Weddings on a Sunday?

[Rochester TVR]

Whats everyone's opinions on getting married on a sunday?

Do the guests leave early as they have work the next day?
Does the day feel any less special than on a Saturday?

We have found a venue but the only summer days left are sundays... why is this?

Any experiences of advice welcome...

Cheers
Lee

[BoozyHughesy]

Can you get married on a Sunday? I'm sure someone told me you can't

[sleep envy]

yes you can, all Jewish weddings are on a Sunday for obvious reasons

my cousin is having a church wedding on a Sunday as the venue they want to hold the reception is fully booked until 2010

[Rochester TVR]

yeah the venue we like has its own chaple so sunday weddings are the same as on a saturday...

[elster]

sleep envy said:

yes you can, all Jewish weddings are on a Sunday for obvious reasons

my cousin is having a church wedding on a Sunday as the venue they want to hold the reception is fully booked until 2010

Change the reception venue would of been easier. Everyone will be drunk so the location is pretty pointless. lol

[dave_s13]

You will have the Monday off no doubt so why should you care?

If you give everyone plenty of notice, and they actually like you, then there will be no problems getting a day off for 99% of people.

Getting married on a weekday or a Sunday means only your real mates will actually turn up....which can be a bonus.

[ascayman]

ive been to a few on a sunday.

cheaper for the hosts. pain in the arse for the guests.

i suppose the question is who are you getting married for?

[Busamav]

i went to one 2 weeks ago ,

it seemed really strange being at a reception and needing to work the following day.

It was subdued and most folk left quite early , but there is a financial benefit to those coughing up for it.

[elster]

It doesn't really matter what day it is on. If someone wants to be there, they will.

[schmokin1]

we had ours on a sunday as it was only possible to get a saturday date well over a year in advance
for the register office.

I was slightly disappointed at the numbers who left early to get back for work......

[Noel]

Go for a Friday if you can, we did and hopefully in just over 4 weeks time we'll have the best day of our lives. It seems everyone is more than happy to have a long weekend and for the evening guests it's a special night out rather than the usual pub/club.

[DrTre]

Is Aug 31st a sunday? My sisters is on that day...I've just realised...I'm going to have to take a day off...I thought that was the bank holiday weekend.

Arse.

[rfoster]

I got married on a Sunday - wasn't a problem for nearly all of our guests as we gave them plenty of notice of the date, so they could make arrangements where necessary to take the following day off. Also £2k cheaper than having it on the Saturday, which paid for the honeymoon.

[SS HSV]

For a traditional church wedding, you will normally find it hard to book on a Sunday because of Morning Mass, Sunday Communion and a lot of Christenings in the afternoon, followed by Evensong normally around 6pm. For me as organist, Sunday was not a day or rest but was a good earner

The Vicar would be mad to try and fit a wedding in there although my father has done it for special situations; his weddings lasting typically 45 minutes so they get the messgage across, the job done and don't drag on

In 1977 he frequently did 5 weddings on a Saturday from 12pm to 4pm which made getting the last lot out and the new lot in a military operation but it was performed with great success

[gavmobile]

Went to a Sunday wedding a few months back and it was subdued. Even though most had booked the Monday off it seemed like once those few who hadn't had started to leave the venue was left a bit empty and others soon followed.

Go for a Friday if you can't get a Saturday. We had ours on a Friday and not a single person turned down the invite on the basis that they couldn't get time off, most it seems will gladly book a days holiday in return for free food and booze. It also helped us with organising the flights for our honeymoon (there were no Sunday departures)

[Jasandjules]

Went to one a couple of years ago. Stayed until 10pm or so, with an hours drive home to get back in time to get enough sleep for the next day. Quite a few people were leaving by that point as well.

[The jiffle king]

I married on a Friday and it was great. People who really want to come will take the day off an probably enjoy a long weekend. If it's too difficult to take Friday off, people don't turn up. Simple really. 15% cheaper on a Friday, and we only did this because someone at the reception venue "forgot to ink in our booking" (more like the people planned to spend more!!)

On a Sunday, I would either take the day off on the Monday or just leave at 1030

[pikey]

Rochester TVR said:

Whats everyone's opinions on getting married on a sunday?

Extremely common for the popular venues. Friday too.

I think it boils down to whether you like the venue enough to not have to wait another year for it, but as for how different a Sunday is to a Saturday.. I don't think it is. Slightly more difficult for the guests, but they'll work around it if they want to come.

The venue we recently got married in told me they now haven't any summer vacancies on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays until 2011.

[Wheelrepairit]

We just made sure our sunday was day before a bank holiday, problem solved

[DrNicholas]

I got married on a Friday (in a hotel, about one year after that became legal) and as we were near our home, all the family and a few friends came to the main event during the afternoon, and we had all our other friends come to the evening do kicking off at 7.00, so they didn't have to have a day off. It worked really well.

If you're hoping to get everyone in the church, then I suppose a Friday won't work, but if you're more concerned that you can have a good evening with your friends then Friday works really well.