How far would you travel?

Ive travelled to Ireland before for a reception!

I think it depends on how much they loves ya! I think about 1 to 1.5 hours would be the most I'd go for the average person - close friends or family I'd travel how ever far it was.

i recently travelled about 35 minutes to go to an evening reception and just stayed over. what the bride did at that wedding is invited everyone out for breakfast the next day that stayed over and that was really nice.

she was family though, but f people really want to go then they will. what about finding a reasonable priced hotel in the area and asking if you can arrange a good tarrif with them for your guests and send out the details with the invite if they want to stay over?

I have traveled 2 hours before just for the evening reception, and stayed over. But then there was a lot of friends from NIreland over who I wanted to see and I am obsessed with weddings so don't turn invites down

I would invite them and see - then its their choice

I have both flown for a couple of hours and driven for at least three, to attend evening recpetions.

I travel 40mins to work and 40mins back again every day... so would think nothing of that for a night out. I would let you guests make there own mind up, just make sure you add information to your invites, ie, taxi numbers, hotels or even that there is parking at your venue.

If they like you and think a lot of you they will travel

Well we have travelled an hour to an evening reception, so yes I would go.

We are inviting some of OH's family and his and my colleagues who live 2.5hrs away just for the evening!

I know most of them wont come, but if they can afford it and want to be there then they will. Plus (and this is maybe a bit cheeky) its a way to keep costs down. And I will invite everyone from my work, so no one will feel left out but I know they most likely wont come! does that make sense?

Bx

Our venue is 1 hour from where we live andI am of the mind if they want to be there will make the journey, even if it is for the evening only, you're bound to get a few people decline but I would imagine from people that you are not too close to.

Personally i would be willing to travel within a couple of hours for a reception

We, last year, travelled from Essex to Bristol for a friends evening reception; roughly 3 hours travel.

It would depend completely on how much I liked you!

I would travel that far, definately, and would probably stay in a hotel because I wouldnt want the drive back home in the evening (plus I would want a drink!).

We have the same problem as OH and I are from places about 1.5 hours apart. We have decided to get married where we both now live meaning my famiy have to travel about 70 miles. Some will only get an evening invite as we can't afford to have everyone in the day and whether they come or not is up to them. We have booked somewhere that can accomdate everyone if need be for only £60 per couple which helps with people staying. My response is if they want to come they will come, I would happily travel and we even had lots of people travel this distance for our engagement party which we didn't expect!

EWSS!

Agree with CB! I wouldn't not invite them just because you think they won't come. Some people might surprise you. And, if they decide not to come, well at least they've had an invitation and will be happy to have received one.

I've travelled 4 hours from West Wales to Bath for an evening reception, but that was with all of OH's family and we met up for a few drinks beforehand and stayed over.

A few weeks ago, we drove 2.5 hours to Cardiff for an evening do - on a Sunday! We only stayed a couple of hours and I had to drive home as we had to get back to work for the Monday morning.

I've invited people who live over 300 miles away to the evening and they've booked into the hotel and all

I travel an hour just for an evening out - I would think nothing of 2-3 hours for a wedding reception. Depends on who the bride and groom are too.

I've travelled from Cambridge to Wales and also Cambridge to the New Forest just for evening receptions before. We made a weekend of both which some people may decide to do.

We travelled over 5 hours from Suffolk to north Wales to go to the evening reception of my cousins wedding. Actually I think it ended up taking around 6 hours as it was the same weekend as Creamfields so we got held up in the traffic. I don't think there's any limit on how far I would travel, if whoever it was felt that they wanted to invite me I would have to have a very good reason not to go and distance isn't a good reason. If it was a long way I'd be more likely to try to make at elast a weekend of it or even take a week of work to make it worthwhile. The only reason I can see distance being a problem is if people really can't afford it, as it can be expensive for the travel and accomodation.

For our wedding we'll have friends and family coming from all over the UK. We haven't sent invitations out yet but we've sent save the date cards with some details of nearby accomodation and I know some people have booked accomodation already, including some who will only be invited to the evening (and they do know that they are only invited to the evening).

We have booked a venue 40mins away from where we live, and will be inviting everyone we want there, we are putting on 2 buses, one from the village in rotherham where OH is from, as all his family and friends are still there, and one from Doncaster, mainly because we have made the decision to marry there and wont expect those for the evening to pay for taxis, but those for the day wont get travel put on, and they would be traveling up from different places anyway and there is plenty of rooms to book at a discounted rate...or cheaper hotels near by

Thanks everyone, that's really reassuring.

MrsBtobe1980 - that's a really lovely idea but I don't think our budget would stretch to doing that.

I have travelled over an hour to an evening only reception and personally if I wanted to go it would not stop me being a distance away. I have even taken the car and not had a drink due to distance but it was still a brilliant night.

I am much in the same position our venue is an hour away and practically in the middle of no where! We are still going to invite everyone we would like to come to the evening but will understand because of distance they may not come.

I would still invite them anyways and let them make the decision as to whether they will come or not. A lot our guests are staying in our hotel and there are also guest houses in the area where people can stay too.

My friends from work have said that they are going to arrange a bus to get there and back and I didnt expect them to come with the distance.

Hi Purple Pixie,

Our venue is about 50-55 minutes away from our Church and we are only having 23 people to a day reception, with everyone else being invited to the evening reception. I was worried about putting people out but then at the end of the day we felt that those that want to be there will come and those that don't won't! We are also going to have a hot buffet in the evening so guests don't just feel that they have travelled all that way for a sandwich and a bowl of nuts!

A couple of our friends asked us why we were having our venue so far away and couldn't we pick somewhere closer, they then told us where they would have theirs! My OH told them that it was our wedding and we were happy with our venue- the important people would be ther...probably not them now though

We live near Oxford and have travelled to Blackpool and Cardiff for wedding receptions- to be honest we are usually made up for whoever's getting maried that we are happy to travel to be part of their day.

A lot of my evening guests have to travel an hour to us and we are getting married on a sunday.

lukily OHs dad knows someone with a coach company....or we wouldnt be doing it

We have family and friends travelling for 3 hours just for the evening reception, admitting most are booking into a hotel but they are still just evening guests

I've been over to Belfast for just an evening - invite them.