Weekday vs Weekend Weddings?

It depends if most of your guests are local or out of town. If you have a lot of out of town guests a Wednesday wedding would be difficult.

Yes, I would say it depends on you guests location as well as the time. If I live an hour away, I could come probably, but if it's a late wedding and I have kids it gets more complicated. But, it is summertime..and there are babysitters.

I think this is a know your crowd kind of thing. Are most of your guests local? Do they have children? Do most of them work 9-5 schedules? Honestly, unless I was super close to someone, I probably wouldn't attend a Wednesday wedding.

I think it would mainly depend on your guest. I know me personally working and having to take off in the middle of a week for a wedding and possibly the next day depending on the location and time I probably wouldn’t attend.

Also what is traffic like in your city? In ours, it could easily take 60-90 minutes just to go across town and that assumes everyone works here and not 1-2 towns away.

If you’re having a small wedding, most guests will probably show up. If you’re inviting a lot of extended family, friends & co-workers you might get a lot of declines so don’t commit to a large F&B or guest count minimum at your venue. (Cool wedding date, by the way!)

We had a Monday wedding (and a DW) but only with 15 guests, mostly retired family. We asked our few friends if they could go before we booked our date. 👍

We are having our wedding on October 17th 2019, which is a Thursday. My mom wasn't too happy about it at first but we are paying for our wedding ourselves. And having it on a Thursday saved us $3000. In my opinion, your close friend and family will come no matter what the day. If you give them enough notice, the people who truly matter the most will be there to celebrate your day with you. Now my opinion is not the popular opinion but as time goes on and weddings cost more and more I think more people will be having weekday weddings.

I am having a weekday wedding on July 4th! A lot of people will have work off for the holiday and it saves us $2000!

I feel like a Wednesday would be super annoying for everyone, local and out of town guests. For out of town they would probably have to take at least 4 days off work, and for local I can’t imagine enjoying a wedding as much in the middle of the week. If you want to do a weekday, can you do a Friday, or even a Thursday or Monday might be better?

We are having a weekday wedding - well, Friday. On a holiday weekend.

90% of our guest list is within an hour or two of the venue, so I thought it okay to choose a weekday, as not a lot of people would be traveling from out of state.

ETA: Having a Wednesday wedding, you should go in expecting a decent decline rate.

I like the idea of a weekday wedding for like a Friday or Thursday because it allows family to relax on the weekend and stay with you if you want

It would depend on my relationship to the bride and groom. If it was family or people I love like family I would gladly take the time off of work and do what needs to be done to go to a wedding any day of the week. If it was someone I wasn’t that close with, I wouldn’t go due to Inconvenience.

Definitely depends on your guests, a weekday wedding for me would most likely be impossible to attend unless it was in town. I’m a teacher and I’m o lot allowed 2 personal days for the year so travel isn’t an option unless it was my brother. We had a Friday wedding which still had deep savings, but it was over winter break and for many of our guests that meant they didn’t have to take time off. We did have several out of town guests not able to attend because of that, but that was okay with us.

I think a weekday wedding is fine but I'd aim for closer to the end of the week. I mean I am having a Sunday wedding and it'll be an evening wedding and most of my guests have made preparations for it as they will be missing work on Monday however, these are my closest family and friends so they're totally okay with doing this. For this reason I am also making my timeline quick so that we can get through the most important parts quickly and if guests have to leave to go to work then they won't be missing anything. I guess if you're going to do this then you have to be considerate of your guests and should not have a late ending time, food served quickly and cake too. I hate it when I've been at a wedding for hours and am ready to go but they still haven't cut the cake. My plan is to have cake served no later than 9pm and that'll be the last thing, then those who can and want to stay and party with us can and will and those that need to leave can go without missing out. I also did it because of the price, we have a wonderful deal and we've let our guests know over a year in advance as it is child-free and a Sunday evening wedding. Our guests are so excited, we're the 1st ones in both our groups of friends and family to get married with a nice wedding and have our honeymoon planned right after.

You should know you're group and if they're cool with it then do it, save your self some money and have a super important date for your wedding!

I am having my wedding on a Thursday. It wasn't a problem until my maid of honor couldn't get the day off. She means a lot to me but I can't change the wedding day for one person.

I am having a Friday wedding it was much cheaper than doing a Saturday wedding. I will also have more time with my guest. 80% of our guests are from out of town. They know about the wedding a year in advance, so most have already taken that Friday off of work to get her and spend the weekend with us. We live and are having our wedding in Kansas City. There are many places to go and see here, so we also wanted to give our guest the opportunity to visit some of the famous places around Kansas City. They can do this Saturday and Sunday since most of them are leaving Sunday night. Some venue will give you the same rate for a Friday wedding as they would a Monday-Thursday wedding. I would check with whatever venue you decide to go with. Just remember Saturday wedding are the most expensive