Wedding over several days: Why only celebrate on Saturday?
- Marius Pokutta
- 16 hours ago
- 3 min read
Many weddings follow a similar pattern: the first guests arrive on Thursday or Friday, the wedding and celebrations take place on Saturday, breakfast is served on Sunday, and then everyone goes home.
But what if you consciously incorporated the days before and after the wedding into your wedding experience?
Arrive on Thursday. Spend Friday doing something together. Get married and celebrate on Saturday. Spend Sunday spending more time with the people who are important to you. And only on Monday do you go home.
A multi-day wedding doesn't have to consist of three huge celebrations. This article will show you how it can be done differently.
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Wedding over several days: Make conscious use of Friday and Sunday
Friday could be dedicated entirely to friends.
Having breakfast together, going on a day trip, or simply spending time together. In the evening, you could go to a concert, a stand-up comedy show, a rented movie theater, or play laser tag. Activities that are only possible with your best friends!
Or you could simply meet in a garden, a courtyard, or a clubhouse. Good food, music, and a relaxed evening with the people you probably have far too little time with on Saturday anyway.
Sunday can then take on a completely different character.
Brunch with the family. A bouncy castle for the children. An extra cake. A long afternoon without a schedule.
For a smaller group, small hand-painted place cards can be placed on the table, which can also be taken home as a souvenir.
This way, each day has its own atmosphere, without having to hold the same wedding three times.
Saturday remains the big wedding day.
The wedding ceremony, celebration, music, good food and everything else that belongs to this day for you will remain on Saturday.
Live painting can also be part of the celebration, while the gallery grows with more and more pictures throughout the day.
If you'd like to know exactly how live painting works at a wedding, you can find all the information here: → What is live painting at a wedding?
The only difference is: Saturday doesn't have to carry the entire burden alone.
You already spent time together on Friday, so you don't have to say goodbye right away on Sunday.
Three days of wedding don't have to mean three times the wedding budget.
Of course, it would be a different story to book a photographer, videographer, locations, or other service providers for three days.
But the individual days don't all need to be organized on the same scale.
Friday is a great time to hang out with friends, which could also be considered a bachelor/bachelorette party night. For Sunday, a garden, a clubhouse, or simply a brunch together might suffice.
And with photographers or videographers, you can simply ask if, in addition to the coverage on Saturday, an extra 1-2 hours on Friday or Sunday is possible.
Especially if a photo book or wedding film is created from all the days later, that can be pretty cool.
A common thread throughout the wedding
A Polaroid camera or action cam can be passed through the hands of your guests from Friday to Sunday.
The guestbook starts being filled on the first evening and continues to fill up over the following days.
A collaborative artwork grows piece by piece.
Or you could incorporate small rituals: On Friday, there's a first little ceremony with a toy ring from a gumball machine, on Saturday the real rings are exchanged, and on Sunday everything ends with a
small joint pre-wedding party.
Where weddings are celebrated over several days
In many cultures, several days are a perfectly normal part of a wedding.
In Poland, the celebrations often continue after the actual wedding with the Poprawiny . Similarly, Indian, Moroccan, or Nigerian weddings can have ceremonies and festivities spread over several days.
The individual traditions naturally look completely different.
But the idea of celebrating a wedding over several days already exists in many places.
Most weddings already last more than one day. Guests arrive, spend the evening together, and then say their goodbyes at some point.
You can simply let this time pass.
Or one could consider what could actually emerge if Friday and Sunday were planned with the same level of awareness as Saturday.
What would you do with your best friends? And what activities absolutely require family?
Feel free to write it in the comments below 🙂
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Yours, Marius
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