Sunday wedding/reception

kvillanella

My fiance and I are seriously contemplating having our wedding and reception on a Sunday. I realize people may not want to party much with it being on a Sunday, but we were thinking of having it early so guests have enough time to get home and relax for the upcoming work week. What are your thoughts?

megk8oz

Ditto Aerin, check with your key players first.

I just went to a Sunday night wedding (Last night) where it ended at 10pm. The reception was an hour away from where I live, and I was relying on my parents for transportation (It was easier for us to carpool since we all live near each other), so I wound up staying way later than I wanted to, and was in no mood to get up for work this morning. It was a great wedding, but way too late of a "work" night for me.

A lot of their older guests left before cake was even served, and not too many people lasted much later than that, so keep that in mind.

But if you start it off early, like it sounds like you want to, I don't see why you shouldn't do this.

pandasquishy

I think a Sunday brunch wedding would be great.  Ceremony at 10  of 11 am or so and then a brunch reception with waffles, french toast, the works.  Noon to three should be enough time for a brunch reception I think, and then people would have plenty of time to get home!

KellyJayD

I am definately planning on a Sunday because the prices are way cheaper! We can book a really nice place for much less. It's all about what we want and can afford in my opinion since we are paying for everything.
If your parents are paying I would definately talk to them.

melissaandjosh418

Were doing a Sunday night wedding. I agree definitely check with all the important people first. We are doing it alot earlier though since we are having OOT guests. The ceremony starts at 11:30 and the reception is from 1-5. We are doing a full lunch, open bar and dj and pretty much treating it like an evening reception. Since there are alot of  people who will want to continue celebrating (us included!) we are also having an after party that starts at 6.

good luck!

medallion

My fiance and I are having a Sunday wedding because the venue we loved was booked on all the Saturdays many months before we ever saw it. (We looked at it about a year in advance). It was between having the wedding on Sunday, waiting six months to have it or picking a more expensive/less nice venue. It's not ideal, but I'm glad we made that choice.

We're planning on starting our ceremony at 2 p.m. and ending the reception at 9 or 10. It's an October wedding, so it will be nice to start early so we can maximize the amount of sunlight. We're also having less trouble booking caterers, photographers, etc. because there isn't as much demand for them on Sundays.

MyNameIsNot

If you can't do a Saturday but really want to do evening, I think Friday is better.  IMHO, Sunday weddings work best when you do them in the morning or afternoon.  If you had a noon ceremony, you could have a full lunch, followed by dancing until 5ish, and most people will stay, and it would work out really well.  If you do the evening reception, like PPs said, you're going to have a lot of people leaving right after dinner. 

Also, look at holiday weekends, but like PP brough up, not everyone has the holiday.  I'm pretty sure that bride assumed that everyone would be off today for MLK, but not everyone gets that day.