Wedding on Mother's Day Weekend?

Reason #1 NOT to do it?

Flowers. The florists and gift shops are swamped that week heaven forbid anything goes wrong.

Unless you aren't doing real flowers. It was a problem someone here had

I'd be more concerned about the guests' thoughts on the date (though I wouldn't have a problem with it). Our wedding's the day after FH's birthday... talk about an expensive two days.

I just think it's a date to avoid because most people will have plans with their moms that weekend.

If you want to do it then do it, It's been done just figure alot of people will want to be with their mom if they can.

I personally like all my holidays/celebrations spread out throughout the year so you can have things to look forward to. Is there a reason you want to have it that weekend? What is wrong with the following weekend or even June or April?

My wedding is on Father's Day weekend (I guess I don't have the flower problem though!) Everyone I talk to is okay with it. When I bring it up, everyone is kind of like "Oh, okay" like it's not a big deal.

If someone throws us a morning after brunch, we might do something to recognize it, but that's the extent of my worry about it! Even if people are traveling, I don't see why it would be that big of a deal.

Possible reasons not to:

You will probably be celebrating Mother's day and your anniversary together in the future if you have kids... do you want your own anniversary? Or do you want to share it with your family?

If people are travelling, you're pulling them away from their mothers or perhaps taking away their own celebration.

Restaurants already have business and you may not be able to book for that day

Florists are busy

What about the week before or the week after? Why Mother's day?

The date of Mothers' Day changes (it is always the 2nd Sunday in May). So, once every 7 years or so, Mom's Day will fall on your wedding anniversary -- no big deal.

But, florists will be slammed the day before.

But, I have officiated plenty of weddings on Mom's Day & Dad's Day.

Here are the dates of the next nine Mother's Days:

May 11,2014 May 10, 2015 May 8, 2016 May 14, 2017 May 13, 2018

May 12, 2019 May 10, 2020 May 9, 2021 May 8, 2022

They always fall on a Sunday. Your anniversary will fall during the week (over and over). I don't know why it would be an issue to have your wedding anniversary fall on the Saturday before Mothers' Day. Believe me, for most couples, anniversaries become far more private, token gift giving affairs after the first few years of marriage. I doubt it will interfere with any future MD plans.

One reason you should seriously think about the date is because, as stated above, retail florists have their busiest day of the year on Mother's Day.

Not only is it an extremely busy day for florists, but flower prices often are more money on Mothers Day as well as Valentines Day. Some florists won't do a wedding on MD so you may want to ask around.

I work every Mothers' Day weekend, and it's not an issue, but the flowers might be more expensive.

My first wedding was MD weekend. I became a mom a year later. Granted we didn't share too many anniversary's after that, but I'm glad now to celebrate Mother's Day and not think about my first wedding :-p

I did have a few florists turn me down, but I did find a reasonably priced one eventually and they did a great job.