Something I’d never wondered about before getting engaged was how couples choose a date.
After getting engaged, we both said that planning a wedding sounded big and scary, so we thought about putting it off until 2012. We knew we’d be married in the summer, not because it is high wedding season, but because most theatres shut down for the summer. This meant we, and a lot of our guests, could actually attend. Then we started looking at things on the internet, and we realised which venue would be perfect for us. Once we’d made that huge decision, it seemed much less scary, so we started thinking, “Maybe we can do this in 2011!” We thought about what our schedules generally are. I’m usually working by the last week of August, Calgary Stampede is the first couple weeks of July, and no.way. was I getting married during Stampede. We thought August 13th sounded like a nice Saturday.
Our venue is a rehearsal hall/office space that actually has a ‘no weddings’ rule.
Luckily, we are industry. 
We took that date to our friend, the production manager at our venue, and found out that contrary to what we thought (and the way things generally work in this industry!) August 13th was full! We asked about the next available date. August 27th would work, as would June 25th and the weekends before it. But, ack! We’d told our parents we’d chosen August 13 already! I’d already had the, “no, we’re not superstitious,” talk with my mum! We snapped up June 25th, because the venue was very important to us, and lo, our wedding date was decreed.
Is it perfect? Not quite. Mr. CB will have to end his contract a week earlier than he’d agreed to, but with this much notice it isn’t a problem. It turns out that June is Mr. CB’s mum’s busy season at work—I had no idea, but she’s managed to get the time off. I guess it helps having almost a year to give notice!
The end of June is a too little close to Stampede for my liking. Every bar, restaurant, and club puts out hay bales and rustic wood fencing and cowboys get painted on all the windows. I am really, really not a cowgirl, but I can live with it. I just keep thinking about how amused our British relatives will be!
So, our engagement will be just a couple days more than one year, and we’ll have been dating six years and one week come our wedding day. I think it is nice, but not necessary for the date to have some previous significance.
Does your wedding date hold any significance to you?
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