Poll: How did you choose your wedding date?

Spim7

How did you choose your wedding date and does it hold any significance to you and FI/DH?We chose ours because originally we had FI's girls in the summer and were going to get married in July. Now that things have changed we planned the wedding for their 1st Spring Break weekend and they can spend Spring Break w/ grandma well FI and I honeymoon.

lemonsprinkles23

Our date is the date that we started dating.

julinejb

We don't really have a story behind our date. We met in October but I wanted a summer wedding... August 29th would have been the original date, but when we found out venue they had a last minute cancellation on Labor Day weekend and gave us a FABULOUS price for a Saturday evening wedding, so we went with it! Unfortunately since Labor Day weekend is right before school starts for my daughters, we did have to put off our honeymoon until the first long holiday which will be the week of Thanksgiving. The girls will spend the holiday with their father and his grandmother.

clross01

Our date was based on FI work schedule and the reception availability.. The rest is history..

braxtongirl

We got engaged on 07.07.07 and we tried to get as close to those numbers as possible like 09.09.09 but that is a wednesday. Our b-days are in June and July so tha twas out. We also knew we wanted to get married in the summer or hot months. That left May, August, September. FI wanted to be after baseball season therefore, we came up with 09.19.09!

missevans

A friend of mine chose her date smack dead in the middle of the year so since we had overlapping WP members I figured I needed to give at least four pay periods of relief for the girls, LoL.  Besides, I couldn't get 9/9/09 since it was a Wednesday so 9/19/09 worked just the same.

mycicybride

It was an available date that the venue had.  We loved the venue and wanted it on an off day because it fit into our budget.  No signif behind the date.

rhodesign

Mine is me being a geek...I like now the date 12/05/09 looks/feels. Numerically, 12 and 9 are divisible by 3 (one of my fav. numbers) and the 5 in the middle of it fits because it is also odd (I like odd numbers design-wise) and it's a prime number, so you have a prime surrounded by numbers who's common denominator is a prime as well. I also wanted something not too close to Christmas, but we're getting the venue cheaper for being off-peak, so that is the closest date.

NELCORP

Not much reasoning behind the date. We got engaged 10/2/06, nothing special about that date either it was a Thursday evening after coming home from work. We started dating in January but I've always love the fall and the weather is not too hot in Houston during our so called "fall". I didn't want to do it in November because it's too close to a holiday and September is still too hot down here so October was the month of choice. The date was based on the weekend that my stepson would be with us. My Fi has custody of him but his mother gets him every other weekend and I didn't want to deal with her about switching or anything. I could have done it on a different weekend in Oct but I like the way 10.10.09 looked and sounded so that's the date.

Mypasmita

Rho, You are my kind of nerd! Lol.My mom passed away when I was 13 on May 30thAndFi and I started dating around May 30th. So it seemed like a good fit. Fell on a Sunday but we were ok with that ( and it's Sunday of Memorial Day weekend so it's all good, even though for some reason this date is expensive!)

aquarius125

We chose our day based on a few parameters. I only wanted a Fall or Spring wedding. I am in the south so its hot a$$ he!!  here in the summer. FI and I are both students so we had to work around school. His bday is 10/2 and we met on 10/13 (friday) and oct is what I call my power month. great things always happen in oct for me for some reason so we were orginally going to get married on FI's bday but we needed our HM to be during fall break so we moved it back to 10.9 and we used our bdays to calculate the month and day as well.

OFF

We wanted a Spring wedding. I wanted May 1st but he thought that was way too communist of me. So we chose April 17th because it's the day before our 4 year anniversary.

mandikaykay

We got engaged after my cousin, I didn't want to overwhelm our family members with back to back weddings.  Our date is one month after theirs.  Plus I'm in grad school and FI just started back at school, so we had to work around school's schedule.  Although I realized with the honeymoon, I will be missing one week of classes...I'll try to just schedule a research class only so I won't have to actually attend and can just email my professor my progress all summer.

pretteone

There really isn't a story behind our date.  We chose 10.02.10, just because.  I knew I didn't want a spring or summer wedding (too rainy and too hot).  My home church and current church both have pretty busy calendars during the month of September, so October it was!  I will admit, 10.02.10 looks great...sound nice, sort of! lol

the cat

In August or Sept. last year we set our date for November 14, 2009. I chose that date only because of the weather. I live near NOLA so it's always HOTTTT. My dad's health started declining and he's such a HUGE part of my life. I had to do everything possible to ensure he was there in sound mind and body...without doing a JP and separate reception later. We got with vendors and got the first available date - March 28, 2009 and that's what we did!

tippytoe1981

well i had to go the UK to present at a conference for like 20 minutes.  lol...so since we had some unexpected financial things to come up, we decided to choose our date around the time of the conference.  I got married on July 25 and we left for the conference 2 days later. i only showed up for my 20 minute presentation which was 2 days after we arrived in the UK.  so our honeymoon date was the determining factor of our wedding date.  backwards i know. lol

bigshow2882

Well we choose 2011 because we are both in school and BF graduates in May 2010. So I wanted to give HIM (I mean us :-) ) Time to make some money and to pay for this Wedding. We wanted to be in the Summer, but not on a Hoilday Weekend. So we came up with June 25, 2011

cris10c

I was talking to co-workers who were excited about us getting engaged and trying to set the date for us. They were trying for this year but I told them I needed more time. So one of them recommended doing the 10th of a month so we could have x.10.10. I mentioned it to FI and he liked the idea because it would be easy for him to remember. Our choices were October or July and since 7 is FI's favorite number, we went with that.

pinkpanther_truck

Originally, I wanted a summer wedding. We got engaged in December, and this August was too soon for me, so I decided August 29, 2010. Then, in March, two things happened: Mom said she really didn't like that date because both of her marriages were in August (she's divorced... twice) and my guy said that was too long (go figure! ha!) So when we evaluated what would be the best timeframe for the coming year we agreed that a outdoor wedding in Florida between June and November would be out of the question because it would be super-hot and that's hurricane season. November-December wouldn't work because Thanksgiving is his family's big holiday and Christmas is my family's big holiday... January is too cold for Floridians. So February worked since it would just warming up and folks from up North would appreciate the weather.When we called the venue we wanted to secure a date the only ones available we February 14 and February 15. The 15th was in our budget so we went with that... Later we realized that the date encompassed both of our birthdays His is in February and mine is the 15th of April... Cool.  

MrClintonsFirstLady09

Honestly, our original wedding date 10/18/09 was chosen because the venue we really wanted was available that day. This place was booked clear thru until that day, believe it or not. Then FI got laid off a couple of weeks ago and he really must have put some thought into it and said April 25, 2010 is a wonderful day to get married. He said we will have by this time have been together a year and a half and officially engaged for a year. It made sense plus it is won't be too hot or cold either. So it works.  

Gameplan

FI chose it and it's my birthday.

Reid101

I got engaged on july 4 th, My FI birthday is July 7. I always wanted a summer wedding so we chose July 3rd, so that our guest could enjoy their july 4th holiday

tamishae77

It was one of the dates that the venue had available.  I wanted to have it June, the last Saturday in June, to give me more time to save up.

RAJAH

It's our anniversary . . . anniversary LOL! Tony Toni Tone's in my head now!