Just got engaged on February 7! Yayyy!! Love my fiance to death and we've been dating for about 5 years. I've known that the engagement was going to happen because I told him last year that I would really like to get married this summer! The only problem is I didn't think he'd wait until February (thought he'd do it over Christmas or last Fall). Now, my mom (who is my main wedding planner

) is all set for this summer wedding and is planning everything for August 29th. I keep going back and forth on if this is absolutely crazy to plan a wedding in 6 months or if it's going to be great! My mom is more than willing to help with all of the nitty gritty details and we already have my venue so it should be okay right? I really don't want to wait until summer of 2016, but 6 months just seems crazy.
Has anyone planned a wedding in 6 months? Am I crazy? Or do you think I can get it done and will be glad I didn't prolong the engagement? Please send your thoughts!!
Re: 6 month engagement, am I crazy?!
My sister was engaged a hair under six months, and her wedding was gorgeous.
We were engaged for four and a half months. Our wedding was awesome.
If you're organized, and not the type to agonize over decisions for ages - go for it!
I helped a friend do a wedding in 3 weeks. They had been together several years & engaged, a 2 year old daughter & finally decided to "make things legal." She borrowed a dress, her friends still fit into their BM from 2 years prior (they had planned to get married but then got prego so wedding was put on hold), everybody brought their CD's for a family friend to act a a dj, a cousin acted as bartender, and both sides of the family took care of the food. Probably not their dream wedding but it was fun, food was good, they had everyone they loved there with them.
On the plus side of having only 6 months to plan, you have to make decisions and stick to them and just get things done. Once you have a venue and a dress, DJ & photographer the rest is all small details & easy. The venue & the dress are the hardest