Easter Saturday Wedding - Feedback

If I were invited, I'd go. I'm not big into the religious aspect of Easter ( I know some are). Anything to celebrate is a plus in my book. I suppose this is a know your crowd type thing.

If I was local, then I don't think we would have any issue attending. We'd go to your wedding on Saturday, then go to church on Sunday. But, if we had already committed to going away that weekend to visit family, then we'd have to decline.

If I'm an OOT guest, then it'd be a toss up and dependent on whether I knew about your wedding date early enough. Did you tell us we were invited before our family started discussing plans for Easter? Have we committed to anything at our church before we found out we were invited to your wedding? Will we be able to make our travel arrangements so we can visit a church in the area where the wedding is taking place on Sunday morning, or will traveling home on Sunday mean we have to leave early enough that we can't go to a church service at all?

I wouldn't automatically say no to attending your wedding because it's the same weekend as Easter, but there's a higher chance we'd decline because we had a prior commitment.

Wow thank you all for the feedback! Well my fiancé is doing some research but he reassured me his side of the family will be fine! His grandma that lives in OK said she is good with the date. I called my venue and they said I cannot change so there’s that. I’m sending out save the dates 6-7 months in advance and invites 3 months out (my venue requires a final headcount 60 days out). I believe that is plenty of time for scheduling. I may post on my website the surrounding churches and make little Easter baskets for the little ones attending. Thanks again for the great feedback everyone!

I think traditionally, holiday weekends are not the greatest. I'd anticipate a lower amount of guests showing up than on another weekend. We usually get together with our family Easter Sunday for church & lunch, so some are traveling out of town. So they sometimes leave the night before, or wouldn't want to be out late. I think I'd still make an effort to attend if it was in town. Out of town, probably not.

Good thing is there is a lot of single individuals and I’m having entire families invitied. I’ve texted the families and they’ve told me that the date is totally fine with them. I don’t have any extended family like second cousins or great aunts were inviting or expecting to come anyways.