A Chrismas day wedding?!

[karensi]

Ok, that is selfish. Yeah, you'd like your family around, but christmas is just another day! If they chose to go to a wedding, then so be it.

Sorrry, but to me, and to my family, Christmas is NOT "just another day".
Christmas is special to us.
As I said, this was just my opinion, to each his own.

Karen

 

[aprilgail2]

No way. And as a PP said, it would be kind of pushing it to try and find a babysitter on Christmas day. Also, who would want to leave their kids with a babysitter on Christmas day? You spend so much time and money getting ready for Christmas and then you go out and leave your kids with a sitter

My kids are grown now, but I do have grandchildren and I would be really upset if one of my DD's told me she and her husband were going to a wedding on Christmas instead of being with family.
Just MHO.

Karen

I TOTALLY agree!

 

[MichelleVW]

Movie theaters are open. Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, hotels, resorts, all kinds of places are open.

How many people are saying they would never attend a Christmas Day wedding, but they would go to Disney World?

I don't get invited to weddings very often (2 in the last 10 years) so I would say yes. If it means enough to the bride and groom to invite you, I think it should mean enough to you to go, unless it is just an obvious gift grab, you know it's the best friend's sister that met your third cousin 5 years ago and wants you to share in the fun.

same here!

Ok, that is selfish. Yeah, you'd like your family around, but christmas is just another day! If they chose to go to a wedding, then so be it.

agreed.

Sorrry, but to me, and to my family, Christmas is NOT "just another day".
Christmas is special to us.
As I said, this was just my opinion, to each his own.

Karen

And this is why I'm glad I'm not stuck in traditions and "this is the way we always do it" for holidays. We go with the flow and do what we want, sometimes that means visiting family, sometimes not. No one is so stuck in tradition in my house that the holiday will fall apart if we don't do the same thing that we did last year, and the year before, and the year before.

If your family lives nearby and you see them often, I don't see the drama of them attending a wedding of a close friend, and I would be very upset at my mother if she got upset because I chose to do so.

Don't get me wrong, I think family and traditions are great, but I also don't think that you should be so rigid in your traditions that if they don't happen you feel slighted on the holiday.

 

[MosMom]

I have a wedding cake on the 26th so I'll be working on Christmas to finish it. She has a 4-tier cake, 6 mini cakes for the bridesmaids, and 20 snowman cookies for the children attending.

Their opinion was that extended family that would have to travel another time of the year for the wedding would already be in town for Christmas so it was good timing.

My bride just emailed me and lowered her number attending by about 50 though so this couple might find the same thing and their guest count might end up pretty low.

 

[ICF]

no way --- I think if you want people to attened, you wouldnt pick that day as I would think most people would not spend Christmas at a wedding.

 

[tigger813]

DH and I got married 2 days after Christmas in 1997. Family members flew in on Christmas evening and most everyone else lived within 4 hours of the location. We had about 130 come to the wedding. It was beautiful with the poinsettias and we had burgundy and green as our colors. Our invitation was a Christmas themed invitation so it fit perfectly. We had a problem finding a place to have our rehearsal dinner as a few places wouldn't allow it that night or were closed.

 

[Poohlovr]

What's the deal today? There are old posts (as in 1 or more yrs old and all related to weddings) being bumped all over the DIS.

Amazingly enuff, the posters doing the bumping have links in their signatures related to wedding planning.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

I think it's a neat idea, but should be for a small wedding, not a big 200-person event.

(No I didn't read the other responses... 8 pages of disagreeing I couldn't handle.)

 

[Becky2005]

What's the deal today? There are old posts (as in 1 or more yrs old and all related to weddings) being bumped all over the DIS.

That explains why I went "HUH?" when I got the e-mail notification on this one. It's the only wedding one I replied to but it just seemed random that it popped up.

 

[Metsfan520]

The new posters must have Googled weddings, and those threads popped up.

 

[Ember]

What's the deal today? There are old posts (as in 1 or more yrs old and all related to weddings) being bumped all over the DIS.

Amazingly enuff, the posters doing the bumping have links in their signatures related to wedding planning.

Haha, I noticed that, too.

Well, as an update, I did not go to the Christmas Day wedding and apparently the whole thing was much smaller than the couple intended. Out of 200 invited guests less than 30 showed up. The bride and groom both will tell you they regret doing it on that day, though they hold no ill will against anyone who didn't come. The pictures of the venues are a little sad because they're so empty and the reception only lasted through dinner because no one wanted to dance or party, they wanted to go home and have some of their own Christmas celebration. So they also ended up basically wasting a lot of money for things like a DJ.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Check the signature of the person who bumped it. I reported them as a spammer. They seem to be a caterer.

 

[Poohlovr]

There's been at least 5 really old posts bumped by brand new posters today-4 weddings and a funeral.

Two of the new posters had links to wedding planning services.

 

[CandyMandy]

I think the gist of this discussion is "it can work if you are willing to think smaller and accept tradeoffs." Ergo, the best examples are when people did something local, intimate and unique, using a non-religious officiant (like the "surprise wedding at home with a Judge arriving" story).

Clearly, the notion one can have a massive, professionally catered reception after a big ceremony at a Cathedral on Xmas day is unrealistic. As the discussion here suggests, many (if not most) invitees would decline. Secondly, even if one could write the checks (the cost premium to get catering/entertainment/photography on that holiday would be HUGE), it likely would be very difficult to secure a religious officiant and house of worship on Christmas.

Also, if the faith is Christian, keep in mind most priests/ministers are already working extra services going into Christmas and are pretty worn out by the time that day finally arrives. Who wants to get married by someone who is struggling to keep their eyes opened?