Friday Wedding ?

My wedding is on a TUESDAY! If people want to come- they will make it happen. We are having ceremony at 5:30 and reception 6-9 (we have to be out of the place by 10) I dont believe friday weddings are tacky, and theres no need to impress/please anyone.

My cousin is marrying on a Friday next month and honestly we are all pretty excited because we will be able to truly celebrate her new marriage I think they are perfectly fine, I'd have gone with Friday but I'm not sure the Catholic church does friday weddings and that was honestly my parents only real request they fought tooth and nail for.

My wedding is on a friday and I couldn't be happier with our decision. My POV is that anyone who is important to the wedding is going to know the date well enough in advance to be able to plan to take what ever time they need off. On top of that I'm sending out Save the Dates to make sure that everyone knows.

Having the wedding on friday is saving us about $20 per person and at 161 people that is a lot of money and I don't think it is tacky at all. It's just what is best for you and what fits your schedule and finances.

Thank you all SOOO much for your responses and opinions!! You brought up great points I hadn't even thought of. And we're taking the advice to have it later in the day (5:30) with the reception starting at 7:00. Now we just have to decide which Friday, pay our deposit and our wedding date will officially be set =) Thanks again, I don't know what I would do without WW!!!

I think a friday evening wedding might be better, but its your wedding, my first wedding which I had at the courthouse, was on a friday and just my brothers and their familys and two aunts and my three parents came, but I had special permission. But i agree, they will come im sure at any time, since your giving them plenty of notice (:!

Now a days some people work even on Saturdays so they would have to deal with the same thing. I guess you have to consider if your guests are traveling from far away. I have considered Sunday, that way they can travel saturday and take off Monday, and still the rates for Sunday are lower than the ones for Saturday. Then again, I have a lot of people traveling, if I was to have it Friday they would have to take off Thursday and Friday. I don't think its tacky at all, I even had a friend who had hers on Thursday, and a lot of us had to take off work.

Congrats on your decision. Welcome to the Friday club!!

We got married two weeks ago today...on a Friday evening. We chose to have it on a Friday because it was important to my husband to get married in the Catholic Church and it was important for me for my brother to be there (he was travelling back from Africa). The 24th worked perfectly for both and so we booked it. In the process we did save significant money vs having it on a Saturday and my big worry, that people would leave early because they worked all day, did not transpire...people partied until after midnight.

Good point Carolina, a lot of people do work Saturdays, and I would think it would be easier to take off Friday than Saturday. We won't have people coming in from to far away, but we are having our ceremony and reception 2 hours from where most of our family and friends live, but there is a 1 hour time difference (where we live is an hour ahead of where our wedding will be) so if they did have to work, they could just take half a day off and have plenty of time to get ready and make it. The only people who will have to worry about Thursday (and all day Friday) would be our parents and wedding party, we haven't asked anyone to be in our wedding party yet (waiting until the date is set in stone) but all of them have flexible jobs so I don't think it will be a problem at all.

Thank you Edwina! And good to hear that people didn't leave early Amy!

Mine is a friday wedding and of the 82 ppl we invited only 10 have declined. Personally I loved the idea because we are having a very short honeymoon, driving to So. Cal and going to Disneyland but have to be back by Tuesday so a Saturday wedding would have made it impossible... that and like you said the venues offer great incentives to have it on Friday... Our venue was free we just had to use their caterer which you have to do on Saturdays anyway ($1200 savings!!)

I am having a Friday wedding and no one has had any problems with it. The venue is also giving us a deal by choosing this day. My fiance and I have decided to make it a whole weekend event.

Pick the day that works for you, you have to do the planning and preparing.

I was married Friday afternoon at 5:30. Some people couldn't attend the ceremony but they all came to the reception. I say go for it!

I was so against having a Friday wedding but since march is the most popular month to get married in AZ all the Saturdays were booked and we only were available ONE weekend (bc FHs sister could only come one weekend). Soooooo the place I fell in love with was open on a Friday so I said what the hell let's do it! Plus we saved $1000 bc of it (which wasn't why I did it but a great bonus!).

So to answer your question, no I don't think they are tacky! haha.

I know many people have said to have them start later but my problem with that is I don't want my guests to have to wait until 830 (or so) to be eating dinner, esp if there are kids running around hungry! You have to "meet in the middle" on a few things but Friday weddings are totally doable.

I went to a friday wedding and it was great! i guess it depends on where you live around here people cant do them as much because of work but i guess its a whole different life style out west because everyone seemed to have the day off!!!

Although our (tiny) wedding was on a Tuesday, the big event for us was our at-home reception, which we had on a Friday evening. We held it late enough (8:00) so that people could come home from work and grab some dinner before coming over (or else treat our heavy hors d'oeuvres as dinner). No one complained about the timing.