we found a Venue!!!! But...

If people are already booking flights for Friday, a Friday wedding will probably be hard between travelling and possible delays. As a guest, I'd probably prefer Sunday morning/early afternoon so I could fly home Sunday evening or early Monday.

I am doing a Sunday wedding on Columbus Day weekend. A lot of my guests are flying in Friday and I did the hotel block up until Monday. My wedding starts at 5pm and ends at 11pm. If it wasn't a holiday I would have gone with an afternoon wedding.

We had a Sunday wedding, our ceremony started at noon and reception ended at 5. It was great! Not a single person complained about it being on a Sunday... especially because it ended so early. We even had a few OOT friends who flew back home Sunday night and were at work on Monday morning.

Also having Saturday to get last minute things in order, rehearse, and spend time with family and friends before the wedding was great. I would absolutely recommend We actually had a choice of which day and we deliberately chose Sunday.

Especially because yours is a 3 day weekend I would actually think Sunday would be way better than Saturday! This way you have Saturday to get ready and get things in order and then Monday to recover.

I'd check with your VIPs and those you know have booked flights already, to see when they are flying back out. That could help you set an early enough time on Sunday

Is this for your ceremony only, or for ceremony and reception?

That's awesome for $300! Congrats on that steal but that sucks about your previous venue falling through. I was in the same predicament. We live in Las Vegas but our wedding will be in California. It's about 50/50 for those here in Vegas we're inviting and my family who are mostly already in CA so it's not too much of a traveling hassle. We didn't want to do a Friday only because we know for the most part people would still be working. We didn't qualify for our venue's "minimum spent" for a Saturday so we decided to do a Sunday but it will be from 11am - 4pm.

We specifically chose a Sunday wedding because it was about $1000 less than a Friday or Saturday! Our original date got swiped by someone who was willing to pay for the whole venue up front but it worked out I like our new date (which is a week later). I'd probably go with a morning if people are trying to fly out Monday but thats up to you. Ours starts at 415pm on a Sunday but most people are making it a vacation and staying in town till the following Wednesday and wanted to be able to drink and have a good time which most people (although I do) don't like day drinking! haha

Are you completely against changing your wedding date so you can get a Saturday that the venue has available?

If it's a 3 day weekend (off of work Monday), I would say do afternoon on Sunday. That is if your out of town guests are not having to fly back Sunday night.