Weding, wedding and more weddings

2008 has been a very odd year for weddings. I find most years the dates fill up 6 months to 1 year in advance. 2007 went really early but I think that had a lot to do with 7-7-07 and the luck of the number '7'. 2008 has been super slow to book. In fact in January, when I usually have 10-15 weddings booked I only had one. I was a little bummed but kept telling myself it would happen~I knew it would. It's also kind of odd because I'm booking some 2009 dates already and have been informed by a very good client she will be stopping in soon to fill out her contract for 2010 :-)
I have an April 5th wedding and then nothing until the end of May. I was wishing some of the earlier dates had filled in April and May, but resolved myself to spending a lot of weekends playing in the dirt in my garden. We're setting our goal at 30 weddings in 2008. I keep telling myself we're going to achieve this (power of positive thinking!) I didn't actually start to believe it until just last week.
Early in the week I met with a couple and booked May 10th. Then a couple came in on Friday and booked April 26th. Things really do happen for a reason. My May 10th wedding had a photographer but decided they really loved the style of my work and switched. The April 26th wedding had their reception site fall through and because of this were being compensated well enough to add a photographer to the wedding day.
Today a groom called and e-mailed about April 12th. They had a retainer on a photographer and now the photographer isn't returning their calls with only 10 days before the wedding. I'm really excited to be able to help them out.
Looks like 2008 is filling in without a problem...only a few more dates to fill now :-)