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How many days did you take off before your wedding?

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CurlySue

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Hello, Newlyweds!!

Can you tell me how many days you took off from work before your wedding?

Now that we''re thinking about our honeymoon and how long we''ll be taking off from work for that, I''ve been thinking about how many vacation days total I''ll need for the whole wedding. Our wedding is on a Saturday, and I''m thinking if I take off the Thursday and Friday before that, it should be plenty of time. Yes?

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences!
 
We got married on July 5th, which was a Sunday. Our company had July 3rd off in observance of the holiday, so I took wednesday and thursday off plus the holiday. We were gone for the week after.

This was a good amount of time because it gave me time to get ready for guests and do last minute errands, but it also wasn''t SO much time that I got bored.
 
My situation is a little different, but, we got married on a Saturday and I took the whole week before that "off". We moved out of state very soon after the wedding, so my last day was the Friday before the wedding. We had a week to prepare, and since our wedding was DIY everything, we needed the time. But, I could have been OK with taking just Thursday and Friday off.
 
My wedding was on a Sat and I took the Thursday and Friday off beforehand. Was plenty of time to get everything done and pamper a bit.
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My wedding was back in my home town, where my parents live, so I took the entire week off. It was so relaxing.

If the wedding was here in the town where I live, I probably would have taken Wed/Thurs/Fri. I also had 3 weeks of vacation though.

ETA: After our Saturday ceremony and reception, we also took that Monday off before returning to work. Our honeymoon wasn't for 2 weeks.
 
I'm a law student and got married during the semester (not recommended). My prof cancelled my Friday class that week, which was a lucky break. Wedding was on Sunday morning, I didn't have any classes on Mondays that semester, and I was back in class on Tuesday. Don't do that to yourself, trust me, it's no good.
 
I got married over the summer, about a week into my summer job. I took off that Friday, got married on Sunday, and took off Monday as well. It was fine, but I wish I''d gotten more time after the wedding.
 
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I got married in my parents hometown where I grew up. Flew in on a Friday morning flight, arranged the flowers and had the rehearsal/rehearsal dinner that day, got married Saturday, hung out with family on Sunday, stayed in a nice hotel, flew back to NYC on Tuesday...I had to go to class on Tuesday night, but we took Wed. off and went to lunch at Le Bernardin, worked Thurs and Fri and then went to Boston for Columbus Day weekend.
 
I meant to take off early on the Wednesday before since my mom was coming into town to help me make all the carmel apples i needed to make for the favors, but that didn''t end up happening and I had a LONG day of work that day. But then I had Thursday and Friday off and got all my little errands/pamering done. Worked out great for me- since I had the whole week after the wedding off for the honeymoon.
 
I was married on a Saturday - I took the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before off. I took the Monday and Tuesday following the wedding off as well.

I spent Wednesday and Thursday running errands (getting supplies over to the venue, picking up OOT guests and last min primping) then I spent the ENTIRE day Friday relaxing at a Spa.

I returned to work for a week and then DH and I left for our honeymoon which was another 2.5 weeks off from work.

Honestly, I''d LOVE to get married again just to take all the time off
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Based on your responses and our current plan for the wedding/honeymoon, I think I should be fine with Thursday/Friday. Our wedding is taking place where we live, and our DIY component will be minimal, so... I should be able to swing it. Definitely would prefer to max out my time off after the wedding instead!

Thanks so much, ladies!!!
 
Date: 2/3/2010 3:51:56 PM
Author: rhbgirl24
My wedding was on a Sat and I took the Thursday and Friday off beforehand. Was plenty of time to get everything done and pamper a bit.
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Ditto!
 
Didn''t take a honeymoon
so we took off extra time surrounding the wedding instead. Got there the wednesday morning before the wedding and left that next wednesday
 
Wedding on Saturday, and I took off Thursday and Friday. But I ended up going into work for a bit on Thursday anyway.
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I had a TON of DIY and I still only took off Thursday and Friday. I also had a destination wedding by car. I was totally fine with the time based on good planning.
 
I would let your schedule dictate it. If you are going to need to be finishing--or starting--DIY projects, or if you have a lot of errands to run or a lot of people coming in town that will be diverting your attention, a few extra days might be nice. There is a lot of stress in the final days, but I also don''t think that time necessarily takes that away. If you are relying on vendors and have virtually no DIY projects or errands and most of your guests are local, I wouldn''t advise any additional time off than what you are already thinking.

Another important factor for me would be how much vacation you have. It it meant I wouldn''t have any other vacation for the year to have to run 2 hours of errands a day over 5 days instead of having an extra 3-4 days of vacation but I had to run 10 hours of errands in 1 day, I would totally prefer the second (if that makes sense).
 
I had 2 weeks vacation, so I took the week of the wedding and the week after. JD took..I can''t remember. It wasn''t very long, a few days anyway. I just took the time b/c I wanted to use it before starting a new job and we''d bought a house so I was working on it.
 
We got married on a Saturday, and I took Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off. Oh, and the next two weeks after the wedding too for our honeymoon.
 
totally depends on what you still have left to do.

we got married on Sat 12 Sep in South Africa (live in Europe), so here''s what our schedule looked like:

Mon 7 Sep: Fly to SA
Tue 8 Sep: arrive in SA early morning, 4 hr drive to his parents'' house
Wed 9 Sep: picked up my rental car, then I had a back facial and he had a massage, we went to bring the last "props" to the venue and met the dj, then I went to the gym and we hung out with his family in the evening (was a long day)
Thu 10 Sep: went to the gym, picked up my mom and brother from the airport, then we checked into the bed & breakfast at the airport and had a nice dinner. DH stayed with his parents and went to a strip club with his BIL (bachelor''s party which they did in the afternoon)
Fri 11 Sep: my mom, brother and I went to the mall and I bought some lipstick. in the evening we had dinner with another friend of mine who flew from Europe. DH was still with his family and they had family dinner as it was his sister''s birthday
Sat 12 Sep: had my nails done, then my hair, then we picked up my brother and had a nice relaxing lunch and then we went to the venue. got married at 15:30. DH came back with me to B&B
Sun 13 Sep: DH and I flew out to Johannesburg airport where we spent the afternoon/night at a hotel
Mon 14 Sep: went on our 7 day honeymoon (arrived at our destination following day)
Fri 25 Sep: back at the office

so I pretty much took 3 weeks off in total, and had the whole week off before getting married, but it was necessary for a destination wedding
 
While not as extensive as Noel''s DW, we had our wedding in my home state, so we ended up taking the week off before the wedding and then a week off for the honeymoon. We had more than 50% of the guests OOT and the wedding was held at a hotel, so we decided to stay at the hotel from Thursday unitl Sunday. So, we needed to make sure everything was done before Thursday morning when guests started to arrive. We had our rehersal dinner Friday at the hotel, the ceremony and the recpetion on Saturday. We made a one day stop over at my mom''s place on Sunday night to do some laundry and unwind before taking off for our honeymoon early Monday morning. Here is our wedding rolled out:

Sun b/4 wedding: Flew home and tried to relax before insanity
Mon: Got marriage license, closed any loose ends and confirmed all vendors, made any final payments
Tues: Got teethed cleaned, went to Sam''s to buy stuff for OOT gift baskets and drinks for rehersal dinner, put together OOT baskets
Wed: Put together programs, put together OOT itineraries, made place cards, Packed bags for wedding weekend
Thur: Started by picking up relatives and then enjoyed (almost 100% stress free) the time with family and friends before wedding
Fri-Sat: Wedding stuff
Sun: Laundry and nap, repack for honeymoon

I think if you have less to do and/or people helping you do it, you don''t need a full week to do things, but do try to add in a day or two for you to enjoy the whole wedding thing, and relish the time with family and friends!
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We got married on a Saturday and I had that Friday off b/c it was Christmas other than that I worked up until the wedding and that was fine. Any last minute stuff my mom and DH took care of since they were both off.
 
I''m a teacher and we married in July, so I was off all summer.

HOWEVER, there really wasn''t much to do other than pack for our honeymoon. I don''t think I would have needed to take off more than one day had I not had the time off already. I''d think that the Thursday and Friday before the wedding will give you more than enough time to prepare.

Heck, we moved into a new house the month before our wedding, and I chaperoned a two week high school trip to Greece four days after we moved into the house, and we STILL had enough time to do everything.
 
I am taking the whole week off before the wedding with a total of 5 weeks off (woo hoo!) we have about a week and a half at home after the honeymoon before we go back to work. I am thinking of taking a few more days off before the wedding (make it a week and a half) but that is becasue i wont have my dress (hopefully) until about 2 weeks before the wedding and i will need to do alterations, get my accessories, shoes, etc. Talk about leaving stuff till the last minute!
 
My wedding was on a Friday and I took off Wednesday and Thursday. I figured I''d probably have stuff to do on Wednesday, and my parents were coming up, so it made sense to take the day off. DH took Thursday off, but not Wednesday.
 
I worked the day before. Took the day of off. Was back at work the next day and still waiting for my honeymoon.
 
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