Thursday wedding- What are your thoughts?

Hi, I haven't booked my venue yet but we are planning on having a Thursday wedding, for a few reasons. Firstly, the Thursday we want also happens to be our anniversary, so is quite special to us already. As a bonus everything seems to be cheaper so we can get a bit more for our money which is great!

I'm a bit concerned about people attending but for us the majority of guests are local, and if you give people enough notice I think they would be happy to take the Friday off as well (turns into a 4 day weekend!) Maybe ask the guests that are travelling far how they would feel about a mid-week date (it might even result in cheaper flights for them!)

HTH

Personally I wouldn't go to a Thursday wedding unless it was a really close friend or a relative

If people have to travel it could mean them having to take 3 days off work. For us our holidays are very precious to us as we both have busy jobs and we like to make the most of every day that is available

I have gone for a Friday, becasue we had a 2 week "window" to get married which fell as 12/13/14 August. I want a church wedding so Sunday 14 was out and i'm supersticious about 13th so Friday 12th seemed like the next alternative.

I have no issues attending a wedding on a weekday if it is someone important to me, if you are not so important to them that they would not want to have time off then they perhaps shouldn't have the privelige of being invited in the first place?

I think for your situation - e.g. people travelling etc then a Thurs is fine - my SIL got married in Cyprus and that was a weds, but obviously we were all there anyway. So long as you don't have a lot of local people in Aus I think it's fine.

I would go for the thursday. All the important people will take days off, if they dont then they arent worth it. And if it means its things are cheaper for you then why not? We definatly would have gone for a thursday if we needed to, but we're on a friday because the package was so cheap anyway.

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Thanks for all your thoughts. Brideseeking blush- ALL the wedding guests are already in Australia and only my PIL will fly out from UK. A few will come interstate within Aus, but majority live locally to the venue. We have the same issue when coming back to UK to have a blessing though, as we also have friends/family here & therfore need to have 2 weddings almost. Was interested what people thought about mid-week though. I agree, those that are true friends will get the time off. Those that cant, I wont have to pay for! Luckily, many do shift work or are retired, so only a few work mon-fri.

Sorry but I totally disagree. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to get much annual leave which is the case of my hubby and regardless of whether it was a close friend or not his annual leave remains the same. He would of course make every effort but I think saying if people don't take the day off they aren't worth it is really unfair.

When I suggested a Friday wedding it was instantly ruled out for a few reasons. My sil has a child in school and I doubt they would be impressed at taking the kid out of school. We have a lot of friends who are self employeed and therefore would need to close their business for a day and potentially lose a lot of money. My bm has 2 kids in school and they were only coming at night time and therefore it would have been a nightmare for her as a single mum getting kids to and from school and being a bm at the same time.

I think in the case of the OP it sounds like a Thursday wedding is ideal which is great.

I think if the guests really want to be there at your wedding they will do what it takes to be there. And if their are people that cant then well thats down to them. A couple more days off of work etc isn't going to kill them.

But u really need to talk to the main people, by this i mean the people you could not get married without i.e mums & dads etc. And aslong as they have no problem with it, then anyone else is down to them.

Perfect Gems - I see what yous saying, and I did have worried about school etc but I am getting married in the School holidays which means it works out - I wouldn't just rule if there are significant budget savings.

I disagree with this sometimes it's just not possible to get leave for whatever reason, even if you really wanted to. I think if you get married during the week you have to accept that some of the people that you want to be there won't be able to be

I have attended a Thursday wedding, by 10.30pm most of the guests had went home, and very few evening guests came, why? well it was because nobody wanted to take an extra day off work the next day, and most guests took there cars as they had to get home early as they were had to get up for work the next day. Just perhaps a point you should consider

I'm getting married on a thursday, but its the 23rd December and 5pm which means most people won't be at work or will be able to get a couple of hours off, all the kids will be off school etc etc

I just made sure I got the save the dates out really early to give people enough time to work out days off etc

I wouldn't be able to make a Thursday (or Friday!) as I am a teacher and simply couldn't have the time off :-(

But maybe most of your guests will be fine with it ?

If I was invited to a wedding and it wasnt the school holidays my work would not let me take it off. They are even funny about whose funeral they will let you have days off for!

So actually, its not about being worth it or not sometimes.