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Deposit for Guest Accomodation Required 2 months before Wedding

  • 30-11-2009 12:23pm
    #1
    themullet
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    Myself and my Fiancee are due to get married in March. The reception is being held in a country house. We need to know how much accomodation we require in the house two months prior to the wedding, and whoever is staying needs to pay 50% deposit, also 2 months before the wedding. We are currently getting ready to send out our 'Save the Date' cards and we are just wondering what is the best way to communicate the above to the poeple invited? We want to invite the people tastefully without stressing the point of the 50% deposit. Please help!!


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    We sent a sheet with all of our save the dates containing the relevant phone numbers, costs, advice on when to book as well as a list of alternative accomodation options - nearby hotels and B&Bs, with a rough cost for each of them.
    You can include this, just stressing the point that there is a 50% booking deposit due 2 months before the date, if they plan to stay at the venue.

    For ours, we had to book X amount of rooms, which we allocated to family members. We just told them separately to the save the date that they would need to ring up and give their card details to the hotel. This is because we would be liable if anyone didn't turn up and they hadn't given their details.

    In terms of your guests, you should, as best you can, avoid "organising" them. Give them the information they need and then leave them at it. People will sort themselves out with travel & accomodation. Doing it for them is just another headache you can avoid.


  • #3
    How Strange
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    seamus wrote: »
    In terms of your guests, you should, as best you can, avoid "organising" them. Give them the information they need and then leave them at it. People will sort themselves out with travel & accomodation. Doing it for them is just another headache you can avoid.
    OP this is very good advice. Start as you mean to go on and give them the all the info so they can sort themselves out.

    The last thing you want in the run up to the wedding is worrying because auntie this or cousin that hasn't paid their deposit and you ringing around to chase them.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    How Strange wrote: »
    OP this is very good advice. Start as you mean to go on and give them the all the info so they can sort themselves out.

    The last thing you want in the run up to the wedding is worrying because auntie this or cousin that hasn't paid their deposit and you ringing around to chase them.
    Just to illustrate, despite my advice above my wife took it upon herself (at my protest) to organise car pools on the day as there were a number of non-drivers and foreign people coming to the wedding and the reception was an hour from the ceremony.

    That was easy enough, but a few people hadn't the wherewithall to sort themselves out with accomodation - one had her father drive an hour down to collect her and two others took a €150 taxi back to Dublin, even though a room in the hotel would have been cheaper (and there were tonnes of free beds).

    So if you try to organise people yourself, you end up having to deal with that kind of craziness. Let people work it out themselves :)


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