How on earth did you choose your wedding date?!

Your photos will look better in September! Something about light being less saturated blah blah...

Budget was the big factor for us chosing our date. With the british weather its impossible to guess what it will be.

It could be a rainy day in july/aug and a beautiful sunny day in sept/oct. We just knew that our budget wasnt massive so we went for an out of season month and chose oct. Its also days before my birthday so OH wont forget our anniversary lol x

I wanted a Friday due to the fact that we got 10% off our package at the hotel we had chosen. The wedding planner was going throw her diary loads of Fridays was free, then it dawned on me maybe if we had it on the Friday before a bank holiday Monday people wouldn't mind taking one day off for an extra long weekend.

It's my 40th birthday. That's all!

We initially wanted a summer wedding and it was the one thing that was non-negotiable. We are now getting married in October! After looking around several venues and seeing the peak/ off peak price differences we just couldnt justify the extra cost when there is no guarantee of good weather.

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I am getting married on 15.05.15

I wanted it to be a Saturday and our anniversary so the next Saturday 2nd May happens to be 2015... Woohooo!!

We went for September because it's the anniversary of the date that we met.

We also wanted an outdoor wedding so had to consider weather. September seemed to fit the bill for us as whenever I used to go back to work after the summer holidays (back when I was working at a secondary school) the weather would always be lovely during the first couple of weeks back. At least, that's how it felt!

When in July would you be looking at? If you have a lot of children/families coming, keep in mind that end of July would be prime going away on holiday time, so maybe check if loved ones already have holidays booked etc

I looked at the dates available at the venue, then checked if there were any major sporting events on that clashed. I also checked when daylight saving changed. It worked out well, because it meant an extra hour of daylight in the evening, as I choose the 1st weekend after the change.

It was one of the few non Saturdays the venue had left for 2014

We had to rethink our budget. I wanted an August wedding but there's no way we could afford our venue in that month. We then thought we would go for the beginning of October but by the time we went for a second viewing all the Sundays had been booked up (Sundays are a lot cheaper and a traditional church and family day so that suited us more than a Friday) we are now getting married on 25/10/15. Luckily there's a lot of space in our reception venue but a lovely courtyard if the sun does make an appearance. I'm anticipating rain so I'm ordering umbrellas for some creative photos. I'm just slightly worried about the church as it's in the middle of a field which tends to get very muddy!

Ours is 10 years to the day of our first date so venue had to fit round the date which was easy as its a friday in feb!!

Wanted spring/summer 2014, not during school hols, World Cup or Commonwealth Games. Getting married 7th June and holding out no hope at all for the weather! You are just as likely to have a nice day in Sept as in Jul, though it does get dark earler in Sept and tends to be chillier in the evening.

Ours was really easy. I am a teacher and so it had to be in holidays/ near holidays but it also had to fit in with school holidays in New Zealand and Scotland for OH's family. Only 1 date fitted. Job done!

I think September would be lovely, you get fantastic summer-like days and people might be less busy then.

Could also be cheaper as it isn't 'peak' time.

Hope you work it out!

We started our relationship in April so thought it would be a good idea to get married then too. Luckily for our budget most places also count April as 'out of season'.

We'll have to keep our fingers crossed for the weather as based on previous years it will either be glorious sunshine, chucking it down or snowing.

We chose our date as we will have been together 11 years on that date.

If we hadn't gone down that route we would have had September as I think it's a lovely month. Nice and bright and usually (although with British weather it's nt always the case) good weather.

Our date is my OH's 50th birthday so the decision was simple. To be honest, if it hadn't been for that, I'd probably have been basing the decision on cost as we have a limited budget. I know that's of no help, but I don't think you can base your decision on the weather!! Not in this country anyway lol

The only thing my OH has so far insisted on was the date: he wanted to get married on our anniversary.

If we HAD to have it on the weekend, then we would have got married last year (a year after our engagement and a Sunday) but we didn't have the money to do so. So we decided a Monday would be fine and went for 23 June 2014!

Our date is 10 September 2016 which is my late nans birthday and I know she wanted to see me get married so had to wait until it fell on a Saturday and it will be that more special. Hope you manage to make up your mind x

Had to be in the holidays due to my mums younger children.

I wanted to have finished uni by the time we wed.

Had to be a weekday to cut costs.

July seemed a nice month and our wedding is only 3 days after my 21st birthday so the date just seemed nice.... That's the only way I can describe how we came to choose that day haha.

I wanted spring & a month there would def be lots of daffodils around as they were my grandads fave flower, he passed away 3 years ago so a little reminder of him around.

When we settled on April, we wrote off Easter wknd so that left only 3 others therefore it was a case of which fri/sat the venue had available.

H2B wanted to do it before a significant birthday which is a year tomorrow. We got engaged just before Christmas and said that we didn't want it too close either side to Christmas so, to give us time to do sort out everything we decided on either late Feb 2015 or late October / early November this year. We then ruled out Feb as it would be too close to his sons wedding anniversary (which is also tomorrow). We originally wanted a Friday so I checked the local school holiday dates (as we have family who are teachers and family kids we want there). However, the registry office only had 11am left on the Friday so we went for the Saturday instead.

So no special meaning to it, just circumstance!

Wanted a summer date in the school hols as a lot of my guests are teachers and my parents in law take the same July holidays every year. Weekends were too pricy so settled on a Monday. Easy peasy.

I've always wanted to get married in May - my fave time of year and on a Saturday as a lot of my friends/family are teachers. I wanted the 2nd or 23rd, but church wasn't free on the 23rd so the 2nd May 2015 it is!

We got engaged on 3 June 2013 and decided to get married exactly 12 months later, simples

We got together on Feb 16 but didnt want feb as we have family coming from all over the UK and they prob wouldnt have been able to make it. So we have gone for May 16 2015 as May is a nice month (weather wise) usually and its not too cold (OH hates the colder months)

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ME TOO!!! Date Twin!

After working our budget out, and how much we could afford to save every month, May 2015 was the earliest we could get married! I picked 15th because I have OCD and the numbers flow nicely

U ladies are the day before me

We are getting married 31.10.14, we love Halloween anyway and thought why not, it feels 'us' and we are having a mascaraed theme. It also falls on a Friday in half term so the younger members of our family and teacher friends can make it Weather was not really a factor as your not guaranteed a good weather at any specific day of the year.

It depends on what's important to you, and your OH. We don't have a date that we regard as special enough to pay to make sure got it. Weather wise, I didn't want a winter wedding so ruled out Oct-Mar. April and September tended to be 'low' season at a lot of venues so that quickly became our window as, in my view, the English weather is far too unpredictable to justify paying more for 'summer' months. Once we had picked our ideal venues we waited until they were offering deals and our venue had 2 dates left when we booked it on 31st Jan, 7 September or 12 October so we went for 7 September.

So I might be biased but I would go for September, especially as that gives you more time to save

We're having our ceremony outdoors and both love cherry blossoms so we chose a date when the trees will (hopefully!) be in bloom. I've also got a thing about even numbers so we went for 28/04/14 ?

We chose our date as it is out of football season and there is enough time afterwards to have a honeymoon and get back before it starts again lol.