So you get engaged, you're all excited, and you want to be congratulated and show your ring off to anyone. It sounds like a stress-free time, where you can revel in love and dreams of the future. Of course, nothing about a wedding is simple, and within the first 24 hours people will already be asking you if you've set a date.
Guess what? Setting a date is about much more than picking a day that is convenient and important to you and your spouse. If putting together a wedding was that easy, wedding planners would be out of business. Setting a date and finding a venue go together hand-in-hand; you have to pick whether the time or place is the more important of the two, yet you can't choose either without keeping the other in mind.
Are you devoted to a certain date? If it's more than a year-and-a-half away, chances are you have your choice of available venues. If the date is less than a year and a half away, chances are that your choice of venues will be fairly limited because other couples are already penciled in. Dreaming of a certain venue? You'll need to be very flexible about the date for the same reason.We got engaged May 4, 2012 and went looking for a venue the next week. The venue we initially loved was booked solid until the first week of August 2013, and it's not even a well-known venue! Exceptions to this rule are off-season weddings (November-April), but this limits your venue in another way: unless you're in the South, forget about an outdoor ceremony.
Yes, just like marriage, time and place are about compromise. We had to set a date during the summer because of siblings in college, and as a result, we knew we had to find a venue immediately if we wanted to get married the following year. We eventually found a place we loved different than the one above, but because we were stuck on a date, we didn't get to choose between the two available rooms. While we love the one we chose, we would have been in trouble if we would have waited any longer.
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