When to book Christmas light installation in Rhode Island

If you want a Rhode Island house lit before Thanksgiving, the honest booking window is October through the first days of November. Thanksgiving 2026 falls on November 26. By the middle of November, some of those dates are gone, and the realistic conversation shifts to the first week of December.

WDGLOW is based in Westerly, so South County, Pawcatuck, Stonington, and Mystic are the routes we build first. A home in Watch Hill and a home in Providence are not competing for the same morning. Providence, the East Bay, Newport, and northern Rhode Island are grouped onto their own days. Booking early matters more on those days because a single cancellation does not automatically open a truck the next morning.

What to send when you request a date

Send the town, a few photos of the front and both front corners, and the date you actually care about. "As soon as possible" is hard to schedule. "Before Thanksgiving" or "the first weekend in December" is a date we can accept or decline.

Mention a rental turnover, an association deadline, or a party. Those constraints belong on the quote, not in a text the week of the event.

Takedown is part of the same booking

January removal should be chosen when the install is chosen. Houses that still have clips in the gutters in March are usually houses nobody put on a removal route. If you need to be dark on a specific day, say so now. Associations often do.

Next season

The people who get the early November dates next year are the ones who reserve in late summer or early fall, before the shoreline calendar locks. If you are reading this in mid-November, book the best remaining date for this year, and ask to be first on next year's list when we take the lights down.