Transport from Church to Venue

No you are not - i wouldnt go to a wedding a expect to be taken from the church to the reception - everyone will make there own arrangements and there will be spare spaces in oethers cars - dont waste your money!

No way! definatly not being unreasonable in my opinion, and it would cost you a fortune! Our venue is bout 20 mins away but we arent, people are just getting lifts and car sharing. If you provided the transport there, how would they get back home? I think you are best off letting everyone sort themselves out, you have enough to worry about!

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The only transport I was thinking about providing was a return coach for the evening guests and get them all to meet up centrally, it will mean that they can all enjoy themselves and not worry about driving home or spending £50 or more on return taxi's.

I wouldn't expect to be taken to a venue but I do think it's nice to do IF you can afford it. We paid somewhere in region of £150-180 (can't remember, nearly 2 years ago!) for a 50 seater to travel about 8 miles from church to venue, but not going back anywhere and I think it was well worth it - the reasons being:

- the majority of guests were travelling in from elsewhere and would be able to leave cars at their hotel, or if they'd taken the train, come straight from train to church in a cab.

- it meant people could go home/back to hotels whenever they wanted

- no one had to worry about getting to the middle of nowhere venue

- people such as BMs/GM who had travelled to the church with me/H didn't have to worry about sorting out a lift

- it was much easier to book a coach and pay for this than to arrange for lifts for people without cars, and people who didn't really know anyone else didn't have to work out how they were getting somewhere.

If i went to a wedding i wouldn't expect it but we are providing a coach for the guests from the church to the venue, (15miles)

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I think if your wedding and reception are quite far apart then it is nice to have a bus if you can afford it.... it depends where the reception is though, is it very remote or central? If it's central I wouldn't be too bothered about getting them home again, but if it's remote then taxis and lifts etc might be hard to organise and expensive if people don't know the area or don't have friends/relatives who are taking a car ?

Thanks people. The reception is in a village outside of the city. Everyone apart from my mum is local and a taxi will cost £20.00 back to the city centre, or they can stay the night which is £110 per couple.

I'm still not sure and although we could "find" the money, I don't think I want to put on transport.

Think I'm going to say to OH, if his mum wants transport, then she can arrange it!

Arranging it though will also impact your stationary...

We are putting on buses from church to reception (bout same distance as you) and then a bus from the town centre out to the reception (about 25 miles) and then a bus to take everyone home because I want people to enjoy themselves and not worry about driving (being able to have a bevvy) or spending a stoopid amount of money on taxis after midnight (approx £30 plus) I have made up slips for the buses so they can confirm if they want a seat on the buses and they return that with their RSVP. This is essential so I know what size of bus to order and to ensure everyones got arrangements for getting home.

Just playing devil's advocate, but if you have 100+ guests, in a small village, all wanting a lift home 18 miles at the same time then they could be in for a very long wait for taxis ? I really don't think it's that big a deal to organise - bus companies are used to such requests and like teehee said, you can just put a slip in with the invites asking who will need transport to and from the reception to a central point in the city? ?

You could alwaysget MIL onside by making it her task to organise it, and offer to pay half?