How did you choose your wedding date - part 2?

Question

I have come to realize upon looking at the calendar that there are a lot of days in spring (especially May) that can be a holiday. By that I mean those holidays that change date each year like Mother's Day and Memorial Day.

What I am wondering is, did you choose your date so that it would never fall on one of those holidays, so that you would always have that one special day for the two of you? Or did you not let that influence your decision?

Also, did your birthday influence your date choice? In other words, did you try to plan your wedding to be a significant amount of time away from either of your birthdays?

Answer 1

Birthdays- Yes, Holidays- No!
Both our birthday's are in September (3 days apart) so I knew I wanted one time of year to celebrate our birthdays, and another time to celebrate our wedding.
As far as holiday's, if your anniversry does end up falling on Memorial Day, be happy- You both get the day off!! Mother's Day is about you anyways, so your husband will have to get you an extra special gift if your anniversary falls on it :)

Answer 2

Our date-choosing strategy: We picked a date based on what would be reasonably convenient for our guests, and on when the venue was available. We decided that because we had been dating for a long time (3.5 years), there was no point in having a long engagement. We figured that we could plan a nice wedding in about 6 months without being too stressed. We decided in July that we wanted to get married, so the 6 month mark would be January. W picked a range of several dates from december through the end of February, and started looking at venues. Our favorite venue had Dec 22, Dec 29, and Feb 2 available. We chose Feb 2 because the other two were so close to Christmas and New Year's Day. We figured that lots of guests would already have holiday plans for those weekends and that more of our friends and family would be able to come in February. Birthdays didn't have anything to do with our decision. We just tried to stay away from major holidays because people would be likely to have other plans. We're close to Valentine's day, but that's not likely to cause a problem!

anyway - just one example for you!

Good luck!

Answer 3

Long story so bear with me. We originally planned on Aug. 22, 1998. That would have been our 1 yr. anniversary of our first date. In March 1998 we started looking for a house to rent. We figured it would take time because each of us had a dog and most places say no pets. As it turned out the first house we looked at said yes to our dogs, was a nice house and easy rent so we took it. We went to tell my parents that we found a house and the first thing my Dad said was "When are you getting married?" We told him August. He repeated the question and we repeated the answer. Then we realized why he was asking. He didn't want us living together and forget about marriage. So we grabbed the calendar and looked at the first Monday after our paydays and picked that date. It was April 13th. What is significant about this date is that all of our family's special dates are the 13th. Our anniversary is April 13th. My parents anniversary is May 13th. My and my Dad's bday is October 13th. My Mom's bday is December 13th and our 2 sons bdays are June 13th.

Answer 4

Holidays and time had nothing to do with our decision. The date we chose is the (4th) anniversary of our first kiss. We changed the date 3 times. The first was my favorite number, the second was the same month as both of our birthdays, and now that date. But we are sticking with this date. We're having a very simple ceremony, and the reception in my grandparents backyard so we didn't need to worry about any venues being available on the date we wanted.

haha, just realized I answered your other question about this. I knew I answered it before but didn't know who's it was. Oh well! =)

Answer 5

Yes and no. Our anniversary is May 22 and in 2008 that falls on a Thursday so we planned to have our wedding May 25, 2008 because it is Memorial's Day weekend and on a Sunday because most people will be at bbq's on Saturday and Monday. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

I wanted a winter wedding, my hubby wanted a summer wedding so we compromised and opted for an autumn wedding, then we started calling all the registry offices we liked to find out what dates they had free and we had the choice of 1st September or 5th October, so we went for the 1st September as the sun sets later and it gave us a better chance of getting a warm day for our garden reception. Birthdays had nothing to do with it.

Answer 7

My fiance and I talked it out as follows - - late April thru September are out because of our schedules.
Mid-November thru Mid-March were out because we are in the NJ/PA area (as are the majority of our guests) and we didn't want the potential for snowfall to interfere with travel (there are also some long-distance travelers.
What was left? Roughly March 15 thru April 15 and October.
Then I looked at the calendar and saw Halloween (my FAVORITE holiday) was on a Saturday in 2009 and I asked my fiance if that could be our wedding day.
So, I ruled out some months then picked a "lesser" holiday for my wedding day.

Answer 8

We chose July 12, 2008 for many reasons:
-My fiance graduates his undergrad on May 25th, so we wanted to give him a chance to have a celebration/move out of college/have ample time to 'come down' from being at school.
-My fiance starts grad school in late August of 08, so we wanted to have at least a month to adjust to living together and just being newlyweds before we add his schoolwork into the fray.
-My parents anniversary is July 3rd, and we wanted to have a little distance between our two anniversaries.

Answer 9

We picked the date in January because my husband is a school teacher, but his school teaches "year round". So he worked 4 months on, 2 months off. His months off were Jan and Feb. As it turned out, we were married a week after my birthday, and 2 weeks before Valentine's Day. Really not the best timing, because as you can figure, it's in late January, which is very close to Christmas! Honestly though, it hasn't made a difference being close to other occasions. The date we chose was also my mother and father's anniversary - they were married 53 years when my father passed away. I asked her if she'd mind, which she didn't, I told her it was lucky for them, maybe it would be lucky for us!

Answer 10

When we got married we had known each other 22 years, it was the 2nd time we'd "met" (actually re-met); his favorite # has always been 13 and mine 9 (equals 22); and the 2s coincedences followed us everywhere. So, of course, we got married on 02-02-02 at 2:00pm and were pronounced man and wife at 2:22pm (we were actually the 1st marriage license of the year but the clerk screwed up and had to re-do it, thus making it the 2nd license of the year (on January 2nd)