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I am headed to a wedding. It is not Sat or Sunday. It is Friday. This makes me wonder if Friday is the new Saturday when it comes to weddings. It makes sense. Friday nights are less expensive in most cases and many involved are usually available.
My grandmother got married on a Wednesday. I always thought that was odd but she said that it was normal back then? I wish I could still ask her about that. Since she has passed, I became an event planner and until I sold my business and started Party Planning Professor I would never have weekends off without loosing a considerable amount of money. I am seeing a “date/day” shift in these economic times and in the event planning field. I think I like it.
Going to the wedding today, I had to get my Father-in-law to pick up my son from school but other then that there was not a huge inconvenience in finding childcare and my sitter can still have a life during the weekend. This is an added bonus for the guests.
What do you feel about Friday weddings? Would you find a Friday evening more convenient as a guest? When did you get married? Why did you pick that date?
I am Elizabeth, and this here is my party planning frontier. I am not from the west but wish I was so I sometimes talk with a southern-drawl. (We can all dream right?) I am actually from Cape May, NJ and love to party. You can lean more about me 
Well we got married on St. Patricks Day…the story behind that day was my husband and I got engaged on Thanksgiving and after Christmas I found out I was pregnant (oops) Well my grandmother and my husband wanted us to get married before the baby was born and I kept saying I am not going rush to plan a wedding just because of the baby…Well everyday for two weeks they would call me at work and at home and hound me to get married and I kept saying no…we will get married after the baby was born and than finally my grandmother called my husband Mark and told him that St.Patricks day was on a Saturday and how perfect would it be since we both have Irish in us if we got married on St. Paddy’s Day. So he told me what my grandmother had said and she had convienced him that we did not need to do all the wedding stuff, that we should just have a small wedding which she would pay for and we could all wear green and after the baby is born I could plan my big day…And than the words that I will never forget came across the phone lines ” Don’t you want your grandmother to see you get married, I don’t know how long I have left” and my answer was “FINE”. So we got married in Wildwood Crest on the beach. I wore a sea green dress and my husband wore a dark green shirt and silk tie. My close family members were there and 9 years later we have two beautiful daughters..Still waiting to have my big wedding, but now after losing my grandmother a few years ago I am glad we got married, because I will always have that great memory of how we got married on St. Paddy’s Day 2001 and I know my husband will never forget that day…
I think Friday weddings are great, the only downside is you usually have to take off from work or you get home real late, but at least your whole weekend is not turned upside down because of a wedding. I went to a Sunday night wedding a couple of weeks ago and at first I was upset because the wedding was at 4pm on a Sunday plus it was out of town, but we had a great time and after the wedding was over I totally forgot that is was a Sunday night. i did take off from work on Monday but if the wedding was on a friday would have done the same thing.