Event planner Jamie Wolfer says guests care most about date, time, and location. Saturday is preferred but costs more. When you can't optimize all three, pick two: maybe a convenient location on a weekday, or Saturday with an earlier start time.
Let's cover the basics that will be the most crowd-pleasing so you can sleep tonight and not live in fear of all your guests lying to you. Okay. 1. Date, time, and location. Most people want your event to be convenient. There are those travel bug buddies who just like love to go all around the world and will literally follow you wherever you want to go. However, I would still argue that most of your guests would prefer if it's convenient day, time, and location. They would prefer if it's a Saturday, not a Friday or a Sunday or a Monday or a Thursday. However, as a gentle aside, I'm also fully aware that Saturdays are the most expensive, so do whatever you need to do and take everything on this list with a grain of salt. Okay? Because the people that want to be there will make the time to be there. Okay? But if you want to know what they care about, they want it to be convenient. So if you can't hit all 3 of those, the date, the time, and the location, go for 2. You know, let's go for convenient location on a Friday at a good time, like 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock. Okay? Instead of 2. Or let's go for a Saturday and maybe you have to start a little bit earlier in the day because you're having a Catholic mass service. For your ceremony. And so, you know, you start at 11, but at least it's a Saturday and the location's a little bit more convenient.
