Waiting longer to tour venues…will I miss out?

My fiancé and I have found a couple of venues that we really like! Our goal is to get married on a Saturday or Sunday in fall of 2025 or spring of 2026. But if we can book a fall date we’d be over the moon excited. No specific month in mind. Both venues are in Rhode Island.

The trouble is that it’s unlikely my fiancé and I will be able to go tour either of these places for at least another month. There are some big changes coming up for my future mother-in-law and we need all hands on deck to support her. I’m fine with waiting to go on these tours, as I want my fiancé to be involved in this decision.

When I first spoke to the event coordinators at both of these venues, they gave the impression that they still have a lot of openings for weekends in fall of 2025, as they’re focused on booking out the rest of 2024. But they also said that fall dates are usually the first to go.

Is it possible that these venues could be all booked up for fall of 2025 by mid-May? It seems unlikely, but I know these things can get competitive.