reception halls

It looks like Eric and I will be looking at reception halls as well as booking the church over Easter break, and hopefully booking a reception hall sometime in May. We weren't planning on booking one until June, but I was talking to this girl I know who is also getting married, October of '07, and they are looking at reception halls already and a lot of them are already booked! This far in advance-for October! So now I'm worried that a lot of the halls that we'll be looking at will already be booked for August '07 since summer is a busy time to get married. Hopefully we'll be able to get what we want and won't have too many problems with the hall, I don't think I could handle big wedding problems this far in advance. Maybe in a year, closer to the actual wedding, but not a year and a half before it!