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I was wondering how you ladies picked you wedding date? Does the date you picked hold any special meaning to you, or did you just pick a date?

FI and I had originally picked 10/15/10 because we thought October would be cheaper. Once we found out our venue charged the same for any season, we moved the date to 8/20/10, a Friday. Then, my loving aunt decided to pay the extra money for a Saturday wedding, so we finally moved it to 7/31/09 after coordinating with all of our vendors.
 
Well since he''s in school, our only options were the end of May, mid March, or Dec/Jan. We originally looked at end of May, but then I fell in love with the idea of doing it around Christmas, so hopefully this can all come together in 5 months .....eek
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FI & I wanted to hold the wedding on a day that is already memorable to us but unfortunately... all of them landed on a weekday! (Think Monday and Tuesday!) We CAN hold it but I don''t think we''ll have many people attending... and there is absolutely NO WAY I''ll wait for 3-4+ years just for those "memorable" dates to land on a Friday/Saturday for our wedding!
 
We wanted an October wedding, at a particular venue, and it had to be a day that U of M''s football team had an away game.
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So, it is October 10!
 
Ours is just a date. We were originally thinking March 2010, but none of the east coasters would be able to definitely come (weather), so we made it November 7th because I still wanted a wintery feel but not right around the holidays.
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7/25 is the date we started dating in 2002.

I just lucked out that it fell on a Saturday this year :)
 
We picked March 09 because of the fact DH''s sister was on the beginning of her break and my MOH was on the end of hers from school.. That was the only time they overlapped, one of the few March dates left open at our church AND the only Saturday in March left at the reception venue we wanted. It was somewhat of a random ''everything is falling into place'' sort of thing, but we ended up loving it and playing up the date a little bit - 3/14... pi day. yeah, we''re both engineers, so we did actually tie that little nonesense into our wedding (and our pastor into our actual homily for the marriage ceremony. it was hysterical!)
 
We wanted an outdoor ceremony and a spring or summer wedding, and July/August in Minnesota is horribly humid. So that left June, May or April. April''s still too cool, June is my birthday month, so we picked May. Didn''t want to do it fishing opening weekend or Memorial Day so we picked the weekend between the two. And then we found out we''d save about 5 grand to have it on a Friday, so we picked Friday the 21st of May, 2010.
 
September 4th :)

It''s the day that my parents and my mother''s parents got married... so I am the third generation wedding on that day. I wanted to do it that way for significance, and I''m also tying in a bunch of other generational things... I''m wearing the pearls my mother wore to her wedding, she''s making my veil, I''m carrying a picture from my grandparents'' wedding and my parents'' wedding in a locket tied to my bouquet, and it goes on from there. :)
 
09/19/09 It was the only day left at the church!
 
I picked mine based on availability and the general timeframe in which we wanted to do it. We started dating in June and got engaged in June, so I liked the idea of getting married in June. The church was available on our date, and it was my half-birthday, so that''s what we picked.
 
Engaged in Feb. and wanted a September wedding. We didn''t want to wait 1 year and 7 months to get married, so we asked friends/family what weekends they had available in September and only one weekend worked for everybody. That was it!
 
Date: 7/17/2009 10:52:28 AM
Author: NuggetBrain
We wanted an outdoor ceremony and a spring or summer wedding, and July/August in Minnesota is horribly humid. So that left June, May or April. April''s still too cool, June is my birthday month, so we picked May. Didn''t want to do it fishing opening weekend or Memorial Day so we picked the weekend between the two. And then we found out we''d save about 5 grand to have it on a Friday, so we picked Friday the 21st of May, 2010.
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I think that''s a great date. (It might just happen to be my birthday, lol.)
 
Practicality. We were limited to my summer vacation dates (end of June - mid August), and it''s in upstate new york so we went with August hoping it''ll be warm (I was just up there in mid July and it was only in the 60s!). And we went with the 1st as it''s easy to remember, lol.
 
We originally planned to get married in February 2011, but when we found out our venues prices increased in 2011 we picked a date in 2010. I am at University so I had to make sure I was on holidays and we needed time to save.. we ended up with 04/12/2010
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We had a few dates. First it was 10/08/08, then it was 05/23/09, and finally we settled on 07/05/09. All of our guests had to travel for our wedding so we wanted to have it over a long weekend. There are only so many long weekends in the year. We changed venues and the new venue couldn''t do 5/23 because it was right in the middle of graduation season and their busiest time of year. We went with a Sunday night because it was less expensive and it meant we could have the entire restaurant to ourselves.
 
We sat down with a calendar and looked for a place in the year where we didn't really celebrate anything else.

The summer was the only time where we really didn't have much to celebrate already and that all the kids in the family would be able to travel without worry of school. Then we contacted the church to see what dates were available summer of 2009, and cross-referenced those with the reception venue's available dates for summer 2009. We crossed off June because another couple was getting married the next weekend and we didn't want to piss off overlapping guests, and we ended up liking July 25 better than July 11
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Not a speacial date for us... but it will be in 8 days!
 
We picked ours based on a few things. I wanted it to be an even numbered day. Kind of weird but I just needed that ;)
We wanted an outdoor wedding at my Dad''s house in the Seattle area so we needed to pick a month that was normally warmer and with the least chance of rain So August 22 it became!
 
We starting dating 1/24/97, but I HATE winter and fall is both of our fave season, Oct being the fave month. So we are getting married on 10/24/09, keeping the 24th. My fiance jokes that I did that so he wouldn't forget, we changed the 01 for Jan into 10 for Oct. lol

My fiance actually kicked the proposal into high gear because he knew that date was a sat the following year (he gave me 1.5 years to plan, yay him!) not that he didn't have 12 years to plan this... hahaha
 
we originally wanted june but all the dates were booked up everywhere we were looking so we opened it up to july. the 31st was the only day left!
 
my FI''s mom looked at a chinese calendar and chose our date, i was opposed to this but this was her only request for the whole wedding
 
I've always ALWAYS wanted to get married in October, and thankfully my husband also loved the idea, so it was just a matter of picking a Saturday (had to do a sat. for the out-of-towners) that month. We settled on 10/18/08. When we chose our venue 17 months out, they unfortunately only had two Saturdays open: 10/4 and 10/25. We picked the fourth, mostly because it was further from my birthday the next month (no good reasoning behind that, just thought we wanted it spread out). It only took a few days before I couldn't imagine getting married any other day - weird how that works!

I love having an autumn anniversary.
 
We picked our date 09/18/2010 a little bit randomly. We''re LDR and he''s finishing his PHD in Washington. He believes he''ll be done by 05/2010 so I wanted the wedding a few months afterwards. We picked September because we wanted it to be the only big thing/celebration going on for the month and potential less chance of hurricanes since everything is being planned for Florida (I think September is the end of hurricane season). Also, this gives him some leeway just in case he doesn''t finished in May. The very latest is hopefully July to be done with his program and then we''ll be able to live together for a few months before the wedding.
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Date: 7/17/2009 10:23:04 AM
Author: cleokizzy
FI & I wanted to hold the wedding on a day that is already memorable to us but unfortunately... all of them landed on a weekday! (Think Monday and Tuesday!) We CAN hold it but I don''t think we''ll have many people attending... and there is absolutely NO WAY I''ll wait for 3-4+ years just for those ''memorable'' dates to land on a Friday/Saturday for our wedding!
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LOL - my SIL pushed to have their wedding plans moved up (by, like, two years) so she could have her ''memorable date'' !!
 
We chose our date based off of our perspective honeymoon location (Alaska). We were aiming for a June 2010 Saturday, which were all booked, so we ended up with May 29th, which is close enough to June. We almost chose the Saturday before, May 22nd, which is my parents anniversary and would have been sort of cool.
 
7/11/03 is when the house was purchased.... so we thought it would be meaning full to marry on 7/11/09 which happened at our house!! It''s meaningful to us.
 
We wanted fall, and we picked November so we''d have 5 months to plan and put it all together. October would have only been a 4 month engagement, too short!

So once we''d picked the month, we saw that the eighth of November was a Saturday. We liked the number 8 because it symbolizes eternity. So 11/8/08 it was! It had a nice ring to it!
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I'm a numbers freak. My current address somewhat corresponds to my birth date, the lot we chose is lot #9, and my first house had all repeating numbers in the address. I had to be married by March 19th, so I took the first date before that fell on the first 3 multiples of 3 - 03-09-06, which was also a Thursday, the day of the week we originally met.

Then, my sister got married on 06-18 this year, which also happened to be my Grandparents' anniversary, and this year was their 60th, and I realized June 18th was double our anniversary!

I know, I'm completely OCD.
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I work in a school so I had to have a date that was in the school holidays. To have it in the summer holidays, at the end of an academic year seems more logical as the children have had a LONG break from me and can adapt to a new name easier that way I think.

However, the main reason for us choosing the date we did was that it coincided with the Reading festival (huuuge music festival in the UK). We were going to get married on the Wednesday then travel to Reading for a festival honeymoon. As it turned out we couldn't get hold of tickets for the festival as it sold out almost instantly! Boo.

So we could have had it earlier and had a longer honeymoon, rather than get married on a Wednesday and me be back at work within a week!
 
Weather, cost were the main two reasons. We met in October, so Oct was high on our list. But, if we would''ve decided to get married locally (in CA) I probably would''ve picked Aug or Sept because of weather. Since we are having the wedding in Mexico, October seemed perfect...last month of low season, so better rates, and weather is still HOT (I will melt for sure!), but not as much rain as Jul/Aug/Sept.

Also, we''ve had some recent friends getting married and engaged, so we wanted our date far enough out not to conflict...so we decided on 10/10/10!! That should be easy to remember!!
 
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