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Personally I'd rather go to a Sunday brunch wedding since it typically doesn't require people take extra time off. The second best option would be a Friday night wedding. I'd recommend trying to stay clear of Monday thru Thursday dates since that could make things difficult for your guests and getting days off.

I’m having mine on a Thursday. The date is very significant to us but it was also much cheaper. We initially mentioned this to our friends and family and the only person that questioned it was my sister. Everyone else said they didn’t see any problem with it and we’re excited for the wedding.

Based on what you've said, it sounds like you have a lot of guests coming from out of town. If that's the case, I think a weekday wedding would be very inconvenient because your guests would need to take at least one day off.

I also went to a Thursday wedding about two years ago. The final count was about 225 person wedding from what our friend (the bride) told us. Took a half-day from work and we got out relatively early. It was actually really great. That’s how we got the idea to gave ours on a Thursday in the first place.

I'm so sorry for your losses, Alyssa. It sounds like such a stressful time for you and your FH, I can understand how planning a wedding on top of it all feels like too much. I'm glad you both were able to agree on the decision to postpone your wedding to a time when things calm down a bit.

My fiancé and I recently postponed our wedding from a Saturday in 2020 to a Sunday in 2021 due to vendor availability. At first I was unsure about it, but after talking to all of our guests, they aren't viewing it any differently than they would a Saturday wedding. Most of our guests are coming from out of town, so they were planning on taking Friday off for our Saturday wedding. Now they are all taking Monday off instead, so it really didn't make a difference! I also think that Thursday, Friday, and Sunday weddings are going to be much more common in 2021 due to the amount of people who have had to postpone, so guest attitudes towards those days will be just as positive as they would be for Saturday weddings. I don't think you can go wrong!

We had a Sunday wedding. It was great, we just ended early at 8pm. Some people traveled Saturday and Sunday night so they didn’t miss any work, some took Monday off where they would normally take Friday off, and some people just took a few days off and made a vacation out of it.

If I had to do Sunday, I’d do it earlier in the day, like ceremony at 1:00 and maybe a shorter reception from 1:30-4 or something like an afternoon hangout/cookout (if it’s a smaller group) to just relax and enjoy each other’s company. Either way, everyone can get home and relax before work the next day. Plus, at that time of day you wouldn’t necessarily have to feed everyone... but that’s totally a preference thing.
Weekdays I’ve always been leery of because so many people in my life work Monday through Friday. But if that was the only option, I wouldn’t do the ceremony before 6 or 7 and would probably just go to dinner at a restaurant afterwards (think smaller like family and bridal party) instead of a full blown reception, if it was Monday-Thursday. My aunt did this years ago and a few weekends later had a big cookout party at a local park. Friday would be the best week day to do it but I’d still wait on the ceremony until 6 or 7 and then reception it up afterwards.

Mine is a Friday this year and everyone seems to be fine with it

Im noticing alot of ppl is going with Thursday wedding. I would perfer Sunday bc like pp said you see can make it out of a "Sunday brunch" brunches are amazing and cheaper.

I have never minded Friday or Sunday weddings, even with traveling. I do think Mon-Thursday would be harder, especially for those traveling to be there. My wedding is a Friday because our venue didn’t have any Saturdays available when we had to postpone. I was stressed about it at first but people don’t seem to mind at all. Good luck with securing your new date!

We’re in postponement considerations as well and the only days our venue are making available to us for no extra cost to postpone are weekdays unfortunately. We have October 11, 2021 (Columbus Day), which is a Monday, on hold for us right now. I think with the whole world having to postpone weddings this year, people are going to be understanding of unconventional dates. I feel like I’m going to my friends’ postponed weddings every day of the week next year and I’m honestly excited about it haha. It seems like that will be the new normal for next year at least. We were also worried about asking people to take off extra work days, so if you can try to find a date that’s on a weekday, but around a holiday that people might already have off for, that might be a way around it!

We’ll have a weekday wedding. More than half of our guests don’t have a typical Mon-Fri schedule so a Saturday would be just as hard for them as a Monday would for the rest of our guests, so we’re going for the cheaper option

We are having a Sunday wedding (in about 7 weeks!) and still going all out with the party and everything. All of my guest will have to take Monday off of work to travel home and at this point, I have NO guilt about that what so ever. These are difficult times and you just have to roll with whatever you can get and is available. Guest will understand.

Note: we cut our guest list immediate family and wedding party this week due to COVID.

I'm so sorry for you loss. I would go for a Sunday wedding if possible but I think weekday weddings are fine. Most guest coming from far away will be taking time off anyways. Not everyone works Monday - Friday, so weekdays are better for some people. Generally is they want to be there they will be there.

I think sunday weddings are fine if you can do them earlier in the day. weekday weddings like fridays are fine if you can do them later in the evening

I love Sunday weddings! Especially when having to travel as guest. I think the idea that Sunday weddings need to be earlier in the day or a brunch is old news. I've been to loads of formal Sunday evening weddings throughout my whole life and all were fantastic

I think this depends on your guest size. We were very open to a Monday wedding with our postponement. More than half of the guest need to travel so I didn’t see the difference in them taking off a Thursday and Friday vs a Monday and Tuesday. Also, know some local guest may not make a weekday wedding depending on the time and their work schedule.


Good luck.

If at least half of your guests have weekdays off, or retired or on vacation time, then a weekday wedding is as convenient for them as inconvenient for M-Fri workers with weekends off. Go by who is essential to your marriage, and if that is a weekday or Sunday eve, that is great.

I'm doing mine on a Thursday. I figure if people don't want to take time off to see us on our once in a lifetime day then they probably don't care to be there. We made sure to send out save the dates well in advance and we told the most important people many times that it will be on a Thursday. We also are having it at 6 so people don't need to take that much time off, if any. I'm actually kind of hoping not as many people show up so I can pay for less food 😂 I also don't like to be the center of attention so I'll be happy if people don't show up. this post probably makes me sound like a b**** but oh well 🤷‍♀️

If by weekday you mean Friday... sure, as long as it’s at a good time after work. As for Sunday, I think earlier weddings work best.