There are no rules about setting the date for your wedding. The biggest pieces of advice I can give are to take your time in choosing the date and to stick with the choice you made. But how do you narrow down the choices? How do you choose what is right for you? Here are some methods on choosing the perfect date to get you started
I know it seems a little obvious but sometimes people pick wedding dates and then realize that it would not be a great idea to get married on your brother's girlfriends birthday or the weekend of your cousins graduation and then they have to start all over again and hopefully the second time around they spend more time thinking about any other events happening in that time or conflicts for that day or weekend. So how do you avoid this from happening to you? How do you set the wedding date? It is true that picking the date can be different for everyone; here are some suggestions to get the ball rolling.
Start by narrowing it down to the season and the year. Many people will decide their wedding date in several steps, the first of which is narrowing down when you want to be married by season and year. For instance you may decide you want to be married in the fall of 2010. Once you have this information you can continue to narrow down to you have a date. It is a good idea to consider the fact that other people have events going on at the same time like anniversaries, birthdays, showers and other occasions; you do not want your wedding to clash or compete with events that would overlap in guest lists.
Now that your wedding date is selected or close to being selected you are going to want to make other decisions. You need to decide where you want the ceremony and the reception to be held. You may also want to think about hiring other wedding vendors such as a baker, a florist, a wedding planner and a DJ. Their availability might affect the wedding dates you can choose.
Many brides have no idea what date they want to be married on but they know each and every vendor they want to use. If this describes you, you will have to find out each vendors availability and then get married based upon who can work your wedding. If you are going this route to select your wedding date you should remember that this could lengthen or shorten your engagement period, so keep this in mind.
Choosing a popular wedding site could add years onto your engagement. There are ceremony sites that have waiting lists between 2 - 4 years, or even longer. If you do not care about the wait you should also know that it is common for these places to call people on the waiting list when there is a cancellation, this could bump your wedding up by months or even years.
Many families have traditions of when the brides get married. This could be on a certain day or weekend, month or season. If your family or the grooms family has these types of traditions you may choose to follow them, this will make choosing a wedding date pretty easy.
It really does not matter if you use a method I mentioned here or one of your own. Just remember that this is your day and the choices you make, including the day you get married on, should be yours and should make you happy. Don't let others influence you or change your mind to the point of unhappiness.
I know it seems a little obvious but sometimes people pick wedding dates and then realize that it would not be a great idea to get married on your brother's girlfriends birthday or the weekend of your cousins graduation and then they have to start all over again and hopefully the second time around they spend more time thinking about any other events happening in that time or conflicts for that day or weekend. So how do you avoid this from happening to you? How do you set the wedding date? It is true that picking the date can be different for everyone; here are some suggestions to get the ball rolling.
Start by narrowing it down to the season and the year. Many people will decide their wedding date in several steps, the first of which is narrowing down when you want to be married by season and year. For instance you may decide you want to be married in the fall of 2010. Once you have this information you can continue to narrow down to you have a date. It is a good idea to consider the fact that other people have events going on at the same time like anniversaries, birthdays, showers and other occasions; you do not want your wedding to clash or compete with events that would overlap in guest lists.
Now that your wedding date is selected or close to being selected you are going to want to make other decisions. You need to decide where you want the ceremony and the reception to be held. You may also want to think about hiring other wedding vendors such as a baker, a florist, a wedding planner and a DJ. Their availability might affect the wedding dates you can choose.
Many brides have no idea what date they want to be married on but they know each and every vendor they want to use. If this describes you, you will have to find out each vendors availability and then get married based upon who can work your wedding. If you are going this route to select your wedding date you should remember that this could lengthen or shorten your engagement period, so keep this in mind.
Choosing a popular wedding site could add years onto your engagement. There are ceremony sites that have waiting lists between 2 - 4 years, or even longer. If you do not care about the wait you should also know that it is common for these places to call people on the waiting list when there is a cancellation, this could bump your wedding up by months or even years.
Many families have traditions of when the brides get married. This could be on a certain day or weekend, month or season. If your family or the grooms family has these types of traditions you may choose to follow them, this will make choosing a wedding date pretty easy.
It really does not matter if you use a method I mentioned here or one of your own. Just remember that this is your day and the choices you make, including the day you get married on, should be yours and should make you happy. Don't let others influence you or change your mind to the point of unhappiness.
About the Author:
Pamela Kazmierczak is an expert in the wedding field. If you want to learn more about the wedding date, to find places to shop for your wedding, to subscribe to a free wedding newsletter you should go to Wedding Ideas Now!
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