How long did it take you to "Set" a date for your wedding? How long did it take you to decide?

Question

Just wondering..........!

Answer 1

Event sites for major 3 day weekends and June are often booked a year in advance. So have a few dates in mind when you check with the must have people for your wedding and/or if you're renting a venue. Then it is all about what season you like. It can be because of the food, the temperature. the spring flowers or fall foliage or even snow.  

Answer 2

It took me and my husband about a month to set a final date, but we were also waiting on my brother-in-law to get home from Iraq.

Answer 3

The day he proposed.  He came up with it because it is our 3 year anniversary and it is on a Saturday!

Answer 4

We had a date set before we were even engaged. :) We'd been talking about marriage before and had set a date...he was just saving money after that.  

Answer 5

like 3 days :-P.  I jumped on it, didn't want to miss out by being slow as we wanted to get married ~ 10 months after he proposed.

Answer 6

About a week.  We had set a date in late January, but then changed it to earlier to accommodate guests who were coming for the holidays anyway. Yes, there will be some people who can't come, but that's the way it is sometimes.  

Answer 7

We were nerds, we had our date set before there was even a ring on my finger. But as someone else said, many places book a year or more in advance, so as soon as possible is probably best.  

Answer 8

It took me about 3 days to set the date.

Answer 9

We got engaged and immediately (the day of) people asked us when the date was. We didn't know, we were just happy to be engaged.

We tentatively wanted a year and a half engagement, cause you need at least 6 months to set up a proper wedding and get invitations, reservations, plans in order. Also you or your family needs to save the money.

Then we wondered why we were waiting and moved it up to six months after the engagement and it went off without a hitch! We had a small wedding with 20 of our closest friends and family, it was intimate, elegant, and wonderful!  We had a rule for invitations that we could only invite people we both knew and spent time with together as a couple.

Hope this helps!

Answer 10

I find that a lot of people take their time.

My husband proposed July 30th '06, and we were married November 18th '06.

Basically a few days after the proposal I decided I wanted a fall wedding but, didn't want to wait until the next year, I had originally planned for Nov 4th, but none of the churches or halls we wanted were available.

Answer 11

We were originally eying a time in October, but waited for various reasons. We finally found a venue we liked a few months after we got engaged, and decided on October 25, but my competitive FSIL (she had only been dating my FBIL a few months when they got engaged two weeks after us) who wanted ALL of my plans (including my dress) snatched that day for the year before our wedding. Then our venue tried to rip is off, going from a guaranteed rate of $2,000 to a rate of $10,000! Our budget is $5,000, so that obviously wouldn't work.

We changed our plans (much better than the original ones), found a new venue, which just so happened to be closer to where we live, and set a new date: September 19, 2009 =]

All in all, it took four to six months. A lot longer than most couples, but it suited us well enough.

Answer 12

a month? as soon as we got engaged we started talking about it. we originally thought that next june would be best for us ( a year and a half engagement) but then i decided i didnt want to wait that long. lol...so we moved it up to Nov. of this year.

Answer 13

Um, this might not be what you're looking for, but I've already got my date set...and I'm not engaged yet. Yeah. I just like the date, and it's in the season that I want to get married in and it's about the right year, too.

2-12-2012

I know. It's hokey. But I like it.

Answer 14

I got engaged December 25 2007, Set the date in January, got married May 10. You can set your date right away, or just figure out a few dates that might be good for you schedules and vacations and things like that and then plan it. I ended up changing my date 3 times before we finally settled on one. From personal experience DO NOT LET ANYONE TELL YOU WHEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR WEDDING. It is you and your husbands day, if they can't make it, then oh well.  Congrats to you.