Friday weddings???

Just don't do them during the day and you are fine

Personally, I don't have any problem with attending a Friday wedding. I also get paid time off that I can use for whatever reason I want. I could see people having problems with it because it is on a weekday. If you have OOT guests, that would mean that most of them would miss two days of work at least to attend. Then you have to consider if your guests will have kids that they need to take out of school for the day and other hassles regarding children during the week. It is much easier to get a babysitter on the weekend if need be. Again, not an issue to me, but I can understand why it can be an issue for someone else.

It depends on the time. If your ceremony is at 7, I'll be there all dressed up. If it's at 4? Then I need to take PTO or a holiday day from work. I'd really only do that if you were close. Otherwise, I'd be rude and skip the ceremony.

It's not harsh feedback, it's just reality for a lot of folks. I hear this a lot about Friday weddings. I'm personally not a fan, in general. I don't think it's bad etiquette though.

We chose against a Friday wedding because we didn't want people to have to take off work or anything like that

I went to a Friday wedding once and it was a pain. I had to leave work half day so that I could take the kids to my mom and then travel an hour away to the wedding. If it was local and late on a Friday evening, it wouldn't have been so bad.

I'm doing Friday. I don't care what people think. It's inconvenient for my family in CA either way. So. We picked a date that we wanted.

We didn't choose a Friday wedding because half of our bridal party is out of town and we didn't want to desk with thursday rehearsal etc. Plus we wanted to make sure everyone could make it. Unfortunately some people don't have the ability to get the time off and I know if be bummed if I couldn't get the time off for a friend's wedding. Saturday is usually more expensive but was better for what we wanted. Now if you have an evening wedding you'll probably have more people show. Don't forget Friday traffic. At least where we are, Fridays are the worst.

I'm having a Friday wedding as well which is starting at 3. The only issues I'm running into is people having to call out sick. But the way I look at it is that those who really want to be there will make the time. And I don't mind if people will just come to reception after they get off of work since that starts at 5:00.

I'm gonna comment again. Whatever. I'm doing a Friday, mostly because we wanted to get married at this specific venue and they only had Fridays left in June. But, it hasn't seemed to be a big deal to anyone. Like jo, my family is travelling from California. Either way it'll be a trip. Your OOT guests generally are super close to you so I doubt they'd mind, and what I've noticed for our guests that most of them plan on spending time after the wedding, over the weekend, rather than traditionally before. But that's not really a problem and they take off about the same time they would anyways to travel.

I love the idea! I wanted a fall wedding so Saturday was automatically out bc of football. My nephew plays highschool football so we couldn't do Friday so ours is on a Sunday. But if I could've chosen any night, it would've been Friday (it's usually cheaper than Saturday & people will still stay late60)

We're having a Friday wedding. Evening ceremony, smallish guest list. If they want to come, they won't and that's fine. Most are excited to have an extra day to "recover" and that they don't have to give up an entire Saturday/weekend to attend.

Friday weddings wouldn't bother me one bit

But I did want to say @ayesha..... you photo girl is stunningly beautiful, you are absolutely gorgeous! I adore your colors and your hair.Also hello fellow Cincy Bride!

We're doing Friday. We wanted to keep our guest list to the important people in our life and didn't mind saving 25% by having the wedding on a Friday. The people who want to be there will be there and make it work. I personally don't care if it inconveniences anyone they can figure it out.

It didn't bother me when I attended, we did a Saturday because our church only had Saturday weddings available.

Our friend was married last June and DH was a groomsman, he had to take the whole day off which was fine, but I had started a new job and wasn't able to attend until 6, around the time the reception started. I was sad to miss the ceremony!

@almostmrssaraza 3pm on a Friday? That's really inconvenient. Even if I wanted to be there If I had a critical meeting I could not sacrifice my job for a single event. If I was able to take PTO I would be kind of upset taking 1 of my 10 days I get to attend someone's wedding who planned it during working hours...

We are doing a Friday night. Yes it's cheaper but no matter there are going to be people that are inconvenienced even if it was on a saturday. You can't make everyone happy so go work what you want and can afford.

I'm totally fine with Friday weddings! In my circle, we attend more Friday and Sunday weddings than Saturday! None of us can afford Saturday weddings in NJ!

Friday weddings can be hard for OOT guests that will need to take multiple days off to travel to the wedding location. If you are having a small intimate wedding with not a lot of OOT guests, then a later Friday night wedding would be fine! It really depends on what you want on your day!

I feel Friday weddings are becoming more and more popular. Our head of IT is getting married on a Friday.. and we are too! We figure it gives people TWO days to recover I think as long as you have it late enough for people to be able to make it even if they can't get off work, then you're good!

My wedding is next Friday...@7

Dinner will be a little late in the evening but I'm sure our cocktail hour will hold people over. There will be many yummy choices. Not one person on our guest list has a problem with coming, everybody is excited!