To be fair, I probably already know what the answer to this question is, however, I will still pose it for further insight.
Due to difficult conversations/input from outside family members, we were coerced in to setting a wedding date after being together for 10 years and prior to getting engaged. (something dumb along the lines of, your wedding date is the date you get married and it's dumb to have a ceremony later - I digress very dumb reasoning in retrospect). Prior to being engaged, I submitted the K1 visa in the middle of May. We then set a tentative wedding date for the middle of August 2022. On the USCIS processing timelines, I see they're currently taking case inquiries for the end of March 2021.My fiance and I have fought on and off about whether or not there's enough time to complete the entire process with approval before our set wedding date in the middle of August. He's Canadian and currently only the Montreal Consulate is processing visas. There is talk that in early 2022 that other consulates/embassies will be open to further expedite the process. However, we're doubtful this will work in our favor.
We currently only have a venue, photographer/videographer, and floral design planner. I had clauses written in the contracts to move these services to an alternate date if the visa does not come in on time.
Yesterday, we got into a large argument, where he expressed that he was unsure whether we would get everything completed in time (although, I estimated 15 months for the entire process). We know that vendors need a big enough notice to change venues. He proposed moving it to October 2022, just 2 more months, to give it enough time. However, I feel we should just move it to Spring/Summer 2023 because I don't want to end up with the same problem.
How far would you push back the wedding and should we wait until January/early February before making a final decision? (I kind of want to just go ahead and move it back further because my job is extremely stressful and I don't want this stress on top of it. Plus, we're in a very large metropolitan city so I know wedding season is busy, so I want my wedding planner and vendors to have enough time to make alternate plans. We're planning to run this by our planner next week.) I know we only have one shot to move these vendors to a new wedding date so I don't want to choose poorly.