Wedding Forum - How to pick the date?...

Is there a price difference between June and September? Most venues peak season runs from May to September inclusive so may not be any price difference.

A year is plenty of time to plan and organise a wedding, my sister did it (with a lot of help from me) in 6 months. The big thing is whether it's enough time for you to save up. Maybe make a list of pros and cons of doing at different times that could help you decide.

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Some people go for significant dates, others go for what they can both do. My h2b is forces so we had to go for a date that he was going to be home for. He said book somewhere end of June beginning of July 2013 and I just went for the last weekend in June. I had 23 months when we booked and I found that I went wedding planning crazy for the first month then got wedding planning bored because I had ages to wait. I think you've given yourself a good amount of time. As well as the venue, I made sure I booked up the dj, cake, hair and make up first because the good ones go quick apparently. I would add photographer to that but I have a few relatives doing it for me.

Weddings can be expensive hun. If you are relying on your parents to contribute, there is no harm in asking as you will need to know so you can start to plan and book things. It's hard to know what to book and plan without a budget. Good luck!

My parents are contributing and H2B and I needed to know exactly how much so we knew what wedding we could afford before looking at venues for the reception and knowing how many guests we could afford to have ...........also whether we'd need to go for off-peak season or could have the May wedding I wanted.
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All the really popular venues tend to get booked up 12-18 months in advance for prime dates xx

Lots of people tend to book a year in advance but my venue was telling me that they already had a woman booking for 2016!! Like I say you don't have to go for a significant date because for the rest of your lives the date you pick will always be significant.

You should definitely speak to your parents about their contribution. My parents said from the beginning that they would help out but we didn't know how much. I was a bit nervous about asking them because it felt like I was being cheeky demanding to know. We sat down with them and showed them our savings plan and how much we think everything is going to cost then I slipped in that it would be helpful if we could factor in their contribution so that we can stick to a budget. They told us that they were going to pay the venue hire and food and drink. We were over the moon because we were not expecting that at all.

We chose the date we got together, as it obv means something to us :) unfortunatly we couldn't afford the month we got together but never mind :)

i'm the same as you bridalmiss, budget depended on what we could save, dad is putting in and has taken a weight off my mind but kept the date as very near our 3yr anniversary (3yr and 2 days to get the saturday) new life, no debt!

I've so far had 3 different dates!!!
Firstly, I wanted Dec 2012. It would be exactly 6 months from our anniversary, and I loved the idea of a winter wedding. Then I realised we didn't have a hope in hell of saving up by then.
So, we moved to June 2013. I wasn't keen on 2013 (yay for superstitions), but our anniversary fell on a Sunday, which suited us nicely, and I found a new colour scheme that'd work great for summer.
Then My H2B's motorbike died a death (old and rusty), and we had to buy a car. Saving enough by June 2013 went out the window too.

We're currently planning on May 24th 2014. It's the day we first met rather than the day we started going out. It'll be 5 years together for us, and we think it's far enough away to clear off the credit cards, and get enough savings together. We've not booked or really planned anything yet, which kind of annoys me, but it's for the best.
The only major disadvantage to it being so far away is that H2B's dad isn't very well. He might have made it to Dec this year, but we don't think he'll be around for even June 2013, let alone May 2014. :( But we want the wedding of our dreams, and we both know that he'd have wanted it for us too.

Whatever date you end up picking, it will be your day, and it will be amazing. And you don't have to justify your choice of date to anybody! (But it helps if you can, Lol!)

eddie chose our date, no idea why to be honest! we did talk about july but it wasnt for certain until he said about that date x

We chose the first 2 weeks of june to go on our weddingmoon as it would be nice but not too hot in a big dress! You have to be there 7 days so we just chose the date according to this :) xx

This is our third date lol
The first date we picked the year, the oldest picked the date and the youngest (didnt have lil man then) picked the month :-)
We then changed to getting married abroad so we went for may as was the cheapest to fly out and for a villa etc.
The date we have now is for back over here (family got in the way) and we picked an out of season date on a sunday to get our dream venue within budget. The year we picked so we have plenty of time to save to get exactly what we want as we are paying everything ourselfs and so that we dont have to say to the kids "you cant have this or go there because were saving for the wedding" as we thought that was unfair to them because of their ages so this way we can save and they can still have what they want..............with in reason of course!