Weekday Wedding Experience?

I’m doing Thursday. Its definitely a know your crowd thing. Many of our guests would’ve had to get Saturday off from work regardless. Out of 90 so far we have 71 rsvps back confirming and our rsvp deadline is May 1st, but there are ppl that haven’t RSVPd yet like my fiancé’s brothers. They’re obviously going they’re in the wedding party they just haven’t RSVPd yet. We expect about 85 fir sure. Its what we wanted and if anyone had an issue they don’t need to go but so far no one has any issues with it, not that we would care. I also had open availability from all of my first choice vendors. Many of our guests are also taking the Friday off to have the long weekend. Its perfect for us, but again its definitely a know your crowd thing.

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I agree. We anticipate a guest count of 50 and most are family and very close friends. We considered a Friday wedding but the cost difference was too much to ignore. Plus, many of our guests would have had to take off work for a Friday wedding so, to me, there is little difference. The time off work is the same.

In my crowd, weddings tend to be big parties with a lot of food, alcohol and dancing and as a result it is almost guaranteed that people will take the day after as a total write off to recover. In that sense, the only day of the week in which a wedding could take place without people requiring a day off is if it is on a Saturday – the more popular and expensive day of the week. While I myself am having a Sunday wedding, my take is that the ‘courtesy invitees’ (if you have any) may use the weekday wedding as an excuse not to come but other than that, you’ll likely get a solid turnout without any issues.

My wedding will be on a Friday evening. I wanted my reception to feel like a party/club so a Friday or Saturday was really the only option. Friday was cheaper so, that’s what we went with. Plus we’ll still have the weekend to unwind as husband and wife or do something with the family

I’m getting married on a Friday in December, so I’m interested to see others experiences too!

I'm getting married on a Friday evening and the only people who have given me any grief over it are the older folks in our family - they're still coming, but they huffed over it a little LOL. As a guest and a friend, I would go to the wedding no matter what day it falls on! And likely take off of work the day after so I can really party and celebrate with you. But everyone isn't able to do that. You have to kind of feel out your anticipated guest list and weigh out who would be interested in coming during the week. At the end of the day, I think the people who are really in your corner will do everything they can to be there.

We had a Monday night wedding (destination but in our same state), but we only had 15 guests, mostly retired family, and we checked the date with everyone before we booked.


Spending the weekend with family sounds like a great idea.

We got married on a Wednesday. Not for costs, but because my husband wanted a very specific date... that just so happened to land on a Wednesday. So. Wednesday it was.

Totally agree with DJ - this is a "know your crowd" thing. The only guest on my list who worked a standard Monday to Friday job was my dad, and obviously he was going to be there no matter what. Everyone else was either retired, didn't work, made their own hours, or was just as likely (or even more likely) to be scheduled to work Saturday as they were to work Wednesday. No matter when the wedding was, they'd have had to request off, so I didn't see that it really mattered or that they were any more inconvenienced than they would have been otherwise.

Monday wedding here! It’s at the end of August so I can do a follow up post when we get back. One thing we have ran into is a couple out of town guests having to work on Tuesday so they are taking a flight the night of our wedding (so they are just there for the ceremony and then leave before dinner). I would also keep in mind anyone who works for a school district, college, or is going to school. There were a good amount of people who were unable to make it because of school/work related obligations and that was something I didn’t think about.


The positives to a Monday (or just weekday) wedding is that every vendor I reached out to was available! Also, we are making a long weekend out of it (bachelorette party Friday night, rehearsal dinner Saturday night, bridal shower Sunday, wedding Monday) which I’m looking forward to.