Choosing Your Perfect Wedding Date

To begin with, you'll want look at your calendars. Look for any potential conflicts such as planned vacations, holidays, including hectic times at work. If you have favorite family members and dear friends that are a must have in your guest list, you'll need to consult with them to see what they've already mapped into their schedules, this would also include, expecting mom's as their due dates could fall within your intended wedding date selection.

If your thinking about a destination wedding, it is important for you to consider the climate. This involves more than whether you want blooming flowers or crisp autumn leaves framing your photos: If you should happen to plan you wedding during a hurricane season or midwinter, when storms could leave guests stranded or damage your site setting, you may need to make peace with the possibility that mother nature could ruin your plans. My advice is for you to familiarize yourself with the climate of your intended location before you even consider choosing a date, why leave things to chance, if you can try to foresee a possible problem and work towards avoiding it?

Now many couples enjoy planning their wedding date around the holidays, after all it's the happiest time of year! However, as enticing as this may be, some guests may already have plans for those dates that they cannot change and out-of-towners may find it difficult to travel on account of flight fares or the inclement weather. If you're heart is set on getting married during the holidays, the only way to make it possible is to plan way ahead of time and acquaint yourself with all of your must have attendees' schedules and select your wedding date based on this. Dreams can and do come true, it will just take a little work and patience on your part to make this one happen!

So now that you have an idea of when you'd like to get married after considering everyone's schedule, you're now faced with the difficulty of finding a ceremony or reception site that isn't booked on a Saturday, what should you do, you ask? Well, there are only 52 Saturdays in a year, so you could switch to a Friday, Sunday or even move beyond the weekend into weeknights, this way you'll likely be able to have your pick of vendors, in some instances, this could even help you to save money too! Depending on their asking price, you might even volunteer the switch yourself!

When love is in the air, for some couples selecting a regular day to get married on isn't enough, it lacks that "something special" factor. If you'd like to add a sentimental value to your wedding date, you could get married on the day you first met each other; on your parents' anniversary or a on favorite classic like Valentine's Day. Nothing spells love and romance more than this special holiday!

And speaking of romance, it is an old time tradition to marry in a house of worship, to receive God's blessing on your union together. Before you book a caterer, be sure to make a quick phone call to ensure that your potential date is still open before you start booking your other vendors. A lot of times, if you're not a member of the church, they will have priority preference for those that are and may even bump your plans to wed on that particular day! Your goal is to confirm the wedding date with the church and only then, proceed to booking your vendors.

Above everything else, I can't stress enough the importance of giving yourselves plenty of time to plan this event. You need to be realistic about how long it will take you to pull together these details while still having and living a normal life - and whether you and your other contributors need some time to save up for your big event. It is my sincere wish that this article helps to give you the necessary bird's eye view of what needs to be done and considered, to ensure a smooth and pleasant wedding date that's filled with beautiful memories that will last a lifetime.

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