Wedding Date on a Holiday?

We're getting married over Labor Day Weekend. We chose it for a myriad of reasons besides it's a holiday weekend but so far we haven't gotten any complaints and very very few "I already know we can't attend" admissions from some out of town guests. A few of our guests are actually pleased to come down for the long weekend. Hotels and airfare may be a little more expensive but not outrageously. We haven't encountered any vendors who are chargin us more simply because it's a holiday weekend.

I have been invited to several Memorial/Labor Day Weekend weddings and have never been able to attend one because of family or friend reunions planned long in advance. To be fair, none of these invites were for family or super close friends. So if a sibling or best friend got married I'd go to that instead.

Our wedding is memorial day weekend! It helped a lot with our out of town guests and we found a hotel that gave a really good rate!

Double check with your VIPs, but our holiday wedding worked out so much better for our group.

Also, our vendors are all booked and no one charged extra for it being a holiday.

Hotel blocks could be tricky, but look around as soon as you decide!

FH and I are attending a wedding the Sunday of memorial weekend this year. Hotels were outrageous and way more expensive, but the bride and groom gave us plenty of advance notice with STDs since it was both out of town and a holiday which gave us more time to book and get deals.

I like it. I've attended long weekend weddings from OOT and preferred it due to having that Monday off. Go for it!

I'm getting married this Memorial Day weekend. No one has expressed any concern. Our oot guests were happy to have an extra day for travel. We made sure to send STDs early.

Traveling is much more expensive on holidays. We had to keep that in mind as we have alot of OOT guests flying in (or driving 2 hours 1 way) so having our wedding on a holiday wknd wasn't gonna happen for us.

Our wedding is the start of the 4th of July weekend. We haven't run into any issues. I actually think its a way for guests to start the holiday weekend

Mine's the Sunday of labor day weekend. Didn't care. It's not a huge holiday for me, and in the beginning I assumed it would make it easier for people to travel since most people wouldn't have to take off work.

I sent save the dates 6 or 7 months in advance, and most people on our guest list knew before that even.

So, if you've got 8 months advance notice, you can choose whether or not my wedding is important, is how I feel.

I didn't take into consideration "stealing" people's 3 day weekend, which is probably my bad. But there's nothing I can do now.

I still like my date and wouldn't change it.

I originally liked the idea of a holiday weekend wedding but I like my long weekends. I've been to a few and I'd rather use the long weekend for something like going to the beach.

We are getting married Memorial Day weekend this year. It's helped as most of each of our family is either out of state or at least a few hours away. When we booked the venue (a year ago) we did some negotiating and got them to have the block room rates at their standard rates.

I would say talk to your nearest and dearest about how they would feel about the date (you know due to vacations, long weekend sort of annual plans, etc). For us it works because any family get together will be at the wedding.

@Julia, hi date twin!

Also getting married on memorial day weekend, I didn't realize until later cuz she was only willing to open her venue early by into the last week of May and we both liked the idea of May, all of our vendors have had no issues nor has any family we've spoken to. I plan on sending STDs out earlier just as a precaution!

We have a wedding this memorial day weekend and I'm a little salty about it, TBH. I'd rather use a long weekend to take a relaxing trip or do something for the fiance and I. When you have a wedding it kind of eliminates the possibility of doing that.

Like most others on here have said, they might jack up prices for everything since it's a holiday (at minimum the hotels/rental cars/gas prices if driving) but they wouldn't have to take a day off work for a three day weekend. I would get the prices of plane tickets for the two dates (google is best place to compare, they take EVERYONES prices plus usually gives advice as to better times/dates to get cheaper and yes they have alerts) then see how much of a difference the venue/all other stuff would be. You do have to worry about your guests but don't spend twice as much to save one day for them. Good luck!!

FH and I are attending his cousin's wedding on MDW this year, and I'm honestly not thrilled about it. We are out of state, and our flights were super expensive due to the holiday.

We're getting married the week after Fourth of July and so many of my vendors have talked about how they took that holiday weekend off. Flights were more expensive, too.

I think as long as you give your guests plenty of notice holiday events can be very wonderful and unique. Be sure to book your vendors early because some vendors book up quickly for holidays.