How did you pick your wedding dates? [Archive]

CindySue

03-01-2006, 11:07 AM

I dont know if this question has ever been asked before in here but I dont think it has since Ive been in here.

How did you choose your wedding date? Does it have a special meaning, etc.?

When Brian proposed to me the 1st time (in Aug), it was under a full moon. We started talking la little later while laying in the backyard looking at the moon and the stars and we decided we wanted a moonlit ceremony next to water. We pulled up the full moon calendar and the only ones on a weekend were Sept 05, Jan 06, May 06, and Mar 07. September and January were to soon and March was too far away, so the full moon on May 13th is the one we chose. Things have changed a bit since then.....we are now having a sunset ceremony and then a moonlit reception.

LaceyinPgh

03-01-2006, 11:17 AM

Ours was pretty simple, it was an easy time of the year for us. Sean and I didn't want to get married in the summer (June-September) because it is just hot and humid. Plus everyone is always so busy those times of the year. Between October-February you have all the holidays to compete with and the weather in Pittsburgh can totally uunpredictable. We could wake up to 70 degrees and sunny or three feet of snow. It just depends on what the God of weather felt like that day. March is standardized test season for me. So I can't abandon my students during that bit of hell. April is my birthday and the weather is crazy around here. That leaves May. Sean is super busy with meetings in the beginning of May. By the end of May my studnets are on strike from working all year so I won't have anything too taxing to get done. They can just spend the week reviewing for their finals. And, Memorial Day weekend was just easy for our large sum of out of town guests. It wokred out to be perfect.

Kacie_bride

03-01-2006, 11:18 AM

Our date is December 30. I have always liked winter decorations and colors and such. However, the real reason for the date is I am still in school and I have a break in May, but that wasn't enough time for us to plan. Then I have a break again in August, but we thought that would be too hot. I am graduating on December 16, so we decided that would be good. We couldn't push into January-March of 07 because that is major livestock show season and my fh is invovled with that pretty heavily. Besides, I think our engagement is long enough.

bnd94

03-01-2006, 11:49 AM

Danny and I really wanted a fall wedding. We also thought it would be the best time of year since we will be hiking. It should be pretty cool that time of year. But we had a problem..........I am addicted to salmon fishing and September/October is the best time to go. I go every year with my Dad and have for years so I didn't want this year to be any different. Also the foilage is at peak the last week of Sept and the first week of Oct here so I had two saturdays to pick from. You have to make reservations where we go fishing a year in advance. So we are getting married Sept 23, having the reception the 30th and the following weekend I will be goin fishin!! :D

StaceyMc

03-01-2006, 11:54 AM

Our date is 2/17/07. I've always wanted to have a winter wedding, but December and January are too crazy with the holidays.

The church had a Pancake Breakfast scheduled in February 2007 and also the fish frys every Friday (making it difficult to decorate the day before), so we were down to 2/3 or 2/17 - I picked 2/17.

As Lacey said, the weather is so unpredictable, so we decided to have the reception at the church to keep everyone from having to go two places. Our luck, we'll have the Blizzard of 2007!

andysgirl07

03-01-2006, 11:56 AM

Andrew and I met on May 9 and I really wanted us to get married on that day, but it's on a Wednesday in 2007, so I went with the next Saturday (May 12). We could have picked another month, but I didn't want it to be too hot or too cold (which canceled out June-August and October-February for us). And both our birthdays are in April, too many members of my family got married in September and also there are four birthdays that month, and for March - my mom's bday and usually that's when spring breaks will be taken so too many high schoolers at beach locations!

ikkin510

03-01-2006, 11:58 AM

When we first started talking about getting married, we wanted a Spring wedding. Too cold in the winter, and too hot in the summer to be that dresses up! We had picked April 29 of this year. But the more we started talking about it and looking for ideas, we just weren't finding anything we liked. We were walking around a craft store one day and saw all the fall decorations out and decided right there that we had to get married in the fall. We picked October beacuse it left time for people to get set in the new school year (my sister and brother are both in college) and still left plenty of time before the holidays. We decided on the 7th because Steve proposed on the 6th.

Andriella

03-01-2006, 11:59 AM

I wanted an outdoor wedding and Eric wanted a fall wedding. If I was going to have an outdoor fall wedding it had to be early enough in the fall so the weather would be nice but late enough in the fall so the leaves would be colorful. There are about a billion birthdays in October in my group of friends and family and the 7th was the only weekend that wasn't someone's birthday. It was close though. The Bestman's birthday is the 8th and the flower girl's is the 10th, mine is the 22. The 14th was out because the Mother of the Groom will be out of town. It just fit!

WhiskeyGirl

03-01-2006, 01:53 PM

Our wedding date was kind of a run around between the two of us!! I wanted fall but since his family are big grain farmers, fall was no good because of harvest!! (they have close to 4000 acres to do!! And with our climate one never knows when they will be combining!!) Then we discussed January, but my mom talked me out of that because we would be getting married on my (least favorite!!) aunts birthday and we weren't sure my dress would be in in time!! So we rolled around some other dates and came up with July 16th! People complained because that was the last day of the Calgary Stampede (local fair) and most people like to take that in! I got so fed up and said, if they want to go to the **** stampede instead of our wedding then they are not people I want at my wedding anyhow!!! I don't think anyone skipped out on us for that!! :)

Jenn060306

03-01-2006, 01:53 PM

I feel like this is really complicated....
We picked June 3rd, 2006 because we wanted to wait until after I finished school. Which is just before Easter weekend so April wasn't really good because i would be so busy. The first weekend in May is my parents 30th Anniversary so we didn't want to have it take weekend, the following weekend is Mark's grandmothers birthday and he didn't want to do it that weekend because he was worried that she would pass away before the wedding and it would be difficult on the family. (unfortunetly she did) The weekend after that is the Victoria Day long weekend so Mark didn't want to have it take weekend since it would conflict with alot of peoples plans. Then the last weekend was the same day his mom and dad got married on, and he felt like it wouldn't be good to get married on the same day as his parents since now they are divorced.
So that's part of why we wanted June 3rd. The other is the end of June is a very busy month for my family with birthdays etc. And with my birthday being at the end of June i didn't want to get married after it because (and this sounds really dumb) i would then be 24 and Mark would still be 22. I am really sensitive about it sometimes because i have had people make comments that i was a craddle robber. Like when i turned 19 and he was still 17. :bbmad:
Lastly.... i wanted a spring/early summer wedding because its nice and sunny here usually... but not TOO hot and the humidity hasn't kicked in either. I can't stand the humidity.... honestly i makes me feel really woosey and sick when i've been outside too long. And who wants a sweaty bride?! Yuck! :bbeek:

WebLady

03-01-2006, 02:15 PM

What a great question, I wish I had thought of it ;)

We got married on April 8th last year ... April 11th is our 'Dating' Anniversary. That was the date he asked me to be his girlfriend :wub: so we (well, mostly me) thought it would be nice to get married as close to that date as possible. Well, last year the 11th was a Monday so we desided to go with the weekend before. When we were planning the honeymoon, we booked a cruise that left on Sat the 9th, so we decided to get married on that Friday the 8th.

When we had thought about having a bigger wedding, we were gonna do it in August, just for the weather ... not too hat, not too cold.

So now I am trying to figure out how we will celebrate ... I still want to remember the 'dating' anniversary but I sort of think the wedding anniversary should be a little more important. I don't know why I am so excited about our 1st wedding anniversary and I don't know what I am expecting but I can't wait :D

OK, sorry, rambled off topic ...

CarlosHoney

03-01-2006, 04:18 PM

Well, we picked June 3 because... well.... Because! We wanted spring/summer.. My step mom is in school, and his brother works at a school, and so we knew that summer vacation would be the best time.

Plus, my insurance runs out on July 12, and his would pick me up right around then.

The wedding date doesn't matter to me very much. We'll still celebrate our real anavarsary.. the day we became BF&GF! :bbmrgreen:

usahgrad

03-01-2006, 06:46 PM

I have always wanted to get married in May and 13 is my lucky number. Jason says it's his lucky number too because I'm the 13th girl he did certain things with...:bbredface: I didn't even know about the full moon or mother's day. My brother says I deliberately stole his wife's first two mother's days (I graduated last year on the saturday before mother's day, May 14). I didn't even know until someone pointed out. So, in celebration, we're going to have a small tea the day after and invite a few people. Mama wanted it so she could watch us open presents and I'd like to have the Mama's get together so we can say thank you in a more intimate setting.

Kacie_bride

03-01-2006, 10:58 PM

19 and he was still 17. :bbmad:
Lastly.... i wanted a spring/early summer wedding because its nice and sunny here usually... but not TOO hot and the humidity hasn't kicked in either. I can't stand the humidity.... honestly i makes me feel really woosey and sick when i've been outside too long. And who wants a sweaty bride?! Yuck! :bbeek:

Hot!!! You live in Canada! Just joking though, I know it gets hot there too. But have you ever been to coastal areas of Texas or Louisiana in the summer time? Or maybe Mississppi or Alabama. I have been to lots of places that people say is hot and I laugh at them! Las Vegas, has nothing on us. I've been there in the dead of August and it wasn't nearly as bad as here. The temps may be hotter, but the dry heat is so much better. Try being outside in 98 degrees with at least 80% humidity.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not nagging on you at all. I understand your reasoning for not wanting to get married and get all sticky and hot. I just find the same kind of humor in it that you might find when I say it's cold here because I know you have no sympathy for us when it's 45 degrees and we think we're freezing to death!

Jenn060306

03-02-2006, 12:33 AM

Hot!!! You live in Canada! Just joking though, I know it gets hot there too. But have you ever been to coastal areas of Texas or Louisiana in the summer time? Or maybe Mississppi or Alabama. I have been to lots of places that people say is hot and I laugh at them! Las Vegas, has nothing on us. I've been there in the dead of August and it wasn't nearly as bad as here. The temps may be hotter, but the dry heat is so much better. Try being outside in 98 degrees with at least 80% humidity.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not nagging on you at all. I understand your reasoning for not wanting to get married and get all sticky and hot. I just find the same kind of humor in it that you might find when I say it's cold here because I know you have no sympathy for us when it's 45 degrees and we think we're freezing to death!

I know its not as hot as it is in the southern states. But definatly its somthing we are accustom to living where we do. I live in part of the most southern part of Canada and it can get up to 32'C which is about 89'F in the summer before the humidex is added in. Right now its about -12'c which is about 10'F and that's not bad for this time of year. The other night it was about -24'c which is -11'F now thats cold!
I really don't think i could handle living down there. I really hate the extreme heat, but i also hate the extreme cold. I would love to live on the west coast where it hardly ever snows and it's not so cold. :D

WhiskeyGirl

03-02-2006, 01:41 AM

I know its not as hot as it is in the southern states. But definatly its somthing we are accustom to living where we do. I live in part of the most southern part of Canada and it can get up to 32'C which is about 89'F in the summer before the humidex is added in. Right now its about -12'c which is about 10'F and that's not bad for this time of year. The other night it was about -24'c which is -11'F now thats cold!
I really don't think i could handle living down there. I really hate the extreme heat, but i also hate the extreme cold. I would love to live on the west coast where it hardly ever snows and it's not so cold. :D

I agree Jen!! Ontario can get fricken hot!! I lived there until I was 11! Then we moved to Alberta and I'm not really sure what hot is anymore!! (lol...no more humidity!! I think I would die if I went back to Ont. now!! I mean it does get hot here but nothing like what you get!!) I also love how people do not think that it can hot in canada!! ho boy, you be sweatin your little hinny off some days!! (lmao) Some days you just want to sit in the shade or infront of a huge air conditioner and vegg! You can't get anything done on those days or you'd swear you'll DIE from heat exhaustion or heat stroke!! Lol

Valmai

03-02-2006, 08:21 AM

We wanted to get married in Austria and in the snow, the weather there in Feb is not too harsh and its not right in the middle of ski season either. The actual date didnt really have any significance other than it'll be 2 years exactly since we first went to Innsbruck and fell in love with the place.

Jenn060306

03-02-2006, 08:38 AM

I agree Jen!! Ontario can get fricken hot!! I lived there until I was 11! Then we moved to Alberta and I'm not really sure what hot is anymore!! (lol...no more humidity!! I think I would die if I went back to Ont. now!! I mean it does get hot here but nothing like what you get!!) I also love how people do not think that it can hot in canada!! ho boy, you be sweatin your little hinny off some days!! (lmao) Some days you just want to sit in the shade or infront of a huge air conditioner and vegg! You can't get anything done on those days or you'd swear you'll DIE from heat exhaustion or heat stroke!! Lol
I miss the dry heat of Alberta. I felt so ill the first summer we were living here. I really couldn't handle the humidity at all. Now i am more accustom to it. But i still have days where i think i am going to pass out. When i was a kid i had problems with heat exhaustion and heat stroke and i would pass out. I haven't done it in a couple years (thank god).
Anyways.... Sorry i've hyjacked this post a bit. So i'll stop talking about weather now :D

rainbowtreat

03-02-2006, 07:07 PM

While the date didn't mean a whole lot when I picked it out and suggested it to Nicholas ( June 10th 2006 ) it was him who reminded me that it is just 6 days before the first time we became BF and GF.

I had picked the date just because I am using my tax return as my wedding fund and I had to have time to plan and buy things after getting the money. But it is kind of close to a very important date.

Hayz

03-02-2006, 08:34 PM

We met on 4 Nov 01 and got engaged on 5 of March 04 and I thought it would be nice to have get married on one of these anniversary. Nov 03 didn't give us enough time to save up so we went for March. Saturday the 4th March was already booked where we wanted to have the reception so we went for the following weekend, so therefore 11 March. Which is next week! OMG!!!!!

Kacie_bride

03-03-2006, 09:17 AM

I know its not as hot as it is in the southern states. But definatly its somthing we are accustom to living where we do. I live in part of the most southern part of Canada and it can get up to 32'C which is about 89'F in the summer before the humidex is added in. Right now its about -12'c which is about 10'F and that's not bad for this time of year. The other night it was about -24'c which is -11'F now thats cold!
I really don't think i could handle living down there. I really hate the extreme heat, but i also hate the extreme cold. I would love to live on the west coast where it hardly ever snows and it's not so cold. :D

See what I mean! I would die if it got that cold here! I understand about you not thinking you could live down here. I don't really like the climate here. I think I after we are married we are going to move hopefully to the panhandle of Texas area or Oklahoma area. It all depends on where I find my first "real job".