Following on from what Lil Miss Red has said about her car hire quote, I am beginning to wonder if this is not the one wedding service offering the least value for money!
I’m beginning to think wedding cars might be more of a dream than a reality for our wedding.
We need one car, for one hour, to make two short trips amounting to about 20 miles (total, including their trip from where the car is stored). We've been looking at a Rolls Royce or Bentley, that sort of thing, as it needs to transport 4 people. I should add that this is in Derbyshire.
After having finally received a quote of £350, which I still thought was on the high side considering our small requirements and we’re a late wedding so they can use the car for an early wedding on the same day (their t’s and c’s did not indicate a one-wedding-per-day policy), I was willing to accept this simply to have the transport booked. On asking the company to send me an invoice with an outline of what the quote covers, they have now replied to say the quote was a mistake and ‘I must have known it was too good to be true’ – the real price is £895.
Firstly, how is the better part of £400 to borrow a nice car for an hour ‘too good to be true?’ or am I really setting my expectations too high? Secondly, that’s the second quote we’ve had at near to £900 so I’m guessing my budget of less than half that is unrealistic. (The first company were already booked for our date - first time that's happened - eeek!)
I know I don’t need the car. It won’t be a big feature as it will be dropping people off before most of the guests have arrived and the groomsparty and bridesmaids could just go in a taxi, but this was my opportunity to do one of those little things that makes the day a bit special for the people around me. My mum's always wanted to go in a Rolls Royce ?
We’re going to make some more searches, perhaps widening the type of car we’re looking at, to see what might be available for a more reasonable price. My gripe with this is that if we’re only looking at being able to have fairly normal cars at £400, then the point of it being special is undermined and we’re back to the taxis!! Someone please tell me if I've just got my figures all wrong on this one!
*headdesk*
