Friday or Saturday wedding??

karepell

I really need some advice, I keep going back and forth if I want to get married on a friday night or a saturday. It will be a summer wedding in the church and the only option for saturday is 1 and Friday I can get married anytime. The reception will be outside with big tents. What is better.. a friday wedding at 4 or saturday at 1? If I could get married an hour or two later on Saturday I would do that, I don't want a wedding that starts to early and guests feels like it drags on for too long and leave early. Is Friday at 4 a bad time to have a wedding for guests that have to travel?

pulga131

Friday weddings are perfectly fine, and usually a lot cheaper.  However, if its on a Saturday, I think it needs to be later than 4.  You don't want all of your guests to have to take off from work (including local guests) and they need time to get ready.  

karepell

The latest I can get married in the church is at 1 which is a bit early in my opinion.

aerinpegadrak

If guests are coming in from OOT, it probably doesn't matter what time a Friday wedding is, because they'd have to take the whole day off anyway to attend.  It's the locals you have to worry about on a Friday; you'll probably get a higher decline rate from your locals if they'd have to leave work early or take a partial or full day off to attend, especially if you live in an area where traffic is a consideration.  Or, locals may skip the ceremony and only attend the reception, simply because they can't get there any earlier.  Personally, I'd probably decline any local Friday wedding that started before 7pm.

angst2882

I'm doing a Friday night wedding but it won't start until 7pm that evening.  I thought it would be better to have it later in the evening so that way people who live in town won't have to take time off of work and they can still have time to go home and get ready.  Then we're having a cocktail reception since it will be so late in the night.  And my reception venue was really cheap since we were renting it out on a Friday night and didn't have to have it for the whole day on Saturday.

gottahavashorti

With those time options, go with Saturday.  Just don't make the reception drag on.  Or if you want an evening reception, could you push it back to Friday at 7 or so?