Re: Weekday wedding events
Ive been to loads of weekday weddings and its not even just a desi thing anymore, in fact Ive had 3 english wedding invites this year all for a Friday and all during the day.
With Desis its so common now too, in august I even have a wedding on a monday and another on a wednesday. The assumption is if youre close enough and care enough you will make the effort. Personally as a guest Im just honoured to be invited and not bothered at all about the slight inconvenience. Yes its not ideal for me but the weddings not about me is it?
Actually even my nikkah was on a Tuesday and reception on a Friday (at least my mehndi was on a sat ;0) my parents were particular about it being on certain auspicious dates so they didn’t care as long as that was adhered to; we also stuck with it as I had a lot of people flying in so to make it easier for them its best to have events as close as possible. Personally I see no problem with it; its your wedding and I imagine your nearest and dearest will make the effort. I do appreciate we don’t want to force people to take time off work so just keep a margin and make sure there are canapes etc for those rushing straight from work in the evening to keep them sweet until events begin
Just make sure you leave at least a day in between events to allow for recovery time!!
I hope all my guests have the attitude you do!
My mehndi is on a Fri and fam made me put shadi on Sunday (Sat off) so that I wouldn’t be dead tired on wedding day ha ha. So that makes my Vaima on a Monday (which has already been a problem for some people. But since Valima is a short function, ends early, I can justify it being on weekday.
Yeah, I think Monday valimas are getting popular because i’ve heard of quite a few. I was mostly worried about the mehndi since that’s when the hulla-gulla is and I didn’t want it to be over so soon because it’s on a weekday