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Wedding on a Friday?

mpelayo87mpelayo87
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in California-Los Angeles
So I want to know what's your personal opinions on having a wedding on a friday? The hall we want to book is 12,000 and if we reseve it for a friday its 6,000 Half the price! Let me know what you guys think.

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  • imlovingitimlovingit member
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    edited December 2011
    Personally I like friday weddings than sunday weddings because I don't have to worry about going to work the next day. The only bad side to a friday wedding is that some people might not make it because of work.
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  • CurlyGirlyGirlCurlyGirlyGirl
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    edited December 2011
    We went to a Friday wedding recently.  It took us 3 hours in rush hour traffic to get there, and it was pretty annoying because we had to take time off of work... For a relative, I wouldn't have too much of a problem with it.  However, we didn't know the couple well... and then they didn't even pay for a single alcoholic beverage :(

    We had a Sunday wedding.  We didn't have to worry about people being stuck in traffic, and no one had to take off from work.  
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  • jagore08jagore08 member
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    edited December 2011
    I would much prefer a Sunday wedding to a Friday wedding.  If I did go to a Friday wedding I would prefer for it to start at the earliest 6 or 6:30.
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  • crnotacrnota
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    edited December 2011
    We had a Friday wedding this summer, but it was a bit of a different situation than most, with our guests. But it saved us a LOT of money on our venue and was totally worth it- if we hadn't done Friday, we couldn't have afforded my dream venue.

     All of our friends and coworkers here in LA are lucky to have very flexible schedules- grad students in my husband's lab or  teachers who are off for the summer (my friends). 100% of our relatives and 60% of our friends are from the east coast, so they had to take time off to travel to LA, anyway. This made it really easy to do a Friday wedding. We didn't have a single person not come because of the day, or even complain about it. The OOT guests took a few days off work anyway, and this way they had the weekend to enjoy sightseeing, etc. I would say maybe 3 or 4 people total at the wedding actually live in LA and have "traditional" jobs- and those were just dates of friends, and they still made it.

    Of course, that's not typical, and if I was invited to a Friday wedding in LA and I had to work, I would definitely want it to start later so I wouldn't have to miss the whole day of work and wasn't stuck in traffic forever.
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  • sfchicksfchick member
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    edited December 2011
    As a guest, I'd much rather not have to take off work to attend a wedding. $12k for a venue in L.A. seems really high. I'd rather have the bride spend 12k on the food then the venue but that's just me.

    A friend of mine got married on a Thursday in Santa Monica. I had to take off work and work the following day. All of us traveling from the east got stuck in traffic and it really didn't have a party atmosphere as all of us were biting our nails just to get there in time.

    I'd love to have a friday or sunday wedding to save on costs but more than 75% of my family and friends are traveling from out of state and I didn't think it was fair to ask them to take more time off in order for me to save money.
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  • TurtlesAllTheWayDownTurtlesAllTheWayDown member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_california-los-angeles_wedding-friday?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:68Discussion:6579c120-cc4c-430e-8248-b623c5e5354ePost:ad0b6c67-3bb7-4376-abdc-d4b3c0314297">Re: Wedding on a Friday?</a>:
    [QUOTE]I would much prefer a Sunday wedding to a Friday wedding.  If I did go to a Friday wedding I would prefer for it to start at the earliest 6 or 6:30.
    Posted by jagore08[/QUOTE]

    This. Definitely no earlier than 6, 7 if you can manage.

    I had a Sunday wedding and it was no problem at all. (I don't get how people can hate on Sunday weddings, since traditionally Jewish weddings are always on Sunday.)
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  • stephandcase12stephandcase12 member
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    edited December 2011
    We'll be doing a Friday wedding in either Santa Barbara or San Diego but it's only 30 ppl (immediate family and a handful of close friends) who are treating it as a vacation (we live in Napa). It's cheaper for us and easier since most hotels require 2 night stays on the weekends. We'll be traveling to our honeymoon directly out of LAX which will be fun :) It really all depends on your guests and what's best for you.
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