Sorry ladies you are not in the driver seat in this one unless you are 2 years out, or there is sentimental value to use a certain date and that will trump where the wedding will be.
TWO WORDS VENUE and MUSIC
Typically you narrow down what time of year you would like the wedding, ie seasons, a month if its busy one like June. Then you start calling and looking…this is a very tedious process unless you get lucky and love the first venue.
Things you should think about before you start looking at venues:
« How many people are we going to be?? Mention this to your in-laws as well. (yes I know numbers are scary when discussing outside your own family)
o If you are going to be a circus aka over 300+ your options in cities (like philly) are limited. So try to have a rough number because that will narrow it down.
« Do you have to be married at the venue or another location?
o If another location like a church is it close to or easy to get to from the venue.
« What kind of place do you want to get married in
o Hotel, banquet hall, museum, estate, casino, back yard…there are so many you can literally do anything I bet strip clubs can be rented out.
« Food- this is 50% of the venue people!!! BAD FOOD=BAD MOODS, if your self diagnosed hypoglycemic your guests are gonna be cranky if the food sucks.
o Do you have to bring in caterers?
o If not how is the food suppose to be at the venue? DUH.
« Parking and entrance
o Is it far walk?
o Is there valet?
Unless you are over a year or more out, I would maybe say a year and half for the busy months, the venue is going to tell you what dates they have open.
Then how do you pick from that? Is June 1st better than June 8th? Hell, I have no idea.
Once you have a list of dates- START LOOKING AT BANDS ASAP.
No one wants to be at a wedding sitting on his or her tush the whole time. The point of a wedding is for everyone to have fun, so an up beat band or dj that’s going to get people up is crucial. A lame band leader can also crush the excitement....
The thing is with bands is they can obviously only do one party a night so there is about 5 Saturdays a month they are available. The more popular bands are 100% going to be tougher and have some of those weekends if not all of those weekends booked.
Some may have websites, listen to them and if your interested call them and see what they have available amongst the dates the venue gave you. Then ask if they have a party in your area you can hear them at or if they do show cases. Its like WEDDING CRASHERS but with a purpose! Just dress like you fit in not like trailer trash.
Therefore simple math,
OPEN VENUE DATE + AVAILABLE BAND DATE= YOUR WEDDING DATE
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