Sunday Wedding

ekrelle · January 2012

Is a Sunday wedding acceptable?? Someone is saying Sunday is not a typical wedding day due to church services. My plan was to do an afternoon ceremony-evening recpetion. What does everyone think?

MyNameIsNot · January 2012

Sunday weddings are perfectly fine! Some groups traditionally get married at the actual Sunday service, and then have a brunch/lunch reception after.

Unless you are doing something in the church, I would recommend doing it a little later, but 1-2 is fine! I would not do an evening reception on a Sunday, though.

mgg242 · January 2012

We are doing a Sunday wedding in a Catholic Church. Only problem is if your church does multiple Sunday services and if your Priest has help.

ekrelle · January 2012

Thanks for your help. We were thinking a sunday afternoon maybe 3pm start time for our ceremony which would be outdoors and then followed by a reception.

RyansBelovedBride · January 2012

That sounds good. The only thing I was giong to say is try not to have it too late into the evening. I've been to two different Sunday weddings that started at 5pm... and at both guests started leaving early and the couple's feeligns were hurt. So I always recommend if people go for a Sunday wedding they don't start late in the day (and obviously not too early either). 3pm seems perfect.

calliopeia2013 · January 2012

I'm also doing a Sunday wedding (morning ceremony, afternoon reception), and also attending a friend's Sunday wedding soon (afternoon ceremony, evening reception). Sunday weddings are getting pretty popular, actually. My friend's wedding is on Sunday because a lot of her family members are very observant Jews and couldn't attend a Saturday event...but it's also just a lot cheaper if you're budget-conscious. Just remember a) that people have to work Monday morning, and b) that if you're having your ceremony in a Christian church, you might need to work around whatever other services are scheduled for that day.

neene112 · January 2012

Sunday Weddings are increasingly popular in the NYC area. My wedding is Sunday Daytime to accomodate my Seventh Day Adventist mother and Jewish MOH. It is generally cheaper but you can expect some people to leave early to get ready for work the next day. we got around this by purposefully choosing a three day holiday weekend.

GreenEire · January 2012

I had a Sunday wedding that started at 2pm. I didn't hear any complaints about it.

ElisabethJoanne · January 2012

Sunday weddings are common among Jews, less common among Christians, but gaining popularity.

Our wedding is on the Monday of a 3-day weekend, so, the same back-to-work-next-day issues for guests. Our day-of timeline has the last it's-not-polite-to-leave-before event at 8pm, so guests can politely leave at 8:15/8:30. My church, with lots of elderly people, who are all invited to my wedding, had a totally non-wedding evening event that wrapped around 8pm or 8:30 last night, so I think our plan will work.

JadziaDax · January 2012

I'm having a Sunday wedding. Our Church ceremony starts at 2:30pm and the reception is 5-10pm. We are getting married at a nearby Church but the Church closest to us, which is literally 2 blocks away, only performs very late ceremonies on Sunday so I guess that's where we experienced issues.

Bonzo2011 · January 2012

Like PP have said, Sunday weddings are very common for Jews, not as common for Christians or secular weddings. My Jewish wedding will be a Sunday late afternoon evening. The ceremony starts at 5, and the reception is in the same place. Dinner probably around 7 or so. Yes, some people will leave early, but that's ok. The reception has to be over by 10 anyway, because it's a city owned building and all vendors have to be out by 12 at the latest. We are also getting married on July 1, so we're guessing that some people will take advantage of July 4 being a Wednesday this year, and make a vacation out of it. Hopefully that makes it easier for some guests.

DJennys · January 2012

I am planning on having a Sunday afternoon wedding for a few reasons:
1) One of our dear friends on the guest list is Jewish and would not be able to attend a Fri/Sat wedding
2) I don't want us to free rushed at the end of the work week to finish up last-minute details before a sat wedding

Many of our guests are church-goers, but I was planning on a 2pmish wedding so that everyone (except for our immediate family and wedding party) will be able to attend church that morning.

DJennys · January 2012

P.S. Our wedding isn't going to be in a church, so I haven't run into the schedule conflict of religious services as some normally might

sally87 · January 2012

I'm going to play the devil's advocate and just mention how Sunday weddings are less than ideal for the guests. I would find it harder to attend if a wedding I had to go to was on a Sunday. It would be even less ideal if it ran later into the evening. It's hard to have a carefree time knowing you have to work early the next morning not to mention what it means for your out of town guests. Even though it is your day of joy and the culmination of all your efforts planning, don't forget about your guests feelings too.

melntaitt · January 2012

Hey, Sunday weddings are on the rise because they're cheaper. A buck is a buck and save it where you can.

It depends on your place of worship, though. Your vendors are probably toasting you and high fiving at a Sunday contract; but...your priest might be thinking, Oh great!

Make sure the priest can accomodate you before you sign any contracts, but Sunday weddings are definitely a new up and coming trend.

hisbabygirl76 · January 2012

I am also planning a Sunday wedding. early evening ceremony (not in a church , doing an all in one location). For us its the savings. We do though have A LOT of out of town guests coming so this might add to a possible change in date if we find a place were Sat/Sun is same cost. Oh just one more thing to stress about

NOLAbridealmost · January 2012

We had a ton of OOT guests who would either have had to miss work Friday to travel for a Saturday wedding or travel Monday for the Sunday wedding. We picked Sunday because my law school graduation was Saturday. If anyone minded I didn't hear about it. No one except a few elderly guests left early.

Lisa50 · January 2012

A Sunday wedding is perfectly acceptable. Our ceremony began at 5:30 p.m. on a Sunday. There may be some churches that do not permit ceremonies on Sundays -- but that's a different issue.

tanyanubin · January 2012

I'm the MOB at a 2013 wedding. We booked a Sunday night at the venue my daughter liked the most...it's on Memorial Day weekend. We have lots of out of town guests driving/flying in. We figured that this would be the most considerate option, because no one will have to take a day off work for travel. We booked it very early because NJ has a large Jewish population, and Sunday nights in the spring/summer are booked quickly. (you can't have a Jewish wedding on a Saturday until after sundown, and that's pretty late in the spring/summer)

jeevansathi · January 2012

I think marrying on a Sunday is not a problem. In fact it helps your friends to mark their presence in your wedding.

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