Problem With Selecting a Date

[rescuerangers]

Anybody else on this board run into the problem that the only acceptable date for a wedding while planning seemed to be a Saturday (due to committments of guests), but you doubted that you were going to hit the $20,000 min. necessary for a custom wedding? In the seemingly never-ending process of trying to find a date, that's where I'm stuck.

 

[WDWbride2007]

If you have the budget for a $20,000 wedding, we can surely help find ways to help you spend it. There are tons of fun extras to make the wedding day extra special. Good luck with your choice!

 

[hmgolden]

WDWbride 2007 is right - if you have the money to spend on a Saturday there are 1,000 ways to spend it - crown service for your reception, the coach, a dessert party, beautiful huge floral arrangements, characters, ice sculptures, longer photo and video packages, etc, etc etc. Once you start planning, its pretty easy to spend the money.

 

[AnimalPrincess]

Hi there. We had a major date problem, and just got it solved actually. My FMIL basically gave us a list of weeks that we could have it, because of her job, so then we ran into the what day of the week issue. The other girls are right if you have 20,000 to spend you can easily spend it. For me however that is pretty close to my budget so i considered friday. Not it is not as convienient for everyone but it is your day and you need to do what is best for you. Also that min only counts for stuff happening on THAT day and I want to have a fairwell dessert party so I want to use the extra money for that. Hope that helps!

 

[KT27]

We are having it on a Monday & everyone is making a long weekend out of the trip, most guests are going home Tues.

 

[starflower]

We're also doing ours on a Monday so everyone has the weekend to travel. People can go home on Tuesday, or they can stay the rest of the week. Their choice.

 

[rescuerangers]

I appreciate the input. I'm afraid budget is an issue as far as going up to the $20,000 min., I think $15,000 is manageable, but not much higher than that, which is why I wanted a Fri. or Sun., but because of family complications, that won't work out easily (hard for someone to get back to work/school on a Sun. after the ceremony or to miss work/school on a Fri.)

 

[Rustyflwr3]

Eventhough we are having our wedding on a Saturday, one of the reasons why we picked the weekend we did is because the Monday after our wedding is a holiday, so many people have off of work and school that day! If you are flexible with your dates, maybe you could try and work your wedding around a holiday! So you could have it on a Sunday and people could come on Saturday and use that Monday or as a travel day! Hope that helps

Jessica

 

[AnimalPrincess]

It sounds like we have very similar issues. I posted a while ago about my FMIL's issue with us getting married at a time of year when she would be working, she is a school teacher. So to accomadate her we are having the wedding the friday after easter which means peak season which means more expensive for everyone else, but its all about compromise. If you really want a FTW then that is what you should do and realize that some people might not be able to attend for whatever reason but if you give them enough notice (like a year) and if it is important to them they will be there. I know that this is hard and that in the end you want to make everyone happy but make sure that you also make yourself happy as well. PM me if you want to talk.

 

[Codie]

I appreciate the input. I'm afraid budget is an issue as far as going up to the $20,000 min., I think $15,000 is manageable, but not much higher than that, which is why I wanted a Fri. or Sun., but because of family complications, that won't work out easily (hard for someone to get back to work/school on a Sun. after the ceremony or to miss work/school on a Fri.)

HOnestly--we had the same problem...we made sure that the people most important to us could do it mid-week and just apologized to everyone else. For us, we could not/did not want to afford the weekend minimum, so we just explained to everyone that Disney IS expensive (duh!) and did it on a Thursday of a long weekend. It limited some people, but quite frankly, everyone we really needed there was there and the rest just made it a little less expensive--leaving room for a few extras. We did an at home reception for everyone else on a Friday night (which we also got grief for)...

Good luck!

 

[Sunkissed]

Wow...I am definitely interested in your dilemna. I'm Jewish, so we would not be able to have a Fri. eve or Saturday (before sundown) ceremony. Having such limited availability would definitely put a wrinkle in our plans! Hopefully, this will not be an issue and/or we can come to some compromise. Please keep us updated!