Getting married in 6 months - is it possible?

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DP and I are hoping to bring forward our wedding by a year and do it this summer, due to an ill elderly relative, really want her to be there and have been told it's unlikely she'll still be here in 18 months time. We haven't booked anything, but does anyone have any advice, is everything gonna be booked up for this summer already? What do we need to do? Also, DD will be 21 months at time of (possible) wedding - is this too young to be a bridesmaid?

Regarding venues: if the places you want are booked up, consider having your wedding on a THursday or Friday or even a Monday (a few months notice is enough for friends and family to book a day off work...) which will be considerably cheaper. All you really need is a venue, a celebrant (registrar, vicar, whatever) and the catering sorted: you can walk into any shopping centre and buy a nice outfit apiece, ditto rings, a lot of the rest is unecessary fuss.

Oh, and if you were wanting a humanist wedding and need a celebrant, I'm not too booked up for this summer and my rates are reasonable

Haven't read all of this thread as at currently at work and skiving

Me and DH decided in the Feb (10 years ago) to get married on my mum's birthday in August that year (which happened to fall on a Saturday) so that gave us 6 months so it is possible.

Although we were lucky in that the church/photographer we wanted both happened to be available on that day - if you go for a Friday wedding, then the availability (and cost probably) will be better.

Haven't had time to read all the thread but we arranged out wedding in 6 months and it was great! It was in autumn but a friend organised hers in even less time a few years back and that was in August - she managed to get a great venue etc.

I think its a really good idea to get on with these things - less time to worry about it and less time to spend money!

I think your DD will make a perfect bridesmaid.

Good luck.

Thanks for all the great advice. I've booked the church, 25th July (Friday) and we're going to see some venues on Sunday. So excited!!!

we did ours in less than 6 months too - pretty low-key ceremony town hall on a friday, lunch for 40 in a restaurant, party for 100 in our garden in the evening.

i reckon the main thing is to keep things simple and not get obsessive about it all being perfect. second thing is to not have a party for 100 in your garden if it requires you to a lot of diy before hand and definitely don't do your own catering.

It is possible, we started arranging our wedding in nov and were getting married the 3rd may. As long as church and venue are booked early its no problem, the other thing is if you want a wedding dress and bridesmaid dress's from a wedding shop prob best to sort that soon. I went to get our bridesmaid dress's last week and they wont be here until end of march. Congratulations.

we also arrange our wedding in 6 weeks (2 months ago and I was 29weeks on the day!). some companies will do a discount package deal for ceremony, drinks, wedding breakfast, eve buffet and disco.

we probably did spend a little more than if we'd had time to plan and research more. But the day was wonderful and I dont think I could have coped with months of stress!

also did it in 6 months - used a big empty barn as the venue (was OK'd for wedding ceremonies) and booked everything from tables and chairs to celidah band and registrar. We did use a fantastic wedding planner to help source lots of things & decorate the barn, but I did most of the leg work. It was great - much the better for not being stressed over for a year or more!

My sis decided to get married as soon as she could, (this was on a Sunday evening). She got married the following Friday and it was really lovely. Every time she booked it a year in advance she'd get cold feet, so she thought by doing it in such a short space of time, she wouldn't have time to think about it!! (I was moving house on the Monday before so I had to move, and shop for an outfit - phew!!!)

We were engaged in November and married mid-Jan, perfectly possible, church wedding white dress, bridesmaids 70 guests the lot, can certainly be done and there was Christmas in between! As another post said it certainly concentrates the mind!Reception venue was restaurant with barn for the evening, worked very well, really happy day all the better for not being agonised over!

We got engaged at Easter, and married 25 August, so ditto what everyone else says here : it's possible.
Enjoy all the preparations, and have a great day!

8m for us, but could easily have done it in 6.

I think 21m is too young to be a bridesmaid in the traditional sense, but there's no reason why she can't have a matching dress etc