Friday or saturday wedding?!

Like everyone said above, Saturday is always more convenient, if money is tight Friday will have to do!

I would base it off of how many people are coming from out of town. We have a majority of family flying in on Friday and leaving Sunday so they don't have to take off that many days from work.

I'm doing Friday since it's cheaper and was all that was available. We have a few out of town guests and I'm sending STD so they have plenty of notice if they want to attend.

We are doing a Sunday, not necessarily to save money (not that it isn't an added bonus), but that's really the only thing that worked for us and our VIPs. We both work in the restaurant that his family has owned for almost 100 years. We would never ask them to close on the busiest night of the week. His sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousins, nieces and nephews all work there, as well as our best friends.

That being said...we chose to do it the Sunday of labor day, hoping most people (outside of the family business) will already be off Monday and taking the time off work won't be an issue. Good luck!

We chose a Sunday as it's close to most of his family and my family will be travelling in from South Africa and New Zealand so would be on holiday the next day anyway. Our venue was $5,500 for Friday, $6,600 for Saturday and $4,400 for Sunday. It was initially a bit tricky working around the church's Sunday services but we opted for an afternoon ceremony so it worked out. And it saved us a bit of money to invest in other parts of the wedding. The important people will make a way to be there for your wedding no matter what day you choose!

Thank you everyone, I think I will stick with my original Saturday date that we chose to begin with, It is labor day weekend but we plan to give plenty of notice, we will be sending save the dates. So I figure anyone that wants to be there will be (as many have said) and those that may want to vacation are free to do so. But since a lot of my family are out of time I wanted to make sure they had to take off as little time as possible to come!

I'm getting married on a Thursday.. its the Thursday after both of our birthdays. Super excited I don't know anyone who has gotten married on a Thursday. Do what feels right. My venue is still super expensive whether it's Thursday Friday Saturday or Sunday

Was going to chime in to vote for Saturday ($1000 doesn't seem like enough to make it worth the inconvenience to guests) but see from your update that you agree! Now that you mention its Labor Day weekend, I think that makes an even stronger case to do a Saturday wedding

@Bridget - It's not always a matter of "wanting to be there." The husband's niece got married at DisneyWorld last year. On a Monday. The cost difference between weekday and weekend was enormous, so we absolutely understood why they chose that day.

But we couldn't be there. As badly as we wanted to be. I just couldn't get the time off work - it was my busy season, and I couldn't get 2 days off in April. Forget that it would have cost us close to $3500 for a 4 day trip. To a place we really had no interest in visiting, but were willing to.

I'm having a Friday wedding and always planned on it because this way people, and yourselves, still have the weekend. The ceremony starts at 6:30 so no one really has to take the day off unless they choose too anyway.

I am getting marry on a Saturday, only because I know people have work on Friday I just don't want them to rush.

We are doing a Friday as well, it saved us a ton of money all around. Since a lot of our guests need to travel, we have been telling folks a year in advance about the accommodations and wedding weekend schedule. It's on a beach in Florida so that when the festivities are done on Friday, we have all day Saturday to spend with our family and friends on the beach (no stress!). We haven't had any complaints and people are happy to spend a long weekend on the beach in Florida

If you have the Friday wedding just consider an evening start time so it's more convenient for people who have to work that day. I think it's worth it- that 1000 could pay for your dress or most of another big ticket item

@ruffian if they cannot make it that's fine but we like the idea of having it on a holiday weekend so that very few out of town guests have to take off work.

@Jessica that's exactly what I was thinking, but our reception would go until 11 so the latest I would want my ceremony is around 6:30 and unfortunately near me the traffic is usually still pretty bad, especially on a Friday. So I think I'll just deal with the $1000 and keep it on a Saturday