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How do you feel about Friday weddings?
And why can I not seem to stop eating these darn cookies? Somebody take them away!
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Re: How do you feel about Friday weddings?
I agree, Fuss. Get married whatever day you want, but if you are expecting people to come, can't you at least try to accommodate them a little?
No one wants to have to take 2 days off instead of just one so that you can save money. That means we lose money! Yes, I know that we could just not go, but that will sadly not happen. It's not my call.
I have never been to a Friday wedding, so in all honesty I just don't know. I guess they could be okay, but it's a lot to ask from your guests IMO.
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its fine if you are doing a small intimate affair with twelves guests who all live in the same zip code.
i think it is ridiculous to expect people to travel to a friday wedding. i ont want to take the day off or work all fricking day then go to a wedding.
i talked to a friday bride this weekend. the wedding is at six, the reception is at eight. shes hoping that she wont have to feed all the kids at the receptiong because all the parents will have to feed their kids before the come.
I don't love them but I certainly understand them.
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Seriously? She's expecting all the parents to run home and do dinner between the ceremony and the reception? Why invite kids at all? Don't they have to pay per head whether they eat or not?
We can go, and we will, but I still feel the need to complain about it.
To be entirely fair, everybody the bride knows probably lives within a 3 mile radius of her except us. I have no idea about the groom's people. This is probably considered a destination wedding because it is an hour away. They'll all be thrilled to miss the Saturday traffic.
I dislike them greatly. The worst was at 6pm on a Friday, north of Boston off of 128.
That was an effing nightmare. We were late - there was just no way around the traffic.
I don't work fridays and I kinda think they suck.
Of course, the Mr. can't go to any weekend wedding w/o a day off (hard to get and expensive for us), so I'm 'meh' about going to weddings for people I'm'meh'a bout. :P
I've only been to one - Leap Year Friday, 2008. It was OK. I don't mind any excuse to get off work early, LOL.
Sadly, they're now divorced.
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I got married on a Friday.
It was awesome.
No one complained (to me anyway).
It was a destination wedding for most, at any rate.
And we had an evening reception after the main reception and dinner, so if people had to work they could come later and drink and eat and party for free.
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i think shes thinking that the parents will feed their kids before the wedding. i have no idea. i cant miss work, so my kid will be there, but i wont.
her mom sent out stds that said no kids were invited. shes been telling people who were calling to complain that all kids could come, well, except for certain cousins.
and actually, i think im more on team kuus. i just hate weddings in general. i wish that i had known how much weddings sucked when i was planning my own.
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We got married on a Friday but our reception was on Saturday. It was a heck of a lot less stressful on everyone. We went out to dinner with the two families (family's? Blah grammar) and then DH and I went off to the hotel for the night.
I don't think I'd do a Friday night reception though...everyone has to work and it would be super hard for out of town guests, or guests who live a little further away, to get off of work and be there on time.
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I will also admit that I like to complain about weddings in general. Weddings, baby showers, bridal showers, all of it. I prefer not to go.
This wedding in particular I want to complain about because it is on H's side and his family will be there. I can't think of a worse way to spend a weekend. I'm sure he'll want to go up for the entire weekend, even though the wedding is on Friday, which means an entire Saturday with nothing planned except quality time with MIL. Oh joy. I am hoping that there will be nothing wedding related on Thursday, so that we can actually go up on Friday. Cross your fingers for me.
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We had a Friday night wedding. But we only had 40ish people - our closest friends and immediate family. We told people well in advance, so people knew what was going on. Everyone who had to take time off either would have had to ask for it anyway (one's a cop, the rest were our immediate family who would have taken the day off anyway likely), or told me they were thrilled for an excuse to get out of work early on a Friday.
If we'd had a big wedding, though, I never would have considered it. You have to know your audience.
The only Friday wedding I've been invited to was set for 4:30 pm and I didn't get out of work until 6:00 I didn't want to use a personal day for it and I didn't go.
Dh did and he said it sucked. Outside. In Florida. In August. And there was no "food" only drinks and not enough appetizers to feed all the guests. They ran out of appetizers in 20 minutes. And it was cash bar.
*sits down next to GBCK and kuus*
If it was for a good friend or close family member, I don't mind. We've had to travel for weddings in the past that required time off from work, even though the wedding was on the weekend. I don't mind it for someone I truly care for.
But anyone else? Decline.
I've been to one about 10 yrs. ago. It was an evening wedding, I think at 8pm if I remember correctly. I only heard a few people complain about traffic, but everyone else was able to go to work, get ready and get to the wedding site on time.
Now, I'm going to one this Sept. and they were honest from the beginning that it was a hell of a lot cheaper to do it on Friday. With the way prices are nowadays, I can't blame them!