Advice on picking a date...

Laureena23

I just got engaged on Christmas and I've just started doing a litte planning. I really wanted our wedding date to be on the day we were "officially" a couple, which is June 22.

Looking at the calendar, there are no 22nds on a saturday/sunday for 2011. I don't know how else to pick a date when there is nothing significant about that day..or do I just say screw it and pick a random day??

megerin111

We looked at the calendar and ruled out the days for sure we knew we couldn't do (holidays, birthdays) and talked to our parents to make sure they didn't have anything major happening. No matter what day you pick, it won't be random anymore! It will be your wedding day.. Good luck!

K Byte

Well first off: July 22, 2011 is a Friday (so is April 22 actually but it's Good Friday on Easter weekend so that's probably out); May 22, 2011 is a Sunday; and October 22, 2011 is a Saturday.

If you don't want to have your wedding as late as October or have a Friday/Sunday wedding, you could start by picking a couple "possible" dates that sound good to you, and then call some reception sites/check with your church if applicable to see if they're available. It would suck if you picked a date, then fell in love with a venue only to find out it was already booked. I don't think you'd run into too much of a problem this early out, but I was at our venue a few weekends ago and overheard a catering consultant telling another couple that they were already booked for every weekend in June 2011. For 2010 just anectodal evidence with myself and other couples getting married this year, I think most venues had June and October booked up more quickly than May, July, August, and September.

yesican220

Questions that we asked ourselves in picking our date: Do you guys have a season that you enjoy the most?  Will it be an outdoor wedding? Do you mind having pictures in the snow - or all inside?

.. Also, we did not want to have our wedding in a month in which any other signficant event was going on - Birthdays, holidays, etc.
Good luck!

crys0124

We did ours a little backwards.  Finding a venue we loved was more important to me than the date lol.  We found our venue and then asked them what dates they had available.  After that, we decided we liked the sound of 8/21/10.  Really weird I know.  They only regret I have is it's sooooo close to hurricane season for our honeymoon!

JoeyOz

Ditto Crys.  We spent a lot of time trying to find a reception hall that was both nice and in budget.  Took a few months.  Once we found one they only had 3 available dates for the whole year, so we picked the weekend that was not very close to any major holidays.  And it's our wedding date, so it will always be meaningful to us! 

CLEBride07

We did the same.  Picked our date based on what was available at our venue.  Which was pretty limited as it was at Jacob's field so we had to pick a weekend the Indians weren't in town.

Loopyseven

We knew we wanted a fall wedding, and needed to avoid summer as my brother had already booked his wedding for July 3 so we had to avoid anything too close to that.  We also have annual events the first two weekends in October that FI's family participates in so those two weekends were out.  With that info (fall, but not early October) we found a venue and picked from what was available there.

JKohio

We picked a date to work with (the anniv. of the date we met) but that date was not available at the hall we wanted, so we picked the following weekend which was still open. Close enough, and we got the hall we loved! And, we knew we wanted a spring wedding. Our 2nd choice was a fall wedding, but we decided we didn't want to 'waste' a summer with vendor meetings, etc. There are too many other FUN things to do in summer. LOL.

If you can be flexible, it helps a lot.

missmis99

There are only 3 weeks when I have a block of time when I can take off of work.  I knew that I wanted the week off before to prep and the week off after for the honeymoon.  That really narrowed down the choices to one specific weekend.  We then had to find available vendors to work with that specific weekend.  Even though we started planning a year in advance, I can tell you that we were VERY limited and had to fight (literally) to get what we wanted.  I advise you, like others, to decide what is more important, the venue or date and go from there.  It sounds lilke you are leaning towards date.

akp14

I agree! The date will become special when you are married!! We knew we wanted a fall wedding and most of the weekend were already booked so when we found a venue we loved we were able to narrow it down!! Decide what is important to you (season, location, a memorable date..) and go from there!  Good luck!

Laureena23

Thanks everyone for your advice!! I thought about the 22nd of June but thought it was weird because it was on a Friday..I didn't want so many people to have to miss work and all that. But it might not be that big of a deal..we'll just have to ask.

Thanks again for all the advice-it really helped