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There are probably other posts that've been started about this, but I didn't see anything recently...
The man and I are in a unique position that if we decide to get married at the city hall, we can just do it whenever - any weekday. We can choose any date that works well for us - be it a 'cute' sounding date, or a sentimental one, etc. Why'd you choose yours?
Did you just pick a weekend that worked well for everyone's schedules?
Or, is it a sentimental day? (Grandparents' wedding anniversary, anniversary of your first kiss, etc...)
Or, maybe the date is 'cute' or clever? (Ex: 01/02/2010 is a palindrome, 06/07/08 was sequential [when written in the USA date-writing style], same with 12/11/10...)
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Yay! We're an example! :) 01.02.2010 .... it's a pallindrome (same forward and backward)!!
It's not really why we chose it, but it's still a fun date!
I did use you as an example! And I've considered 'stealing' your date, too, except that it's a saturday, and I don't think our courthouse does saturdays.
We chose July 24 as it will be the three year anniversary of when we first started dating, and we chose 2010 because a) it was when July 24 fell on a saturday, b) it gave us more time to save and c)we wanted a longer engagement since we had only dated for seven months before getting engaged.
We originally wanted to use the date that was already our anniversary 10/22/11. But the LSU-Auburn home game was that weekend. Then we wanted to use 10/8/11. But the LSU-Florida home game was that weekend. We ended up with 10/15/11 even though the LSU-TN game was that weekend (but at least it is an away weekend). And yes SEC football schedules are avaiable this far in advance and we did plan our wedding date around a football schedule.
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We picked out date out because it is our 3rd anniversary and because of the timing of our wedding. Because of our work schedules, we knew that our date would work best as well. What can I say? Perfect Timing!
We picked 08/15/09 because I didn't want to wait until the spring to get married and my FI insisted we couldn't get married during football season. :)
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There are ~9 weeks out of the year that I'm not in the middle of a semester. The 3 weeks at Christmas were out... too busy anyway. The month of August tends to already be a very busy time for my family, and HOT. So there were two weeks in May left over. We chose the middle weekend to have a week before the wedding and a week after (Jamaica!). May 2nd, 2009. Easy peasy.
@ laural: !!!!! I love you! We had to plan around hunting season AND Auburn football! People who don't live in the SEC South just don't get it, but people really do plan weddings around the big rivalries (FI would die if I even thought about suggesting getting married the weekend of the Auburn Alabama game!)
We picked ours for two reasons: one: hunting season does not happen during May. As funny (and redneck!) as it sounds, he had a good point. It's not getting married during hunting season that's the problem, but because hunting (and general outdoorsman stuff) is his passion, our anniversary would fall during hunting season every year from then on, and he refused to fight with me over celebrating our anniversary or going hunting.
two: his mom isn't doing well (at all), and the sooner, the better in the sense that we both felt it was truly important to have his mom at our wedding.
we didn't realize that 5/9/09 was the day before mother's day when we picked it, but we feel like it's an added bonus, because we're recognizing our mothers during the ceremony.
We have a little of two of those. We needed the summer because I'm a teacher, and all of the June weekends were out for various reasons. So we came to 7/3/2010. As soon as we let our wedding party know the date, one of my BMs immediately pointed out that 7+3=10. Boy, a math geek, was quite pleased :)
@ laural- I thought about trying to plan my wedding around the SEC schedules too (die hard Gator here!) but I really wanted my wedding to be on Halloween and (eek!) it falls the same day as Florida-Georgia this year. The best part is is that all of my cousins are die hard Dawgs fans so it will be fun to see them all that day. There is a hotel bar right outside of our reception room so I would not be surprised at all if some of us snuck out for a few seconds here or there to check the score! :)
@august15bride- you picked a great day, that's my birthday :) and you're in St. Pete! I'm in Wesley Chapel, small world!
Ours is September 5, 2010. My fiance is hiking the Appalachian Trail starting March 1 2010, and it takes about six months to complete the hike.
We're getting married at the end of the trail (in Maine), and we picked the Sunday of Labor Day weekend because we figured it would be more convenient for our friends and family to get there and make a weekend of it. Neither of us (or any of our family members) have ever even been to Maine!
We chose our date in December because we wanted to get married the same year as the proposal for tax purposes, but summer is too hot in FL and Fall=Gator Football! There was no way we were wasting a perfectly good football Saturday for a wedding!
I kinda need multiple options on this one. We picked May because his dad's getting married in March, and his twin sister's getting married in August, so when we moved it up to this Spring, we needed a date that was far enough apart from those two that no one got their toes stepped on. Also wanted to make it easier for OOT guests by spreading out their travel as much as we could. And we really didn't have a choice on the weekend, because it was the only weekend the church wasn't booked.
But in the end, it's totally the date I would have chosen because it's all odd numbers, and two of them are prime, and that makes the nerdy OCD part of me happy.
It also turned out to be Memorial Day weekend, which we hadn't realized, but it's great because almost NO vendors were booked that Sat even tho we were trying to book so last minute.
I had always imagined a spring wedding in Florida, but January was best for our schedules. Our church made a new rule that they didn't allow weddings during Lent, and Jan 24 was one of the very few weekends in the first months of the year that worked for us and our venues. We are both very busy with work events in the spring too. THe weather turned out perfectly and it wasn't too cold!
We decided we wanted an engagement of about a year. Orginally I wanted linger so I could have my Spring wedding but FI and mom convinced me otherwise. I decided to go with Fall I wanted colorful leaves and I thought I wouldn't have any problem getting my date, but alas the venue was very booked and the Only Saturday left was Halloween. Not too happy about that one, but the venue is by far the best we could get for the money.
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My wedidng day is my grandmother's birthday, but we picked the date partly because of availability and partly because I liked the sound of 6-19-09!
We wanted to pick our anniversary. But then our venue was only available on one particular date, so we picked that!
Our date had 2 criteria.
I wanted it to be Springtime in North Florida (warm days/cool nights)
and
Our awesome photographer www.heatherfunk.com had to be available.
We moved our wedding a couple of times before the date was finalized. And it happened to almost fall exactly on our 5 year anniversary as a couple.
Liz.Smith, we are totally in sync!! I always think of everything in terms of prime numbers!! (Or multiples of prime numbers or squares...)
Febuary 20th 2010
There are many reasons why we choose our date... first is I graduate in December and don't finish student teaching until January. Second is I need to start my one year waiting to get on my fiance's insurance. Third: We didn't want to get married on Valentines Day (too mushy for me.) and finally it's CHEAP to marry in the winter!!
@JeniRae - Oh man, I feel your pain. we have 7 weeks that we're not in school. And during most of those weeks, others we know ARE in school (teaching or attending) because their schools are on different schedules. For us, if we were to have a wedding, it'd have to be in late june or july, pretty much. If we don't though, we can just do it whenever, so long as we take our honeymoon during a break.
We didn't want to get married in the summer in Hawaii and since my brother is still in college, we chose a date that was during his spring break that way he would be able to attend. Fortunitly my brother and my cousin both go to the same college, so they are both able to bask in the sun in Hawaii during our wedding vacation. :o)
We ruled out the fall, because of football season. Neither of us wanted to miss a Michigan football game and we're getting married on campus, so it would have been a logistical nightmare. We chose May, because we both like spring. Our date was just a random one that was available, but I liked it because it's an even number (16) and I have this weird like of even numbers. :)
We got married sept. 6, 2008. I wanted an outdoor wedding and picked fall so it wouldn't be too hot or too cold. We also wanted to wait until our son could walk because we wanted him to be our ringbearer, luckily we started walking about a month or two before the wedding, lol. I also had to time it around hunting seasons as my hubby hunts all year round for whatever he can. I knew that Dove season started on september 1 but hubby doesn't hunt dove that much so he was fine with it. We originally picked sept. 20th because of availability at the park we were having it then they called me back to tell me that they had a wrestling event that day so I moved it to the 6th which was the only other saturday they had left. Then about a week before the wedding we remembered that the 6th was also my brother in laws birthday which I felt bad about but he loved it because now he wouldn't ever forget our anniversary, lol.
We got married on Friday, November 7, 2008. We wanted a Friday, and knew we didn't want a summer wedding (I can't even imagine sweating in a satin gown). Since my MOH, Mom, and Godmother are all teachers, and I didn't want them to get into using up all their "personal days' on our wedding, we picked Teacher Convention weekend! The three of them had off that Thurs and Fri, and they didn't have to take additional days off!
I loved having a Friday wedding - we didn't leave until Monday for the honeymoon, so we had Saturday to spend with family who had traveled for the wedding, Sunday to pack/get ready to leave, and Monday we left!
My wedding date will be selected according to family preferences. My future in laws want to have it in the early summer so that out of town guests will be able to attend. Personally, I would like a spring or late summer wedding. They also prefer for me to have it this year, but there is no way that I can possibly pull something together so quickly with limited funds (still in searching for a post college career). It's complicated. I would rather get married at the court house and keep it a secret from everyone. If I could choose a date for the court house it would be a date with special meaning, such as our anniversary.
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We would have liked to get married on our 4th dating anniversary, but it's a Monday. And having a weekend wedding (which we wanted) meant that we have to get married on a Sunday because of certain work committments that A LOT of people on our guest list have. So, we originally picked the day before our 4th dating anniversary, but unfortunately we ran into problems with that day, so we moved it a week earlier. It's not perfect, but it's close.
I have no idea why we picked our date... I don't even remember picking a date honestly. I think originally I wanted a summer wedding, but we ended up deciding on April
We had to have it in the summer so that my favorite aunt as well as all studnets in the family could come, so we picked August. Then we had my mom pick all the auspicious dates in August. Since we were having a DW in Hawaii, we weren't restricted to weekends because most of our guests would be staying a minimum of 5 days for the wedding. That's how we ended up with August 19.
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I wanted a spring wedding. I liked April. We picked the 18th but it was booked. Then we picked the 25th but the 24th was cheaper. Can't wait!
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@ laural--That is EXACTLY why we didn't get married in the fall (LSU and all).
In the end, it was the only Saturday that our schedules, the ceremony location's schedule, and the reception location's schedule matched up...That really made the decision for us.
We had originally wanted to get married in the summer. But the site that we wanted was booked until late in the summer, and I was worried that would be too hot. So, once we decided on not the summer, we picked a day that was convenient to my fiancee's work schedule.
Ours is just a fun date and looks great on invitations -- 9.9.9 :)
We were originally going to have a larger wedding on 10.10.10 but we ended up shrinking the wedding size to the point where it didn't make sense to wait the extra year. So 9.9.9 it was!
Basically, since my FH's family would have to be flying in from overseas... when we announced our engagement everyone whipped out a piece of paper and started a list of when they would all be available to come. Basically, those weeks all coincided on one weekend, resulting in us choosing July 25, 2009 - since we didn't want to wait more than a year to get married and the date worked for us! So essentially... his family decided for us, haha.
I'm a 3-2-1 girl....March 21st (right around the corner!)
We are getting married July 11th 2009 and I've had several people comment on 7/11! It is an easy one to remember.
We picked that date because it was the ONLY Saturday available in summer/fall 2009 at the venue we wanted (they had a cancellation). I originally wanted to get married in early Ocotber - looove fall weather and fall colors.
Oh well!!
We had to plan around 2 different seasons...the catholic not good to wed seasons of Lent and Advent and hurrican season since we were doing a destination wedding in Florida. The date we finally settled on was 02-07-2009 (or for engineers/math nerds) e day! An added bonus for my husband and I :)
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