2018 wedding

emz8

Hi all,

We just got engaged and have decided sept 2018 would be the best time for us to get married. Thinking that gives is plenty of time and we wouldn't need to start planning for ages.
I've just remembered I already have two invites for weddings in 2018. Do we need to start organising something now??? Seems insane when it's two years away.

Any advice welcome. Complete novice to all this!

baby and crumble

All I can tell you is I thought the same when we started seriously looking in January for end of November 2017. One of our favourite venues was gone on the date we wanted. We couldn't get our top choice celebrant. A couple of the photographers we emailed enquiring got back to say they were booked on our date.

If I were you, I start thinking about when and where and what type of ceremony you'd like. We've ticked off the 3 "big ticket" items that would make a difference to the others, so we have our venue, celebrant and photographer all booked with deposits. We're chilling a little now (just going to the odd wedding fair to see what's what, keeping an eye out for bargains for our bridemaids, that kinda thing).

Toots

Congratulations! If you're having a civil ceremony at the venue or getting a humanist to do the ceremony, I'd book those straight away. There's a lot of demand for them and they book up fast.

Also if there's a venue you particularly like, it'd be no harm enquiring now to see if your date is available. We started looking casually about 22 months before the date we set, and we nearly didn't get the date we wanted for our hotel.

Sunny Dayz

If ye have a fair idea of what you want eg a particular church, hotel, band etc, then no harm in setting a date and booking things. At least ye have a concrete date, you can relax a bit once those are secured and take your time planning the rest (and saving up!)

icelime

Solemniser solemniser solemniser! I wish someone had told me this...if you're not going for a church wedding, get this sorted first. I wish someone had told me this, getting married august 17, our venue had no bookings for august when we booked in february, but the registrar was fully booked for all Fridays in the month. Struggling now!

baby and crumble

Yeah, someone to legally marry you is really the important bit. I mean, there's ways around it (legal bit during the week in the registry office, then a symbolic ceremony which anyone can do in the venue) but it's tricky. The humanists in particular are totally swamped at the moment. We were getting emails automatically in response to ours just saying "I am fully booked for 2016 and for most of 2017". Mad. They can't keep up with demand, partially because Ireland in general in more secular now (and people have caught on to the wonderful ease of having a 1 venue wedding!) and because of the marriage referendum. Gay couples don't have any option except civil marriage hence the surge in demand.

Guybrush Threepwood

We're getting married in 2018 too (woo for 2018 weddings!). We're looking at March and have started viewing venues (availability has been okay so far *touch wood!!!*). I'm hoping to get one locked down very soon, then I'll book the church and the priest and take a rest for a while (at least until the RDS wedding fair )

baby and crumble

Guybrush Threepwood wrote: »

We're getting married in 2018 too (woo for 2018 weddings!). We're looking at March and have started viewing venues (availability has been okay so far *touch wood!!!*). I'm hoping to get one locked down very soon, then I'll book the church and the priest and take a rest for a while (at least until the RDS wedding fair )

When is that?

paulbn

Hi all, Also planning on a 2018 wedding. but not really sure where to start. have no particular time of the year or location in mind (except that we are looking in the direction of dublin ) any one got any suggestions ? looking for a wedding of about 100 guests and looking at a modest budget of E10k. (although I'm scared out of my mind at the costs of things ).... help.

westernlass

Guybrush Threepwood wrote: »

We're getting married in 2018 too (woo for 2018 weddings!). We're looking at March and have started viewing venues (availability has been okay so far *touch wood!!!*). I'm hoping to get one locked down very soon, then I'll book the church and the priest and take a rest for a while (at least until the RDS wedding fair )

As a recent March bride I highly recommend it. People aren't sick of weddings as it's the start of the season and it's much easier to get the better suppliers as they tend not to be as busy. Plus we got fab weather on our wedding day

Guybrush Threepwood

baby and crumble wrote: »

When is that?

3rd & 4th of September http://weddingandhoneymoonshow.ie/