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Holiday Hitched: Your Wedding Near A Holiday
We dive into the controversial topic of scheduling weddings around major holidays, exploring the pros, cons, and unexpected consequences of each holiday wedding date.
• MLK Day creates a convenient three-day weekend for guests who don't need to take extra time off work
• Valentine's Day weddings mean sharing your anniversary with a major holiday when restaurants are already packed
• Proposing at someone else's wedding is universally considered disrespectful regardless of permissions
• Religious holidays like Easter can create family tensions if not carefully considered beforehand
• Halloween weddings work best when couples fully embrace the theme with costumes or decorations
• Thanksgiving weekend weddings often work well for families who genuinely enjoy spending time together
• December weddings can strain guest budgets during an already expensive season
• Anniversary celebrations for December weddings often get overshadowed by Christmas and other holiday obligations
Remember to consider not just your wedding day but how your anniversary will fit into your life years down the road, especially around major holidays!
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Hey queens, welcome back to another episode of the Daily Buzz. Today we're talking about scheduling your wedding around major holidays. How do you feel about that, kelsey?
Speaker 2:That is a absolutely loaded question. So do we want to start at the beginning of the calendar year or the end of the calendar year, I say the beginning because we got a lot Okay, so let's start with the MLK Day. That is a Monday and so it works out great because you can schedule your wedding for that weekend, have an extended weekend. Guests aren't worried about you know, not work or getting work off on Monday. You can have a Saturday wedding, a Sunday wedding. I don't see that being an issue at all.
Speaker 1:Thoughts on MLK Day. I mean, yeah, I think that's like a smart move, because if you have a Sunday wedding, then at least you know everyone has the day off the next day. But also, I don't know how many people would love to have, like their day off be taken away when you like. If you already have like a set full work schedule and you think, oh, I finally have a Monday off and then it's you know. You think, oh, I'm going to a wedding on Sunday and I'm going to be hung over on my day off, so I'm giving it like a 50-50.
Speaker 2:Okay, so February, it is Valentine's Day. I don't think it's okay.
Speaker 1:So what isn't Valentine's Day? Like an American made holiday right. It's almost like Cinco de Mayo. There's some history to it Some European history. But oh, there is, yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to educate you right now. Okay perfect On the daily buzz.
Speaker 1:But I think a lot of. I feel like it's always again, like I just said, with 50-50, because some people don't believe in Valentine's day. Some people hate Valentine's day. They think it's a stupid holiday. They think it's just a reason to spend more money. So maybe people don't care if they have to go to a wedding on Valentine's Day or like that weekend. But I don't know, I don't think I've ever. I think maybe in the eight years John and I've been together, we've maybe spent Valentine's Day on the actual day together once.
Speaker 2:Yeah, once. Yeah, because half the time it's during the week. So then you do it on the Saturday before, whenever you both have a day off. So I'm here for it. I am very anti. Oh, we know, valentine's Day weddings. I think that is a easy out for your anniversary because I didn't think about that If you get married, yeah.
Speaker 1:If you get married on Valentine's Day, you get married, yeah.
Speaker 2:If you get married on valentine's day, you get to double dip and you are trying to celebrate your special day, but everybody else is at the restaurant celebrating valentine's day I don't want to share my day of love with the rest of everybody else?
Speaker 1:quick side quest how do you feel about people proposing on like birthdays or holidays? Uh, I think it is cute, you better say the same thing. That's like an easy out Proposing. Yeah, that's like a special date. Don't act like it's not like a special date, for like people when you get proposed it's like, oh, we got proposed on or we got engaged on, like the 12th or whatever. That's like a special day. It's not your wedding day, but that's a special day.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I really care about like the proposal day. I think like proposals on on Christmas. I don't think you should propose at somebody else's wedding. I think that's tacky If you do that?
Speaker 1:oh my God, those videos, literally I don't. I don't even care if the bride said oh, it's okay, just don't do it. No, it's rude, it's disrespectful. It's disrespectful If you propose at someone's wedding, you're rude as fuck. Yes, like I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:So don't take away from somebody else's day. Yes, I was proposed my first. My failed engagement. I was proposed to on my birthday and it was really special and I didn's not.
Speaker 2:Let's not open that can of worms, but like Christmas, thanksgiving and all of the families involved and all the families there, and it was able to be kept a secret that it was going to happen because both sides of the families decided to do Thanksgiving together or like that I think is fun, or even like their birthday party, and both sets of families came to celebrate the birthday and, oh surprise, now you're getting engaged too. I don't think there's an issue with that. Um, easter. So jumping back to weddings Easter, easter changes every year. Your wedding might end up falling on Easter.
Speaker 1:Your wedding, yeah yeah, your wedding, that's what we're doing here. You're just like blacked out. Yeah, uh, because we're talking here. I just had a full on brain fart. You just like blacked out for a second.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we're talking about birthdays and my head is like on birthdays. She's like are we a wedding podcast? What are we doing? What are we even doing here? Oh my gosh, it's starting. My ADHD is coming out. The only thing is I would say I have done a wedding. I did a wedding on Good Friday one year and the bride and groom, we talked through it. It's good Friday, Everybody's on the same page. We're fully aware His side of the family were very, very strong Catholics.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't, you eat, not eat meat or whatever, or drink or celebrate and it what.
Speaker 2:There was a lot of tension. So it was a lot of like keeping bride and groom happy and then like family. It was a lot of tension. So it was a lot of like keeping bride and groom happy and then like family. It was a lot of navigating family dynamics because of the day they picked. So maybe you just skip that. I tell people like, hey, just a heads up, you understand, this is Easter week, slash weekend.
Speaker 1:Some people might celebrate different.
Speaker 2:I ask is that going to be an issue? Is that going to be an issue with extended family? When we look at dates, may Mother's Day, father's Day.
Speaker 1:Do people even book weddings around Mother's Day and Father's Day? Well, out here in Arizona, ain't no way in hell you're booking, I mean May, you can, if it's an indoor, pretty much, or like if the weather's still, the weather's still pretty decent, it's not like 110 yet. And then I mean Father's Day is June. We don't have weddings here in June.
Speaker 2:I will say there was a wedding that got booked on Mother's Day and I was asked to take it and I said no, selfishly, as you should, mother's Day you get pampered.
Speaker 2:Mother's Day and my birthday are my days essentially. The other things I don't care about. Valentine's Day, christmas, it's surrounding the kids. Our anniversary is our wedding, whatever but those are the two days that are actually important to me. So I'll never work a Mother's Day wedding. But if you want to get married on Mother's Day and the mothers are cool with it, then Gucci. Fourth of July how do you feel about Fourth of July weddings? Is that such a thing? It is a thing, okay.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm here for it.
Speaker 2:People get married on Fourth of July USA baby, I'm here for it Very patriotic. They love the free fireworks show to end their day.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I'm down for that Fireworks at a wedding.
Speaker 2:I do love that. So, I'm here for it. Okay, unfortunately. Okay, fast forward to Halloween.
Speaker 1:Yeah, halloween, I'm here for it. I mean, I think if you have kids and it sucks too like cause you want to take them trick or treating, if you do celebrate Halloween that way. But I don't know. I've never been to a Halloween wedding. I've seen them and they look super fun and if the couple's really into that, I'm super down for it.
Speaker 2:So I say, yeah, yeah, I'm pro a Halloween wedding. I think it's fun.
Speaker 1:If you're getting married on the 31st, do it right, do it fun. Yeah, either.
Speaker 2:Harry Potter, that bad boy or make everybody come in costumes. You have to be the right personality to do that one. Yeah, okay, thanksgiving's always closed everywhere, I think. I love Thanksgiving weekends, weddings.
Speaker 1:Oh, I guess. Yeah, that weekend. Yeah, I'm down for that. It's on a Thursday and then by the time you know.
Speaker 2:I have absolutely loved the couples that get married. Everybody who gets married on Thanksgiving weekend for me have been very healthy, happy families.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's like kumbaya.
Speaker 2:Correct, because everybody gets to have a big Thanksgiving together. Because everybody flew in on a Wednesday For sure, they did a big Thanksgiving celebration as a family, or both families combined, and then Friday was rehearsal and then Saturday was wedding and everybody just has a blast. Cool. Other people have hated having Thanksgiving weddings because they don't want to spend any more time with their extended family.
Speaker 2:So that Other people have hated having Thanksgiving weddings because they don't want to spend any more time with their extended family, so that's valid. You navigate that. And then last one is December weddings. What are your thoughts on December weddings?
Speaker 1:I mean, I, I'm, I'm here for it. I think if you don't do it too close to Christmas and like New Year's Eve, then it's like fun, like fun. But I don't think. I think the holiday, specifically Christmas, is already so money tight for a lot of people. You know spending gifts and you know what have you and then to be. If you're having to fly to a wedding, that's like around Christmas time and then flights are expensive, flights are expensive and I also hate the cold, so I actually I'm not here for the weddings in December.
Speaker 2:We have a December anniversary. We are, happily, a December couple. I always dreamed of a winter wedding. What I did not dream of is having a baby six years later. Four years later, in December. So we have our anniversary, and four days later is our son's birthday, and then a week later is Christmas, and so every year we understand that our anniversary is not about us because it is wrapped around the kids and the holidays. So keep that in mind when you're looking at a December wedding.
Speaker 2:Yes, we love December weddings but you might have to make sacrifices in the future or do your like anniversary trip in the summer when funds aren't so tight. So that is a long daily buzz for today, but there are some thoughts on holidays and weddings.