Wedding Date

Our wedding date has been set for June 25th 2011. Why so far away, you may ask.  Although both of us would prefer to be married sooner, the reasons for the long engagment are many.

1. I (Lauren) am in Grad School at the moment and will not graduate till May 2011. As Grad School is my full time job and I make very little money doing it I did not feel it would be fair to get married and have Ryan be the only one contributing financially. It would not be fair to him, and it would be very stressful. 

2. We got engaged in November, and as I am in school and do not get PTO days, the only time we could get married would be in the Summer. As the summer months are very popular for weddings it would be very hard, if not impossible to plan a wedding in 7 months and be able to get the ceremony sites, reception site, and vendors we would want.

3. We are young. Ryan and I are only 23, we have plenty of time to be married and enjoy our life together, so we felt no rush to the alter.

There are many other logistics that came to play in choosing the exact wedding date. While I had never dreamed of having a June wedding, it fits best for our circumstances, and we are very excited to have a set date. Epically one so close to the day we started ran into each other again (June 21st), and the exact day of our first date.