This is pretty much exactly what I imagine.
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Cons: everyone and their mother gets married then.
That's a loooot of brides.
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Honestly, I should have seen this coming when we decided on a June wedding. In the 26 months that we will have been engaged, loads of friends have also gotten (and will be getting) engaged. And they also have their eye on getting married around the same time that we will.
Which, on one hand, is awesome! I have more and more people to share wedding stories and inspirations with, and we're in this fun lovey-dovey "I'm engaged!" mentality where it's all rainbows and butterflies (most of the time). Huzzah!
However, things are starting to overlap, and I am not a fan.
It's not just because we'll be busy with planning our own wedding and such, but I also really want my friends to be able to attend ours, and I want to be able to attend theirs.
I already knew my friend/brideslady M would be getting married a few weeks before us. I've mentioned before that we kind of scheduled our wedding around hers, so that's no biggie. But I've also learned that a friend of a friend, who has become an acquaintance of mine as well (confused yet?), scheduled her wedding for literally the day after ours. So not only can't her and her fiancé come to our wedding, as I had hoped.. there's a strong possibility a few mutual friends will have to choose one or the other. Especially the friend I met her through, seeing as she will be a bridesmaid of the other girl. So there's that.
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Also, a good friend from my old job recently got engaged (last weekend!), and they were originally thinking a fall wedding.. but since this fall is here and next fall is so far away, they are currently opting for early June. So that's.. four weddings in three weeks-ish?
I really don't mean for this to come of as though I'm big snot ball and everyone should drop everything for our wedding. Because I don't think that at all. I really just want to have our friends celebrate our marriage with us and be able to do the same for them. I've made so many wonderful friends here in DC - something I really didn't know would happen when I first moved down - and I want to include them in our big day as much as possible.
I suppose it's true what they say - we're at that age where many of our friends are getting married, and it goes in cycles. We had 5 weddings to go to in the spring and summer of 2010, none in 2011, and now an undetermined (but greater than 4) weddings already planned for next spring and summer. Nuts.
Have you or are you experiencing any kind of wedding overlap and overload around your date??
