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I guess we decided to book the reception hall. We visited several and then we checked the dates against the church where I grew up. In the same day I booked the church and the reception hall, but only after first choosing which reception hall I wanted.
I think a date is important, we knew we wanted early spring. Budget is also important as it helps when picking out the reception location.
Congratulations on your engagement!
I voted for date, but in reality it was date and location together. We didn't know the exact physical location. But we picked the location for our DW and decided on the date on the same day.
Church AND reception hall. It was important that we get married in our church. It's a small parish so I didn't have to worry about the calendar filling up quickly. They gave me all the open dates in a 4 month range and I kept that in mind when looking for the hall. We booked both on the same day once we made a decision on the hall.
Keep in mind the date wasn't really important to us so that's why we were able to handle it that way. We knew we didn't want a engagement longer than a year but we ended up with 14 mos b/c the of the hall's availability. Good luck!
Our first wedding decision was the venue! That also helped us determine our date.
Nailing down the date was most important...we really wanted an October wedding but my cousin is getting married in October and I didn't want to upset her by having it in the same month. The only overlap in guests are our grandparents and an uncle (and his wife), and I wanted them to not feel rushed seeing as how her wedding is overseas. We thought about getting married on my grandparents anniversary but unfortunately that wasn't an option either. So we decided to go with November and fortunately we found a really great venue.
Date. We had a location we really wanted, but we would have changed it to get the date (the only one that works with my school/break/bar exam schedule + enough time to plan + time for a honeymoon afterwards longer than a weekend only!).
We had to decide where we wanted it - the city we lived in, the area my FI grew up in, or an area in northern MN that we love. Really really hard choice, so it was pretty important that it was decided before anything else! After that, we picked the church and reception location, since we were pretty open on the date.
We chose the date after being engaged for about 5 months. We didn't actually start planning until... maybe 6 months after that? But we got married on a Sunday in the "off season" for our area, and it was a holiday, so we pretty much had our pick of venues.
well I picked reception, but I guess we DID pick the date first. well kinda, we were in the process of confirming a date but it didn't have anything to do with my reception choice.
Oh well we had to hustle to find a reception as we were booking in prime wedding season (the summer) and only had less than 6 months to plan/book so thats why it was a main thing for us!
We ended up getting more than we would have ever asked for! I LOVE our reception location!
My FI and I didn't really have a date set. All we knew was that we wanted to get married in September. The first and only hall that we spoke to had 9/5/09 open so we took it immediately. So really the hall came first then the date.
Our venue! FI and I knew the month we wanted to get married in, but it wasn't until we spoke with the venue office that we decided June 4th was our official date- because that was the only one open!
I actually haven't even been to the venue yet- scary huh? FI is from the state we're getting married in, and he was visiting his parents and told me I'd love it- so we booked it :) I go see it in a few weeks I couldn't be more excited!
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Date and Reception venue went hand in hand - they only have 20 weddings a year, and this was an available date that fell outside of hurricane and rainy season. Just so happens that the date is 12/12, which looks kind of cool. I'll definitely play the lotto that week!
Our venue was the first thing we picked. But we did have a rough idea of when we wanted to get married--luckily the venue had an open date that worked for us! 
I picked three dates, emailed several venues asking them what they had and picked it that way, haha.
I am still 11 months out and I know a lot of people say "you can plan a wedding in 6 months" so it seems weird for me to be freaking out over a venue in my FIRST week of being engaged but a year is NOT enough where I live! I'm going to finish the contract with my venue tomorrow! So as long as they still have it... it's kind of both date and venue together first!
Congratulations!!!!!
It all happened so fast for me. We got engaged, and everyone and their mom had input on what to do and who the wedding planner should be. So we set up an apt. to interview a planner at the place we got engaged, and actually it is where we will be married too.
The planner said it would be gorgeous here in the grand ballroom, blah blah, and we fell in love with the idea. She ran into some office and came back out and gave us a list of dates, we picked the best one and so that was our first wedding decision!
We later had a wedding planner fiasco, which you could read about in my past history, and we decided to let her go and not sign her contract.
I voted venue but essentially the venue and date came together. There were two possible saturdays that would work for us - I wanted late August or early September, and the venue we all (FI, my parents, and I) fell in love with was available only one of those saturdays. So that was that! It still amazes me how I went in early April '09 to look at places for a summer '10 wedding and they were almost all of them booked through October (with a weekend here and there available thank god). I don't know how people plan in six months!
Ours were the colors! Of course, we ended up changing them about 6 months into it - luckily nothing was purchased yet. Honestly to give you some advice, pick the venue first. Lots of things stem from the venue - colors, decor, dress (you wouldnt want a huge ballgown for a garden wedding, vice versa) so Id go with that decision first and go from there! Good luck and congratulations!
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Kittyachi, I had 8 months when I first started ... now I have four ahhhh. Anyway, our venue had like 2 dates left for 2009- our date and Sept. 11, and she gave us a list with like 3 possible dates for 2010 ... everything was already booked! I really had no idea people book that far in advance.
We knew we didn't want to wait until 2010, and that since we got engaged in Feb. we needed some time, so October 24th is actually our perfect date.
When I checked two other venues (while in the process of booking our chosen venue) they gave me dates including October 24th, so it seemed like it was meant to be. Plus I love the look and sound of our date. I know, I'm weird. Lol.
We actually chose our date first, but then the next week we attempted to book church/reception. Because the church was unavailable for our first date choice, we pushed it back a week.
Ours was the reception place. We knew my church would be open when we needed it to be, so we got a few dates from the reception places and made our date decision from there.
We picked the location first, and based on their pricing and availability we selected our date. Dress, decor, everything after that was made with the location in mind that way everything flows and matches well...at least that's the theory!
The first wedding related thing I decided on was who my husband would be.
Then once he actually got around to asking me, we chose the date first to accomodate family then the venue and church.
The venue (Graceland Chapel, Las Vegas) then the blue shoes. Booked the chapel, still looking for the shoes.
I knew what dress I wanted before I was even engaged!! Then came the date, but not until about a month after he proposed.
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Hi Ladies
I'm newly engaged and have yet to make a single wedding decision (except that I'm getting married!) What was your first wedding related decision? Dress? Reception location? Date?