How far is your reception from your ceremony or how far do you guests have to travel if the ceremony & reception are in the same place?

Original plan was a small wedding in registry office so the guests would travel for about 10 mins however we are now thinking of having it all in the same place.

I have been to weddings where we have had to travel for about 20 mins before best advice is to check who needs to travel and try and arrange for people to car share and maybe see if people who live the furthest would stop at the hotel...

My church and venue are about 19 miles apart, which will be about a 35 minute drive. At first a few people were asking if i was providing a taxi serive/ mini bus, and i did think about it, but realisticly, it'd be way too much hassle for us as then the bus would have to do numerous pick ups or people would have to drive to the pick up point etc. eitherway it just did seem to make things any easier as people would still have to leave their cars somewhere.

A few people are getting rooms at our hotels, a few are using neighbouring hotels, some are getting taxis etc. I think there are even a group of friends that have organised a small minibus thing to pick them up at the end of the night. either way its not really your problem. As long as you arent expecting everyone to travel hours and hours!! you'll never find a perfect venue that'll suit all the guests that are attending, so just go with what you like!!

I think the issue with weddings is that proplr have lots of their own opionions, i am aware that the travelling might be an issue but i am aware that i dont want to compromise. i keep thinking my wedding my way! as what happend if the people that i think might complain dont even turn up to the local venue then i would be annoyed!

Alot of the party do have to travel from berks anyway so they are staying in hotels regardless its just my family that i think will be annoyed by it.

One even suggested that the venue i currenlty have is too far away and she suggested one round the corner from her (which is rubbish BTW)?

My venue is about 40 mins drive from the church. My venue is a hotel so when I sent out STD cards I enclosed a room price list to give them the option of booking a room there so that they don't have to get taxis home. When I send the invites I will give a short list of other hotels nearby to give them the option of booking there. Could you do this? Find out the names and contact details of nearby hotels so that they don't have to get taxi's if they don't want?

Hope this helps!

x

My venue is a 30 minute drive from the church. Most of my family have to travel to get here and will be staying over anyway so when I send out the invitations I will put details of a couple of local hotels. I don't think people mind having to travel a distance from one to the other

Our venue was about 40 mins from the church. Many drove there but I actually put on a bus which also took everyone back into the city centre at the end of the night. Complete with an 'evening guest pick up bus' we paid about 500 bucks to ensure everyone got there, got home and could enjoy themselves. Seems extravagent but I think it was really really appreciated!

Hi All

Our wedding is in a country hotel about 13 miles away from our town and we have been talking about the guests travelling situation.

I have been asking around to see if anyone would like a room in the hotel for the night (in which case they can take their cars) because our reception is in the same place. The hotel will be full of our guests - that sorts that group of people out!

I am going to arrange for some taxi 8 seaters to take guests to and from the venue if they want to go back home, but we cannot afford to pay for this so they will have to pay £5 each or something, which they wont mind doing (people expect to pay for taxis after a night out anyway). I will also give them a list of hotels in the area and leave it up to them. Im not going to spoon feed people, its not that far away, they are adults after all!! Ive told them to start saving now they have got 10 months!!!

Its not on a desert island, its just a little off the beaten track thats all!!

XX

Our ceremony and reception are at one venue, about 25-30 minutes from where most of our guests live. For our friend's wedding at the same venue, we hired a mini bus to take us all there and back. I'm not organising any transport, as there are loads of mini bus companies or taxi firms our guests can organise. Plus I'm going to look into local hotels to see if I can get a discounted rate for our guests.

If you like the reception venue, go for it and maybe include hotel details or mini bus firm details in your invites x

Our church is 3 miles from where we live and then our reception is just round the corner in the next street (5 min walk from our house). We have guests coming from France, Wales and Scotland who will be booking a hotel. We also have a lot of evening guests who will be travelling 30 miles. For them we are going to find out prices of taxi buses to book for them.

Ours was 25 mins away from the church. I'd say the vast majority of our guests live at least 45 minutes away from the venue and we fine with it. A lot did book hotels or share taxis. Equally, we often opt to stay in a hotel for the night for friends and family's weddings, or go in on a mini-bus/taxi.

It's not a ridiculous distance so I wouldn't be concerned about booking it for that reason.

I dont really have this problem as iam getting married having the reception and evening party all at the same place, which is why it was important that we could also have a room for the night, and the staff at the venue have come up trumps, they have arranged the bridal suite for us as part of our package! and have 20 rooms on hold until 20th July at a reduced rate for any of our guests after this time they will go on general sale at the normal price, otherwise there are some other hotels or even a premier inn between 10 and 30 minutes away which i will suggest to people but there is enough to organise without having to worry about transporting and acommodating the guests, most of which im sure would be more than happy to make thier own arrangements anyway.

So at the end of the day its about what YOU want for YOUR day

Goodluck x

Hi

were having ours all in one place so i cant help you from my own experience sorry but i am going to my friends wedding in dec this year i live in london and they live in blackburn so we are travelling up there.

Then the venue and church are 30 mins away as well and i havent even thought about it. so i guess what im saying is i think if the people you are inviting want to be there they will go no matter how far.

i hope this helps, i think if you have found your dream venue go for it other wise your always going to think back and think i wich i went for that one if you see what i mean xx