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@bridetobe7844: I knew I wanted a date that fell in the 20s cause I liked the way it looked. *im crazy* I wanted September but my FI parents couldnt make it so we ended up with August 26 2012 and I like the way it looked on paper lol
@bridetobe7844: That's my mother's birthday! I am still a waiting bee, but we have discussed dates... and we were hoping it could be on our dating anniversary, but it's in the middle of the week, so hopefully a weekend on either side of it will end up being "the" date! It'll be our 7 anniversary (that's so crazy to type out).
Mine was a bit tough to decide upon. I work a job that has a busy season so I had to work around that time because I would not be able to get the time off otherwise. Also my mother who is doing a lot for the wedding as well who is a professional cake decorator she can not get any time off 2 weeks before a major holiday. That had a lot to do with it, and I had my schooling to think about I couldn't schedule the wedding during a busy semester of classes, just was not going to work. So we decided on May 19, 2012 and the honeymoon will come in August because summer session for school will be starting right up. I am actually surprised we could even figure out a date. UGH
My FI planned it pretty perfectly...he proposed on our 7th anniversary and we will get married on our 8th (date was lucky enough to fall on a Sunday)
@bearlove: Jealous! Ours won't be on a weekend until 2016... not waiting that long! haha!
Our date is the day of our "first date" (well it really wasn't a real date but it was our first kiss and the day we consider ourselves becoming a couple). After we got engaged, I knew we would get married in 2013. I checked the calendar and our date fell on a Saturday! I knew then that we had to have that date :) Luckily FI was all for it too!
Well I always knew I wanted to marry in Ocotber because FI's bday (28th), favorite holiday (Halloween), favorite season (Fall) all seem to coincide with October. Not to mention I love the cooler weather. It was either October 6th or the 20th for 2012, as we are having the ceremony on Saturday and the reception on Sunday so that knocked out the 27th as a possibility bc we didn't want the reception to fall on FI's bday. I'm not comfortable with the whole Friday the 13th so that knocked that Saturday out. We settled on the 6th bc we knew it would be easier for some of our out of country guests to travel that weekend. Also the 8th is Columbus day so with a two day ceremony/reception, it may make travel easier on our out of town guests if their schools/work observed. Best reason of all, it means I become his wife two weeks earlier. =)
We knew we wanted it in either spring or summer. We mostly based the actual date around when our photographer was available as we really wanted him. We were deciding between May 5th and June 2nd but my mom pointed out that May 5th was close to a popular tourist filled festival in our city that our venue is close to. So we went with June 2nd :)
Ours was based on my school schedule and what weeks I could get off from work.
It's our 9year anniversary. I always joked our anniversary date was too important to overshadow it with a different wedding date, a while ago we discussed it and decided we don't want a different anniversary, so when he proposed we already had a date.
Ours was a complicated mixture of reasons. He's in med school and will be finished with classes around late March 2013, and will be starting residency mid-June 2013. He's graduating with an MD in the first week of June; I'm graduating with an M.Ed. in the second week of June. So then we narrowed it down to April or May 2013. We wanted a 3 day weekend because I'm a teacher so I can't miss a lot of school. We wanted Sunday, May 26, 2013 but that date was taken at our venue of choice. So we picked Saturday, May 25, 2013! We just booked our venue last night!
We wanted a spring wedding so figured I'm off work for a week for spring break but the first Saturday was St. Patrick's Day and I really didn't want that, so we opted for the end of my break. Our 10 year dating anniversary falls on a Sunday and I really wanted a Saturday wedding so that was out, but that was the first date I had thought of.
Well, we needed a summer wedding because I'm stilll in school for two more ars and FI will be graduating this May, but I didn't want to wait longer than 2012 :P I also wanted a few weeks to plan after school let out, so that ruled out May, but I wanted to spend most of the summer married- so then we were in June. My original thought was June 9, but that happened to fall on my hometown's biggest festival of the year- Walleye Weekend. (Yes, I know, we celebrate a fish, haha) So we pushed it back a week... and there we have it :)
We've got engaged on my 30th birthday last summer on July 14th, and we knew that we want to marry the following year. my fiancé is teacher so it had to be during the summer holidays. first we thougt the first weekend of the holidays because I added the second weekend is my birthday! then my fiancé said: "well, what's so bad marrying on your birthday?" and I answered: "indeed, nothing! it would be the first time since 4 years all of my dear ones will be together on my birthday!" (to explain: since my 19th birthday I celebrated my special day really big with great parties, since I moved to another city, changed my job and been living with my husband to be that wasn't possible anymore...) So, it will be my birthday;-) I'm already really excited! I had so many fantastic birthdays since we've dated, and this one will the THE most special to us;-)
we began dating on november 4th 2002. I've always wanted to get married in August (don't ask why) and August 4th fell on a Saturday.We thought it would be need to keep our #4 anniversary. Also, our wedding will be two days before my parents anniversary.. which is kind of neat :)
We knew we wanted to get married at Christmas time. DH's parents were married on the 27th and a lot of friends and family would be home for Christmas already, so no special trip required. We got engaged in late May and the 28th was the only date left over the holidays at our venue, which made the choice for us.
We wanted a summer wedding, on a Saturday. My mum works at a school, and my MOH is a teacher, so we felt that the summer holidays would best suit them (as they'd have time before to prepare, and time after to relax). So we've gone for the first Satuday in August, in 2014.
we knew we wanted a xmas season wedding..and we usually host a xmas party for friends and family the 1st or 2nd week of dec, so we choose to set the date that weekend instead of the party. Plus i am a person that likes even numbers or numbers that flow well together. Being as my bday is 11/11..i wanted the date something he couldnt forget as well... so we are set for 12-1-12
I wanted a sweet and sentimental date but I also wanted an outdoor wedding. Our anniversary is in January so that was out. The first time we met was in July. July in the south can be brutal so that was out. That left us with spring and fall. We liked the earthy colors more than the neutral ones so fall it was. September was out because my son will start school and we thought that month may be hectic enough adjusting too a new routine. November was out because of the Thanksgiving holiday being somewhat of a spread out ordeal in our family. That left October. I checked the farmer's almanac for what would be our best chance of a rain free outdoor wedding. The 13th is the ONLY weekend that it's not projected to rain so that's the date we chose. It will probably be my luck that every other weekend will be sunny and clear and it will be a downpour all day the 13th!
I'm the third generation to get married on Labor Day weekend, following in my grandmother and mother's footsteps.
Our date is our 5 year anniversary. It happend to fall on a Sat in 2012 so we figured it was meant to be.
@bridetobe7844: You share my parents wedding date! they will celebrate 39 years this years :)
We kind of just fell on our date out of convenience. We got engaged in July and I really wanted a spring wedding but didn't get my wish. My SIL was getting married in August so we decided to hold off on setting a date until after her wedding. Well after her wedding we found out my brother, who is in the marine corps, was being deployed to afghanistan. It was really important for me to have him there so we had a choice...either get married in early february or wait another 7 months until he came home. We didn't want to wait over a year so we decided to pick the farthest date out we could but still guarantee my brother was still here and thats how we fell on our wedding date. I really didn't like the idea of having our wedding date so close to valentines day, it seemed so cliche to me, but it grew one me. we get to celebrate our anniversary, valentines day and DH's birthday all in the same week :)
Originally, we chose February 25, 2012. Summer doesn't work for me because work is busy. Fall doesn't work because we're hardcore football fans. And we have many coaches in the family - we ended up with Feb 18 or Feb 25. So we just picked one.
Well, I got sick of planning a long distance/long time away wedding so I looked at the football schedule and found two dates. 9/3/11 or 9/10/11. The 9/3/11 had a Sunday football game so it'd be no problem. The 9/10/11 date was a bye week - not only for OUR football team but for the other major team in our family as well.
SO BAM! Hubby picked 9/10/11.
I decided October because it's beautiful weather (most of the time), most people don't have so much going on during this month and it just seemed perfect. The 13th was picked because it's FI's lucky number and the house number I grew up in.
@BayStateBride: That's cool
FI didn't want to get married in the summer because he hates being hot, I don't want to get married in the winter because I have being cold lol.... we chose Oct 20 because it's usually not too cold and not too hot, no snow, it's fall which is a season we both love and I love the colours during fall.
I'm getting my masters and expect to be teaching in a public school in 2013, so I looked up the school calendars for the two districts where I will most likely end up. Summer is out because in Texas it's hot, dry, and ugly, and we didn't want people to have to choose between our wedding and Christmas. That left spring break, and since both school districts have spring break during the same week in April, voila!
@bridetobe7844: HAHA, same here!! I woke up one morning (wasn't even engaged at this point) and said, "Hmm... September 9th would be a nice day to get married." When I checked my schedule, I found out it was my weekend off, a Sunday (which is helpful), and then it clicked.... My dad's badge number when he was a cop (he's retired now) was #9. And I'm a daddy's girl so 9 has always been one of my lucky numbers. And it all worked out!
Ours is the seventh anniversary of the day we met, which also happens to fall in the only two weeks in the year when everyone could attend. (We have a LOT of teachers and students in both our families.)
30 march 2012, got enaged on christmas eve 2010 and new we wanted to wait a year and then its to hot here from nov to feb so didnt want steaming hot day so picked end of march , just seemed right and picked friday as it was $6000 cheaper then sat weddings
It wasn't totally random for us. We both work for a school district and since summer school ends the last week of July, we have the whole month of August off. We chose 8.11.12 because we figured that'd give us a bit of time to devote all day to last minute wedding stuff and because it'd give us enough time to go on our honeymoon and get settled in our new place without having to miss any work. We're very fortunate it's that simple for us.
Originally ours was going to be a few days after our 5 year anniversary, which is August 13th, so it would have been August 17th of 2013.
But it's hard to get our schedules together because we're in the military, so it's been moved to January 5th of 2013.
Ours was based on everybody's schedule. We work in the tourism industry which means from May until Mid-October is out. October to November is out just because after the stress of the Summer we usually need this time to unwind. Christmas is out because we're getting married in Greece and flights are so expensive for my family and friends to come over at that time, especially with the expense of Christmas. January was too soon after Christmas. There was a two week school holiday in February that would allow those with Kids from the UK to come before it being impossible to marry because of the rules of the Orthodox church. We didn't want to wait ages before marrying because we want to start breeding (such a way with words haven't I) and we've been together 4 years, so the ONLY date possible for us was Saturday 18th February, which is in 25 days. Shit that came quick!
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We never discussed dates, months or even seasons. I just woke up one morning with the 23rd of June in my head, I checked my calendar and it fell on a Saturday, too easy.
How did you choose your date, is it a special date for you or totally random?