Distance from church to Hotel

sak81

Hi

Just wondering what is peoples opinion on asking people to drive for an hour between the church & Hotel. In a bit of a dilemma between 2 hotels at the moment. THe nicer one is an hour away and the less nice one is about 15mins away......given there will be people travelling considerable distances to the wedding...don't want people to be annoyed about the drive.

Cheers

i-digress

My hotel if forty minutes away from our church. Basically there are some people who will complain about anything. If it isn't the drive it'll be something else. Everyone who cares about you shouldn't mind too much. It may reduce your afters crowd a bit, but that's their choice anyway. Personally, I wouldn't worry.

Aquitaine

An hour doesnt sound too much to me. the only thing is maybe give people plenty of info on public transport/taxi's/mini bus's etc or else people might think its too hard to get too.
i was at a wedding a few months ago and the reception was about an hour away from where the church was, we didnt do our research and ended up spending an awful lot of money getting back in a taxi! our own fault really but could have maybe organised a mini bus with others if had have known

Noelie

sak81 wrote: »

Hi

Just wondering what is peoples opinion on asking people to drive for an hour between the church & Hotel. In a bit of a dilemma between 2 hotels at the moment. THe nicer one is an hour away and the less nice one is about 15mins away......given there will be people travelling considerable distances to the wedding...don't want people to be annoyed about the drive.

Cheers

An hour isn't too bad, however i would look into getting a bus to carry people who don't have transportation. you could ask when getting RSVP'd if anyone would need transporation to the hotel from the church and then get something suitable.

VeryBerry

I think most guests would be ok about an hour drive between the church and the hotel. A hour is about the average travelling time between venues nowadays. Any longer is really pushing it though.

We were at a wedding recently where it took over two hours to travel between the church and the reception hotel That was far too long imo, and most of the other guests felt the same. Tbh, it actually affected the whole atmosphere of the day, because people were so fed up after being stuck in their cars all afternoon, they weren't really in the mood to celebrate.

hot fuss

They'll be spending a hell of a lot longer than an hour in the hotel so you're better off going with the nicer one - that's what matters.

An hour in a car isn't that long and if anyone moans, tell them to shut it!

Marz66

Some people might not like it, especially the older people or people without their own transport, but you could organise a bus for them as has been suggested.

If you do go with the hotel an hour away, you could maybe have some food waiting for the guests when they get to the hotel eg. tea/coffee and sandwiches because there is always a lot of waiting around for the meal to start at weddings and if you throw in an hour drive, guests might start to get a bit peckish!

An hour isnt that long really but make sure you give good directions to the hotel. If there isn't much between the 2 hotels, you could consider going with the less nice but nearer one but if the hotel an hour away is much nicer, then why not, the guests will get the benefit of the nicer hotel also.

suzi-suz

just back from a wedding ..... we had to travel an hour and a half frm church to hotel but it was worth it the hotel was fab rite on a lake, so i'd so go for it after all its ur day and not ur guest,so if u want the nice hotel u go for it .... gd luck!! (hope no1 takes offence lol )

mikeanywhere

I have shot 6 weddings in the last 2 weeks and 90% of them had travelling time ranging from 30 mins to 90 mins.

The nice thing about that is that you get chance to spend time together enjoying each others company before the madness starts again later.

Good luck in your choice!!

seamus

Yeah, our church and hotel have about 80 minutes between them, with about 20 of those minutes in Dublin City traffic. Tiny bit worred about it, but our plan is to give people as much information as possible with the invite - let them know what time we expect the ceremony to be over, the best route to take, how long it'll roughly take, what time they'll be able to check in, what kind of food will be on offer at the hotel, what time dinner will be at - so they can hopefully plan their day to suit them best.