Friday evening wedding on holiday vs. non-holiday weekend

Regardless of your guests' work schedules, any wedding held on a weekday is still inconvenient as opposed to a weekend wedding. Are you able to have your wedding on a Saturday instead? If you're set on a Friday, I would go with the first option, as many people do vacation over the 4th of July weekend.

Not everyone is off for federal holidays and not everyone has the luxury of leaving early on Fridays just because it's summer time. If a Saturday wedding isn't an option, I would opt for a non-holiday weekend. Weekday weddings are already a slight inconvenience, I think adding it to a holiday might make it a struggle for more guests.

I wouldn’t mind July 3rd because we never travel (my friends don’t either) but none of us have kids. As long as you don’t have out of town guests (flight & hotels would be outrageous), it might be ok.

A lot of families take a summer vacation in June so if you choose a Friday that month, send Save the Dates at least 6-8 months early.

Regular Friday night. We’re getting married July 17th of 2020. If people really want to be at your wedding they’ll make a point to get off early. But with a holiday any type of traveling can be more expensive.

I wouldn't do the July 3rd date. If there's a "sanctioned" long holiday weekend, I would expect a lot of people to make other plans -- especially for a holiday like the 4th, which in my perspective nearly everyone celebrates in some way. I agree with others that I'd much prefer a Saturday wedding (or Sunday daytime), but if I'm local and can get off work in time I'd attend a Friday night wedding (that's not on a holiday weekend).

I agree, I wouldn’t do July 3rd, unless you’re okay with a high decline rate.

Regular Friday. ESPECIALLY for a local wedding.

Personally, I think all Friday/Weekday weddings are inconvenient generally - but if those two are your only options I would do the regular Friday. I am getting married this July, on July 6th which is a Saturday. I was concerned it would be inconvenient but because the 4th is on a Thursday before and not over one of the weekend days I was a little more at ease. We only had so many dates to work with so we went with it. I'm currently getting RSVP's back now and have only had two declines so far. So I think the holiday thing is a know your crowd type of thing too. I've never known anyone to really travel for the 4th but then again some people might.

I would go with option 1, but don't plan on people being able to leave work that early just because it's summer. My current job is strictly 8-5 except for the Friday of a holiday weekend, where they let me off an hour or two early at best. So go ahead and plan for that Friday if needed, but I would start later like 6 or 6:30.

Hi Jennifer! Did you and your FS decide on a date for the wedding yet? Which will you go with?