldn't be able to take ANY time off in january due to work stuff. So then we thought feb.
first weekend in feb is superbowl (fi's ONLY request when i asked him about date was not superbowl weekend lol)
second weekend is v-day ($$)
third weekend is his bday
so, fourth weekend it was! literally the first weekend we felt we were able to get married haha.
We wanted either a summer wedding or a winter wedding. If it was in the summer, it needed to be on Memorial Day weekend so our OOT guests would have an extra travel day, and also because May is the most beautiful time of the year here. It's not too hot and dry yet! If we held it in the winter, we wanted a New Year's Eve wedding....and New Year's Eve wont be falling on a Saturday for a few more years, which was totally out of the question. We didn't want to wait that long! So we opted for Memorial Day weekend with a 10 month engagement :)
We picked a weekend between the end of the school year in Ohio and the start of finals in California. We wanted as many of our family members to attend as possible and we didn't want it to screw up anyone's school year. My mom's a teacher, so it had to be in the summer, but not during summer school.
June 5 was going to work out perfectly, but then they had a bazillion snow days this year. Hopefully, my junior bm will be able to take her last finals early.
Plus, we wanted to schedule it before my FI's brother's wedding, which is in September. Otherwise, we would've had to wait until after their wedding and I'm not getting any younger.
I'm an encore twice over, plus we're already married. I don't like the 20 somethings of any month. They seem to be bad luck for me. I wanted an even number and really I wanted a spring wedding but fall is just SO gorgeous so we went with 10/2/08 when we tied the knot and our ceremony/vow renewal/reception will be 10/02/10
Teddy proposed 4/16/10...we are getting married 4/16/11 :) I really wanted a spring wedding and once I told Teddy that he may miss a Clemson football game if we have our wedding in the fall...he gladly said that he wanted to get married in the spring also ;)
We chose 11/11/11 because 1 is the number for forever. The perfect day for us to become one!
We're grad students, so we have a summer break, but it's much shorter than a typical college summer break. So we had about a 3 week window we could fit the ceremony in and still have a honeymoon ;) The venue only had one of these three weeks open. Done and done.
Lets see... We wanted to get married on the beach in Florida so June - Oct were out because of the heat/hurricane season. He works in tax so Jan - April were out. Mothers Day weekend was out, the next weekend was my BMs med school graduation so it was May 21 or nothing (waiting to hear if the date was available at our venue was STRESSFUL)
We had initially picked 11/11/11 but then I realized the next year that my parents anniversary falls on a friday so we will be getting married on June 1, 2012! I think its so cool that we will be able to honor my parents in that way. They have a great marriage.
We picked the latest date we could in November because my BIL (and GM) is in Afghanistan until November, and we wanted to make sure he was home.... but we didn't want to get into high season at the resorts either :)
i actually chose my colors (sapphire blue and silver) and it made me think of a winter wedding. i didn't want to compete with the holiday season or valentine's day so i thought that the colors would also go well with january. i had been thinking of a late january wedding but we had several family members mention that martin luther king jr weekend would work better so we went with that. i'm actually kinda glad we did because we'll sometimes get a 3 day weekend for our anniversary now! (depending on jobs and such)
January-My birthday, so the only date we would have considered was 1-1-11 because of the cool number. However, we didn't want a holiday anniversary.
February-Valentine's day and too much snow, no thanks.
March-When we picked our date, my best friend of 11 years had just gotten engaged, and decided on March of 2011, so the weddings would have been too close.
April-Generally crappy weather around here, didn't want Easter weekend, my mom and step-dad's anniversary is April and I wanted my OWN month (I'm crazy, I know!)
May-PERFECT....Not 5-14 because it's Mother's day weekend. Not 5-28 because it's Memorial day weekend. Not 5-7 because I don't like the number 7, and the few extra weeks will help ensure better weather sooooo.....5/21/2011 it is!
June No go because of FI's job in the boating industry
July No go because of FI's job in the boating industry
August No go because of FI's job in the boating industry
September Too many family/friend anniversaries/birthdays.
October Too many family birthdays
November Too many family birthdays. Would have loved 11-11-11 but FI's birthday is 11-10!
December Christmas, no thanks.
FI and I agreed the wedding would take place back in my homestate or nearby, but FI's family is from the Southwest and many of our friends are located all over the country, so we decided it would have to be a 3-day weekend date (travel day on saturday, wedding on sunday, holiday/travel day on monday to minimize guests having to take anytime off). Right now we're looking at July 3rd 2011; however, I've already emailed a few places and they are BOOKED!!!! Incredible! The same 2 places are also booked on the labor day weekend.
We are both teachers so we needed a date that was in the middle of our summer vacation to have time to prepare for the wedding and for the honeymoon.
FI just got into the State Dept, so we needed enough time to plan the wedding, but the latest time possible so he could still start with them in January next year.
Since we're getting married in Brazil, I didn't want to get married there in the winter (people need to enjoy the beaches!), so a spring or summer wedding there would work. We chose November because it's not yet too hot, but it's already pretty nice. (Plus, we're running a marathon in October!)
The 27th was picked because it's Thanksgiving weekend, so it would make people's time off easier (including ours!), since they would have to travel from the US to Brazil for the wedding, and they automatically got a 4 day weekend (and for most people Thanksgiving is not as much of a big deal as Christmas).
Once we decdied to get married in Oklahoma, we knew that summer was out (I have nothing but unpleasant memories of hot and humid summers in OK), May was out because of tornado season, winter was out because of ice storms, and fall was out because of football season (yes, I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's true. Hub2b has nieces in San Antonio, and there spring break is the week before our date, so we figured that would make for easier traveling for them.
Not really a romantic tale, and I'm sure it will backfire on us and March 19th of next year will be 110 degrees in the morning with a tornado at noon and 10 feet of snow in the evening....
We were engaged on new years eve, we love the winter, December is down season for work and we get to start our new life, in the new year, surrounded by everyone we love. Just couldn't pass up the symbolism of that time of year. So NYE it is!
um, it was the only day available at the only non-church venue(ceremony and reception), so.. that's that... lol
the weather here is best in october (no rain and low humidity). it will be the week before half term break for the kiddies so i won't have to take too much time off work. we originally wanted 10-10-10, but can't do it then because where we are getting married is an uber private country club (for financial reasons- doing it there was the cheapest option as we're paying ourselves) and private functions are not allowed on weekends as members are using the club. so we went with october 11 2010 which is a monday- which is also ok with us because all our close friends and family are coming in from overseas anyway... might get legally wed on 10-10-10 though! will see =)
Everyone has such different reasons for choosing their date. I'm glad we were all able to pick out a special date that is significant for us! :)
Ours wasn't really anything important. Late July and August in Montana are about the only two months you don't have to worry about rain or extreme weather. July was booked at our venue, so we took the first saturday in August which happened to be the 7th. Well that and I guess we wanted it as far away from my birthday as possible which is August 20th (even though I don't care, the FI was adament about it).
Actually booking the date has turned into a complete nightmare. We booked in February of 2009. In November of 2009 I get a call from a random crying girl that she needed our wedding date because that is her and her SO's anniversary for when they started dating. She said she had April of 2010 and demanded I switch with her. I told her I was sorry, but Save the Dates had already been sent out (and it still snows here in April so I really didn't want the date). She cursed me out and I thought that was the end. Since then I have gotten about fifty calls from her calling me every name in the book and she even went so far as to write a letter to the venue saying I had changed my mind (they called me to confirm and I was VERY unhappy to learn what she pulled). Finally I told her off and filed a police report for harrassment against her. Luckily I haven't heard from her since. I assume they went ahead with their wedding or chose a different venue.
I swear I was trapped in my own version of Bride Wars for awhile there.
We wanted 6-26-10, but the venue double booked on that day! So I was asked to move my date to the 19th, or a different month since the other bride had "put down a larger deposit."
I wasn't happy about it, but we were pretty flexible, and in the long run it ended up working out because the weekend of the 26th is when most HS graduations occur in NY and about 20 of our guests would not have been able to attend!
We really wanted a spring/early summer wedding... it's beautiful here in the Fingerlakes this time of year!
Ours was a matter of convenience. We wanted an outdoor wedding but we both hate the heat so we chose mid-May for the weather.
We schedule the wedding around our schedules. FI is a graduate student and I'm a med school student and the only overlap we have in our schedules :-) where I can get a week off. If it wasn't going to be the date in June 2011, then it would probably be 2013 when we're finally settled after residencies/internship stuff.
Le sigh. Our guest's fall schedules :) http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/01/02/were-late-were-late-to-set-a-very-important-date/
I originally wanted to get married in late April or May, but that's when we were getting married in NYC (best chance of good weather). But then we decided to switch and get married in Oregon, because it's cheaper and closer to family. The best weather there is July, August or September. My birthday is in August and my mom is a teacher, so July really was the best month. We ended up picking 7/9/11 - it's a sequence of odd numbers. It's not exactly the most obvious creative date (not like 11/11/11!) but I like it.
When we started planning I was still expecting to graduate in May 2012. I didn’t want to be planning a wedding during my last semester of undergrad and that summer would have been crazy enough with potentially moving half-way across the country, finding him a new job, finding us a new apartment, etc.
So we knew it had to be in summer of 2011. However, I have to go to field school so looking at the dates of the field schools my department offers as well as others that I could petition credit for, we thought later summer would be best. Then looking at dates he decided July 30 would be best (thought really the 23 could work too.)
I’m now graduating December of 2011 so it’s even better that we didn’t want a summer 2012 wedding since there is a chance we won’t even be in the region.
Well, we both wanted a warm weather wedding. My bday is May 9, and his bday is August 9, so we thought nines seem to work well with us :-)
We thought June or July 9 would be perfect! In 2010, July 9 was the only one that fell on a Friday or Saturday!
@phishgirl - aw, us too! Exactly our 6 year anniversary. I LOVE it! Also, I knew it had to be warm out when we got married, I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE Chicago winters!!! So it was pretty easy for us!
January 8th is my little brothers birthday :]
We chose our wedding date for a few different reasons. 1. We were both born on the 2nd, 2. We started dating on the 2nd, 3. My favorite holiday is the 4th of July, 4. We both love the month of July the most. So what we said the meaning is, is we have the 2 for both of our birthdays and for us as individuals, and then the 4 is us joining our lives together and being husband and wife! I know, probably sounds cheesy or maybe doesn't make sense, but it's perfect for us :]
Well, our dating anniversary is 10/18 . FI ended up proposing on 10/17, because he was moving out of his apt on our anniversary and we would be busy. 10/16 was perfect since it was on a Saturday and all the days line up!
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I'm sure there has been a thread like this before, but I thought I'd start another one up! What made you choose your wedding date? Is there any significance to it for you and your SO/FI, or did you just choose it?
For my FI and I, our only options were either this May or August, January 2011 or May 2011 due to those being the only breaks in between semesters at school. I really wanted August, but my FI thought we should choose January so we could save up plenty of money, have time to find a house and for him to find a better job (which he did a few weeks ago, thankfully!) Technically May 2011 would've been the most practical option since that's when I'll be done with school for good, but I just couldn't wait that long! But it worked out well because I'm really liking the whole winter wedding thing, but hating the long engagement!
As far as significance goes, we found out after choosing our date we were getting married on Elvis's birthday! January 8th. My FI and I are big dorks and love music from that decade, so we thought that was pretty awesome. Our first dance will be to "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" We're cheesy! lol
So, share with me your stories!