Noon wedding on Friday

You can have your wedding whenever and people can decline. But you don't get to be mad about declines when your wedding is inconvenient for your guests.

I hope you're not having an outdoor wedding.

I’m also in Florida. If you’re concerned about the heat, I think noon will be just as hot as 3pm. Is your wedding outside? This is a much bigger issue than having it on a weekday. If I was given a years notice, I would absolutely take a day off to go to a wedding on a weekday for someone that is important to me.

It's definitely not ideal, but it's not the worst. A noon wedding in May in FL will still be hot. I would do an indoor wedding unless you move it to later in the evening.
People who want to and can come will come if they want tobut be prepared if people don't want to or can't take that time off of work.

I would be prepared for declines. People will have to take a whole day off of work and the heat.

Noon in May, in Florida is 85-95 Degrees depending on where in Florida you are.. An outside wedding at Noon in May would be miserable to you, and for the guests. Will the reception be inside? Is there any shade where the ceremony would be??

My best fried actually mentioned this to me, we almost did a weekday afternoon wedding, but almost our entire guest list works, so we decided to do a Saturday evening. This way local guests don't have to miss work, and our OOT VIPS actually preferred a weekend wedding, so that they could travel, and be here Thursday-Sunday.

View Quoted Comment It will probably be just as hot but the ceremony spot is at a place where it's shaded by trees at noon and the sun is kind of blaring straight overhead at 3. The ceremony is outside and only twenty minutes long. The reception is inside for sure.

I may well be wrong, but isnt the hottest part of the day between 10am and 4pm? I don't see how a noon time wedding when the sun is usually at its hottest better than a 3pm wedding for the heat?

View Quoted Comment Reception is definitely inside and ceremony is shaded around noon. Not around 3. Although I'll go back after time change to verify the sun positioning before making the final decision. I do expect a few declines simply for being on a Friday but not anymore for bring at noon than 3.....right?

View Quoted Comment No. For a noon wedding guests have to take a full day off. 3pm they could work part day.

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Twenty minute ceremony, guests will still be outside 30-45 minutes. Arrival, being seated, and ceremony time.

Shade doesn't actually cut down on anything. Heat exhaustion can still occur in the shade. It is STILL blazingly hot at 3. Noon-3 is incredibly hot. Again, depending on where in florida you're at, depends on just as hot. South Florida, you're looking at easily 80-90 degree weather.

"Orlando's weather in May is warm and humid so you only need to pack light clothes. The average maximum daytime temperature in the month of May in Orlando is a steamy 31°C, about 88°F, while the average minimum temperature is still a pleasant 18°C, about 65°F. On average, there will be 10 hours of sunshine per day."-- That's just Central Florida.

Noon, guests will still have to miss an entire day of work. For an outside wedding, an evening time would be better, then it's not as hot.

I'm not trying to be harsh, just honest.

I'm having a destination wedding in DR in late June. We decided to have our wedding at 5pm to help with the heat. The average reception is about 4-5 hours. It's not a bad thing to have a noon wedding, but be mindful that it'll still be hot and most of your guest won't stay all afternoon/evening for a long reception. Best of luck and congrats!!!

12pm is when the sun is at its highest. It tends to be the hottest time of day so if your ceremony is outside that’s a bad idea.

Also most receptions are 5-6 hours long including the cocktail hour. I’m not sure why you think it needs to go from 1-midnight that’s almost 12 hours. You’ll have to serve both lunch and dinner.

Honestly you’d be better off doing it with a 3:30 ceremony. Then an hour for cocktail hour 4-5 and a reception 5-11. That still leaves an hour of clean up. And I wouldn’t host it outside at all in that weather. No matter how short you think it will be it will be uncomfortable for your guests

Please don't have your wedding ceremony outside in May in FL. Ours was 5:30 pm in November in FL and it was still like 78 until the sun went down. Your guests will literally be melting. We went to a wedding labor day weekend a couple years ago in DC and "just the ceremony" was outside. Everyone was ducking for shade, sweating like no tomorrow, and rushed to the bathroom right after to fix their makeup/ dab off all the sweat. No bueno.

The shade won't eliminate all of the effects of heat. You still have humidity to consider.

I think the fact that you want to have an outdoor wedding in FL in May is way more rude than having a noon wedding on a Friday.
Also, to the person who said "People who want to come will come if they want to regardless." No. This is a very simplistic way of viewing the world. People have jobs and lives that aren't as flexible as "I want to come, so I will." Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you WANT to come. If you can't, you can't.

Having a wedding on a weekday is hard. But on a weekday and at noon. I would expect declines from guests. You really cant send out invites a yr in advance and a lot of people work and are in school during the day. So now your talking about taking a full day off work keeping the kids home from school and possibly needing a sitter almost all day for the young ones. I would def consider either a time switch and not have a huge reception. Or a day switch so you can have the people you want to be there attend. I know i wouldn't be able to take a full day off work ..

I appreciate the input. And I definitely don't want to party from 1-midnight but I do think cleanup will take longer than an hour. I'll think through your opinions. Thank you!

We had a Friday wedding that was OOT for a lot of people, so they had to take the day off. It worked fine for us because everyone was able to make it.

However, the "if people want to be there, they'll make it work" argument doesn't always work. One of H's cousins is a nurse and a lot of her coworkers all took maternity leave around the time of our wedding, so other time-off requests for her floor couldn't be honored. She wanted to be there, but life got in the way.

I agree with pps that the bigger issue is a noon wedding outside in the summer in a hot climate. The midnight deadline shouldn't mean you have to start that early. You can have a later ceremony and be cleaned up and out by midnight- we had a 5:00 ceremony, 5:30-6:30 cocktail hour, and 6:30-10:30 reception. Everything was torn down by midnight to my understanding.

Noon on a weekday wouldn't bother me personally, as it's WAY easier for me to get a weekday off than a Saturday. Outdoors in Florida sounds awful though.

Do you live in Florida? May is the start of the afternoon showers because it gets so hot during the day. It’s going to be so humid. I wouldn’t be a fan of an outdoor ceremony in Florida in may but have a rain plan cause may is when it starts to rain everyday becaus of the heat