Step one in planning any wedding is deciding on the all-important date. As a planner of Jewish weddings who can be Jewish, I do know the importance of selecting a date that doesn’t coincide with certain holidays and days of the week. Regardless of the extent of observance of my couples, we all the time spend time considering the precise time to carry their simcha and this often involves plenty of calendar-scrutiny! To make things simpler for you, I’ve compiled a listing of 2024 and 2025 Jewish wedding dates you could want to avoid (and a pair you may favour!).
For clarity, Jewish calendar dates begin at sundown of the night before and finish at nightfall.
Days Of The Week
As a general rule weddings aren’t held on Shabbat, which comprises Friday evening and all day Saturday. Many couples also select to not schedule weddings the day before Shabbat in order that family and friends don’t need to travel on that day. Any day between Sunday and Thursday is obvious for marriage, and sometimes Tuesdays and Thursdays are preferred for religious reasons.
Jewish Holiday Dates To Avoid 2024 & 2025
There are also Jewish holiday dates that must be avoided for weddings. These include Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. You may check with the table below to see key dates for 2024 and 2025 for these (and more) holidays. Because most couples need to marry in the summertime, one in all the primary key conversations we have now is around avoiding the three weeks leading as much as Tisha B’av. Once we have now identified the three weeks we cannot plan the marriage, the summer time from May to September is mostly all acceptable.
*Throughout the period from Passover to Shavuot, there’s 1 day that’s traditionally acceptable for weddings to happen – Lag B’Omer which falls on Twenty fifth-Twenty sixth May 2024 and Fifteenth-Sixteenth May 2025.
A lot of my Jewish couples decide to hold their weddings on Sundays and invite guests to reach a few days ahead of time in order that they don’t need to travel on Shabbat. This also gives us an excellent opportunity to have a welcome dinner or party on your guests, allowing them to increase their stay and really make it a memorable and relaxing trip. Within the case of destination Jewish weddings, that is what nearly all of my couples decide to do and we discover it really works perfectly.
