July 3rd vs July 4th

People who want to be there will be there with enough notice.... --- missing their cookouts n fire works--that happen every single year--big deal. youre getting a sweet deal -do it

Im on July 4th! I cant wait. Go for it!

I'd totally attend your wedding! Gives me plans for the holiday!!

Lots of people get married on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, or Memorial Day weekend, and Labor Day weekend - who cares? It will make it easy for FH to remember your anniversary, and you get a free fireworks celebration for your anniversary every year - how awesome is that?!

My son's birthday is July 6th. Planning his party every year gives me a headache because no one wants to go to a birthday party for a kid on the weekend of or after the 4th. Hell, he is my kid and it pisses me off that my uterus couldn't hold his ass in there a week longer to make it convenient for everyone involved. That being said, I do not expect everyone in his life to attend his party, even when I go out of my way to pick a more convenient date either at the end of June or mid July. People want there holidays to do what they want. I personally would never have his party the actual weekend of 4th of July out of courtesy of others . I personally would not go to a wedding planned on or near a holiday i.e. the day before or day after. Family or not, I think it is kinda selfish and rude to plan a wedding on a holiday but that is my personal opinion. Be prepared for some declines.

I'm getting married on July 4th. We checked with super important family members and after getting the green light are going for it. FH is a vet, and we are a patriotic family so we are enjoying coming up with a vintage 4th of July theme! Have fun with it!

We're getting married July 3. We've only had one person (FFIL) complain about our date choice, and his complaint was that gas prices will be outrageous that weekend. I agree that they might go up a tad, but I would never consider it an outrageous jump in price, but whatever. Wedding on fourth of July weekend means I totally have an excuse to have fireworks at my wedding Super pumped about that!

I think it is awesome that you are getting the discount. We did a Save the date early because ours was on a holiday weekend (thanksgiving) and wanted to give them plenty time to prepare. I think you will likely get just as many people that can't come to a Holiday weekend on the 3rd as the 4th...because of other family plans they have every year....but you might get more of the people that couldn't attend a Friday wedding with work and such but can attend a Saturday wedding.

It doesn't make it easier but I know for us we were glad to have a long weekend so we could spend more time with people (which for us involved planning more events-for you it might be just seeing family an extra day)...but I am loving having more time with the people I care about instead of just a few hours 1 day.