"Destination" wedding on a weekday?

If it was me I would ask my guests and kind of get an idea of how they feel about it, especially the really important ones.

We are doing similar except we are having our ceremony on Wednesday in Florida. Most of our family is coming from IL also!

1- If you're having a wedding in the location that you live, this isn't a destination wedding. We also live in Florida and are having it here, but a lot of our guests are OOT. Not a DW though.

2-Agree with PPs about asking your VIPs. Perhaps you could check out a Friday night wedding instead of Monday if you are trying to cut costs? That way OOT people will only have to take 1 day off work(Friday) instead of 2 (Monday and Tuesday).

How long is the flight? I'm in NY doing a DW in Florida. We picked Saturday so those tight on time could literally catch a flight after work on Friday, if necessary, and still make the wedding on Saturday. The flight is only 2-3 hours though.

ETA: some of our guests are teachers so knew it may be hard for them to miss days of teaching.

We had a destination wedding on a Monday and it was perfect! Guests started arriving Friday night and Saturday morning. We got to hang out with family and friends a couple days prior to the wedding rehearsal and wedding day - I would do it all the exact same again.

Thanks for all the advice so far! @yvette great advice/example! I think you've convinced me lol also, thanks for all other advice! Our family and bridal party are clear for really any time frame, so hopefully all works in our favor.

Every wedding is a destination for some of your guests. If they have to travel, it's a destination.

You're never going to please everyone and not everyone works m-f, 9-5. Unless I had two years notice, I couldn't go away on a weekend......

One could make an argument that if you're not worth taking a day off for, then they can always RSVP "no".

We live in Florida too (Orlando) and at least 80% of our attendees are coming from out of state. We selected a Thursday wedding date so we could spend the weekend with our guests and also discounts!!!! Lol we can also bargain to have the venue Wednesday night to set up for the wedding since not many people hold weddings on wednesdays

We are doing a Monday wedding. It's a cruise one so dictated by cruise line but we are doing it on Columbus Day weekend so some people have off work. I'm not expecting a lot of people due to time frame

This is a know-your-crowd thing. I would never have a Wednesday destination wedding in my crowd because that would mean people would have to take at least 3 days off work and I think that's selfish. If your crowd doesn't work Monday - Friday, then a Wednesday may work. But the main thing to do is ask your VIPs before doing any planning and strive to find a convenient date/time/location for them.

I'm with Celia. I don't get off weekends and it is actually horribly inconvenient to have to request my one weekend off in 3 months to go to a wedding. Not saying i wouldn't, but I just hate how everyone is like-weekends are so much better. Like no they're not for all of us. Some of us have to work the weekend

Weekday weddings work better for me (pastor) so a Monday wedding wouldn't phase me at all

A Monday wedding would probably require your guests to take a second day off of work -- namely, Tuesday. Stick with Sunday. Sorry, but I wouldn't attend your Monday destination wedding...no offense, of course...especially if my time off of work is limited.

Sounds great. Just give people enough notice so they can arrange work and school schedules. Weekday weddings have better prices.

I would choose a weekend nonetheless. People generally have weekends off so if you have a Saturday wedding they might only need to take Friday off. If you do during the week, that's more days off they'd have to take

If your wedding is on a monday night, that means i would have to take both monday and tuesday off. i wouldn't be a fan of that. if your guests typically work weekends, then it might be okay.

We are doing a Tuesday wedding for our DW. We only had one family member not happy with this but everyone else loved the fact that they could settle in and enjoy some down time and outings before the wedding. This is not the norm I am finding though anywhere. Even my vendors on the island asked if we were sure about the date.

View Quoted Comment It's my wedding in not picking a destination/time /location for anyone except me.. Sorry... If literally no one shows up.. I'M STILL GETTING MARRIED... We live in Florida getting married in TN... On a Thursday.. We are giving guests advance notice min 9 months in advance (save the dates). That's plenty of time to make arrangements if they want to attend.

Also most of our guests seeing as it's a vacation area are using our wedding as their vacation for the year. So if it's a fun area there shouldn't be an issue.