wedding plans

[mrs.Rodriguez_to_b]

Hi I am 23 and just got engaded about a month ago! I was wondering what you guys think about how soon i should start planning the wedding!! Because knowing me i would leave everything for the last minute! I am getting married in July 7, 2007. It seems like a long time but it really isn't.

[totalia]

You have a long time yet. You can start planning but take your sweet time doing it. It's almost 2 years. That's a very long time.

[mrs.Rodriguez_to_b]

Well i was thinking about the time that the wedding is going to be in and it is a long time so i decided to change the date! i will get married in July 08,2006!! i moved it up a whole year and hopefully everything goes right! i asked my fiancee what he thought about it and he said it seemed to be a really long time before we are married! Thank you for letting me know that it was a long time!!
Christina&Alex
July 08,2006

[WhiskeyGirl]

I started planning my wedding about a year in advance...probably a little over that in fact. I found that the more vendors I booked with with over a year to go thought that I wasn't crazy and that infact I was saving myself some stress. (And I got what I wanted!) I also found that some vendors, were willing to discount some things for me, because I did give them a deposit sooner than a year. A year can really fly by, believe me, I'm down to 95 days until my wedding, so I would recommend planning things bit by bit, and saving your self some stress.

~CanadianBride~

[LaceyinPgh]

I started to plan my May 2006 wedding in March. This gave me 14 months. My fiance and I wanted to take our time and get exactly what we wanted. This amount of time has allowed us to do so. You will find a lot of venues may not reserve unless it is a year or less ahead of time. We talked to several places like that. So I would say a year ahead of time for you to strt planning. I would use the next several months to bank roll some money for those initial deposits.

[usahgrad]

I've started preliminary planning and my wedding isn't until May of 2006 too. I've found that there are quite a few places that won't take any reservations until a year beforehand AND it's not like you can buy dresses that early. So, while I would start thinking about your wedding, you definitely don't have to start stressing yet...Congratulations!

[iluvweddings]

Start as early as you can, because believe it or not - when you have time you can negotiate with vendors. I have been planning my January 14, 2006 wedding for about a year an a half and I have been able to get everything that I want because I budgeted myself.
Let's take your wedding date into consideration - July '06
If you have a $10,000 budget / 14 months would give you a budget of about $750 monthly, as long as you either save that - or pay that towards the cost of something you will save drastically!!
My budget is only $5000 believe it or not, and as of now - I still have $1200 left and the only things I haven't gotten are my centerpieces and aisle runner.

GOOD LUCK! You can have champagne taste with beer money.