New Years Eve wedding?

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Would you go if invited to a wedding on New Years eve?
Or is it too soon after Xmas for an event?

If you go for it -and I would-just bear in mind that for anniversary celebrations in future years it’ll be impossible to book anything! #christmaswedding #askmehowiknow

I’d go and love it as long as I didn’t have to pay NYE prices for transport/hotel/drinks/food. If I was being invited to a freebie special day then hell yes. What fun

I'd love a nye wedding

I've been to one and it was great, however it was pre-DCs, the couple hired an entire stately home and allocated rooms to everyone so no taxis or travel home issues. If I had to pay for an expensive hotel, stress about childcare etc, it would be tough.

Absolutely. I'd love to go to a NYE wedding.

The service was awful at an NYE wedding I went to. The staff didn’t want to be there and I think they were short staffed as well.

I like the idea but echo others that costs of hotel/taxis and childcare would be my concerns. So would depend entirely on location and whether child free.

Yes! Have been to one before and it was brilliant. It's a good point around the accommodation costs and ensuing they are not ridiculous for anyone attending

Sounds brilliant

Much prefer nye- which I don't normally celebrate or is a low key affair

I also work in a school so I know I'll be on holiday as opposed to a mad weekend in the middle of term

Fireworks etc just make it more magical

Only for humans. They scare other living creatures, literally to death sometimes.

I would be excited to go to a wedding on NYE! I always find NYE a bit boring, an anti-climax, so I'd welcome the invitation. But like a previous comment says, I'd want to be able to stay over without it costing a huge amount more than staying on a regular night.

Risky one, I wouldn't on NYE (unless it was a close family member) because we have a standing tradition each year and to me it feels a bit like doing it on Christmas Day.

BUT lots of people would!

A friend's dad got married on NYE (although admittedly they only had 8 people there) and it was lovely apparently... I think check with the absolutely crucial people and if they're happy then accept the others may or may not 😊

Ah the last few replies are much more positive 😀it is a risky one I agree @housemaus so I think the only way would be to ask around I suppose

Our chosen theme also seemed to lend itself really well to NYE but it isn’t make or break I guess

To people who had their weddings on NYE or around Xmas, did you find lots of guests didn’t come?

I feel that NYE is always a let down if you go out, too busy, too expensive etc. I would totally love a wedding on NYE - double celebration and not everyone enjoys doing NYE things. It's just another night at the end of the day.

I'd love this as NYE is always a bit of a let down.

May I give you a "head's up" about the possible increase in costs.

As an event planner, I find that often companies will charge more for an event on NYE - staff will usually get at least pay and a half, sometimes double, lots of catering companies will charge more as that is the time they usually close for deep cleaning, other suppliers may need to book freelancers at extra cost because staff have already booked holiday etc.

I would definitely get your suppliers to confirm ASAP about whether they would charge you more.

Definitely ask around the people that you couldn't imagine doing it without. Also make sure you plan it for the next calendar year so people are unlikely to have booked Christmas or NY trips away.

I'd love to go to a wedding on NYE, it's usually so boring these days.

My cousin got married on NYE several years ago. Everyone thought it was great so obviously my large extended family never have anything interesting to do that night lol. Only one cousin didn't attend due to childcare issues. Only thing was the church they got married in is very popular so had lots of weddings that day so the ceremony was very early like 12pm so a very long day. The had live music before the meal when everyone was mingling and lots of finger food so no one was starving waiting for dinner

I would. I never have anything to do on NYE these days. Would love to have NYE plans!

I would LOVE it! Ignore the miseries making their bah humbug comments here, you don’t want them at your special day anyway!

Wouldn't be able to attend, my parents will be out celebrating NYE themselves with friends and babysitters are v expensive/ hard to find for NYE. As it's nye I wouldn't want to do the whole one partner goes the other looks after the DC thing. It would just be a no.

But nice idea! Could work well for loads of people what with being off work anyway.

@MarpleFan thank you for the heads up I really appreciate that, I wasn’t sure which way it would go with it technically not being in ‘wedding season’ so that is very helpful information 😊

@Notaneffingcockerspaniel that is exactly the vibe I’m going for; candlelight, black tie/glamour dress code and we were thinking of some roulette/blackjack tables too as my partner proposed in Vegas so it seems fitting to the whole theme

@Kitten2 children is a big factor as we have some ourselves, I definitely wouldn’t want people to have to come one half of a couple kind of thing - maybe some childcare in the hotel? Although that completely depends on how comfortable people would be with that

We’re only really at the ideas stage atm

We went to a fab wedding a few years back on NYE. It was more like a New Years party where they also got married as opposed to a traditional wedding. They organised transport and it was in the suburbs a big city so loads of hotels/air bnbs to suit all budgets, which really helped. It would have been more difficult in the middle of nowhere with no transport I guess.