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I have two thoughts on this.
One, it's your day, do what you want. If you guests want to attend, they will attend or do their best to attend. You will probably have lower attendance just due to the fact that it being a Thursday. When it's a Friday afternoon/ evening wedding, most people take off at least half a day or that day for local guests (not to mention travel). If it's a Thursday, they will most likely take that time off and then either keep the party pretty tame since they have work the next day or have to take another day off if they plan to tie it on. Also, with travel, that is two full days of work missed. Perhaps even more if they are out of town in the bridal party. But, back to my original point, if they want to be there, they will make it work regardless of what the situation is.
The second though.... I think it's very sweet that you want to honor your grandparents by marrying on their anniversary, but don't you think that you should have your day? Also, if your FI's family is all out of town and you plan for a Thursday (rather than strictly due to financial reasons, or something like that) and they hear that it's because you want it for that reason, it may not come across the best... like why honor her grandparents and not his. I'm just throwing this idea out there.
What if you married that same weekend and did something special in honor of your grandparents, remembering their anniversary?
Mrs. Louboutin, I agree with pretty much everything you said, but it's nice to hear it from someone else.
We are also thinking about perhaps Sunday, June 24th. We still get a lot of the financial percks that come with a Thursday wedding (at least at our desired location), and then it's still the same "date" as my grandparents, just a month later. And then the out of town guests would only need to miss one day of work max (school's not a problem this late in June).
We really wanted late Many/early June but really June 24th is beginning to sound better to me.
I think you have to look at what is important to you. Having that date (which is a very sweet idea!) which will then be your anniversary date but knowing that some people might not be able to attend, or having a date most people can attend but not having the date that has a special meaning to you guys.
I'm having a Thursday wedding! Its semi destination also so I know not everyone can attend but it's what my fiancé and I want. We've gotten really great deals for having a Thursday wedding (our photographer normally starts at $1500 –full package- but gave us a deal of $700 -edited photos on dvd- because of it being on a Thursday) and it's nice not worrying that our date will be taken.
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So my fiance are trying to set a date for our wedding. We both want to get married after our college graduation so we're looking at late May or a June wedding.
I really want to get married on May 24th because that is my grandparents anniversary, and my fiance is also fine with the date and thinks this is a sweet idea. The problem is that May 24th falls on a Thursday in 2012. Most of my finace's extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents) live about 8-9 hours away.
If they leave early Thursday morning they will probably need to miss 2 days of work/school, but if they don't feel like rushing around the day of and making the drive right before the ceremony they will need to miss 3 days of work/school.
Also, he wants to have one of his cousins who is a senior in high school be one of his grooms men so that means he'll have to come to the rehersal on Wednesday so he'll also have to miss 3 days of school.
Do you think it's too much to ask his family to miss 3 days of work/school for our wedding? Or should we just pick a different date?
Thanks! :)