"Oh, it's ages away"

I originally set the date for 23rd May 2015 and my family were understanding as to why I wanted to wait that long (finances) but were also a bit 'oh it's ages away' about it. I felt that when I spoke about my plans they weren't interested. Also when we went venue hunting they added 10% onto everything as an inflation guideline but at least they gave us a quote.

However we ended up getting an amazing (affordable!) deal at our favourite venue for next year. The tones have changed with my family and friends and suddenly they want to hear everything.Funny that!

The best thing about waiting is you have so much longer to plan it all. It really does go so fast. Take your time and enjoy it, don't worry about what anyone else thinks ?

I have heard a few other brides say this. I think it depends on suppliers. Venue and Photographers get booked up that far in advance for example but cake makers etc don't seem to. Which ones have been saying it's too far in advance?

Transport companies mostly.

Ive been trying to decide if it is more cost effective to have a package deal at a hotel or travel between venues and search for cheaper venue options but I can't get a price for transport anywhere!

To me, 2015 really isn't that far away! This year has just flown by already (still can't believe it's July) and before you know it, it's going to be Christmas again. I don't know why suppliers wouldn't want to give a quote at least. I know it is far in advance, and I suppose some people have the attitude of "I don't know what I'm going to be doing then", which is fair enough I suppose. But that sucks because I know I would just want to jump straight in and get on with things - I also plan things WAY far in advance. Mostly due to the fact that I just can't keep in my excitement and want the countdown to begin...

I have four children with 2 years age gap between all of them, so 2 years to me is like a blink of an eye!

Hmm, perhaps have a look at their transport prices for now or their 2014 prices and add a bit extra on to that? A lot of suppliers will be using their 2014 prices now on their site as this year is practically finished (say if they're booked for the whole of Summer) and mainly taking bookings for next year. I wouldn't know how much transport companies would raise their prices by though.

I can't seem to find companies that list their prices on their website, which is why I'm struggling.

Im getting married April 2015 it gives us more time to save money and have what we want i am getting the thats 2 years away ! so its like you can never talk about it or if you start browesing at stuff people are like too soon to look at that! my sister just got engaged and she has set her date for 8 months time so its like oh no one wants to know about my wedding now as its ages away .. i understand its like you wanna start doing things but you cant! ive come up with a plan if someone says its ages away do a 3 strikes and your out! that will help with costs lol

Sorry, but I think it is ages away still. It doesn't mean you can't be excited, it just means its a bit early for others to get excited with you. They all have other things going on in their lives, which I know is frustrating, because as brides we want our weddings to be the biggest and most important (I'm guilty, too). I was getting and saying myself "it's ages away" up until it was 6 months to the wedding!

I'm a 2015 bride to be too, so can empathise!

From a photography point of view, it's not forever away at all. We're already booking into mid-2015 so it's not way off in the distance. For all the "big" things, you shouldn't have a problem booking. We've booked virtually all the big stuff, from venues to caterers, our VOG & TOG etc. There are some wedding services that just don't tend to book that far in advance though. I think as long as whoever you contact lets you know in a polite manner, that should be fine fr now. If anyone is rude about it, take your custom elsewhere.

Friends an family wise, none of ours are interested really as it is still forever away to them. Although that suits me just fine, I think i'd start getting stressed if there was a fuss about it or I started to have to justify decisions and so on. In theory i'd love for them all to have no interest until the morning of the wedding, that'd be great ?

We've been engaged since 2011 and when we said we were getting married in 2014 people weren't particularly interested. We didn't start booking anything until March this year and although we managed to secure all our preferred suppliers there were some we requested quotes etc from that were already booked up for the date we wanted.

With regards to suppliers we found that people would give tentative quotes last year but were quick to mention things like VAT rates, fuel costs etc and not being able to give an exact costing until nearer the time.

Oh, I totally agree that it IS ages away. However, I am excited, it's clear that I am excited and a simple congratulations would suffice. I'm not asking people to look through wedding magazines with me or help choose centrepieces.

Thank goodness for hitched, that's all I'm saying. I want to talk weddings 24/7 so this site is stopping me from mentioning it.

Have you seen/joined the 2015 brides group? https://www.facebook.com/groups/518637451502166/

There are loads of us on there, all at various stages of planning

If not you should join and you can post as much as you want about your plans and we'll all be excited with you!

Might be worth getting this years/next years prices just for a rough figure.

I get that now from my family and my wedding is next year ?

There is nothing wrong with being organised but with the economic climate you never know what's round the corner lol.

I'm getting married in 2016 so I completely know what you mean! I just tend not to bring it up that often as every time I do I get the same response, but at the same time that response is totally understandable!

In the non wedding planning world, 2015 is a long way away and people said the same thing to us when we first started planning, we got engaged in 2012 and get married in 2014.

Realistically, time flies and I can't believe we now have just over a year to go now.

We struggled to find 2014 prices when we started booking but found that if we added a little on we could budget around that.

Suppliers should be happy that they're getting bookings in a few years in advance but they still have 2 wedding seasons to get through so might not see the urgency of booking 2 years in advance.

Wait until New Year's Day 2014 when you'll be able to say "we get married next year!"