Trouble Choosing a Wedding Day....

Go with June! You may be pleasantly surprised. My cousin got married on June 3rd and it was incredibly warm during the ceremony and comfortable in a tent all night!

Your happy with your date of June 13th, stick with it. You feel you want a month later giving some time more, July 4 is good as long as you know that your guests will leave early or take the back roads possible.

View quoted message No, not at all! I needed to hear real opinions about the dates. Thank you again!

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I hope I didn't come across super rude or anything... I just re-read my response and realized I probably could have phrased it a little better! Glad you came to a decision, though!

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to respond Erin! It turns out that most people would use June 29th and 30th to make it a long weekend extending to Wednesday July 1st; however, it’s still the best part of the summer that even I want to enjoy. As much as I am looking forward to my wedding, I want to get it over with and enjoy married life. So I am sticking with June 13th!

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to weigh in on this Tori! I really appreciate it!

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to respond! I really appreciate it Kelsie. I am going to stick with June 13th.

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts Alix! I really appreciate it!

View quoted message Thanks for weighing in Rayanne! As much as I’m looking to my wedding, I am looking forward to getting it over with so that I can enjoy summer too! I’m sticking with June 13th.

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts Allison! I really needed to hear some opinions to help make up my mind. I have decided to stick with June 13th!

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts Casey! I think I will stick with the June 13th date!

View quoted message Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts Amelia! I really appreciate it!

I personally wouldn't object to a long weekend wedding, but I know others have strong feelings about it so I'd avoid it. And like others have said, the weather can be dicey any time of year and there likely wouldn't be too much difference from June 13th to the 20th.

June can be dicey, but so can early July. You are only a couple weeks between both the dates.

I think you would be safer to do it in June away from the "long weekend" people may take. This way more people will attend the wedding and you won't run into people declining because they are going away for Canada Day.

Personally, I would pick the June date. If it is a little chillier, it is better for the guys in suits, and your hair and makeup will stay better!

I would stick with June 13 IMO. If people take Wednesday through Sunday as a long weekend, they might not want to take the time to attend a wedding in between there.

June 13 would have more or less the same weather as your original day, June 20, being only a week apart.

I think I'd personally go with the June date but most of my guest list aren't the mon-fri crowd so for a lot of us to get a long weekend off is impossible. While I love weddings if I did somehow get the weekend off and could take kids to the cottage or go to a wedding that would be a hard choice for me.

I agree with Tori. I think that long weekends would be better for out of town guests as well.

My FSIL had her wedding on the Labour Day Long Weekend and a lot of guests declined because it was a long weekend.

For lots of cottage goers, people going away etc. it breaks up their weekend and then they only get one full day at the cottage, versus two. So a lot of people didn’t go to her wedding that might’ve had it been another weekend.

For me personally, our family goes to our cottage on the long weekend, so unless it was someone super, super close, I probably would decline. This is just me and my opinion though.

It’s totally up to you on whether you want to hold it on a long weekend, just keep in mind you might get a few more declines than usual.

I think June weather is still pretty nice, especially for pictures - you won’t be overheating if you’re outside for pictures.

I personally can't stand people who have their weddings on long weekends. I want to go away or do something on the long weekend, so unless I'm making an entire weekend of the wedding, I find it annoying. That's just me, though, apparently a lot of people PREFER weddings to be on long weekends since they have to go away anyway and it feels less rushed.

June isn't always that dicey - May, definitely. Go with what you think is best. If you want the guaranteed hot weather, do the July date.

Well seeing as how at least for my work we simply get the 1st off - I would assume people would take the 29th and 30th off as it is more common (at least where I go) to celebrate Canada before the actual day if it doesn't land on a weekend. I doubt people would try and celebrate Canada Day on the 4th of July.. seems weird to put it on the same day as our neighbours down south.

Therefore I would take the 4th day - heck, you can have a trip to the USA for the future anniversaries and get free fireworks!