Is a holiday weekend wedding a bad idea for guests?
Holiday weekends mean heavy travel hassles and a lack of standard hotel room blocks, forcing couples to rely on scattered vacation rentals instead. These extra logistical hurdles make traveling a pain for guests and complicate the planning process.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Encouraging guests to use Airbnb and VRBO instead of hotel room blocks and to book as early as possible
- 2Surveying VIP guests and close friends beforehand to gauge their availability
- 3considering booking on a Friday
- 4pushing the wedding date another year
- 5sending save-the-dates immediately
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Many hotels don’t do wedding room blocks that weekend so we would encourage guests to use airbnb and vrbo and to book asap.”source ↗
“I’m curious what your overall thoughts are on doing a holiday/Labor day weekend wedding?”source ↗
“My question is, if we have it 5/27/28 is it rude to ask our family and friends to give up their holiday weekend for our wedding or does it work out having extra days off work because most people are traveling to the wedding anyway?”source ↗
“Should we push it ANOTHER year 😭?”source ↗
“Do we just book Memorial Day weekend but send the save the dates like now!?”source ↗
“traveling on holiday weekends is a pain for multiple reasons.”source ↗
Where this came up
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