Hey y'all,
So, my soon-to-be fiance and I have been looking at May 26th or 27th, 2012 for our wedding. (He's gotten my dad's blessing and bought the ring.) We both have school, graduations, and rotations (I'm in pharmacy school) to plan around.
We didn't realize that the last weekend of May was Memorial Day until my dad pointed it out. My dad seems to think that having the wedding on a holiday weekend would be a bad idea.
Meanwhile, I'm going back and forth between having the wedding at my church in Northern VA (BF is from NC), or in the city we went to school together in Northwestern PA (about a five hour drive from my house.) The latter option is more meaningful to both of us, and would have a much better setting for pictures. But we know it'd cost more and make attendance impossible for some of our guests, so we haven't decided yet.
My thought was, having a holiday on Monday would make travelling to PA easier on our guests. I just don't have any idea how big of a problem it is to have one's wedding on a holiday weekend. Any thoughts or suggestions about the date? (Our other options are basically to move it back or forward a week, or do it later in the year.)