Who booked their wedding on a WEEKDAY?

Grow some thick skin. You're going to get a lot of flack for having a weekday wedding. HOWEVER! You can tell them, "Either I have a weekday wedding or you're being cut off the list for a Saturday one for budget reasons!"

I say do it. I know a few people that have done the weekday route and yes, they had a few grumpy people give them crap, but in the end, everyone had a great time.

IMO I would hate going to a weekday wedding. Of course I have not been invited to you. I just feel like I could not fully enjoy myself thinking I would have to be up late and go to work the next day. People might not want to take the day off work the weekday of the wedding either. Just a thought. On the other hand, maybe consider getting married on a Sunday on a long weekend (like memorial day weekend). My parents did that and no one had to work on Monday! It is cheaper that way to.

I am getting married later on a Saturday. I have to wait for the sun to go down because we are having a conservative jewish wedding. Shabbat has to be over. I wanted to wait until later on a Saturday over having it on a Friday or Sunday.

To each their own and do whatever makes you happy!

I got crap because my wedding is on a Wednesday..i told them that the people who REALLY wanna be there will be & won't care what day it is...

We will have our wedding day on a Friday. I know I will catch crap about it but I know the ones that really matter will be there! Plus, not having that many people will help us stay on the budget. Like OTW said, grow some thick skin because your feelings are going to take a few blows over this.

Weekday weddings are FOR SURE sooo much cheaper. we considered it briefly but there was no way with us having so many out of state guests. we'd have had like, nobody show up. lol.

if you can pull it off, go for it! if you're having traveling guests, be prepared for some whining and complaining though.

I have been to one weekday wedding and wasn't fully enjoying the whole experience - I wasn't able to enjoy the open bar, I left right after the food was served so I could get home/bed at a decent hour, and I hated the fact that I had to leave work early to go home and get ready...

But, my FH and I are doing a Friday night wedding (and yes, we know we are going to get flack about it) but it saved us 50% on the site fee.

In the long run, it's your day - you do what you want and what you can afford.

Just be warned about 50% of the guests at the weekday wedding I went to left immediately after dinner - so that is a bummer

To save money we’re having a Saturday morning wedding. We surprisingly haven’t gotten any flack for it yet. But I’m already planning on the OOT guests that live a few hours away not making it. They’d have to be on the road by 5-6am for an 11am wedding and I’d be very surprised if a lot of them did that!

I got invited to a week night wedding. I didnt make it because I couldn't get off work on time. Plus, I didn't want to go to the wedding in my all day work clothes. If they had had it later in the evening I probably would have attended, but their wedding was at 6pm and we live in the DMV. With rush hour traffic, and parking issues, there was no way I was going to get there in time.

Have you considered a Sunday? I am getting married on a Sunday on a holiday weekend to cut costs.

We wanted people there so we are having a Saturday, to get around the Saturday's are cheaper we looked for places that Saturday rates didn't change things OR the difference was not much. Another way to cut costs is to look for places that are not "wedding venues" these are places that will hold a wedding but they don't do a ton of them. Rentals are usually far cheaper at these places. Like mine is a winery. While people do have weddings here it's not as common of venue vs other places. We are paying for a Saturday night 800 for the room and it looks very nice. Of course a weekday was even cheaper. We also considered before we found the winery restaurants. There were several that don't charge anything for the rooms you just pay for the food thus allowing you to have it any day you want. So IF you do decide on a weekend don't think yhttps://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-forums/who-booked-their-wedding-on-weekday/d571d000a4f0b474.html#ou HAVE to have it during the upper part of the day OR on a Sunday to save money. I am proof you can do a Saturday night without sacrificing a ton.

My wedding is on a Friday, my family and friends are pretty much okay with it, our ceremony is at 6pm and our reception is from 7pm - 2am. I think we got an awesome date, its after Christmas and some people are on vacation.

We considered doind a Thursday wedding. Because it's cheaper and because when we first started sating it was "our day." The venue pretty much talked us out of it because of traffic and such on a weekday. We live in Southernn California so traffic is baaad and it's really important for us to have our guests be able to actually attend the ceremony so i didn't want to take any chances.

We instead are doing a Sunday wedding, it is cheaper than a Fri or Sat at our venue.

A friend of mine just did a Thursday wedding and she had 250 people show up. It was gorgeous and she saved money.

You'll probably have some people whine about it but honestly, if people want to be there, they'll be there.

You definitely will have some people complain but in the end, if the people you care about, family and friends can make it, I say go for it.

I'm having a Sunday wedding too to save cost and haven't heard complains yet.

My close friends already all took off the Monday after =)

I'm having a Sunday wedding and it has saved me a lot so far. I have gotten some people saying things about it but if it's that big of a deal dont come! Haha

I was invited to a wedding on a Wednesday afternoon, sadly I did not go. It would have been a 2 hours drive and it was not worth it for my hubby and I having to take of 2 days just for that. My friend called me in tears after her rsvp count came in....she invited 60 people 22 replied yes.....

If you're worried about the budget you can always look for a date which is out of wedding season. I'm having a March wedding on a Saturday and so far have gotten a discount on everything ranging from 15-30%. A weekday would still be cheaper I imagine but at least you will not have to worry about as many people opting to not come.

Mines on a Friday! Sure we may have some people decline due to the day of the week but our families and close friends will make it and we're okay with that!

Stick to your guns!

We are doing a Saturday wedding, only because there is no price difference for day of the week. Was going to do a Sunday, but that isn't possible.

I'm on a Thursday.. it wasn't really for financial reasons, I just wanted to squeeze in my date. We actually haven't gotten any crap surprisingly! I think everyone is looking at it as a long weekend but.. I haven't received any of my RSVP s so far.. which reminds me- I gotta check my mail! Soooo this is going to be an interesting chain of events for the next couple weeks.

I am having a Friday wedding. The price was cut it half to have it on Friday instead of Saturday. We let our families and close friends, the ones we really want there, know far in advance and no one had a problem with it.

Hope everything works out well for you