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I'm leaving for upstate/the wedding location Wednesday night after work and we get married Saturday. We're going straight on our honeymoon after the wedding.
It probably is, if the wedding is in the same town you're in. You'll be able to conduct a lot of the last minute meetings and final payments after business hours. The rest is probably going to be just little projects and the rehearsal. I'd definitely try to cram it all in, just because you're starting a new job and you don't want to take too much time off when you're still relatively new. I'm only working Monday of the wedding week. Just because they're stupid about annual leave. My weddings on a Friday and we're out of town, so we really need that extra couple days.
I'm in the process of job hunting right now and the FI just started a new job a few months ago. It has always been my dream to take a traditional week long honeymoon right after the wedding, but I'm really worried that we won't be able to get the time off since we'll both still be newbies at our jobs (I'm hoping to have one by our wedding in late July). Not sure what to do about it, but I guess for now I'm just waiting to see how things work out.
I think your plan sounds reasonable. If you take the Thursday, Friday and Monday off it should be a nice break.
I am taking the Thursday and Friday before off and then taking the next week and a half off for the honeymoon.
Hi -- I personally took off the whole week before the wedding (ours was on a Friday, rehearsal dinner on Thursday) but I had also been saving vacation time and was able to take 3 weeks off in a row for honeymoon as well.
I really felt like I needed that full week for two reasons. 1. To keep myself sane and not be in "work-mode" going right into the wedding. and 2. We needed that weekend before to finalize hotel bags, wedding party gifts, and a few other odds and ends. We also took some time to relax, chill out and make our way up to the wedding with everything figured out.
We also had a bit of a destination wedding, so we needed to get everything together!
If you can take a little extra time, do it - but if you can't I'm sure you'll manage to get everything figured out!!
Our wedding is out-of-town (an 8 hr drive/2 hr flight, haven't decided yet) on Saturday, so I'm taking off that Thur & Fri. We'll get in early afternoon Thursday, relax and get some last min things taken care of, then we have the venue from noon on Friday till Sunday night, so we'll head over and get ready for the rehearsal which is tentatively starting at 5pm Friday.
A friend of mine took off the entire week for her local wedding which I thought was a little ridiculous. She ended up having nothing to keep her busy and her mind off the wedding, and sh just stressed herself out needlessly.
That sounds reasonable. I would just recommend, for your own sanity, that Sunday be a do nothing day, and Monday be the recovery day.
I live 4 hours away from the location of my wedding. Mom will fly in the Sunday before, then the two of us will drive up Wednesday night. FI will come up Thursday night. We will go home Sunday, and have a 11am flight Monday morning, so nice and casual.
I'm getting married on a Friday, and so far am just taking of Thursday and Friday (and the following Monday and Tuesday for a mini-moon). I may also take of the Wednesday prior, if I don't blow too much vacation between then and now.
But, I'm also making sure to stay on track with all my DIYs and other to-dos so I'm not super stressed out. We'll see how it goes!
I'll take off the day before the wedding. We're then going on a 2 week honeymoon. I don't have a permanant job right now (I'm freelancing). If I do have a f/t job by then (hopefully) I'm just going have to take the time off, pay or not. Honeymoon's already booked and I came to the realization that I just can't worry about these things b/c my employment future is uncertain right now and I can't plan my life around if/when I get a f/t job. But if I do get an offer I plan on being completely upfront with them about the time off I am requesting.
We're getting married on a Saturday, and we have a house rented for the wedding. We're taking off more than likely than Friday, Saturday & going back to work Monday. We leave for our cruise on Thursday but we wanted to get a hotel overnight so we aren't late to the port. We're taking off then on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Monday. We'll be back to work on a Tuesday! :) So that's about 5 days total off & FI gets 5 days with pay & I get salary! So it's all good :)
We took 2 weeks off...... If i were in your situation, i'd take Thurs and Friday off, then the honeymoon. I know it's a new job, but the best time to negotiate time off is when you're hired, and you don't want to bite off more you can chew after work hours. Imagine if you didn't take the time you needed and you didn't get your stuff done. Wedding day comes whether or not you are ready!
We're taking of a week. Wendsday til the next tuesday to have time to prepare and a mini-moon. idk where we'll go yet, though!
I am getting married on a Sunday in October. I am working half day Thursday taking Friday and Monday off. We aren't going on our Honeymoon until February. FH has 21 vacation days of work and I have 11. Because I work so many hours they usually honor the days that I take off here and there. If you end up working more hours than normal you may be able to collect some more days off?????
Our wedding is just 3 hours away, so we are taking off Thurs & Fri and driving there on Wednesday evening after work. If it seems too crazy before then maybe we will try to take Wednesday off too.
We also have the whole next week off for the Honeymoon, so 2 days before seems like plenty.
Um... I think I'm going to be taking off 3 weeks. We will be on our honeymoon for 2 of the weeks and then will have people in town already for the wedding, so most likely will be 3 weeks. I get 5 weeks a year off plus every other friday, so it wont be as though I use all my vacation up at once.
Our wedding is out of town for us (roughly 6hrs drive) so we are leaving Wednesday after work. Taking off Thursday, Friday and Monday. Thursday and early Friday to tie off last minute things. Friday his family will likely be coming in. Saturday wedding. Sunday, relaxing brunch with family only before heading home. Monday, relax day!
Our HM isn't until a month later but for that we are practically take the whole month off....I've been saving up my vacation days since we've been engaged for this!
We are taking the week before the wedding and the week after the wedding off. We will just have a short honeymoon following the wedding.
I freelance so I have the luxury of being able to just not take on work over the wedding. FH has booked 3 weeks off from his work and I'll probably try to take off an additional 2 weeks prior to the wedding to get the final details done (like the edible favours and such).
Depending on how much you have to do, 2 days is certainly enough time. I only took of Thursday and Friday (the Monday after was Labor day so a free day off for me) and I was done with everything for the wedding by noon on Friday. I spent the rest of the day on Friday getting pampered and enjoying our pizza party "rehearsal" dinner.
The hopefully-new-place-of-employment is a college and their summer break would start 2 weeks before our wedding. I would think this would be a slightly slow time but since I would be recruiting, I really have no idea. Any college recruiters out there?!
I plan on being up front but at the same time, I don't want to give any reason for them to select the other candidate over me.
@Mellisabegins - that's a good point! Maybe I will have some time frame in mind but let them offer their deal first?
@twalila - getting bored would only feed my anexity that week and stress me out! So I wouldn't take a full week but I don't want to be stressed with lack of time either.
It's good to know 2 prep days seems reasonable!
I took Wed-Fri for the actual wedding, so three days. But we did an out-of-state wedding, so we had a lot to do in thsoe three days.
I am planning to take Thursday and Friday off to get last minute things done and prepare for the rehearsal. We have lots of family coming in from out of town so I'm sure there will be a lot of entertaining as well.
We are going out of town Sunday-Tuesday so I will head back to work the following Wednesday.
I think taking Thursday-Monday off would be great for you.
Our wedding is a Saturday. I'm taking off Thursday and Friday. Thursday will be my wind down day to get out of work mode, then Friday is the rehearsal, and we can decorate a bit.
I'm taking the week after off because we're going on a mini honeymoon to Vegas or something like that. Then we'll take a big beachy vacation in Nov or Dec.
I'm taking 2 full weeks off. We're getting married in California, so I'll be out there a week before the wedding, then we leave for our honeymoon the day after our wedding.
I think that taking Thursday and Friday off would be a good idea.
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I will be taking off two days before the wedding, (Thursday and Friday), and will have the week off (spring break; I work at a school) after the wedding. We will be having our full honeymoon in the summer when I am off, and a mini-moon after the wedding, prob Monday.
We're getting married on a Friday, so I was thinking I'd take the whole week off before the wedding, and then maybe a couple days of the following week. We're getting married in our current hometown, but our families live further away, and are planning on coming in a few days to a week before the wedding, so I just want to finish up last minute details and hang out around the pool with family I don't get to see that often. I need to save some time (I get 3 weeks paid vacation a year, plus can bank OT for about an extra week's worth) so we can take a honeymoon at a later date, so I think I'll go back Tuesday or Wednesday of the week after the wedding.
I'm planning on taking the Thursday and Friday before the wedding and the Monday and Tuesday after the wedding. I'm a teacher so I'll be leaving my kids for a few days and it's my first year of teaching so I feel a bit dodgey for taking time off but I figure it's a wedding....
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There is a good chance I will be employed again come next week (yay!). But I want to be prepared for letting them know I am getting married in May and will need time off.
A full week off seems a bit much. I was thinking Thursday, Friday then the following Monday. We are not taking a honeymoon right away but there is something sad about going back to work Monday.
Past brides and brides-tobe, do you think that 2 days is enough time to prep?
Thanks!