Wedding Day friday Vs. saturday

I personally think a Saturday or Sunday is better so people attending don't have to take off work (unless they work weekends). We are getting married on a Saturday and our venue price was no different, cost the same weather it was a weekday or a weekend or a holiday.

FH is a teacher and we're having a Friday wedding! Then again, majority of our friends aren't teachers. Since most of your friends are though, I would have it on Saturday

It's pretty straight forward -- in most cases, a weekend day is more convenient for guests than a week day.... (Unless a lot of your guests are in professions that work weekends.) As a teacher myself, and coming from a huge family of teachers, week days during the school year are really tough. Like many teachers, I have a lot of time off during the year, but when I'm scheduled to be in the classroom it's very much frowned upon to take time off for anything but a major emergency. I just did a quick Google search and Easter is April 4, 2021, so depending on your date, maybe some guests would be on Easter/spring break and it might not be as big of a deal. But if your date is later in the month, it might be even more difficult to take a day off if teachers had just come back from a break a week or two before that. Also, depending on the school calendar, I think April can be more problematic than other months. I'm a college professor, and graduation is the first Saturday in May; late April is crunch time for me. I have a relative who teaches AP-level HS classes and there is no way he can be absent in the weeks leading up to the early May exams. Only you know your guests and their time constraints.

We are actually celebrating over two days because we didn't want people to have to worry about taking the day off for our wedding. I think it can work for some though. Can you plan your wedding on a day school is out without a teacher work day?

I would be okay with a Friday wedding if we didn't have lots of teachers in our friend/family circle. I was trying to figure out what Fridays teachers had off in April but soon realized the 2021 schedule won't be out until next year lol.

Along with teachers we do have a big portion of his family coming from Maine (we're in NJ) so it may just be best to have a Saturday wedding so they'll be able to travel on that Friday.

I had a Saturday wedding. Definitely does allow more people to come

We got married on a Saturday. Obviously it's more expensive but we had a ton of out of state guests, so it was a lot more feasible for them to fly in Friday than Thursday for taking off work. We also had a large rehearsal dinner, which would have been inconvenient on a Thursday instead of Friday.

We had a Friday wedding because there were no Saturdays left in the summer that didn't conflict with anything else. School was out at the time. We knew certain people wouldn't attend so we didn't invite them. Those people wouldn't attend because it was on a friday and their children weren't invited, not just because it was a Friday. We kept our guest list small so there was less risk of people declining. We invited people who would make it work regardless. If you want to invite people who are not that close with you, you may seem them decline more. If we could have had a Saturday wedding during the season we wanted at our venue, we would have. The Friday wedding worked out fabulous for us. I have no regrets. The money we saved, we put right back into more food and extra bar time.

I prefer a Saturday or a Sunday. As I type this we are on our way to a Friday afternoon wedding at 3:30. It’s 3 hours away, we have to fight beach traffic and I had to start getting ready at 10:00 this morning and I’m not even in the wedding. It’s family so we have to go but it’s taking up our entire day and my husband had to take off work.

In my opinion, Saturday weddings are always better. For the average person, you don't have to work that day or take off work to travel, and you're not having to get up for work the next day. I know other days can be cheaper, but you'll probably have more negative RSVPs. For us, having a Saturday wedding was kind of a no-brainer.

I can obviously only speak to my own experience. We had a Friday wedding, and almost ALL of the guests who were able to attend the reception were able to attend our ceremony as well. There were a handful who could not take off work for a Friday ceremony, but there were just as many who would have had the same problem with a Saturday wedding. (Retail workers, food service, etc. - we have all of that in the family and friend group.)

I think it worked out well for us honestly because we sent save the dates out as early as we could - knowing that Friday weddings have a reputation for being "all party, blow off the ceremony," we wanted to fight that as much as possible. We gave them enough time to plan to take a half day, day off, whatever they needed to do. And again, some didn't, which was fine.

The best part (besides the price difference) of our Friday party was that we got to celebrate later into the night and have that extra day of festivities with lots of friend & family time on Saturday before everyone went home Sunday. Our out of town guests really loved it too, because then they had a full weekend to go explore Chicago (as many of them had never been before.)

I would definitely say to do what works best for YOU. While taking your guests availability into consideration is AWESOME, it's ultimately your day, and if you give people enough time to plan their travel/days off, you can have a super successful wedding on ANY day of the week

Friday's a usually a bit cheaper, but can be harder for out of town guests. The best man loves about 6 hours north of here, and several people are coming from other states so Friday is out for us. It's nice for leaving early for a honeymoon though.

View Quoted Comment Really good point that it’s even tougher for teachers to take a day or even a few hours early.

Sunday brunch or or early evening (reception done by 8 pm) would be best for your crowd, especially with an hour drive to the venue. Sunday may be even cheaper than Friday.

I would say it all depends on how strongly you feel about having people at your wedding. It’s just a fact that less people go to weekday weddings over weekend weddings. And the financial aspect isn’t always true. Maybe it just depends on where you live or your venue, but none of my vendors’ prices were any different on a Friday versus a Saturday.

Saturday, 9/21/19!

I wanted those that mean the most to me to be able to attend if at all possible.

We are doing a Sunday wedding, a little bit cheaper and people don’t have to take Friday off. I’d say if most of your friends are teachers, then do the Saturday date.