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Beginner November 2019

Already backed into a corner

engagedandclueless, 11 of September of 2018 at 10:27 Posted on Planning 0 4

So we recently got engaged (Yay). I was really excited but now I feel really down. From the minute we got engaged everyone (including my fiancé) is pushing for a June (as in 9 months) wedding. To me this feels too soon and I want to wait till the following year. I thought I was ready to get married but didn’t think it would be happening this soon and I feel so pressured. Any experienced anything similar or have any advice?

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Latest activity by LuxuriousGreenFlowers65138, 26 of September of 2018 at 08:52
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    Rockstar June 2020
    HappyBlueCars582 ·
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    What's the reason for their big rush? Have you asked them?

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    Beginner November 2019
    engagedandclueless ·
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    They haven’t got a reason just that it’ll be nice to do it then “because we’re engaged so why wait?!”

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    Have_you_met_Mrs_Jones2019 ·
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    Ahh I'm sorry you feel so pressured, that's not a good start.

    I must admit, when I got engaged, I slightly may have pressured my fiance into a 2019 wedding - mainly because my birthday is at the end of September, and I wanted to get married before I turned 33 ?

    However, that still gave us 19 months to plan and save.

    I would have a chat with your fiance - forget everyone else - it is YOUR day, not theirs. But speak to him, as he may have a reason for wanting a 2019, or he may just be responding to all the external pressure. You need to work out which one.

    If he says he really wants to get married next June for his own reasons, that is totally do-able, but tell him you need him to get as involved as possible and help you make the decisions, as you can't be expected to plan a whole wedding on your own.

    Good luck! x

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    Beginner October 2018
    HappyBrownDecor18059 ·
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    I think you really need to discuss things properly with your fiancé (forget everyone else, it's not up to them!!)

    Does he have any particular reason why it needs to be then? (Other than the "why wait" aspect).

    Personally, purely from an organisational point of view I would have found 9 months to be too soon - but then again I am not a particularly organised person and I have found wedding planning to be enormously stressful, so other people may have a completely different view. You start off thinking 9 months is ages, but it's actually not, you have to get onto booking both venues (church and reception) right now pretty much - since June is a popular month, so venues will start getting booked up quickly - after agreeing on a rough guest list, so you have an idea of numbers, then finalise your guest list (this can get pretty fraught, although not always) so you can send out save the dates or whatever in the new year, before people start booking their summer holidays. Then there is just so much that goes into wedding planning that I would never have even thought of. We've had about 13 months between engagement and wedding and I feel like we've needed all that time. But as I said, maybe that's just us, some people absolutely love the planning aspect and would be fine with 9 months or even less. Also if the people who are pressuring you into having a June wedding are willing to take on some of the work of planning, maybe that could be a good compromise?! But if all the planning is going to fall on you, you really should be able to say "no, it's not enough time".

    Are you all dead set on a summer wedding, or would it be OK to wait for the autumn, which could be a good compromise, giving you a bit more time whilst not having to wait a whole extra year..? (Plus the venues and suppliers will be less in demand..)

    Or is it the emotional aspect that's bothering you - i.e. you don't feel ready emotionally to get married so soon? If that's the case then I think you really need to talk to your fiancé and find a way of explaining that you really need more time. It's really not a good idea to get married if you don't feel ready, that's a recipe for disaster and your fiancé should be able to understand that if you explain. It doesn't necessarily mean you're having second thoughts about marriage, I could just be that you need time to get your head around such a momentous change, which is totally normal, and you want to go into it feeling 100% ready.

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    9 months time period for preparation isn't really enough though. it took me more than a year to settle everything, including preparing my mental self for the wedding since i'd be moving out from my parent's house and won't be able to see them for quite some time. with only 9 months, i feel like it would a rush hour for you every time of the day. you should talk to your fiance about this and perhaps ask for more time, not that because you don't want to get married as fast as he did, it's just everything may seemed more complicated than he knew it would and you should explain it to him

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