Opinions on Sunday Weddings

We went to a Sunday wedding once, and we couldn't take Monday off, and lived 2 hours away from the venue (more like 3 counting stopping home to pick up the dog). We left shortly after the cake was cut and dessert served, and the bride and groom seemed kind of disappointed. I guess just know your crowd, maybe try to end earlier, or just accept that people might be leaving early.

Ours is on a Sunday. Most of our guest especially out of town will take off that monday. My venue has the same problem as yours. I'm not worried about it. If they want to be there they will. I never expect anyone's wedding to beon a saturday anymore since other days are becoming more and more popular anyways.

I have friends that went to a sunday wedding from MA to NJ, they left sunday morning and had to take monday off. they were not pleased that they had to use a vacation day, but it made sense since it was sunday because of the couples religion. i think the bride put the invite out there and didn't expect them to go.

if most people are near by i dont think it would be an issue

one thing that i am surprised that the venue you are looking actually bases what you can do around their religion.

as others have said you just need to look at your audience

I'm having a Sunday wedding! Sticking to labor day weekend though. Most of our guests are local, but I figured the travelers will be able to use Sat and Mon as travel days, and not have to take off any days from work. On a non-holiday weekend though, I'm not a huge fan of Sunday weddings. Travelers will likely have to take Monday off (which probably isn't a big deal, as most OOT guests will likely need to take a day off even for a Sat wedding), but this also means your local people would have to take a day off if they want to stay late and party. Local people usually do not want to take any days off, so most will end up leaving early.

Eh. Like others said, it depends on your crowd and the vibe you want for your wedding. It's not that I never throw down on a Sunday (hello, Super Bowl), but not everyone would be able to take Monday off. If I have to travel, it would just mean taking Monday off instead of Friday so that's not *that* big of a deal.

Talk to your VIP's (anyone who you would not want to get married if they couldn't be there).

My brother and his fiancée are having a Sunday wedding this coming august. They originally considered it because of the lower cost to rent the venue they really liked. For them (and I know this isn't true for everyone) what helped them make the decision was knowing that any family attending would be travelling (no family live where they live) and so those people would not have to get up and go to work the next day. And as for friends, well a majority of their friends work in the bar, restaurant and hotel industry and for many of them, Sunday is like a Friday, Majority of the time they do not work Mondays. So all in all they know that having a Sunday wedding may impact there attendance a little bit, but ultimately a large majority of their guests will not be impacted and they get to save money!

I think if it works for you and you think it will work for your guests, go for it.

I would see what else might be out there before committing. Sundays are nice because they are technically part of the weekend. I also heard Fridays are can be fun too. Start around 6 or 7 pm. You are giving your guests an excuse to leave work early and they can dance the night away with no work on Saturday.

We are having a destination wedding on a Sunday. People would either have to take Friday or Monday off regardless to travel, though most people are making it into a week long vacation. We both have religious reasons for not having a Saturday wedding as well. No one has complained or raised any concerns as of yet about it being on Sunday.

Doing it on a Sunday would mean an early night for your guests, unless you hold it on a long weekend where the majority would have the Monday off.

My wedding is on a Sunday at 4:30 pm and is over at 9:30. I haven't heard any of my family complain about (well not to my face). School is out that Friday and my family who is traveling hasn't complained. I just think if its important for someone to be there for your day they will come. Hell and if someone doesn't come to my wedding because its on a sunday, save me $.

We are also having a Sunday wedding. Like others here have said, ours is kind of a DW with over 60% of the guest flying in from out of state. So either way they'd have to take off work. At least this way we can make a whole wedding celebration weekend out of it and cap it off with the actual wedding.

My wedding is on a Sunday so I'm a little biased, but I think that as long as it doesn't end too late they're fine. I definitely wouldn't want to go to a Saturday wedding that started that late.

Most people who love and care about you have the decency and common sense not tell you that your Sunday wedding is an inconvenience for them. One of our close couple friends got married on a Sunday and I wasn't thrilled about it, but would I tell them that? Of course not.

We are doing a Sunday wedding. The venue was booked on all of the Saturdays that we wanted. Our ceremony starts at 3 and the reception will be over by 8. All of our families are coming from out of town and most are coming in on Wednesday and staying until the following Tuesday or Wednesday so the day didn't matter. Our local friends will party any day of the week so we are good there too.

If you do a sunday wedding I would have it end no later than 10/1030 unless it's a holiday weekend. Otherwise find a new venue Best of luck!

My wedding will be held on Sunday evening at 5pm. Given it's a holiday weekend with some being off on Monday but, having the next day off wasn't even a consideration for my guests. Our wedding is a DW so all that travels will have to take off on Monday anyway. Personally it wouldn't matter what day of the week the wedding was held if it were for my friends or family; I would make the sacrifice and be there to support.

Thanks yall for the opinions! His family will be flying in so I guess I'll just kinda see how they feel about it since it would probably affect them most, all my family is local. A long weekend wouldn't make much difference for us as most of our families are nurses/cops/military so they wouldn't have the holiday off more than likely anyways. And the venue is a family friends place that he's built so that's why it's worked around his religion. So I'll talk with family it would affect most and go from there. Thank yall again!

To me Sunday is weird because that is the day of Sabbath for my religion. So I guess it just depends on your crowd. My church wouldn't let me do a wedding after 4pm on Sat because that is the start of Sabbath.

Sunday is a fairly traditional day for Jewish weddings, as we would not normally get married on Shabbat.

Also, ours is a pseudo destination wedding, so we felt comfortable choosing a Sunday. I agree, it is sort of a know your crowd kind of thing.

I don't think you should try to replicate a Saturday evening wedding experience on a Sunday, but I love me some brunch and would love to attend a brunch wedding.