NEED WEDDING DATE ADVICE?

I am getting married in Oct 2010 on Friday or Saturday. I want a Saturday wedding but Catholic Churches have mass at 4pm. So the latest I can be married is at 2pm. I will have to much of a time gap between the church and the reception hall which starts at 5:30pm. I do not want guests having to wait around to go to the reception hall.





Does anyone have any advice for me of what to do?NEED WEDDING DATE ADVICE?
Im glad I'm not the only one planning early, although my wedding is december 19th 09...





one option is to have your wedding after the mass or in the morning, you can then have a lunch reception, that would be rushed in prep tho.





is there another catholic church you could use (assuming you are catholic)


if you are not fully religious then find somewhere else to have it.





you could go for the friday night, would it be so bad?





i know its silly superstition and i am personally getting married on a saturday but here is an old wives tale that sort of amused me





Monday for wealth


Tuesday for health


Wednesday the best day of all


Thursday for losses


Friday for crosses


Saturday for no luck at all





good luck sorting this out :)





congrats too :)NEED WEDDING DATE ADVICE?
Why not have an earlier wedding with the reception being a lunch type thing? Or have your wedding at 2 p.m. then start your reception a bit earlier than 5:30. If you're planning this far out I doubt the hall is even rented or reserved, so you have time to play with the idea. No one ever said a wedding has to be on a saturday evening. You can, in reality, do any day of the week. Good luck.
make a check list so that you will not forget anything...





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I wish all brides were so considerate! There is nothing worse than having to wait around for several hours - especially if you don;t know the town very well or it is too far to travel back home.





Perhaps you could have the wedding at the time as planned and open the reception hall for say 4pm for a bit of a happy hour/cocktail food and so on. You could provide a second photographer to take photos of everyone there and get them to write in a guest book.





If you are feeling really creative you could even supply other relaxing things - maybe hire some beauty students from a local school to give out foot massages things like that.
Its not up to you what your guests do!!!!!!!


i am having my ceremony at 12pm, going away for photos and the reception starts at 430pm but me and the bridal party + hubby will be there at approx 530.





Its not up to you what your guests do!!!!


In the time the guests are starting at 430 there is an open bar and canapes going around.





DONT WORRY ABOUT THE OTHER GUESTS, THEY WILL GO BAK TO THEIR rooms or find something to do whilst your getting your pictures done etc.



You are being very considerate...thinking about your guests and not only yourself on your big day! Congratulations not many brides do.


You could see if you could find a place that could serve drinks and finger foods not too far from your reception place.


My sister attended a wedding recently where the couple hired a house not only for their interstate family to stay in but also for those people who wanted to have ';drinks and nibbles'; before the reception started. Not all guests went back but those that did thoroughly enjoyed themselves...it was like a pre-reception just without the bride and groom. They had cousins and aunts welcoming everyone and it went done a treat.


But if you can't find anything close or can't afford to do such a thing people do understand and will make their own arrangements. After all they get plenty of notice and you could always put a note in the invitation about any 'places of interest' in the immediate area.


Good luck with your organising, hope all goes well. Most of all don't stress.
have a friday wedding unless you are dead set onsaturday. obviously the church isn't going to move mass, and you can't change the rules of your venue. ...





to the first poster, who wats to drive to a wedding, drive to a house for punch, then drive to a reception hall for everything else???
designate a house to go to with refreshments for them to hang out at.
Have a cocktail hour somewhere between the wedding and the reception.