Too early???

We booked our venue almost a year to the day of when we get married. Tbh I've found I've had quite a long lull in wedding stuff as we were pretty organised and got all the big stuff (venue, tog, caterers etc) booked as soon as we could. But I think doing the big things like that early is a good idea as it makes it feel real and also spreads the costs out. I'd say booking the venue well ahead of time is a v good idea, especially as you want a particular date.

WSS. When I tried to book my wedding for 2011 last October my venue were already booked up for every Saturday and most Fridays from April til the end of the year.

Your OH probably will think its too soon, what's the big rush, etc. Mine was the same up until about 2 1/2 months before the wedding. Ignore him and book stuff up.

My wedding is still 21 months away and my venue and chuch is booked catering, ive looked at dresses, going to get a flowers quote in the next month or so basically know exactly what I want! Depends on the person, we have a house and a wedding to pay for in the next two years so we are booking early so we know exactly what we need to pay when

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Oh wow, so I really should get going on things then!

I think the venue are happy to pencil us in for the date; we can't book registrar until a year to the day and the venue seem very good about using their pencil to avoid any 'oh no we have paid for the venue but we cant get a registrar' issues! So fingers crossed on that one.

I'm so glad I"m not the only one who is really excited and getting organised! I was starting to worry...!

Definitely book now! We booked our venue 20months in advance!

Hi amelinda,

I think you should be able to book the registrar, isn't it giving notice that can't be done till a year before? With ours our venue booked the registrar then I had to ring them to pay the booking fee.

I was having a special moment - yes, it's notice I was thinking of. In Surrey you can book registrars up to two years in advance - thanks for making me double check!

What Tricks said

Are they a professional tog though?

Its an annoying fact of life, but wedding dates are booked literally years in advance these days. We got engaged in 2009 and were going to book for the 4th of august 2012. We decided to wait and then decided two months ago to actually book the original venue we fell in love with in 2009. We were very lucky to get the 25th of august at that venue because it books up so quick, and it was only because of another cancellation that we could book it.

If you really want that date i would have a look at venues now and contact a few to check if they have the date available still. It is annoying and personally I don't see the need to plan a wedding for two or even three years, but other people do it and seem to enjoy it.

We got engaged in March 2010 and set the date for 4th August 2012. We've been steadily booking things since June 2010 and, luckily, all of our chosen suppliers have been available on our date. I was of the opinion that if I was sure I wanted that particular supplier, what possible reason could there be to wait?

Hi,

me and my OH got engaged last June and we booked our venue in August last year for December 2013!

Glad we did as well as they already had 20 odd bookings for the end of 2013 and a dozen or so for the begining of 2014!

if i were you id get on it streight away as the more popular venues can be booked upto 4/5 years in advance!

kelly x

Booking things is fine, but you don't want to start anything else much right now (yes even choosing bridesmaids etc) as you may change your mind at a later date. Just trawl through the posts here for wobbles and 'changed my mind' threads and you'll see what I mean.

Get your venue booked, although mid week in November isn't exactly high season, if you want an exact date you need to get in there.

I was a bit sneaky as my OH also said a year in advance was too early to book. I checked out lots of venues close by and then rang them to find out availablity. I then gave OH a list of venues, with the non avaliable ones at the top of the list (places who were booked for every sat between May and Aug 2011 as this was when he wanted to get married) and begged him to just call them and see if what dates they had. Obviously he called the ones on the top of the list first who were fully booked. Three phone calls later he sat down and looked seriously for a venue with me that we both liked and was free. I didn't actually want any of the booked places anyhow - I just wanted OH to start looking at where we did want to go and book it! We have a fab venue now!

I would say to get your venue booked ASAP as they can go very quickly, we booked ours in April 2010 for a July 2012 wedding

Thanks ladies!

I shall get the proverbial skates on ASAP then!

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We are getting married june/july 2012 (prob 9th june as we have it reserved for 14 days till we deside) my OH was exactly the same but i pushed on hopeing he would at lest see it needed to be done now but we went to view a venue on sat and my OH has fell in love with it and is all excited about the wedding now asking me about idears its more than i hoped for hes not really in to weddings and things but i think when he seen then venue and loved it it felt more real you should try it with your OH

We are getting married june/july 2012 (prob 9th june as we have it reserved for 14 days till we deside) my OH was exactly the same but i pushed on hopeing he would at lest see it needed to be done now but we went to view a venue on sat and my OH has fell in love with it and is all excited about the wedding now asking me about idears its more than i hoped for hes not really in to weddings and things but i think when he seen then venue and loved it it felt more real you should try it with your OH