Memorial Day Weekend... Just realized it!

Check with your VIPs. Memorial Day Weekend can be a day that people have standing vacation/family plans. My FH is a teacher, and that's a big planning weekend for him before his class has final presentations. [And it's our anniversary.] OTOH, many people might appreciate the extra day built into your wedding weekend. It depends on your crowd.

I'm getting married the Thursday before MDW, and I sent out my STDs 6 months in advance. My invitations are going in the mail today (approx 9 weeks out). I think if you do it that way, you'll be fine. If it will make you feel more comfortable, send out your STD 7-8 months in advance.

Do you have a lot of out of town guests? I'm not a fan of holiday weekend weddings because flights are more expensive. You definitely need to do save the dates early so people can plan accordingly

Check with your must have people (parents, grandparents, siblings) to make sure that weekend works for them. I think the extra day off would be appreciated by my family, but if you have people with standing plans they might not love it. Know your crowd, consider sending invites and save the dates on the earlier side of the suggested range.

We married the Sunday night of a 3-day holiday weekend and had no problems. My Dad's relatives wouldn't have attended, if they had to take a day off work.

We mailed our save the dates out 10 months before.

We invited 250 guests, age 21 and up, and 225 accepted.

My FSIL got married Memorial Day weekend and it was awesome because almost everyone had a 3-day weekend! Some people may not be able to come to yours for family or other reasons but hey, that could happen any weekend

Check with your family. FH and I initially looked at that weekend for next year, but we had a significant number of VIPs that were not available, so we decided against it. Have you put deposits down on venues/vendors? Would you be able to change the date if you have too many VIPs with conflicts? You can't accommodate everyone's conflicts, but if you have a VIP (for me, it was most significantly my dad) that are not available I would definitely consider rescheduling.

I'm surprised the venue didn't mention it when booking .. I don't like holiday weddings however Memorial Day is much better imo than Fourth of July or Labor Day as far as people being away or sacrificing to be there . At least where I live it's usually not super beach weather yet so everyone is less annoyed about staying up from the shore that weekend

We do weddings on every day of every holiday weekend. This MDW, I have weddings every day from the Wednesday before through Monday night.

Honestly? I wouldn't worry about it. If someone has a conflict that is more important than being at your wedding? Then they can go to that BBQ they go to every year.

I'm not a fan of holiday wedding weekend if I have to travel because.... airfare.

Have it when you want it. Mine was the first Saturday of Spring Break, so I had a lot of declines due to already planned travel. Just enjoy your wedding with whoever shows up and don't be irritated or take refusals personally.

Do it if it works for you. I have seen high schools have graduation and weddings that weekend. Hotels will be a little higher priced, but I think it's ok to keep it.

We are getting married the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. We are doing Sunday because it's a Jewish wedding, so we wanted a three-day weekend. My sister and parents did the same with their weddings. If someone can't make it, we completely understand. However, we sent save the dates early enough and will send invites this week so that there is plenty of notice.

Hey date twin! I also didnt realize until our photographer made a comment to me about it, luckily I have no out of town guests but I still plan on sending save the dates earlier before they make other plans!

We are going to a MDW wedding in another state and flights are super expensive! If it wasn't a close family member, we wouldn't be attending.

I'm always a little annoyed by weddings on MDW or LDW because I only get one of those or the 4th of July off from work. If I have to use it for a wedding, I don't get to spend the time with my family or go away. My caterer also told me when I was booking a few months ago that Memorial Day weekend is the only weekend they were completely booked for in 2018 so you may lose out on or pay more for vendors that serve non-wedding related events as well.

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Keep in mind the town activities and anything going on at the venue for the holiday weekend.

I actually discourage couples from beach weddings on 3-day weekends and the week of Independence Day because the public beaches are sooo crowded. Of course, it's different if they are staying at a waterfront resort with a semi-private beach.

We're getting married Friday MDW next year. VIPs have no issue with it except my overly opinionated mom who fusses about everything that isn't her idea. We plan to send our STD 6 months out since everyone will be OOT by atleast 2 hr drive. I agree with Celia if the annual BBQ is more important to them so be it.

Mine will be Memorial Day Weekend of next year, and we chose the holiday weekend on purpose. Most of our guests will be out of town (no flying though), so we thought the extra day would be nice. Hotels may be a little pricier and traffic might be a little worse, but we are in the Chicago area, so traffic always sucks and everything is more expensive anyways . There's not going to be a weekend that will work perfectly for everyone you invite, so choose whenever works best for you guys and the VIPs!

We are getting married this upcoming Memorial Day weekend. We made sure to send our Save the Dates earlier than usual to make sure our guests could plan for our wedding in advance. We have quite a few out of town guests, so it gives them a nice long weekend to travel. So far, no one has said anything about it being over the holiday weekend.