So what do you think of scheduling a wedding on a holiday weekend? Good idea or bad idea? Convenient for those that have to travel? or Inconsiderate? I have to attend one on Sunday this weekend. My reaction:
No matter when you schedule your wedding, you are going to piss someone off, so I don't really care when one might schedule their wedding. FWIW, my wife's best friend scheduled her wedding on Nov. 8th next year, which not only is prime hunting weekend, but also LSU vs Bama weekend. But I can't complain, I had my wedding opening weekend of bow season...Oct. 2nd.
Everyone should have their weddings in spring or early summer. That is when god intended them to occur. It should be law. We planned the birth of our second child to make sure it wasn't in fall.
But spring if for fishing, turkey hunting, and baseball... and no one should ever have their wedding during the summer in LA unless you just want to be sweaty all day.
To you, but they might be important to any one of your guests. That is the point. You can't worry about making all your guests happy with your wedding date because someone is going to be inconvenienced. It's inevitable.
I'm sensitive about this topic because I obviously received a lot of grief from a few buddies about having my wedding on opening weekend
We had our reasons. However, I was not too happy when a buddy stated that it wasn't just my wedding day, but also would be our anniversary weekend, thus every opening weekend for the rest of my life would now be ruined. I had not thought of that till he mentioned it to me, and by that time, it was too late
Will you have any buddies there? That would make it worse if you didnt really know anyone. Once the wedding is over have some beers and make it a little more enjoyable, hell have some before the wedding.
Oh it will be a good time. Lots of good friends will be there. I would probably not nearly be as upset if it was tomorrow. But to have it right smack dab in the middle of the weekend makes it tough to anything before or after.
If it was on Friday or Saturday it wouldn't be so bad. But on Sunday? That really screwed up your whole long weekend. They must be Lutheran.
Couples getting married now a days are making the big mistake thinking everyone else cares as much about their wedding as they do. It used to be Bachelor/Bachelorette parties and the wedding. Now, the new thing is having an engagement party as well. That's three weekends of the year shot.
Thats not so bad then but the sunday thing does suck but hey you can watch some college football on Saturday.
I just got married last Friday. I love the fall and have always wanted a fall wedding...until I started hunting. As we were planning when we wanted to have the wedding, we took all kinds of things into consideration. We didn't want to plan it during hunting season because all but one that he wanted in the wedding is a hunter. For us, it wouldn't be just the one day we would be giving up for the wedding, it would be every year for our anniversary. Even though we both hunt - I am mainly just a weekend hunter and he is up at the cabin hunting for a solid 6 weeks at a time, so there would be times when we wouldn't be together on our anniversary. Then we danced with Labor Day weekend. I didn't want to do that because that is a weekend where a lot of families travel together for last minute vacations before school starts and I didn't want to be having a wedding and getting kids ready for school all in the same weekend. So, we picked last weekend and we chose to have it on Friday. Everybody was thanking us for having it on a Friday, they had the rest of the weekend to do whatever they wanted to do. So, to answer your question...No, I wouldn't have it on a holiday!
If the weekend is more important than the couple getting married to you... Then just don't go. I think they are a good idea to give those wanting to come an easier chance to since most are off for the holidays anyways. As Hook said, choose a date and someone out of the 100 invited wont like it. Mark it down.
Whatever dude....... There are times you have to go to weddings. It doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
