I’d be miffed equally, whether or not it’s a holiday. God, I hate weddings.
I went ahead and answered yes to everything, but for many of these holidays, the answer is really “it depends” rather than a definite yes.
Essentially it comes down to this: what have I already planned on? My scheduling is pretty much first-come-first-served. If I hear about your wedding early enough, I could move Thanksgiving dinner up or back a couple of hours. But if I’ve already decided on a time, then you’re out of luck.
Sure, why not?
The good thing about a holiday wedding is that it gives people who don’t want to come anyway a safe “out”.
“Sorry, I’m not going to be able to come, because CHRISTMAS.”
The 4th of July isn’t a major holiday for many people, but it’s a big deal in my family and I would never skip our family festivities to go to a wedding.
The three day weekends are always potentially tricky, for those who work a standard office schedule – if it is a local wedding, that means staying in town during the three day weekend when one might otherwise have been planning to do a weekend trip. So I would go to the wedding if I didn’t have other plans, but it would be a tougher call if a Memorial Day weekend out-of-town vacation had already been in the works.
A lot of them, it’s “it depends.” Is the location convenient to where I live, or to where I usually spend the holidays?
I wouldn’t be thrilled if it was on Christmas Eve, Easter or Halloween, but since it’s a one-time event I’d still go. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the only days I’d decline going.
I wouldn’t rule anything out, but I’d have to be pretty close to the couple to go on Thanksgiving or Christmas…probably would have to be somebody I already see on those holidays. I don’t care too much about even those holidays, but the families we spend them with do and it would hurt their feelings if we chose some distant person’s wedding over them. I don’t think any of the other holidays would be a problem for me.
On the other hand because both my husband and I have parents we see on those holidays, we pretty much make them movable feasts anyway so we see everybody in the course of the days around the holiday, we would probably do the same thing for a wedding (a convenient venue you say! that’s more than I can say for Christmas or Thanksgiving)
But consider carefully, wedding planners! You are not just choosing the date of your wedding, but the date of your anniversary for ever after. My friend who got married on Christmas Eve now finds her anniversary completely lost in the whirlwind of Christmas with kids.
Neither March 14th nor April 20th are listed. WTF?
I once attended a wedding on July 4. The couple and the vast majority of the guests were formerly Soviet, and even though they were all U.S. citizens by then, had no emotional attachment to July 4th. That, and the (Polish-owned) banquet hall gave them half off, so why not?
Tom Scud and I got married on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. We figured most people aren’t emotional about Labor Day, my grandparents had gotten married that same weekend (a number of years earlier, of course), and it gave people more time for travel, so why not?
We then spent Labor Day weekend 2 years later driving to and from the wedding of the friend who caught my bouquet 
That list is very US/Christian-centred. For example, Dec 25th is just a normal day in many Islamic countries.
I’ve not been to many weddings, but the people are more important than the date, so bring it on!
Pi Day and Napoleon’s Birthday?
I’m curious how many of the people who answered that they would attend on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are gentiles? Most gentiles don’t even know when those days are. Did any Jews say they’d attend a wedding on those days? I doubt it.
They enforce that tradition?:eek:
Nope, I hadn’t planned to do a bouquet toss at all. But my friend had broken up with her longtime jerk boyfriend right before our wedding, and was pretty depressed about being single when she wanted to be married and having babies, so I basically lobbed her my bouquet after everyone else went home. She lost her job the week after our wedding and got an offer in her hometown shortly thereafter, moved away, and right after that met the guy she ended up marrying (and 3 years later, they have 2 kids). So things just worked out that way
And at her wedding, a 19-year-old cousin of the groom caught her bouquet (and no end of ribbing).
The only days that would be a no-go for attending a wedding AFAIAC are Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. Though if I’m going to attend a wedding on Christmas Eve, it needs to be a daytime wedding, and no more than a couple hours’ drive from wherever I’m going to be on Christmas day.
The only day that I would have to think about on this list is Thanksgiving. The meal is a big deal to me even if I am only hanging out with some friends. I would need assurances that I would be able to make myself fat at the wedding instead
Every other day is okay with me. I have actually attended two weddings on my birthday since it falls at the end of May. I even managed to get bonus gifts from relatives I normally don’t see for the birthday wedding I attended as a kid.
No to Christmas Eve, and Xmas day. No to Halloween unless it is a daytime wedding. I am not gonna miss seeing the trick or treaters.
I would attend a wedding on any of these days except my birthday depending on who the celebrants were. My brother and his wife got married on the 4th of July.
I got married on New Year’s Eve. Nearly all of the attendees thought it was just an NYE party that we were throwing, and we surprised them at the door. It’s perfect - now we have a built-in excuse to not have to go to any crappy NYE party we want for the rest of our lives, AND it’s impossible to forget.
A niece of mine had her wedding on Mother Day and no kids where allowed and this meant kids that of any age . My niece had a lot of people calling her and wanting to know why kids could not go to a wedding that was on Mother’s Day . People thought b/c it was on Mother’s Day kids would be welcome . I thought it was an odd day to have a wedding. My sister got to have her two daughters with her on Mother’s day and no one else could so people were upset . This did his cause hurt feeling with some guests. I could not go for health reasons . I am Jewish so Christmas and Easter are major holidays to me I guess it would depend where the wedding was being held , I would not want to stuck in a church for hours .