St Patrick’s Day wedding

I believe that's a more "know your crowd" situation. I wouldn't particularly care if it fell on St. Patrick's Day, but I don't celebrate the holiday apart from bar crawling but I'd skip the crawl for a wedding. On the other hand, I have a friend who is very into her Irish culture so I could see her potentially skipping a wedding depending on her relationship to that person.

If you don't have a large Irish crowd (or crowd who celebrates) I wouldn't worry about it.

I think you would have less guests attend on a Sunday and people would probably leave the reception early because of work the next day.

I think you have to know your crowd for this because some people have annual plans, some people don't. I live in the Boston area, which makes St. Patrick's Day a pretty big deal with lots of fun events going on around the city but I'm not a big drinker or going out person so I wouldn't mind a wedding that day. But if my grandfather had ever been invited to a St. Patricks day wedding, it would have been a big deal for him to miss his St. Patrick's Day festivities because he was very Irish and loved that holiday and celebrations. I love being Irish, I just don't make annual plans for the holiday.

I think my family and FH's wouldn't bat an eye at a St. Patrick's Day wedding. It's not a big-deal holiday for us. For my crowd, I'd totally go for it.

I would probably wait and do a fall date on a Saturday that they had available. That's just my crowd though - I've never been invited to a wedding on any day other than Saturday, so we didn't consider any other day of the week.

I feel your pain though, our venue was booked out a year and a half so we had to book a date 18 months in advance. Worth it for the dream venue!!

I am going to a St. Patrick's Day wedding this year - Saturday, and I had no issue with it. I really don't think they are expecting less people due to the holiday. For me, I wouldn't consider a Sunday wedding for the reason you gave unless I was really looking to save costs and my VIP's had no issue. Saturday is really the most convenient for most crowds, so we are waiting 2+ years for our dream venue, but I think it'll be worth it. It's flying by so far!

I would so totally be up for a wedding on St. Patrick's Day if it were on a Saturday. Even a Friday would work since I usually take that day off to celebrate anyway, but a Sunday? I've literally never been to a Sunday wedding being catholic and all, but I wouldn't be too upset about it if it were a late morning, early afternoon event, but that doesn't lend its self to the crazy all out party a St. Paddy's day wedding should be IMO. I would be hard pressed to attend a Sunday evening wedding where I would have to take off Monday unless I was really really close to the couple and didn't have to travel.

I have never been to a Sunday wedding either being my FH and I are also catholic. I am also 100% Irish and could see my family using that as another excuse to party. I’m just concerned because I also need 175 minimum head count and probably inviting about 200. I’m scared of having a poor turnout and having to pay for 175 people regardless.

I would be less concerned about it being on St. Patrick's day than it being a Sunday if you have a lot of out of town people. When is the first Saturday the venue has available in 2019? The time really does fly by and having a few extra months to plan and enjoy your engagement isn't a bad thing

Unfortunately not until the end of September. And we have multiple friends getting married fall 2019 already, which doesn’t give me the most open availability.

I'm getting married 3/16/2019, my FH family is irish so i thought it would be cool to kind of extend the holiday and make it a whole weekend of drinking. But I know if my wedding was on the 17th, not many people would show up. It just depends on your situation.

This is definitely a know your crowd....probably MOST of the weddings I've been to have been on sundays (and mine was too), and no one I know does anything super special for St. Patrick's so it would be no issue to anyone. Its really about travel times for your VIPs

I have a wedding 3/17/19, and it’s OOT. I don’t feel any way about it really. We are super close with the couple, so we will make it work, it being St. Patrick’s day really isn’t impacting anything for us.

I'm getting married this st. Pats. We are in the south and haven't ran into any problems except more expensive hotels but I'm near Charleston and Savannah. I agree with most that more people may have a problem with a Sunday. But Saturdays are expensive. Do you.