Sunday Weddings?

My first wedding was on a Sunday. It was from 5-11 p.m. I had 69 guests and invited 70. I think most people left around 10 p.m. but my closest friends stayed until the very end. We had a lot of fun and people enjoyed themselves.

View Quoted Comment That's probably around the time I would want. Leaving an hour early doesn't sound awful. From what I've been reading on other sites that seems that's been 50% of the answers.

Other half said people left very early. Suppose it depends on who I invite. But I figure over a year notice should be more than enough time for those who care to call off Monday

I've been to several Sunday weddings. The one that was a Sunday evening was the most difficult, and we did leave early because of work the next day. I've also been to one that started at 11am and ended at around 5pm, which felt too early. I have one this month that starts at 3pm, which I think is a good in between.

Also, a year is not too short notice to learn a wedding. That's about the standard I think. I'm not sure if you want it exactly on Halloween. If so, Halloween 2020 is on a Saturday, not Sunday.

I would add that people who may not be able to take off the following Monday shouldn't be discounted for not caring. Depending on the job, it may not be that easy, or possible, regardless of advance warning. For instance, I'm an adjunct college professor. It would be incredibly unprofessional of me to cancel a Monday class, and substitutes aren't really a thing in colleges. So, no matter how important the couple is to me, I would be one of those that had to leave early.

View Quoted Comment Yea. I would like 2020 but SO is worried that that's too short planning time, possibly money issues as well.

I just want on Halloween so I'm not sure

I think best bet is to poll our family/friends and see how people feel

I’d be cool with a Sunday (and Halloween) wedding but I don’t have kids. I’d want cake by 8 cuz I’d leave by 8:30 to get ready for my work week.

My cousin just got married on a Sunday evening , and it was very difficult since we all had work Monday morning and felt super tired all day, Saturday is way easier in general but maybe you should ask how everyone feels about it and then decide !

We're having a Sunday wedding! Ceremony at 3 and everything ending by 8. All of our guests are local, so I'm assuming most people wouldn't feel the need to take off work. Ending by 8 will get everyone home by 9 and I think that's perfectly reasonable!

I will say that if you are considering Halloween 2020, you could absolutely go that route. As long as you have the financial means, a year is plenty of time to plan! I got engaged June 29th and we're getting married February 23, just under 7 months. Once you have the major vendors booked (took me about two months), planning a wedding doesn't take as long as you'd think

We had a Sunday wedding from 12-5 and no one seemed to mind... I don’t think any of our declines were due to it being on a Sunday. However like I said it was over by 5, so I could definitely see Sunday evening being more of a problem. Also, do any of your guests have young children? If so, they probably wouldn’t want to miss out on Halloween with them.

I think this is very much a "know your crowd" issue. In 2020, Halloween is on Saturday, so I'm assuming you're talking about the day after Halloween? If so, depending on where you live, next year the daylight savings time "fall back" will occur on Nov 1, so your wedding may be both the day after Halloween and the first day of the time change -- if your wedding ends at 11 pm, that will feel like midnight for many people. On a Sunday night, unless it was an extremely close family member's wedding where I'd feel like I had no choice but to stay late/take a day off, we would leave by 8 pm in order to get home and get to bed for work the next morning. I get up at 4:15 on weekdays, and as a teacher, it is extremely difficult for me to take days off that are not University-wide "non-instructional days," so staying late at a party would be a definite "no." Also, for people with kids, the day after Halloween & the first day of a time change, often make for a tough transition day. Just some things to consider.

I think an evening Sunday wedding sounds better than an afternoon Sunday wedding. I only have been to one Sunday afternoon wedding and it was so boring. I don't go to bed early at all so leaving at 10 or 11 wouldn't really bother me at all.

We are doing a Sunday wedding with the start time at 3pm.

We are doing it the Sunday before Christmas and New Years Eve, though- that weird week where office workers don’t really do much because everyone is out for the holidays. Hoping that means more people can stay the night at the hotel and hang, but the start time should be early enough that they can get home (about an hour away) if they want to.

I got married recently on a Sunday. We went 3:30-8:00pm and we still had some people leaving early to catch their shift for that night (half our wedding guests were police and several had to work that night), and some still left early because they had early shifts the following day. It is what it is, and Sunday happened to work best for us, cost wise.

We were only engaged for 6 months - it's not too difficult to plan on short notice. If it's a budget issue then I totally get pushing it back from Oct 2020, but if it's just planning, I think you're totally fine.

I would definitely leave a Sunday wedding wedding to be home by about 10pm.

I just had a Sunday wedding. 100 people came, invited 130ish. The only people that left early were actually people that had off the following day and had hotel rooms in the area... so I don’t think it was a Sunday thing, more their own thing I guess lol
Even people that worked the next day stayed until 11, some even came to the after party that went on until 2. I only heard of one complaint from someone about it being on a Sunday.

I like Sunday better than a Friday (both common alternatives to Saturday) because if I have to travel a distance, I’d probably at least take a half day Thursday and off Friday. Sunday I would only take one day off.

I've attended a Sunday wedding and it's so tiring for work the next day. However, that's not to say people won't go but they may leave earlier.

I was just at a Sunday wedding and I honestly thought it was so fun. About 90 people were there and most people stayed until it ended. It was a destination wedding though so most people had already taken off Monday! I do prefer it to Friday weddings though.

I would leave early from a Sunday wedding because of work. I also wouldn't really indulge at the bar (if you had one).

Have you considered a Friday wedding? The prices are very similar to Sundays, and if it was a Halloween theme, a day or two early is totally fine! (people celebrate Halloween the whole month!). Plus I would rather take a half day or full day from work Friday and start my weekend early and be fully present and enjoy the Friday wedding than feel guilty for leaving a Sunday wedding really early, or have to take all of Monday off!

Good luck planning!

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If it's 2020 we will do ON Halloween so Saturday.
SO wants to push back to 2021 which would make it a Sunday.

It'll be the 31st in either case.

Sorry for confusion

View Quoted Comment I would prefer it to be ON Halloween, it's more religious/cultural for me. So Friday might not be an option.

If it proves overall better I will budge.

But I'm just going to poll friends and family. I'm not finding a money difference between Saturday and Sunday doing soft price hunting (looking at 3rd party sites like this, not asking vendors directly) if I don't find one when asking directly I'm gonna push for Saturday 2020.

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I see! I totally misread that and thought it was just that you wanted it on the 31st! You do whatever feels best for you!