Need advice on weekday wedding!

I got married on a Friday and had no problems with guests making it. I wouldn't mind being invited to a weekday wedding either. As long as you give people enough notice to book time off then there's no problem. As others have said, some people are shift workers, so you're never going to please everyone. Book the date that pleases you

We got married on a Thursday. Pretty much everyone came. There's always going to be someone who cannot make it even if you go for a Saturday. It didn't feel as if more people couldn't make it. We had a full house tbh.

People maybe didn't stay up until 2pm because some decided to go to work the next day, but it really wasn't a problem.

I cannot see how someone can be 'angered' by a wedding invitation. Just say 'no' if you can't make it. Seems like a waste of energy to get angry about it. Equally, B&G need to accept that if people cannot come that it might be connected to the date.

If Thursday's what you want - go for it! You'll have a fab day.

It really depends on who you want to share your day with - eg, if I knew my mum absolutely couldn't take a week day off, I wouldn't get married on a week day because it's important for me that she comes.

We were originally looking at weekdays, but in the summer hols so our friends who are teachers and family such as young nieces and nephews and friends with kids (basically most people we're inviting) wouldn't have any issues. Turns out the catering was the same price whatever day of the week and it was only 500 quid extra venue hire to go for a Saturday.

As for attending a weekday wedding, for me personally it would depend on how close I was to the couple getting married as to whether I'd be willing to book the time off.

I'm another Thursday bride - 30% cheaper than a Friday, which is another 30% than doing on a Saturday.

We're not having children there and I can only think of a handful of people it's likely to affect kids/school/teacher wise.

As other people have said, it was more important to have the venue and the select few who can definitely come. Otherwise, any additional guests are a bonus!

Hi,

i am getting married next year on a Wednesday in August, it was so we could have our dream venue (£3,500 cheaper than the Saturday). We booked it two years in advance and told everyone the date immediately. I work in education so it works for me with it being in the summer hols and for a lot of my guests. We asked the people who would have to take time off and they all said it wasn't a problem. We are only having a smallish wedding 80 guests in the day with about another 30 in the evening. We are prepared for people not to come if they can't get the time off and will understand that they tried.

I’m getting married on a Monday next year and just echoing what everyone else has said really…

We went for school holidays to ensure that the teachers in the family could get the time off, we sent the Save the Dates out pretty early and specifically wrote ‘Monday’ on them. It’s early days still, but everyone I’ve spoken to so far says they have no problem with taking the day off (or it works better for them as they work weekends) apart from my Godfather who struggles to get time off (unfortunately there’s no love lost between my parents and godparents these days anyway so it won’t be a big loss if they are unable to attend!). Ultimately you’ll never be able to please everyone – not everyone works Monday – Friday 9-5. The money I’ve saved on having the wedding in the week means that I’ll be able to provide much more for the guests that are able to come

I think whatever day you have it you can't please everyone. My partner works for his family business & they are already saying they don't know who will open the shop as we are having it on a Saturday! Makes me so cross that they won't just shut the shop for one day!! My bf sister is also getting married next year & is having it on a bank holiday Sunday, all because their dad is paying & he chose that way he doesn't have to worry about shutting the shop!
Sorry for the rant, just makes me so angry!

We're getting married on Maundy Thursday 2017, so our guests only have to book one day off. If we went with the equivalent Friday or Saturday, we'd be paying almost as much for venue hire alone as we are paying for venue hire, food and drinks on Thursday! It would probably double the price to have a weekend wedding.

I'm getting married on a Thursday in the school holidays (4 August) sending save the dates this weekend but I've told most people already and nobody has said its a problem yet- a lot are teachers, shift workers and retired anyway. The discounts so far haven't been as good as we hoped though.

If people want to come they will generally make it work - one thing that would make me wary, is that some people won't book the following day off so you may get people leaving early - that happened on a Monday wedding we went to.

Savings are enormous, if the key people are able to make it i would go for it and just be aware to send STD as early as possible!

I'm going to be honest, it does annoy me but if I'm close to the person I will try to be there. A lot of you are saying if you give plenty of notice your nearest and dearest don't mind taking time off work, but perhaps they don't mention that they're put out because they don't want to offend you? One of my best friends got married on a Thursday and was a bit shirty that my fiancé and I didn't fly in on the Wednesday (we live in Northern Ireland) but it just wasn't possible to take 3 days off work considering my fiancé only gets 4 flexi days a year after all his allocated holiday. He must take 2 weeks at Christmas 2 weeks in July and 1 week at Easter and I think lots of work places are like that in Northern Ireland.

Because of this we were adamant about a Saturday wedding. Although I adore her, my friends wedding cost me in the ballpark of £500 before I even accounted the 2 days wages I missed and there was no way I would impose that on any of my friends and family, no matter how many years notice I gave. Just because my venue would be thousands cheaper does not give me the right to ask my guests to spend so much money on accomodation, travel, new outfit and then ask they take 2 days off work.

I got married on August bank holiday Monday last year. We found that it depends on your circumstances whether a week day wedding was good idea. My husband is a coach driver - so weekdays during term time would be a no go for him or for guests from work, but late summer is quiet, therefore better for guest attendance. For my job (and family) normally weekends are bests in some ways - I work alternate Saturdays so half weekends are good.

Just bear in mind your own guest situation, if most work week days only, having to take more than 1 day off may make them less likely to attend. If it is just 1 day off, or most guests work weekends, it may be easier for people to attend in the week.

At our wedding, the important people guest wise came, and we didn't have many people turn down day invites. Few people invited for the evening only attended.

A lot of people leave early - we left at midnight with the stragglers - a lot of our guests were family and had children with them

We booked a wedding for a Monday, purely because it was cheaper. I am from Australia though, so all of my friends and family that are coming are going to have to take quite a bit of holidays, so it didn't matter what time of the week it was on for them. At the end of day as long as your most important guests can be there on the day, that should be your biggest consideration.

We are getting married on a Friday next year but because we know a lot of teachers (for a start 2 of the bridesmaids are!) we have chosen the Friday in half term. I don't think Friday weddings are as bad as say Wednesday weddings because weekday workers only have to take 1 day off, but then saying that Friday's aren't normally any cheaper in a lot of venues these days - ours wasn't.