If you’re planning on how having your wedding on a holiday: New Year’s, Christmas Eve and Day, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween, any long weekend, be prepared for irritated guests and a higher than usual number of “no” replies.
Let’s start with long weekends because you can make a legitimate case for having a wedding on a long weekend. Let’s say its a wedding with a lot of out-of-town guests. Or maybe it’s a destination wedding where all the guests will be travelling. Either of those types of weddings have good reasons for being held on long weekends: Guests have to take time off regardless to travel so you might as well help them out and reduce the number of days they have to take off from work.
Still, even in those situations you might have some grumbly guests who are annoyed that your wedding will be consuming their long weekend. If you run into this, feel free to politely example your reasoning but don’t worry about trying to bring the grumbly guests over to your side, it’s a pointless battle.
As for weddings on actual holidays, well, unless you’re doing something amazing like a masquerade-theme Halloween wedding, or it’s a super-intimate event, don’t have a holiday wedding. Honestly, even those nearest and dearest to you don’t want to have to re-arrange their holiday traditions to accommodate your big day. Yeah, I know that sounds harsh but it’s important to remember that your wedding is just that, your wedding, and it’s not the center of your friends and family’s worlds.
Weddings that fall on either side of a holiday should also generally be avoided, particularly if you’re using a venue that will be busy with that holiday. For example, be weary about having a New Year’s Day wedding at a venue that’s hosting a New Year’s Eve party because the venue’s staff might not exactly be on its A game.
Of course, if you find yourself with a guest list that’s bigger than you want then a holiday wedding might just be what you need to trim things down to a more manageable size.
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