Friday Weddings

We had a Friday wedding and had a blast. We started around 5pm. There were no issues.

Generally non-Saturday weddings work best if most of your guests are local, or if the entire wedding is a destination wedding and everyone is already taking time off and traveling anyway. If people are traveling any distance, a wedding on a Friday or Sunday will likely require them to take a day off of work. Even if guests are not traveling most will have to take at least a few hours off to get dressed and ready and show up on time to your event looking their best. For a local dinnertime wedding on a Friday evening, I would end up taking a couple hours or half day off work at minimum to shower, dress, and do my hair and makeup and not feel completely rushed. I would definitely consider your guest list when deciding on wedding timing!

View Quoted Comment It's less than 15 people, my mom and dad, his mom, his dad and his wife(possibly), our 3 kids plus photographer and JoP or minister and maybe his 2 grandmothers. One is local like the rest of us and the other isn't so not sure she'd fly in.

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With such a small group I see no issue with having a Friday wedding (or even a midweek wedding). The smaller your group, the more nimble you can be. Also, if your families aren't religious, having an Easter wedding might not be a big deal at all. I wouldn't rule out keeping your original date (if it means something to you) unless it is a challenge for you, your guests, or your vendors.

View Quoted Comment We are going with Friday! We booked our condo for our honeymoon yesterday and our check in date is the 3rd. That way we can get a good nights sleep Friday night and leave early Saturday. The venue we are interested in hasn't started booking 2021 weddings yet, the lady I've been emailing said towards the end of the year beginning of next year is when they will start.

My venue only had Fridays left and everyone has to travel out of state so I sent save the dates way in advance to let them know. I felt horrible making people take the day off but a lot of them are fine with it and are turning it into a mini vacation and still get to enjoy their weekend. My reception has to end at 10:30 because of the venue so I have to start my ceremony earlier between 4-5 but people will make it work. That’s what I’ve found out through all this and I think guests will be understanding with COVID and want to be there for you however they can be.

We intentionally picked a Friday wedding. Our reasoning was that all of our guests are from out of town (we're doing a semi-destination wedding in our state), so everyone who is attending has to travel, and we wanted them to have all day Saturday to spend time in the area before heading home on Sunday. So far, we have had no complaints from anyone about it being a Friday instead of a Saturday, and everyone attending said they were planning to make a vacation out of it. My sister had also picked a Friday wedding a few years ago, and had no issues getting people to attend. I think that with enough notice, people will find a way to attend.

We got married on a Friday and it wasn’t an issue for any of our guests. It was perfect actually.

We are doing a Friday wedding (4th of July weekend) 7-2-21 at its a late one 7pm-12am I wanted to be sure people had time to take a half day if they needed. All of my Guest are coming from out of town. Most of my local guest live about 3 hours from the venue and are teachers who have the summer off. I may move it up but its hot in Texas so I may keep it the same since its outside. But yes I'd go to a friday wedding.... YES YES AND YES

View Quoted Comment We ate definitely doing a Friday wedding! In April the weather here in KY is always weird. Fingers crossed it's not freezing cold. If it is at least the day after we leave on our honeymoon.