Special Occasions close to the Wedding

I think it is reasonable that you don't care as much about your birthdays this year, you have a much bigger event coming up soon that you will only get to do once, where as your birthday comes around every year. If you are not up for something big this year, there is nothing wrong with that. Go home and enjoy that glass of wine....maybe two!

I would just lump it all together and have a big blast like a bbq or weekend away or something that is special to you.

I had not looked at our birthdays at all before setting a date. We will be getting married about 2 weeks before my FHs birthday but we will be able to work around that. We were limited on setting a date as we have a deployment schedule to work around. We are getting married a day before my grandmas 90th birthday but she was so excited that we had picked a date so close, she feels like she is a part of our day now.

That's understandable. My fiancé and I aren't big on birthdays anyway, but yes, we'll be cutting back slightly for other special occasions.

My birthday is in February, his in November. We are getting married in September. My Dad's birthday is two days before our wedding. Which we knew going into it, but we are having a surprise wedding, and we certainly wouldn't and won't take anything away from my Dads's day!

No, we made sure not to overlap with other Events. That’s why our Wedding is September 19th 2020.

My b-day is in mid January and husband's is one month before our anniversay. We got married last year on August 25.

I actually used mine and FH’s birthdays to pick out wedding date. Lol. His birthday is 6/6. Mine is 7/5. And we’re getting married 8/4.

My future-in-laws wedding anniversary is 2 days after our wedding, but I asked them before we set the date if it was ok if we had our wedding so close to their anniversary and they were perfectly fine with it.

I think when you’re planning a wedding, a lot of little things can get lost... Like celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and stuff. But we always try to do something small.

Instead of buying gifts for birthdays this year, we’ve agreed that we’re going to do things. Build memories. For mine and my soon-to-be niece’s birthdays (4th and 5th), we’re going to the Calgary zoo. It’s not super expensive, and it gives us a day to just forget about everything wedding. And we can spend the day with family. I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate!

We actually managed (not intentionally) to have our birthdays, engagement and wedding equally split throughout the year. Really, there's approximately three months between each of those dates.

But I guess our niece's birthday will be overshadowed by our wedding, since it's just 2 days before (her brother's birthday was also overshadowed by a wedding this year though, since FH's brother got married a few days before it). And then there's his grandfather's 95th birthday 6 days after, but I don't think there would be a big party anyway, considering what kind of person he is.

I'm not really big on my birthday anyway so for me it wasn't something that bothered me. We got engaged at Christmas (found the engagement more exciting than Christmas), his birthday was in the summer but we still celebrated it and then we got married and then it was my birthday. I think weddings are such a big deal and very time consuming so it can feel like everything else gets pushed to the side or is less important. I still think you need to celebrate the special events though as you shouldn't forget to celebrate regular life when planning.

It's going to change once we get married but I totally know how you feel about anticlimactic. My fiance and I have the same birthday(october 31), our anniversary is December 3, and of course Christmas is the 25.. the rest of the year we have NOTHING, so I'm really looking forward to having our wedding in june to break up the year a little more.

My FHs birthday was in may and mine is on monday. Our wedding is on the 23rd. Along with my finals for school and other peoples birthdays its been pretty hectic but we are still finding the time to celebrate each occassion. It just depends on how you want to celebrate.

Happy Birthday!

Our wedding is 3 days before my younger brothers birthday, 7 days before my older brothers, 8 days before my FBILs birthday and 9 days before my mom's birthday.. So we definitely know a little something about having events all close together lol

Happy Birthday!

We haven't had this luckily. Our birthdays are both later in the fall and then Christmas and our anniversary of when we started dating. So we've always complained that all our fun stuff is at the same time. This is why we chose to do our wedding on the other side of the year, nothing around it!

Not so much taking over but we have decided NO GIFTS for any occasion to save up for the wedding which I think is good! We still go out for a dinner or something but no actual physical presents for eachbother u til after the wedding!

Definitely! The last few years we’ve planned trips before or after our birthdays and have found that it takes the hype out of it because you’re just so focused on saving and planning already that you find it more exciting right? Last year we started planning the wedding before my birthday and Christmas, so we literally just got abunch of gift cards and my mom pitched in for my wedding belt..etc. I think it’s totally normal and understandable. My fiancé’s birthday is coming up like a month before our wedding and it definitely won’t be anything big but we’ll still celebrate

Not married yet but chiming in anyhow We implemented a experiences not gifts policy for birthdays, so that opens up for some variation in what we do to celebrate. For him in Feb I went all out, but with mine coming 2 months before the wedding all I want for an experience is an unplugged dinner, candles, bath nice wine and a night completely away from planning and the stress that goes along with it. Its different than the usual but its the perfect excuse to pull away from the wedding stuff and exactly the best gift I could get.

Happy Birthday!!!! I do worry about it a bit! We wanted to get married September 2019 because that is the month my mom and step dad are celebrating their 20th anniversary and my FMIL&FFIL are celebrating their 40th year Anniversary. It just seemed to perfect to pass up. But my biggest dilemma is our youngest daughters Birthday is September 4th, our 2nd oldest daughters birthday is September 20th, and so we picked September 14th so it was between the two! I told FH that we will have to do something really special that year so they don’t fill like their Birthdays weren’t important. So every year will be insanely busy for celebrations.. not to mention back to school. Sometimes I feel like I didn’t think the through the date enough haha.

Happy birthday! My birthday is a exactly 8 days after our wedding in 2019 but I like celebrating everything. Even if it’s just a bottle of wine at home celebrating. Besides I’m used to shared birthday celebrations as my little sister’s birthday is the day after mine!

Happy Birthday Breanne!

My FH's 30th birthday is a month before our wedding and I would like to do something special for it but with the wedding so close, I'm scared I'll get too busy with wedding planning!

Fortunately, a lot of special events in the family are happening this year and not next year for the wedding. My nephew was born in April, my last living grandparent turned 90 last weekend, my parents' 30th anniversary is in July, and my mom's 60th birthday is in October! 2018 is a busy year for us so we made 2019 our wedding year.

Happy birthday!

My fiance's birthday is the day of our wedding... It wasn't planned. I have known basically forever that it was the day I wanted to get married and it just so happened to be his birthday as well. I've asked him about a million times if he's sure he's okay with it and he says he doesn't care. Luckily, it's not a major birthday (he'll be 26), but I still plan on making a little surprise celebration for him during our wedding, just so it doesn't get completely overshadowed.

Planning can be tough! And birthdays don't always have to be a big deal! Have a bit of a bigger party next year maybe to make up for it! I think you can forgo the birthday celebrations this year, especially with the wedding coming up!

Happy Birthday! My birthday is Feb 28, so every year, it's like I get to pick, something for Valentine's Day, or my birthday... for 2019, our wedding is January 19, and then our honeymoon is Jan 20-Feb 1... So I reeeally think next year is going to be an anti-climatic celebration.

This year I worked a regular day, and when I got home, my fiance had made me dinner and run a bubble bath with wine. So simple, but it was absolutely fantastic. Sometimes it's just the simple joys that make it nice.

Happy birthday!

I haven't really found it to be taking over our birthdays tbh, in my mind it's like "oh, this is the first birthday we celebrate engaged!" lol. I totally get how wedding planning can keep you preoccupied and unfocused on your birthdays tho.

Happy Birthday! (You're getting the wishes no matter what!) The opposite is what happened to me since being with my FH! My birthday is in August so when it came down to the day nobody would be available because they were vacationing with their family Now that I am older (20), my FH threw me a birthday and I was so overwhelmed by the amount of people that I had a little emotional breakdown! Sometimes a low-key birthday is well sought after - so I say take the opportunity to unwind for the night and put the planning aside as your birthday present/celebration.

Happy Birthday ! I'm not married yet but we are getting married August this year, which is the month of my FH's birthday. His birthday is 14 days after our wedding. I haven't planned anything for his birthday yet but we will be doing something on his birthday, and I will try to make it really fun and exciting. I think what I have done is find a balance between wedding planning and planning other events, including my sisters birthday in July, my moms birthday this month. It can get to be a lot, but a healthy balance can be done! You can always do something simple at home as well, even postpone a birthday celebration for a few days later. A big glass of wine is always a party for me lol!