Easter Weekend Wedding?

Depends on how religious your friends and family are. My future husband's side of the family and some of my extended family would be offended and would not make the trip. We have quite a few preachers on both sides of our family. But if they aren't super religious it could be a fun weekend.

This would be true for me too. We go to family celebrations on Easter weekend and would have to decline any other invitations.

I agree this is a know your crowd thing. Not everyone gets Good Friday off. To some people it is a really big deal (Good Friday and Easter) and to others.....no biggie.

Yeah I would check with VIPs to make sure this weekend will work for them and expect more declines than usual.

We have our date set for April 19, 2019 and I realized about 3 weeks after we booked the venue that it was Easter weekend! At first I panicked but there's nothing I can do now, and Easter isn't a HUGE holiday for our families, so I don't think it'll interfere too much. Everyone can still go about their business on Sunday for Easter. But we are also getting married that Friday, and not that Saturday as you are considering.

I think it depends on what Easter is like for your family and what your family members usually do that day/that weekend.

I'm catholic so this would be a no go in our family. The church doesn't do weddings during lent anyway. As a guest, I would not be too keen on the idea since this is my favorite holiday, even more so than Christmas. Catholic churches also celebrate their Easter Vigil on Saturday night before Easter Sunday. It's a rather lengthy evening mass where new members are confirmed. Definitely a know your crowd decision.

Oh another thing to consider, I'm traveling during Easter weekend this year to do a final walk through with my venue and have my final dress fitting. The tickets were HIGH as hell, higher than I paid to fly during Christmas and double what I'm paying to fly out 2 weeks later for my wedding. It might be because of Easter or it could be because it is the tail end of spring break travel, not sure, but it was high.

I agree with everyone else, "know your crowd". If they are religious, they probably won't come. My FH and I are getting married on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. His mom is Jewish, but not really all that religious, so she was fine with the date. She asked the few Jewish friends and family she has who are invited if they would be offended by the date and they all said they didn't care and would attend our wedding. So, it really all depends on the crowd.

Easter is the end of many Spring Breaks. It is insanely priced to fly during this time. I have a lot of Catholics in my family and they would not be okay with an Easter weekend wedding.