To go on holiday a week before our wedding?

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I am a teacher and we’re getting married at the end of the Easter holidays. We’ve toyed with the idea of going abroad for the first maybe 5-7 days of the Easter break (COVID allowing!) but everyone we have mentioned it to has acted like it’s the most ridiculous thing they’ve ever heard.

Pros and cons?

I’m usually a burner but we’d be back for a week before the wedding so even if I was a bit burnt it would have faded by then surely?

Any thoughts?

Just from what I’ve witnessed, a lot can go wrong or need doing that you hadn’t previously planned in the week preceding a wedding.
It depends really, is it a big wedding or a registry office / pub or small reception style?
If it’s the latter then I can’t see there’s much to go wrong but I probably wouldn’t risk being abroad and not being there to fix last minute issues if I was shelling out £10k+ for a wedding

I think that sounds lovely. It’s a great way to relax before the big day, since you won’t be able to afterwards.

Wear lots of factor 50 and enjoy!

It’s a very small wedding, 20 including us!

Two weeks before my wedding is when my uncle decided to dump his gf and reconcile with his wife, so the table plan needed redoing. My mum also broke her leg before our wedding and that was when we were finding out if she would be able to walk at our wedding. There was also a lot of flooding in the area we were getting married and a wedding venue down the road from ours was severely damaged, it was still raining heavily and so we were concerned about needing to find a new venue for a while. We’d have been able to deal with all that if we were abroad (we’d have just done the table plan when we got back which was a bit later than we wanted) but it wouldn’t have been a relaxing holiday. Hopefully the two weeks before your wedding won’t be as chaotic though.

Totally depends if you think you’d be able to relax and enjoy it and not be thinking about little jobs that need doing for the wedding…

So hard to know what covid will be like. I wouldn’t want to risk having to quarantine.

It's not like you get the best choice of holidays being a teacher so I'd go if I was you!

I’d go, especially with a small wedding

20 people wedding?? Yeah go on holiday! Enjoy!

@NautaOcts

Totally depends if you think you’d be able to relax and enjoy it and not be thinking about little jobs that need doing for the wedding…

So hard to know what covid will be like. I wouldn’t want to risk having to quarantine.

If there was any quarantining, we’d not go!

Without sounding stupid, what little jobs need doing?

We got married in my husband's hometown in Germany, arriving 3 days before the date. We had all things organised and settled 6 weeks prior when we went for the last visit to them.

We had my PIL available though if there would have been any issues.

I found the less I had time to worry and think about the wedding the easier it was.

Small wedding, 35 guests all day from 3pm onwards.