Buses - help would be much appreciated!!!

Hi Gillsy

Not sure I can be much help but I had to say hello as my parents live in Kilmarnock

My sister's wedding a few years ago was in Fenwick, the guests were scattered around a bit, from Glasgow, Ayr, Troon and a few other places and there was no transport provided to get them there. We did have a bus back to Kilmarnock at the end of the night, mostly cos it was easier than getting taxis for the wedding party, we told the guests there would be a bus but only 2 or 3 people came with us.

Hey Tizzy, nice to have somebody that knows the area!!!!

Thanks for your reply too - this one really has been keeping me up at night

(now I've thought for a bit longer...)
I think people mostly expect to get themselves to and from a wedding anyway. As a guest I'd certainly take advantage of free transport if it made things easier but wouldn't expect it at all. In fact apart from that bus home from my sister's I think I've only been to one wedding with any transport laid on, and that was just to get people from the ceremony to the reception, again mostly for the wedding party but they did an extra trip for other people who hadn't driven to the ceremony.

Hi Gillsy,

We are having buses but we are asking guests to go to the reception first where the buses will pick them up and take them to the church and then back to the reception. The problem for us is the chuch is in the centre of town, 2 weeks before Christmas parking will be an issue. the venue are setting an area of the carpark for our guests.

Hope this helps

Lisa

xx

Hiya

We are providing a coach for the guests from the church to the venue only, no return trip

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We provided buses.

There was a 33 seater from the church to the reception. Then another one picked up the evening guests and brought them to the reception, then another one took them all home again. On average we were looking at £180 to hire a coach, regardless of distance.

Cost us 400 bucks or so but I think it was really appreciated and a good time was had by all on the buses....

Hi,

Hope i can help, alot of Brides provide transport for their guests, i also did on my own Wedding day.

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Sarah Andrews

Hi gillsy,

for our wedding we will not be providing transport to the actual wedding, but will put besses on from the church to the venue then home from the venue to 2 main towns in our area. we are also going to provide transport for the evening guests to get to the reception from these 2 main towns.

hope i have helped a tad

Thank you so much ladies - this really does help. We are having the ceremony and the reception in the Hotel so no need for anybody to leave there one they are in.

I'm thinking we might just see our local day guests ok by bringing them to the venue and then having a bus to run both day and evening guests home (if they want it).

Cheers, Gx

We did this. We had a civil service at the reception venue and gave people local cab numbers in the info sheet and asked if they wanted a seat on the bus back after the eve reception (most people were staying in the local town about 15 mins away).

I'm going to do this, only for my evening reception guests though. Even though our venue is only a have hr drive from the city centre I want my guests to be able to enjoy themselves instead of worrying about which one is going to be the designated driver.

Haven't got any prices yet though ☹️