A Date to Save

A Date to Save

October 14th, 2011 @ 8:52 am by Miss Dalmatian
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My cousin got married in May 2010, and my sister got married on the same weekend in May 2011. Now, I do love a family tradition—so much so that my sisters and I (all in our twenties) still leave cookies and milk out for Santa every Christmas because, gosh darn it, it’s tradition! A more recent addition to our catalog of holiday traditions is wearing our Little Miss Christmas shirts every Christmas Eve:

A Date to Save : wedding nashville Christm christm

Personal Photo - Sister A, Sister K, and me

Despite my die-hard dedication to traditions, the weekend that my cousin and sister got married wasn’t our first pick for our May 2012 wedding. Let me break down our reasoning behind this: Mr. D is graduating from business school the Friday of a different weekend, and his parents just moved to Singapore.

Since the trip between Singapore and good ol’ Nashville is 24+ hours, his parents wouldn’t have been able to come to both his graduation and his wedding if they were too far apart.

We figured either the weekend before or the weekend after his graduation would work best for their trip to the U.S. The next step was to call the venue. Mind you, we were still about a year out, so when I casually asked about which dates where available in May 2012, I was not prepared for the answer:

NONE. Every Saturday (and the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend) were booked. Cue sad face:

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Image via AnnieFlorinPhotography.com / Photo by Annie Florin Photography

Then she said a glorious word: “But…”

It turned out they had one date in May that was pending cancellation and once it went through, we could book it! Cue happy face:

A Date to Save : wedding nashville Happyfa happyfa

Image via OralAnswers.com / Photo by Ingrid Balabanova

It wasn’t exactly the most romantic way to pick a wedding date, but that’s okay. It also wasn’t the weekend before or after, but rather the weekend of Mr. Dalmatian’s graduation. So that is the story of how it came to be that Mr. Dalmatian will be graduating business school one day, and getting married the next!

While some may say I have broken our family tradition by not getting married the same weekend as my cousin and sister, I prefer to think of it as following the tradition of getting married in May!

Did you run into any trouble picking a wedding date? Are you getting married around the same time as any other life changing events?

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10 Responses to “A Date to Save”

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SoontobeBride

I think you are keeping with tradition perfectly.

10/14/11 @ 9:02 am (reply)

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rusticgirl (message) 51 posts, Worker bee

I’m right there with you! We had to coordinate between our priest, our ceremony site, and the reception site. We didn’t have much of a say on the date - rather we just picked a time when all three were available!

10/14/11 @ 9:11 am (reply)

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Stephie0711 (message) 10 posts, Newbee

That’s a cute story. We are doing a destination wedding so we are being date sensitive also. To do a holiday weekend so friends and family can make it without taking time off work or not? Hm… That has been our dilemma. I think we are pretty set on Labor Day weekend 2012. Hope it works out.

10/14/11 @ 9:17 am (reply)

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mindylynn39 (message) 65 posts, Worker bee

That a cute storey.Thia is how we picked a date.I told him to pick it cause he was not in to the ones i liked.So at 4am he text me to say 11-2-2012.I thought for a minute and it was my birthday.He said that way its a double special day.Since its a friday we are goin to do it on sat the 3rd.

10/14/11 @ 9:22 am (reply)

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kayakgirl73 (message) 2,158 posts, Buzzing bee

Yep. The only fall Saturday left on our venue 11 months out was Halloween. So I have a Halloween anniversary, which I wasn’t too happy about. Still not that happy about it but what can you do.

10/14/11 @ 10:18 am (reply)

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Mrs. Pony (message) 4,175 posts, Honey bee

It sounds like it worked out just wonderfully!

10/14/11 @ 11:43 am (reply)

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sarbear2814 (message) 216 posts, Helper bee

We got our date the same way! The venue we absolutely only had 1 Saturday open(and somehow it was memorial day weekend) in all if spring/summer 2011 and it was because someone cancelled it! So not the most romantic way to get our wedding date but it worked out.

10/14/11 @ 3:10 pm (reply)

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Miss Fox (message) 859 posts, Busy bee

It will be a fun family filled weekend, for sure! At least you were still able to get a date in May!

10/15/11 @ 12:35 pm (reply)

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Miss Porcupine (message) 429 posts, Helper bee

Wow! That’s sure going to be one busy and exciting weekend!

10/15/11 @ 2:01 pm (reply)

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soontobeMrsEschberger (message) 352 posts, Helper bee

At least it will be in May! We were originally supposed to be married on April 21st, we had booked the church 15 months in advance & when we went to book the reception they were already booked that weekend (14 months in advance!) so we had to change the date to April 28th & luckily the church had no problem with that (considering we were the first and only ones so far that had booked a wedding for 2012, lol).

10/23/11 @ 8:11 pm (reply)