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Wedding car etiquette?

  • 27-10-2008 8:59pm
    #1
    Teamhar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Hey all,

    Getting married next September and we figured we'd better get our skates on with some planning!

    We're thinking about getting some quotes for wedding cars but we're not too sure how many we need. We've never been to weddings except as guests so not sure who travels with who. The bride with her father we get, but does the bride's mother travel with them? Is there a bridesmaid there as well? Who goes with the groom? Best man and groom's mother? We're lost! Any advice gratefully received!


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  • #2
    OonaghHearne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭OonaghHearne


    Hi,
    Unless you're loaded, only the bride and her Dad travel in a fancy car to the ceremony. Bestman/Groomsmen etc take the ladies etc. It's your day, do exactly what you really want - it's also your money.....


  • #3
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    As OonaghHearne says, just the one is needed (if even). The groom travels to the church with the bestman and groomsmen etc. The mother of the bride can go with the bridesmaids. If you have a friend or relative with a nice enough car, no harm asking them to give them a lift. Groom's parents make their own way usually, though I suppose it depends on where everyone might be staying the night before.


  • #4
    smelltheglove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭smelltheglove


    Each to their own really, the father of the bride generally goes in the wedding car to the church but makes his way from the church. Bridesmaids are often brought in a car also but I have rarely seen this to be a 'paid for' car. In our family we are lucky enough to have a few nice cars so we have just used one of them. For my wedding I only used mercs, merc for me and dh and merc for the bms. I wedding I'm working on soon is using bmws. I think its very classy to have high class cars rather than the old style cars.


  • #5
    Nasty_Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Nasty_Girl


    Hi,

    We had the one car, (Groom wasn't bothered about his aarival to the church as he was one of the first people there! His uncle ended up driving him!)

    The car brought my 3 bridesmaids up to the church first and then came back for me and Dad.
    My brother drove my Mam and my friend up to the church.

    So really there is no set way of doing it, if you've only 1 bridemaid I guess you could bring them with you or you could bring a flower girl (if you have one) in the car but really it depends on how big the car is too !
    If you've a huge big limo you could bring whoever will fit.
    You could get tthe car to bring your groom to the church if he wanted and then pick you up, it really depends but as far as I'm aware there's no set rule for it.

    Good luck with the rest of the planning :)


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