PW Guide Article: Should You Have Your Wedding On a Holiday?

My wedding is July 3rd...its a friday... I thought hotels might be hard to book bc the redondo beach (harbor area) has a firework show on the fourth...but the hotel were guests will be staying is still empty, and cheap... I have not ran into any extra expensive bc of the holiday weekend... I have actually made some great deals! So I really dont think its that big of a deal to have it on a holiday!

We considered having our wedding on Memorial Day. I think it depends on the holiday itself. Having your wedding on Valentines Day for instance, would probably be more guest friendly than having a wedding on Fathers Day or Mothers Day in my opinion. Christmas Eve would have been a favorite day of mine to get married if we had chosen a holiday.

When DH and I got married in 2007 we were about to do the 7-7-7 thing and get married on the 7th, finding it suitable because it's "lucky" and we live in Las Vegas. When the chapels were asking for ridiculous amounts for their wedding packages, I actually was turned off.  We were offered to do the same package for more than half off on the 4th and I thought...hecks yeah, that's a great idea. Every year after we would always be together with friends and family, we would never forget it was our anniversary and we would have built in romantic fireworks! We knew that after I finished nursing school that we would have the traditional church wedding with friends and family. My mom was going away in August and June was too soon after graduation to do it. So we picked July and the 4th happened to fall on a Saturday so we thought it was a sign.

About 90% of our guests will be coming from out of town and this ensures that most of them have a holiday off that weekend and will be able to attend. I also grew up in Canada and although the 4th is not a holiday, the 1st is and so everyone coming from Canada also has holiday time that week and will be able to attend. Although I have been told by strangers (on other boards to remain nameless but I'm sure you all can figure out which one) that it's selfish for me to pick the 4th and ruin my guests holiday. Honestly, my guests are quite happy to have a reason to skip out on the barbecues one year and spend the 4th in Vegas. Only one of my guests has mentioned she has a problem with the date and that's only because it's her neice's first birthday.

Booking and planning has been without problems as well. The only thing that I couldn't get was my first choice florist because she's going out of time.

I'm really excited about my holiday wedding, and we promise that we will host the backyard barbecues in the years to come lol.

Sorry for the novel, I'm just really happy with the date that we picked, even though it is a holiday, I love love love my wedding date.

My wedding is on labor day weekend... And my list is currently 194 people--- I want to have 150. so I am really hoping that the holiday does play a role and some people can not come because of their vacations!!

I also got a lower price on the venue because our wedding is on a Sunday. :)

Well i'm considering having my wedding on 11-11-11, which is Veteran's Day. I thought this was significant, because my FH is in the Army. But this date is a once in a lifetime date. Am i being selfish?

My wedding was on New Years Eve and nobody seemed to have any problems with it.  It was so much fun.  I say go for the date that means something to you.  In my case it was my grandparents' anniversary.

We were thinking a lot about when we wanted our wedding to be, my parents got married in September and were together until my dad died, so instead of having it on my parents anniversary I picked September 25th, 2010... one problem with that, my moms fiancées daughter whom Ive spoke to stated she was getting married January 25th, 2010.. all of a sudden stated she was getting married that same day... 2 out of 5 of his daughters said why would my mom and her fiancée go to my wedding when he has the chance to walk his baby girl down the isle. Then my FH decided that he didn't want the animosity of that date, and my mom not be there and me get upset. So we moved it to October 30th, 2010! I am happier that we did it that way because its the day before Halloween and we have more support from family for that date. So even though my mothers fiancée has been in my life for 14 years I am not asking him to walk me down the isle being that he has 5 daughters of his own to walk. Instead I think Im going to ask my brother, cause after dad died and mom was working all the time he was my best friend!

We are also getting married on NYE.  We want a party to celebrate the new year and our new life together.

I am getting married May 30, 2010.  Memorial Day weekend.  As we are having a fairly small wedding we have not had many problems