July 4th Weekend Weddings

Hello! I am newly engaged and just starting to think about venues on Long Island. (I live in DC) As I'm starting to get price points in form vendors, I'm thinking that booking July 4th weekend may be significantly cheaper.

Does anyone have advice or feedback on having a wedding on July 4th? We'll have a lot of out of town guests, he's from the midwest, so I'm thinking that airfare could be more expensive for them. Any advice is appreciated, thank you!

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Hey,

I'm getting married July 2nd- this year it falls on a Thursday and it's worked perfectly for us- we feel like we're not 'taking' anyone's holiday weekend but kicking it off and most people are off on Friday for the holiday which actually falls on Saturday. We got a much lower rate at the RH for booking on this day. Some people are not off on Thursday or Friday though but are taking off for the wedding.

Last summer I was in a wedding that fell on Sat. July 5th and the rehearsal dinner was on the Fri. the 4th- I have to say that felt kinda like we missed the holiday b/c there was no fireworks or BBQ or anything...I didn't care that much b/c it was my college roommate by my FH was bummed.

No matter what you do there will unfortunately be some complaints- the good thing about a holiday weekend is it kinda 'weeds out' those who don't matter the most to you b/c the ones that do will def. be there! We have to invite all these random friends of our parents and some of them can't come b/c of the holiday weekend and we are actually happy about it b/c we'd rather have it be just closest friends/family.

Also- if you do a holiday weekend def. send out a save the date!

I hope that helps! Good luck! :D

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My good friend is getting married in boston july 3rd 2010. I'm excited to spend the long weekend in Boston. She has definately heard some complaints but I agree with above it'll weed out the people who aren't as close.

I'd go for it.

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Hi there-

We are getting married this yr, labor day weekend. We def. heard some griping and a few people tell us way in advance they were not coming d/t the holiday weekend. We chose it b/c we have a lot of out of towners and knew they would have to taken of a friday or monday any other weekend. Labor day is a holiday, so no one has to take off of work to come to our wedding.

Those that mean the most to you will be there no matter what weekend it is. That is what we learned.

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HI! I am getting married this July 4th. I did get a great price but I am also getting married in the afternoon. That way people can still go home and do their BBQs and see their fireworks. There will always be that one person that complains. Oh well! Then they dont have to come. Good Luck in whatever you decide!!

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I'm getting married July 1st next year and we chose the 4th of July weekend for the prices. July 1st falls on a Thursday next year but its perfect because a Thursday is cheap and its a holiday weekend so my guests don't really have to take off that many days from work and neither do we. I'm in NY now but I will be living in Florida by the time of the wedding. Also my out of town guests can have a long holiday weekend in NY.

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Im getting married July 3rd and got no special discounts or anything..woohoo

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im getting married on a thursday july 1 and we got a much better price. we really agonized about getting married on a thursday because we originally thought it out of the question. then we texted a bunch of friends and took a poll of whether they cared. everyone (except one person) said they didnt care if our wedding was on a tuesday, they would come. i guess we found out who are the real friends!

as for the holiday weekend, my dad didnt want us to do it on a saturday. he hates going to weddings on saturdays in the summer cuz it ruins his chance to get away. even for my wedding lol

another bride 2 b said that she sees it as kicking off the holiday weekend and i totally agree

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Posted by cateydee

im getting married on a thursday july 1 and we got a much better price. we really agonized about getting married on a thursday because we originally thought it out of the question. then we texted a bunch of friends and took a poll of whether they cared. everyone (except one person) said they didnt care if our wedding was on a tuesday, they would come. i guess we found out who are the real friends!

as for the holiday weekend, my dad didnt want us to do it on a saturday. he hates going to weddings on saturdays in the summer cuz it ruins his chance to get away. even for my wedding lol

another bride 2 b said that she sees it as kicking off the holiday weekend and i totally agree

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Yay! we're date twins..lol..and I agree with the whole Thursday thing showing who your real friends are.

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Posted by mzmahagony

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Posted by cateydee

im getting married on a thursday july 1 and we got a much better price. we really agonized about getting married on a thursday because we originally thought it out of the question. then we texted a bunch of friends and took a poll of whether they cared. everyone (except one person) said they didnt care if our wedding was on a tuesday, they would come. i guess we found out who are the real friends!

as for the holiday weekend, my dad didnt want us to do it on a saturday. he hates going to weddings on saturdays in the summer cuz it ruins his chance to get away. even for my wedding lol

another bride 2 b said that she sees it as kicking off the holiday weekend and i totally agree

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Yay! we're date twins..lol..and I agree with the whole Thursday thing showing who your real friends are.

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YIPPIE i finally have a date twin!!

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I looked at July 3, 2010 and I didn't see any discount. Most places still charged you July Saturday night prices.

I think if you know your family and friends won't mind, then go for it. My grandmother has had a big fourth of July party every year for as long as I can remember, so it was sort of out of the question for me.

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We're getting married next 4th of July and it falls on a Sunday... It worked out because people will have off the next day (like when weddings are on a sat) but we paid Sunday prices....Some places we looked actually charged more for the holiday! We are excited about 4th of July because our RH is on the water and we should see fireworks...Im sure some people might not like the idea, but overall we've had good responses!

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We are getting married on July 2, 2010. I did go back and forth about it but it's a friday so ppl can still go away on Sat if they wanted to and its going to be a 3 day weekend with monday off even though 4th of july is sunday. Unfortunately we didnt get any deals for it being a holiday weekend!

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If you do have your wedding that weekend, I think that you should definitely send out save the date cards just to give your guests a heads up.

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I went to a wedding on July 5th last year and it was fine.

Also, it seems like SOME halls won't give discounts on holidays anymore. I think pretty soon they wont at all. It used to be that people rarely got married on a holiday so they would give out discounts just to book it for that day. But holiday weddings are becoming so popular that now they feel they don't have to. Some places though you can still get a discount

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I really thought about having a 7/4 wedding, but didn't quite have the nerve. I will say send out both your std's and your invites in advance.
I personally enjoy weddings on a holiday, but some feel it interferes with their family holiday traditions.
I would be careful with your guarantee/ minimum as well. But good luck!

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I agree with what people are saying about probably not getting discounts, especially for this summer holiday. Me and FH were looking into the Sunday before Columbus Day (IMO not a HUGE holiday, both mine and FH's offices are open for Columbus Day) and some halls we looked into were treating it like a Saturday night.

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We are getting married on July 4 of this year. There were no special discounts as it falls on a Saturday this year. We thought about it and realized that in the last couple of years we really didn't do much at nite for the 4th. Our wedding is a nite wedding so everyone can enjoy a bbq or the beach during the day and then have a great party to go to at nite. We didn't really get alot of negativity - just one made it known, and all I can say to that is - 'you don't have to come'.

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I'm getting married on the Monday of Labor Day. I've heard some (actually just one) complaint but I'm doing what's right for me and FH. If people don't want to come b/c it's a holiday, then that's fine by me. I personally like getting married at the end of a holiday weekend b/c we can relax and have time to enjoy our wedding weekend with family and friends before going off on our HM.

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Reading through all of these posts and about how some of you girls have had people complain about your wedding dates, really makes me wonder something:

Why do people complain about something they are not required to go to??

It's like if you don't like the date or time or location, don't come!

A lot of places FH & I are looking at are 'far' and people are all 'Ohhh soo far...'
like DON'T COME then.