Opinions on a Sunday wedding? Pros/Cons?

I don't mind them at all. Just know that people may leave just a little earlier if they do have to work/take kids to school.

We do Sunday weddings every week in season. It's a little cheaper at the venues. The vibe is a little different, but the attendance is usually about what we anticipate.

I'm getting married on a Sunday. For us, we had a target month (October) and then absolutely fell in love with our venue, only to find out that every Fri and Sat in the fall was already booked.

I'm not super worried about it being on a Sunday. Be aware that guests may not want to party all night long.

I wouldn't go to a Sunday night wedding that required travel. I think this counts as passing the costs of your wedding along to your guests. Add up the costs of everyone missing a day of work and you have way more than a thousand dollars right there.

For a Sunday wedding, if I could get back home by a decent bed time, I would totally go. If it required a day off work and hotel, I would do it only if it was an immediately family member or best friend.

My beloved and I are considering a Sunday wedding. Mostly for the cost, but also for the convenience. At the end of the day it is about you and your Beloved. It's your day do what makes you happy.

I don't mind Sunday weddings usually, but you're already asking a lot with the majority of the guests having to travel to you. It would be one thing if most people would make a vacation out of your wedding and take a week off for it, but people probably aren't going to make a vacation out of going to Sarasota like they would with Hawaii or Jamaica.

If you did a Saturday wedding, they could fly in the morning of your wedding and go back Sunday if they didn't want to miss work. If you do a Sunday, you may have a big drop in attendance unfortunately (not because of the Sunday but the traveling on a work day). $1000 wouldn't justify that difference in attendance for me, but does it for you?

I noticed that your wedding is nearly two years away. Have you guys considered doing it back in Illinois where 140 of 150 guests are or doing a smaller wedding down in Florida? I have been to weddings like this (where everyone travels), but they've always been much much smaller than 150 (like 60 or so).

My best friend got married in New England and it was a destination wedding for 99% of her guests and for her & her now husband and they had it on a Sunday. With that many out of town guests, they are going to have to travel at least 1 day for the wedding so making it on Sunday probably won't be an issue.

I've been to two Sunday weddings: One was on the other coast and I made a vacation out of it, so it seemed like a long weekend anyway. The other was in a mid-sized city that's sort of a far-flung suburb of where I live but at the same time, sort of its own metro. A lot of people wound up leaving around 8:30 pm to make it back to work in the city (and as it was, we wound up driving through windy mountain roads in a massive thunderstorm.)

Edited to add: Most Jewish weddings are on Sundays (if not later on Saturday evening.)

I don't mind. If I am traveling I can just travel on Saturday. I would rather you do a wedding on a Sunday than a Friday if I have to travel because then I would need to take off two days of work. A Sunday wedding is the the same number of days off.

As a local guest i am fine with it also but would leave around 8 so I could go home since it is a work night.

Check if Columbus weekend is open in October . My best friend got married that Sunday two years ago and bc most people did not work Monday it was nice

If you do run into problems with Sunday evening and your guest list, consider Sunday brunch. Done by 3, they can still be home that evening.

We did a Sunday night, of a 3-day summer holiday weekend, primarily because it was one of the only weekend nights available, from April-October, the year after we got engaged. We saved around $50 p.p., so we were able to add more food and host more people.

@AlwaysMs. Awesome idea!

I was considered having a Sunday evening wedding start at 4 reception over at 9. The cost was cheaper.. I'm in IL and most of our guests are in IL as your! You should be fine.. remember to end reception earlier most people will have to work the next day.

I agree with Soon2 be Watson. After a venue tour I realized that Sunday weddings are super popular. So the time of your wedding ,and the season. Will determine if a Sunday wedding will be cheaper. I am planning a Sunday before a holiday, so guest will have next day off.

Also, don't count on Sunday weddings to be cheaper in Florida. It's a year round destination wedding area. My friend who recently had a Sunday brunch wedding found that while brunch was cheaper than dinner, having a Sunday brunch was not cheaper than Saturday. You can also shoot for a Sunday that is before a federal holiday, so folks have some time back home to recuperate.

We are going to a Sunday wedding soon. The family is Christian/agnostic so I don't know why they chose a Sunday because it's being held at a family member's house. We will fly up Friday night, rehearsal and rehearsal dinner Saturday, wedding Sunday at 4:30 PM, dinner, yadda yadda . . . drive 1.5 hours to "sleep" in a hotel near the airport and catch a 5:30 AM flight. We will be trashed on Monday. See what you put people through? Just to save $1000? Seriously? Flights and hotel are costing us $3000 for 4 people. This family is scattered so it would be a destination for all guests no matter where they held it, but they could have considered the WHEN and had a brunch wedding on Sunday so we could have skeddadled back to our lives in better shape!

My best friend just got married at sunset on a Sunday evening and then we had the reception. It ended at 9, I was back at the hotel before 9:30 and I woke up at 5am to catch my flight home but I didnt mind at all. I even went to work when I got home