This is likely to be my first of MANY questions on this forum!
After much searching, we have finally booked our wedding venue. We are originally from Newcastle and have been together over 7 years, but we now live in Devon together (for over 3 years now) so we have decided to get married here in Devon to celebrate where we have essentially both started our life together.
The only problem is that we have most of our family and close friends travelling down from Newcastle (this will be around 22 people = 12 rooms), and they will be most likely staying for 3 nights.
We are willing to contribute towards everyone's accommodation (we are thinking of asking for £50 per night/room for couples so £150 for three nights, and £30 per night/room for singles so £90 for three nights). The rooms themselves are likely to be at a local premier inn and cost £230, so we would basically be contributing around £80-£140 to the cost of each room).
The questions are:
1) Do you think that it is appropriate to ask immediate family for money towards accommodation? My parents would be staying in our house, so it would essentially be OH's parents, uncle/aunty and cousins in the hotel).
2) How do we approach people to ask for contributions (do we let them know on the save the date card, invitation etc?)
3) Do you think it would be better to ask people to book their own accommodation and we re-imburse, or we book all accommodation and ask people for money after?
Sorry for the long post, but thank you for all help in advance! ?
