Pick a date, any date...

Deciding on when to get married took a long time. We enjoyed the excitement of our engagement for almost 6 months before we started looking at any dates, locations, etc.

My fiance is a huge Jarryd Hayne and Shane Warne fan. So to 'encourage' the locking in of a date, I looked at their respective birthdays. Hayne, February 15 was going to be cutting it fine as we really only started considering dates in December. Warne, 13 September would mean a spring wedding, and the price premium that goes with it.

We bounced ideas around for a few weeks, contacted a few locations we thought would fit in with the style of wedding we wanted (i.e. cheap/affordable/no fuss).

We did have a focus on a cheap wedding, otherwise we could justify the cost of a Vegas elopement. The decisions we have made, and continue to make, always harp back to, "could this have bought our tickets to Vegas/funded our wedding in Vegas?"

In the end we found an amazing surf club, in winter.

Date locked in.
Venue locked in.

Warnie, Hayne, if you are reading this, please contact us so that we can formally invite you to our wedding :)