Mid Week Wedding?

We are thinking about this as well

I don't think it's bad taste, but be prepared for a lot of your guests to say the can't make it.

I'm having a Thursday night wedding! I have friends who had a Wednesday evening Wedding! I think if it's important enough to them to be there it doesn't matter what day you get married!

As long as you are prepared for the extra "no" rsvps, I think it's okay. Thursday is the only day of the week I would consider though.

I'm having my wedding on a Thursday evening. It's was significantly cheaper. Plus most of our guests are coming in from out of town so they'll be taking time off no matter what!

Is this a destination wedding? What are you planning for your guests? Is this going to be a later evening wedding with dinner after? Are there hotel accommodations available? These are all things that will determine what kind of wedding you are having.

Do what you want, but be prepared for more declines than a weekend wedding. Asking people to take off for your wedding is a tad presumptuous, and some people might not get that much time off to go.

@Bethyonce - nope, not a destination wedding. It'll be a 4 PM ceremony with a 5 PM reception. Ending at 10 -- and I believe we are having an "after party" as well. Yes, tons of hotels around the venue.

I don't think it's bad taste. People can either come or they can't.

If you don't have a lot of OOT guests, plan that some will come only to the reception depending on when they get out of work. Many will leave very shortly after dinner as well. As long as you are providing your guests with a comfortable venue and a meal during that time you can pull off a nice and subdued wedding within your budget.

If it's in your budget and like it then do it.

Do a lot of your guests have children? If they do they def would not be able to go on a school night. I personally would have to ask my son's dad to pick him up, depending on that answer would determine if I would be able to attend a weekday event or not.

We are having our wedding on Thursday! Not at all worrying about it. People can take a day off for your wedding.... People take days off for concerts and all kinds of other things! Everything is cheaper on Thursday!

Thursday weddings are just are meaningful as Saturday weddings. You might run into some guest issues, but it is what it. It doesn't sound like you want a huge wedding, so my guess is that you're going to get guests who are really invested in you.

And just so you know, Thursday night weddings are growing in popularity.

I think you can do whatever you want, but it will make it difficult for people who would love to be there to make it.

Do you have any OOT guests that you plan to invite? My cousin got married on a Thursday night and I had to travel from AZ to PA to be there. Her MOH had to travel from CA. Our other cousin from GA is a school teacher and wasn't able to make it. If you have any guests that would need to travel a significant distance to be at your wedding, recognize you're asking a lot more of them than to just take off from work for parts of Thursday and Friday. I flew out there on a Tuesday. That was a four weekday trip. If she has gotten married on a Saturday it would have been a lot easier to fly in on Friday and fly out on Sunday. Even a Friday night wedding would have been better because there'd only be lost workdays on the front end if the trip. Again, I think you can do whatever you want, but as an OOT guests, I can't say I wouldn't wonder why you couldn't have gotten married on the weekend. Especially if you're considering doing this right before a long weekend.

I probably wouldn't be able to attend. I can't miss school for a wedding, I could miss a day to leave town on Friday or to come back on Monday, but I would have to miss three days for a Thursday wedding (wednesday, thursday and friday) and that would just not be doable. Even if I worked a mon-fri 9-5, I would need to take three days off of work instead of 1. That would be a much greater financial burden.

I'm having a memorial day wedding. It was the best fit for us with the special we got since we are paying. I'm all for it.

We are doing a Thursday afternoon wedding, BUT it's a DW, and it makes it far less expensive on our guests, as airfare in and out of Orlando is very often cheapest on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. So for us, it only adds to the convenience/cuts their cost of attending our wedding, since most have indicated they'll probably make a vacation out of it anyway.

I think Veterans Day is on a Friday so if you did the Thursday before people may have off... other than that not many holidays besides the Monday one u mentioned. If it was local I would go but I wouldn't travel far for a mid week unless it was a close friend. If it saves you money, yet you can properly host and you are ok with declines I say go for it.

Sorry in advance for sounding like a broken record for anyone who has heard me say this before, but while I realize that MOST people work Mon-Fri, there are PLENTY of us who don't. I have had to take off work (unpaid) for every wedding I have ever attended. I've had to miss some because I couldn't get off and I have made it work (even left a job once) to be at ones that were really important to me to not miss. My advice is to contact your VIPs and make sure they are ok with the day and then in the end do what works for you. But (as PPs have said) be prepared for some people to decline or some to leave early if they still plan to work on Friday.

I'd check with your VIPs first. If they can all make it, go ahead.