coming back for wedding

JessieBlake518

My fiancé and I are recently engaged, and we have already decided on a fall wedding, we picked october of next year just to give us time to plan. 

We are moving to South Carolina in a month or so, we currently live in Connecticut. We were thinking of having the wedding in CT still because that is where most of our families live. I was going to plan most of it still being in SC then about a week before the wedding go to CT to finalize everything.

Is this wrong or weird? Or any other suggestions on how to do it? I really want the fall connecticut wedding

And we also figured if we dont move now with winter coming we probably wouldnt be going until march then something would come up

Any ideas help  

AdeleDazeem

I live in Philadelphia and am planning a wedding in Bermuda.  Long distance can be done!

If your family is from there, then you'll have people in the area who can help you.  It'll be totally fine.

I recommend picking a venue and meeting with vendors, if you can, in person so maybe plan a weekend or two to be in CT over your wedding planning time. 

Enjoy your fall wedding - it sounds lovely!

twilight.rose

That's completely fine. I, and lots of other ladies here, have gotten married in states far away from where we live due to family, etc.

Just keep in mind that you might have a bit of a harder time planning things since it will be difficult for you to physically meet with vendors and so forth. We were living about 1,000 miles from where we got married during our engagement, so I had to do a lot of vendor meetings solely through the phone/internet.

We also made sure to organize a slew of vendor meetings whenever we knew we would be in town, which made planning easier. We did exactly what you're planning to and came to OH a week prior to the wedding to finish last minute details, and everything worked out fine! Best of luck!

ShanaFry

I am originally from Ohio and FI and I recently moved to South Florida. It's been alittle more difficult to plan back home but totally worth it. I knew exactly where I wanted to be married and it sounds like you do too. Just book early and like PP said plan a few weekends to go home and physically meet with your vendors. Also if you can, designate one or two of your closest family or friends to be there for you if you need someone to go and check on something for you. My mom and MOH have actually enjoyed this job. It can be done and it's worth it if that is where you want to be married.

marisah83

I live in GA, but we are getting married in NY.  It can be done, but you might need someone in CT to help out a bit.  My FMIL in NY has helped by meeting with a couple of the vendors when we unable to go up there (although we have gone up a couple of times to take care of stuff).  It really hasn't been that difficult, just takes a little more time in some areas.

kjs08

Where in CT are you planning to get married? I'm getting married at Water's Edge in Westbrook.

It's not weird, many people do destination weddings, myself included. It just means that every time you go back to CT you'll have to build time in to do wedding stuff. I'm originally from CT and my FI's from NY and we live in Indiana. Planning from here hasn't been too difficult, but it's not been particularly easy either. We got engaged in May and already had a trip planned for the end of June/July to go back to CT so between when we got engaged and going back home we picked out 5 places we wanted to look at to host the ceremony and reception and I made an appointment to go dress shoppingwith my sister and mom. After numerous phone calls, emails, reading reviews, and looking at recent work, we've booked our photographer and DJ. I'm currently talking with florists and JP's, and we ordered our STD's today. Our wedding is July 2011.

We plan on meeting with some of our vendors over Thanksgiving when we go back East again. My parents are also doing some research since they still live nearby where we're getting married. It hasn't been impossible, but I sometimes wish that I could just stop in and talk to vendors on the weekend to save myself the waiting on phone calls and emails.

Good luck with the move and with planning

aMrsin09

I planned a wedding in Australia while I lived in the states, and Amoro planned her US wedding while she was in Europe.

It can be done, it just takes a little bit more work.  At leat you're in the same time zone ;-)