The Real Deal: Your Wedding Questions Answered
Dear Stacy:
My fiancée and I live in Iowa and he works in the agriculture business. This only leaves us with a few months free each year to have a wedding, namely, January and February. Since these months also tend to bring bad weather we are concerned about having our wedding during this time. Is this time of year a deterrent for guests?
The decision of when to have your wedding isn’t always an easy one. On second thought, any date you choose, be it a Friday night, a Sunday evening, a holiday weekend, whatever … can pose potential travel and logistical issues for any guest. Obviously you can’t please all of your guests and if that was your goal the wedding would never be a success.
I have written before about weddings planned for rush hour times in major cities. To answer your question, yes, a wedding planned in the dead of winter in an area that tends to have frequent snowy weather is a slight deterrent to guests especially those traveling from out of town.
However! If this is the time of year that works best for you, and it seems from your question that it does, then by all means, have your wedding when it is most convenient for you, not for the guests. Alternatively, if it is very important to you to celebrate with your guests, consider having a small marriage ceremony in the winter and a reception or party at another time during the year when the guests can make it and when you can plan ahead to set aside the time away from work.
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