Good Friday Wedding

pancakes101

Has anyone held their wedding on Good Friday? Did you come across any issues with suppliers etc or did you find guests attending had any issue with it? Thanks in advance 😀

GingerLily

Bars are now licensed on Good Friday so all those historic issues are gone with the day!

pleas advice

I doubt you'd get a priest to do it...

Addle

Well you won't be having a church wedding that day.

Toyotababy98

GingerLily wrote: »

Bars are now licensed on Good Friday so all the historic issues are gone with the day!

If u were a guest in a hotel u could always get drink on good Friday i thought..I did last year anyway

sweetie

I'm a wedding supplier and always glad to work on good friday.

GingerLily

Toyotababy98 wrote: »

If u were a guest in a hotel u could always get drink on good Friday i thought..I did last year anyway

I was at a night before the wedding event on Good Friday where we had to pay the day after for our tab, they wouldn't actually take for any drink on the night.

Was there a free bar and then a residence bar maybe?

Cushie Butterfield

I wouldn’t say florists would be a problem in the sense that it’s possibly a very busy time for them what with it being so close to Easter Sunday, but obviously you’d be booking well in advance.

splinter65

Don’t forget it’s a BH but not a PH so for guests it may still be looking for a days AL.
No RCC weddings of course Holy Thursday Good Friday or Holy Saturday.

Peregrinus

pancakes101 wrote: »

Has anyone held their wedding on Good Friday? Did you come across any issues with suppliers etc or did you find guests attending had any issue with it? Thanks in advance ��

It's possible - maybe more than possible - that some of your guests may have issues, but whether they do or not, and how big those issues are for them, very much depends on your guests. And you know your guests better than we do.

splinter65

Peregrinus wrote: »

It's possible - maybe more than possible - that some of your guests may have issues, but whether they do or not, and how big those issues are for them, very much depends on your guests. And you know your guests better than we do.

For example I wouldn’t be going to a wedding on GF.

lazygal

splinter65 wrote: »

Don’t forget it’s a BH but not a PH so for guests it may still be looking for a days AL.
No RCC weddings of course Holy Thursday Good Friday or Holy Saturday.

You can have a wedding service on those days. It just won't be a full mass. We had a discussion about this with a priest as my grandfather died before Easter and as the funeral was on Easter Saturday there was a funeral service not a mass. He said the same would apply to a wedding ceremony and he has done them for couples in exceptional circumstances, eg family member who's dying and the couple wants to marry so the person can attend.

Addle

Maybe it depends on the parish.
My local parish don't hold any ceremonies on holy days or Sundays.

splinter65

lazygal wrote: »

You can have a wedding service on those days. It just won't be a full mass. We had a discussion about this with a priest as my grandfather died before Easter and as the funeral was on Easter Saturday there was a funeral service not a mass. He said the same would apply to a wedding ceremony and he has done them for couples in exceptional circumstances, eg family member who's dying and the couple wants to marry so the person can attend.

It would have to be very exceptional circumstances indeed for a wedding on Holy Saturday.
There is no blessed sacrament in the tabernacle, no candles lighting, the altar has been stripped and all the statues and pictures are draped in purple cloth.
The few priests around are usually hearing confessions all day and getting ready for the Easter Vigil mass that evening, the most important night of the year for RCC.
Easter Sat afternoon recently in our Cathedral is given over to the polish community celebrating their Easter tradition.
It’s very nice.

lazygal

The funeral service was lovely. We were able to choose readings he like and have a much more personal ceremony. He was very religious and his children thought it nice in a way that he died and was buried on the most important weekend of the Catholic year.

Citygirl1

Even if you don't have a mass, make sure you have very good fish and vegetarian options at the meal. Quite a number of guests may not eat meat on that day...

Toots

Citygirl1 wrote: »

Even if you don't have a mass, make sure you have very good fish and vegetarian options at the meal. Quite a number of guests may not eat meat on that day...

Yeah that's something to consider alright. Even people I know who wouldn't be that religious at all wouldn't eat meat on Good Friday. If you're having a civil service you'd want to check with the registry office whether they'll have registrars working that day.

appledrop

I don't think you will be able to get married on this day. If your having a church wedding it's the busiest week of the year for all parish priests. They just won't have the time + may think it's disrespectful for you to be marrying on Good Friday.

If your looking a HSE civil ceremony I would say not working that day as holiday for most people in public sector.

That only really leaves you with humanists option.

pancakes101

Thanks everyone for the feedback and advice. We decided to go for it! We're not having a church ceremony so makes it easier to organise.

GingerLily

pancakes101 wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the feedback and advice. We decided to go for it! We're not having a church ceremony so makes it easier to organise.

Good luck!!

glut22

Can I ask do HSE registrars definitely not work on Good Friday?
Thanks!

splinter65

glut22 wrote: »

Can I ask do HSE registrars definitely not work on Good Friday?
Thanks!

Good Friday is a Bank Holiday even though it’s not a Public Holiday and you can’t have a HSE wedding ceremony on a public/bank holiday so the answer is yes, they definitely don’t work that day.

http://www.crsappointments.ie/CeremonyPlanner.Ireland/Process/MarriageCeremony/Checklist.aspx

Emmersonn

splinter65 wrote: »

For example I wouldn’t be going to a wedding on GF.

Just as well you were not invited. :P