a Thursday wedding?

I would say it can work well if planned ahead and your crowd is good at thinking ahead but if not they would have a hard time to book a hotel or a plane ticket that close to a noticed holiday, especially in nyc. What about a holiday like labor day, presidents day, columbus day, ect. You know the ones that everyone likes because they get off work but dont celebrate?

With enough advance notice, people will rearrange their schedules if they really want to attend. Send out save the dates 6 months in advance so they can prepare (including booking hotels), especially since it's a holiday weekend. I don't see anything wrong with your date and guests would love to share the date with you regardless of when it is and where they are coming from. Be prepared for some people to want to spend the actual holiday with you because it's so close.

I would give your guests extra notice since not only are you thinking of having it during the week, but also right around the holiday. I agree with Jana that some of your guests might expect to spend the holiday with you since your wedding is so close to the holiday.

Normally you send STDs and invites earlier for odd day and/or holiday weddings, so I'd do the same here, but then it should be fine! Lots of people have unique days for weddings and people still attend. It should be fine

I think it all depends on your friend & family group. Most our friends/family work in business jobs, so they would get July 4 (and probably the day after or before depending on how close it fell to a weekend) so also taking off June 30 & July 1 would be a lot. If you do July 1, I'd send Save the Dates out 10-12 months in advance so people can really plan. I was in a wedding in 2017 as a bridesmaid, and it was on a Thursday. We made it happen (we had 8 months notice) but it was a lot to take off Wednesday & Thursday & Friday.

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Thanks for your feedback! I guess it is a lot to take off but we won't be having a rehearsal dinner so don't know if that would make a difference.

I think that'll be fine actually, plenty of people will want to take a long weekend for 4th of July anyway!

I have a bit of an out-there thought... have you considered Monday, July 5? It isn't ON the holiday, but many companies will likely give their employees off "for the holiday" on Monday (since Sunday is already a weekend). So many people may already have off that day and be having a long weekend... Just a thought! Maybe run it by some of your VIPs for their thoughts?

I’m getting married Memorial Day weekend next year and am sending my save the dates out by the end of this month! I wanted to give people plenty of notice so that they can take off. I also put the actual day of the week (instead of just the wedding date) on the design as well so that people were aware that it is a Sunday and can prepare. I didn’t want people to just see the date and just assume that it was on a Saturday and be shocked later!

If I'm coming from out of town I'm significantly less likely to be able to make it if it's in the middle of a week, not more likely.

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That's so thoughtful to include it in the design and thanks for sharing your experience!

Along with everything everyone already said, I would also consider the cost of travel for your guests. If you are asking them to travel to NYC for that holiday weekend, airfare and hotels jack up their prices like crazy. This is the case everywhere, but hotels are already obscenely overpriced in NYC on a normal day. So it will most likely costs guests even more money to attend a wedding around a holiday. Thursday is also tough because that means whoever will most likely need to take that Wednesday off as well for traveling. I know I personally don't like to arrive to the destination the day of the wedding in case there are any snags along the way.

July 1st is a great anniversary date! I love it and everyone is very sympathetic to brides and grooms during everything, I say go for it!!

I would rather do a Sunday than Thursday. If I was traveling I wouldn’t have to take as much time off.

The only thing with a mid-week (Thursday) wedding if you have many out of town guests is that they technically need to arrive on Wednesday. So that means that your out of town guests need to take off on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to attend your wedding.

I think thursday isn't so bad for a july 4th week but i would absolutely tell people way ahead of time because the likelihood of people going on vacay is high

Since Friday and Saturdays are taken, why not try a Sunday ?

I agree with the person right above me. If Fridays and Saturdays are taken, then a Sunday is the next logical move! Of course, Thursday could also work if given enough advance notice. However, right before the 4th of July is probably not the best time to have to both take off of work and purchase a very expensive flight due to the holiday. I would say either book any Sunday or a Thursday that is not right before a holiday weekend

It also depends if flight & hotels are more expensive. I would never suggest a wedding with a lot of out-of-town guests for President’s Day or Labor Day weekend because I know travel is expensive. Not sure about 4th July? Seems like a lot of people stay local?

I was basically told by my planner to avoid having a wedding on holiday weekends. Everything related to travel is usually way high. I wanted to reschedule to Labor Day weekend since we are a Sunday wedding and she strongly advised against it. Her points were valid and we didn’t. She was right too... hotels are already expensive that weekend and flights as well.


Thursday is fine for a wedding I would think if most guests were local. Anyone traveling out of town or even in the wedding would have to take off basically Tuesdayish to Friday. But if you are dead set, those that want to come will find a way!! Good luck!

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Sunday weddings are as expensive as Friday or Saturday weddings, the difference is very minimal.