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literally have planned my whole wedding basically off of things ive learned from you. incase no one has told you recently you are amazing and are extremely talented !
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As a bride that is currently planning my wedding for 2022 I have had ZERO issues. Booked the venue I wanted at an amazing price.
Same but all the brides in my group are saying different I think it’s just a type of weddings
@@lauraerwin471 I feel for them. I expect to be overwhelmed so I started booking things a year in advance so the amount of time could also be a factor in the availability and pricing.
I thought it would be crazy to plan mine in 6 months for 2022 but it’s gone well and the only thing that maybe would have been a problem was photographers but even that was super easy
Same but I’m worried that I’m going to have issues right before my wedding.
Same!
Honestly I think the “wedding boom” is definitely real. I wanted a September 2022 wedding. I booked my venue in the beginning of December 2020 and there were only 2 sundays left for that month at the time! 😳
I think the Boom is real. We booked our venue 13 months out and still had to settle for a Sunday. Which was fine because Jamie was right and a non-Saturday is cheaper. Right after booking the venue’s prices went up, dramatically. Then Generation Tux just sent that email about a slight increased prices due to increase demand in 2022 which is ok because they did increase stock. It’s still possible to plan but I’m seeing some potential of the Boom in GA.we also saw a lot of our circle getting engaged and planning for 2022, so we went ahead and decided to do Save the Dates 10 months out. Either way boom or no boom I wouldn’t have been able to do this without Jamie.
I went to a venure last month that is fully booked for 2022, only had 4 Saturdays left in 2023, and had 7 2024 weddings booked already. I thought I was crazy for looking so early but I guess not lol.
Yep this has been my experience
I’m getting married 10 months from today in New England and have definitely noticed it a little bit, there’s certainly been some additional pressure from a lot of vendors I’ve contacted like “hey just so you know we’ve been getting a lot of inquiries…”. I also definitely think it’s impacted responsiveness across the board.
I booked them early out of caution and because vendors warned me rates were going up, but I got engaged Dec 2020, and so far no issues booking vendors for my May 2022. The only bummer is stupid inflation for my venue food up 17%!!
A month away from our wedding, which we’ve taken only four months to plan. Vendors/venues have been easy to find. I can see the “boom” potentially being an issue in April - October 2022, but things are still pretty chill in the off season (no pun intended). And Jamie, your makeup looks great! Thank you for all you do for us budget brides! 😘
Hi Jamie! Thanks for the masterplan! Planning our destination wedding with your amazing course!
I am literally so happy you posted this!! I was hearing about this in my wedding group on Facebook and I was getting so nervous about booking the last vendor for my 2022 wedding! Grated, I haven’t noticed to much but I will say when i noticed the most of the “wedding boom” booking issues was on the knot! I had to realize their was more vendors than what The Knot was offering!!
The knot is so helpful for so many things but they listed ZERO caterers in my area and I know there are lots of caterers in my area lol.
I’ve watched all the planning videos here and had my wedding in September! Our venue owner said that she had never seen a bride be the coordinator lol but everything worked out and we had so many positive feedbacks from the guests, thanks to you Jamie! My one cent is to be flexible as things will NOT go your way 100%, especially if you’re trying to be budget friendly! Bring out your inner Leslie Knope/Monica Geller, but also let your family members/friends help you and your day will be so special! Thank you Jamie for all the tips and tricks!
So glad it turned out well! This is honestly exactly what I'm looking for for my wedding... I love planning and coordinating events, so I feel very passionate and excited for my own wedding :)
Makes me feel so much better!! TY!❤️
I got engaged in May 2021 and I'm not getting married until December 2022. I booked my venue in June, my photographer in July, and my DJ in September. The only reason we did all of our bookings of major vendors early was so we got their 2021 rates and can establish a good connection with them before our event.
Hi Jamie! I'm also a 2022 bride engaged a month and a half ago. We ended up touring 6 venues, all of whom have dates we want! The only thing we are having trouble with currently is hotel blocking. Basically all the hotels by our venue are sold out. Other than that, we haven't had any trouble booking vendors!
Had a feeling there would be an issue booking a venue in 2022 but these numbers and facts really eased my worries a bit😅
I am not experiencing any problems from the "wedding boom" while planning my May 2022 wedding in the NY metro area. Thanks for this honest take and really looking at the numbers from the source.
Planning for summer ‘22 and the only hitch I’ve had was trying to find a photographer in Toronto. Had 3 say they’re booked, 2 more out of budget, and finally found one who makes us happy on all fronts! 🙌🏾
Jamie! Your makeup and hair looks so good in this! Thank you for all your weekly videos ❤️
The boom is certainly real where I live! I looked at many places, as far back as June, that were already fully booked or close to being booked for 2022
I am a wedding planner in Milwaukee, WI and the boom is definitely happening here. We've gotten a ton of new inquiries and had to turn away a good amount of couples because we're already fully booked on their date. And there's been a huge shift with most of our new inquiries wanting full planning instead of just month of coordination help. We've also run into a lot of other vendors being booked already when trying to help full planning couples choose their vendors. It's making me nervous for the craziness next year is going to be! haha
i am a bride in Wisconsin and i am seeing the boom here also!!
So glad you’re talking about this. The wedding boom is 100000% real. I’m already booking a venue for my Oct 2023 wedding because I’m nervous everything I want will be booked if I wait much longer
You're videos have been super helpful. I have been watching you since the first night I was engaged back in August. I'm getting married in October 2022. We're getting married near Chattanooga, and most of the hotels are booked out for the month of October. Also, most all of the non-barn venues in Georgia that are under $15k for the venue are already booked for October. I feel like we got really lucky for getting the day we wanted for the wedding.
Yes! I just booked my venue on December 1st in north Georgia (non barn) $16k all inclusive for October 9th 2022 and I got the last fall 2022 date at the venue 😭 I’ve been eyeing it for 2 years and booked a week after getting engaged! Crazy! Congrats on your engagement! Chattanooga will be beautiful in October!!!
@@cori1691 that's great! Congratulations. Have happy wedding planning
Thank you for staying true to who you are as your channel grows! Still not married, but still enjoying your talks. lol. P.s. Love your nails.... :)
The venue I wanted was taken for the date I wanted, so I moved the date two months forward. And the photographer I wanted was booked for that new date, but I found another great photographer. Now I’m so happy with both the new date and photographer! 😍 These are sort of things that happen every year, not just 2022.
Hey ladies! I solidified my venue, and photographer my two main buckets. I’ve noticed vendors are more willing to negotiate.
Gosh Jamie! I am so incredibly happy I found your channel..
I LOVE IT AND YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND THE GOATS! THANK YOU!
I was asked by my fiancée to marry him on 11/11/21 and by now I have everything for the wedding day on 27/05/22!
I had no trouble booking anything.. but then again I'm in Europe not in USA so.. things can be different.
Either way! THANK YOU again for doing what you do!
Keep shining!
I just got married last month in Baltimore and I did not have many issues with vendors being too booked up. I took a year to plan so it's possible that I planned when other people were not ready to book vendors but we found a florist 4 months before the wedding. We did have a few issues with vendor responsiveness in the month before our wedding but everything turned out really well in the end!
Hi! I love your videos. Sadly I am for sure in an area where this boom is happening. The pressure that I have felt from vendors to book and have provided me dwindling days and availability. I have been engaged since July 2020 and with my fiancé prior to that 6 years. We are super excited to get married but this market has deterred me from a wedding all together. I’m Sad and feeling defeated!
Your videos are always awesome though. Thanks for creating great content.
Sending much love & encouragement your way! As a fellow "Wolfer" I know that you've probably seen other videos with some variations that might be an option to help with wedding choices.
But hopefully with time, and maybe an alternate idea here or there, you'll find your dreams coming true soon!
I’ve been with mine for 6 years as well and we have been engaged for 5. I’m probably going to just go to the courthouse to make it legal (I am sick of waiting) but don’t have the cash to spend to compete with other couples right now. I will probably wait until 2024 because I want to save more money up to have a great day. I just don’t want to wait legally anymore regardless and am sick of wanting to make it perfect before going ahead with it all. Life is already messy. Planning is just too much for me at the moment. I’m glad to have found this channel to see others are in the same boat!!
I've been engaged for two and a half years, I started getting to plan properly (ie, making inquiries, doing tours and consultations, and booking) nine months out for a wedding in a vacation and wedding destination at the height of vacation season next year. I'm absolutely not at all saying others aren't running into these problems, but despite the fact that I wasn't booking that far in advance and that it's in a very in demand location, I genuinely haven't had any trouble. I've ended up with my first choice vendors, I'm coming in under budget and don't feel like the quotes I'm seeing are too much higher than what I saw when I was trying to think about planning a few months before the pandemic started. Some of them are a hair higher, I would say namely flowers are a bit higher. But the venue, caterer, and rentals are all more or less the same price--like, if they're any more, they're within a couple hundred dollars of what we budgeted for the total cost of those items based on inquiries and quotes two years ago. Certainly nothing beyond normal annual increases, and some of them are much less than what we anticipated. Honestly, our vendors have all just been so engaged and encouraging and helpful and lovely. Like, the excitement has really felt palpable to me from our vendors: they all seem really excited, they all seem to really want to help us make this happen and be an amazing part of our day, and they are all so kind about the whole situation and how long we've been waiting to make this happen. This isn't to say everyone has this experience--I'm sorry if you're not having this experience. But it's just to reiterate that there's tons of hope, and we shouldn't be afraid based on this rhetoric!
Wow I feel like I’m getting an exclusive viewing being this early 😍
I got engaged February 2021, and we set our date for March 2022. March is considered a non-peak month where we live so that worked to our advantage. Additionally, we opted for a Thursday wedding so as to cut down on venue costs... this also helped in ensuring preferred vendor availability. I did the vast majority of vendor booking between April and May 2021 and had very, very few vendors say they were unavailable.
We’re getting married in May 2022 - had a little trouble booking vendors (mostly hair and makeup) I found with venues, flexibility is 100% key. We chose a Friday wedding so we could get married in May instead of having to wait for a Saturday opening in July! Our tux place warned us about their inventory issues so we made sure all our guys got fitted ASAP so we would be locked in. It’s definitely stressful hearing about the “boom” but it’s manageable!!
Got engaged in July 2021, haven’t had any issues but I also feel like hearing about this made me get things planned as fast as possible 😂 all my big vendors are booked, my dress was ordered months ago, hotels are blocked.. the only big deal things I don’t have done are hair and makeup because I’m scared to commit. I just really hope flower companies don’t continue to have issues into next year!!!
I have had the worst time trying to book vendors for 2022 wedding. We started looking in January 2021 and I had 25 no's from bakeries for my date, 20 no's from florist, and 5 no's from DJs when I was booking everything last spring. That is 1.5 years out! What the heck! All vendors quoted the wedding boom and said sorry and to ask someone else.
Where are you looking?
I think that you’ll mostly have problems if you’re trying to plan a wedding in like 4 months. I can definitely see people struggling to pull things together in shorter times more than they may have pre-pandemic
I'm getting married in November of '22 and this gave me some nice perspective :-)
I wish you had an office in CT! I am a 2023 bride and was terrified of "The boom" because of what everyone around me was saying so.. i've been engaged since October and have my food, ceremony location reception, and tent and florist booked.. now i'm relaxing a bit. I know i'm crazy but now its one less thing for me to stress over! All your videos have been so helpful over these past few months!
I definitely felt the boom in Austin. I fully planned my wedding 14 months out and I had to compete for all my ideal vendors within my price range. Just a few weeks ago my planner confessed one of her other clients tried booking her wedding at my venue on my date. In my opinion, sure don’t panic like it’s the end of the world, but save yourself some headaches and plan accordingly. I almost ended up in a competition for my photographer with another bride. The other one I had issues with was my venue. Like a miracle our anniversary was available, yet almost no other Saturday in the month was.
Media outlets announcing that there is a run on "blank" only makes the initial run on it, whether it be toilet paper or wedding vendors, worse because people think they have to get theirs faster.
Engaged October 2021. We've been able to book our dream venue for November 2022, DJ/MC and hotel block already in the greater NYC area. Haven't run into issues yet with the "boom" If you are flexible on time and vendors, there are plenty of options to choose from.
I got engaged in July 2021 and booked my venue, band and photographer straight away for July 2022. I did find issues, even 12 months in advance, to find the date I wanted in the venues I liked, so we went for a Sunday wedding date. Other that that, everything else was pretty smooth.
September 2022 bride here… We got engaged in April 2021 and started planning in may, we had no issues with things being booked up however we did run into A LOT of price hikes. We also just had to have a change in venue (six months out) and we were able to get the venue we wanted. I think it very much depends on each couples budget, what they want, location and when they start planning.
I got engaged in October and am getting married in 2022. I have had absolutely zero issues booking anything in such short notice. Within the last week I've finalized all the bookings and there's literally been just normal wedding stresses. I'm still getting everything I'm wanting.
You’re absolutely right, just about every vendor I know (and I’m one too) raise their prices 5% every 12-18 months.
There is a venue booking boom in my area. I did google searchs and we're on a budget. Many of the venues in our area and budget were either completely booked, had summers (the worst time in AZ for outdoor) (we're having our dogs involved so that also limits us), or had some holidays for 2022. So 2023 made way more sense. I love our venue and we also are getting way more for our budget then other things
I think it absolutely depends on the region of the country you live in. I got engaged in May 2021 and live in the Northeast; my fiance and I immediately began to look for venues for just a general month (Sept 2022) and only two venues out of the 6 or more we reached out to were free for any weekend date that month. As time went on specific vendors were harder to obtain. We were ahead of the timeline for both our hotel block and floral designer and it still took weeks to find vendors for both that were free for our date. However I will say the prices we've seen aren't overinflated at all, and we were still able to get everything we wanted/needed and are working with some fantastic people. There was just some added, unexpected stress in the process. I am really happy we started as fast as we did (may have helped I've been watching these videos for a long time before getting engaged LOL)
I am planning a 2024 or 2025 winter wedding and I feel so lucky about that!
Also with flowers, go fake!
My plan is to get mine from an australian company that do custom fake flowers and if they are priced in my budget, get them as a smaller versions for my centrepieces.
Ooo 🤩 please do a rental wedding gown, bridesmaids and tux video. Would love to see a comparison video.
We were flexible on the date (June 11)so it wasn't hard to get the venue we wanted. But from what I could tell they had plenty of available fridays and saturdays available in 2022. I am locate in Winnipeg, Canada
Aloha Jamie. Just wanted to say thank you for your great services! Also, I’m planning on ordering from Generational Tux for my wedding in May. So I’m curious what your code is? Please & thank you!!
We felt the boom a little bit. Our ceremony site that I wanted was booked for our date but they were able to do it on the same day, just on a different part of the property. Definitely was disappointed for a while but, in the end I'm getting married in same vacinity. Flexibility definitely is key! At the end of the day I get married to my best friend so it hardly matters ♥️
I had to settle for a Tuesday to get the venue I wanted. It's definitely real where I'm at. All my vendors have said the same thing that it's the biggest year they've seen.
I had to book my venue a year and a half in advanced for 2022 in order to get a Saturday. We wanted the fall but every Fri/Sat/Sun in the fall was booked for our venue. So we picked a Saturday at the end of august. A lot of my friends have been having issues but maybe New Jersey is just really crazy next year
January 2022 bride who really started booking vendors in June/July. I had no issues finding vendors, except a couple were booked and they referred me to others. The normal shop around. Also helps that our wedding is in an off season :-)
I’m already planning on getting married in 2023 lol
Hi! I am planning my wedding but this is the first time I have commented on one of your videos. IDK if it is everywhere but we had to push ours to November 2023 because of every vendor and second choice vendor we wanted being booked! Its hard because we are having to put all our deposits down NOW for our wedding in two years because they have told us they are likely going to be booked otherwise. Thanks for the info!!!
It it's real and here now !!! Planing wedding for June/July it's super hard in Ontario Canada too. We had to move date to the end of July. Hotels are booked solid for reservation till end of summer. We are planning country tent wedding and tones of guests need accomodation. We started planning in end of october for June. Our eyes oppened wide for church booking, hotels booking, band booking and tent booking. We had to move date for a month and we are good now. Even wedding dress need 7-8 months to be altered.
I got engaged Memorial Day weekend. We started looking for venues in June for an August/September/October 2022 wedding in June, and one place only had one date available. Our best option had our favorite date open though, so there’s that. I’m planning on getting save the dates out soon after the holidays because I live in a tourist town and a huge wedding town so I want to give my out of town guests ample time to find a place to stay before all of the hotels and airbnbs are booked
My wedding is in April I've had no problem finding things I need. I just booked my photographer last week. I was a bit worried but so far not really a problem.
We finally set a date and this pass summer for October 1st 2022 and I got everything booked and put down a deposit in one week with no trouble at all and right before everyone up the prices
I didn’t hear about this as an actual thing until now but I had venues telling me that they have 2022 completely booked because of the postponement of 2020 and 2021 wedding so it’d be best for me to wait another year. Lots of places gave us price info for food but stressed that the numbers aren’t updated and that even in a couple months from now depending on our inflation the number may change again. I ended getting an ugly cheap venue because it was all that wasn’t booked, we are bringing our own food because catering costs are skyrocketing with the cost of food. I’m in Ohio and a year ago Bacon was $3 now its $10, all our local restaurants have had to raise their prices quite a bit. It makes sense for caterers to do it too but I can’t have the uncertainty to agree on $17 per person then because of inflation the bill jump to $25 which is what they are expecting. It’s a bad time for a wedding, I’m 6 months out and all I have is my dress, and my venue. Lots of road blocks
Only issues I had was finding a reasonable and available bakery for our cake- we are getting married Easter weekend. We found one, we are fine.
Other then that the only thing I didn’t get my first choice was my date for a venue we wanted. We looked at 9 venues, all September and December dates were gone so we got our third choice for April.
I also didn’t want to wait til 2023. Other then that I pretty much got what we wanted over all.
Definitely aware of the price increase of vendors year to year. But most of the vendors that are increasing prices the highest are the popular ones in my area that are always booked. Look for the smaller businesses and help them grow!
Tip for ordering attire at a discount: Shop for your season in the off season. My wedding is summer so most of dresses in the summer colors are on clearance/sale in winter.
Wedding boom is real in my city. I couldn’t get my date for a couple different venues for my 2023 wedding. I work in weddings through multiple avenues and it’s our cities busiest year since 1987.
Im a 2023 bride in CT and booked all my vendors in Sept or Oct of 2021. I had MANY caterers tell me they're already booked for my date as of fall 2021. Maybe CT or the northeast is more affected by this but the industry is definitely impacted here
I've only experienced the "boom" slightly...the venue we were interested in had one date left in the fall of 2022 (October), so we booked it as soon as the event staff told us it was the last day. Other than that, I was able to book the caterer and photographer just fine! (I also love planning things ahead of time, so I got all of the major booking done 11-12 months in advance). We're going to ask friends and family to help us with videography and DJ, and I found an artificial floral arrangement site...so I'm lucky to be finished with selecting my date and vendors!
Our wedding is December 9th 2023, we booked the big ticket items 6 months ago but started researching a year ago. Prices in that 6months almost doubled but the minimum price hike was 30%, we didn’t get the photographer we wanted because she was already booked on that date, we had to go to another (lovely) photographer that charged considerably more so we had to take a lesser package for our money, our venue had 3 other enquiries for our date, bridal boutiques (I’m plus size so limited in shops) have a 4 month waiting list. We haven’t been able to find a decent florist that will do church and table center pieces for less than €10k that is available on our date. One string quartet we enquired to was booked already. I cannot find a wedding hairdresser available even though it will only be needed for 4 people (mother of the bride and groom included). Certainly here in Ireland the boom is real.
We experienced the effects of the boom when booking our church. Granted it’s a very popular church and they have 5 weddings each weekend, 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. We started looking a little over 12 months out, and all the 3pm Saturday spots were booked for all of June and half of July. Some (most?) of these were weddings that were postponed from 2020.
We ended up doing Sunday instead. Sadly it didn’t save us any money since the church and reception venue charges the same price regardless.
June 2022 wedding and I haven’t had that difficult of a time planning/booking what I want. But that could also be because we settled for a Thursday wedding (which I actually prefer to a Sunday wedding) However, this is because I really only wanted to get married in late spring or early fall so that didn’t leave much wiggle room considering those are both prime wedding times.
Im in southern Cali, I have not had any issues booking the vendors I wanted. I’m not getting married til Oct 2023. But I wanted to lock 🔒 in the lower prices. I already booked my venue, photographer, and videographer.
We’ve felt the boom but particularly with venues. My venue was fully booked for 2022 by February of 2021 I believe in part to a lot of postponements. Other than that I’m not seeing a lot of issues finding the other vendors in my community.
Here in Boise, Idaho which is the fastest growing and now least affordable city in the country, the struggle is REAL!!
Hi Jamie!!!
Seems Chicago’s markets are behaving differently than the markets you’re in
Thanks for the video!
We booked our venue 9 months in advance and we basically had to go with the idea of, if your heart is set on having it here you have to take whatever day they give you. So our wedding is on a Sunday on my birthday😅
This happened to me. I recon it's probably my area has seen an uptick in weddings for June 2022. Struggled to even get a vendor to do my chair covers and decor. I'm having to DIY absolutely EVERYTHING (apart from the cake) because it is a nightmare to book stuff. I need a marquee but can't get one because it's all booked up. Just gonna have to chance it with the weather and have a garden party. Venue is our church, we are going to have light refreshments afterwards for the guests on the lawn outside. 🙄 It's gonna be a challenge but lack of vendor Availability has been a huge factor in my decision to DIY it all
I’m not seeing your link for generation tux, is it not available if I’m watching on my phone?
I keep hearing everyone say to rush because of this boom, but we've been flexible and have had minimal issues!! We booked our June 2022 wedding in March of 2021. Some of the dates we wanted weren't available, but we were flexible because we loved the venue. Booked the photographer in May and a couple were booked, but most were available still. My biggest fear is ordering decor items or gifts so 6 months out I'm trying to order a lot of that. As long as your flexible and open to different vendors or alternative solutions like Facebook Marketplace there are options!!
I didn't even know about this report. I am 23 so most of my friends are graduating college and everything. I just thought it was cause I am at that age where people get married right after college and then like because of COVID being "done" (I don't have better wording so no one come at me). In the past year I have gone to 3 weddings, and have probably seen close to 2 dozen announcements mostly in the past 4 or 5 months but since last December to today. I was surprised I saw your video because I was like "Wait this isn't normal?!" Now I am not getting married till probably June of 2023 so I am not too worried about finding some things. But I do wonder if more people are getting engaged than most years.
I would also say it feels real for the venue and available dates. I'm in Canada and I was looking at Aug/Sept/Oct 2022 in early 2021 and my top 2 locations only had 3 dates (Friday, Saturday) open in all 3 of those months.
In the end I went with option 3 and took their last date available.
Hi girl can I ask you a question
Booked my April 2022 location two weeks ago. No problem. Got the date I wanted. I do think some costs for certain things I am DIYing seem expensive, but I don't think that's wedding boom related
The boom is very real here in New England. I have multiple vendors saying they're booked for even more minor services (like hair) and we are still 20 months out! We already picked a venue, but the other places we looked at (where I'm still on the mailing list) now show only a few Saturdays left in 2023...and those are in the middle of muddy March or late in gloomy November, not nice summer/fall dates.
Here's what I wonder about stats like "only X% say they're having trouble finding vendors"...you could have no increase in the # saying they're having trouble while, at the same time, everyone bumps things up 6-12 months' earlier. Like it used to be you would plan 8 months ahead and be ok, but now everyone is planning 18 months ahead to be ok? I don't know the real timelines, but the whole thing seems crazy to me. I'm thankful for having a long engagement to prepare, that's for sure!
Venues were definitely the hardest thing to navigate for 2022. So far everything else is slowly working itself our
As a florist I can say that there is a worldwide shortage of flowers right now and because of the fact that they are products farms are trying to catch up but they can only do so much. Also most florist have to import their product from Columbia and due to government issues in South America a lot of the workers are striking up due to taxes being raised but wages were not. So there’s no one to even pick the flowers if they are ready in the field. The supply chain for hard goods are also extremely backed up or not being produced due to a change in supplier so things like floral foam and paint are very hard to come by. I’m getting married in June and opted to have bud vases on most of my tables and nice centerpieces on the two parents tables so that might could at least get some variety but not have to pay exorbitant prices as much that hurts my florist heart.
I think historical context is also important. 25% increase isn't alot in relation to how big the US is, however we haven't seen this high of a number since the 1980s. So some of the 'newer' vendors could be seeing increases in bookings than say the last 2 years. But this "boom" could also just be attributed to couples booking earlier than normal thus creating a shortage🤷♀️. Context is key, great job breaking it down Jamie!!
Can someone share the link to the Facebook group? The one in the description appears to be broken. Thanks! Loving these videos helping to plan my brother’s wedding.
The biggest hurdle for us was securing a date with the Catholic Church. After that it’s been pretty smooth sailing. But yes initially when my fiancé said he wanted to pick a July 2022 date in November 2021 I panicked a little. We did have to settle with a Friday wedding but honestly it has its added bonus of some stuff being cheaper
the Wedding boom is so real here in Houston..OMG but, we found a great venue on a non-weekend day.
This is the first time I am hearing about it. I can get everything I need in the DMV area.
Good to hear. I just got engaged. I'm in the DMV area too.
I think this might vary a lot depending on your region and time of year. I’m getting married near Chattanooga next fall, and can’t even tell you how many venues, photographers, bands, etc were fully booked for 2022 fall
Wedding june 2022 here in Finland. Our venue announced on tuesday that they had double booked our date. And we can't get there. All other venues are already booked, but we found one restaurant with one separate building available.
The only crunch that I am feeling is wedding dress. One local bridal store said there is a delay in wedding dress shipping. So that's the only part of my wedding that I'm looking into the future as a 2023 bride.
I got engaged in august and am getting married august 2022 and have had no issues with vendors at all
We’re definitely seeing the boom in Asheville, NC. Luckily we had a long engagement, so we got in early, but nearly every venue we spoke with was extremely tight for an autumn wedding in 2022 (which, to be fair, is the busiest time for that location). My biggest recommendation is not to use The Knot and Weddingwire as more than a jumping off point. Use FB groups, Yelp, ask around with vendors you’ve already found, because the ones paying to be seen first are the ones who go the quickest!
It's a boom in my house. 3 of my children got engaged and are getting married in 2022.
Does anyone have the link Jamie mentioned of the list of coordinators that completed her mentorship program? I don't see the link in the description :(
Sorry, is the GenTux code in the description? I think I missed it
my wedding is in nine months and I have had ZERO issues! I think maybe it depends upon where you live
My issue has been DJ, but it's only because one of my friends was supposed to do it and then sold his speakers. With that, I just reached out to my venue and we were able to find some options that weren't outrageously priced.
We also looked at venues and photographers early because those were a priority so I feel like that might've affected it. My venue is fully booked for 22 already though
Where is the suit rental code and link ?