Wedding Planning: Is This Location Too Far?
July 4, 2009
I am from Seattle and my fiance is from Portland (4-5 hours apart driving). We both would love to have a wedding in northeastern Oregon (6 hours from Seattle, 5 hours from Portland).
Most of his guests are from Portland, most of mine are from Seattle.
None of our guests are too old or ill to travel that far. But it may be inconvenient for those with demanding jobs (my 60-hour-a-week cousins or my on-call doctor relatives). The location is beautiful, will save us a lot of money, and accomodations for those who need to stay over are fairly economical.
My questions:
Is the location too inconvenient for our guests?
Are we perhaps overestimating our ability to plan a wedding/reception that will take place in a different city? (I know that limits our contact/previewing of certain things/etc.)
Is it asking too much of our guests?
Perhaps a dumb question: To what extent do we pay for travel/accomodations for traveling guests? My understanding is that we pay for the wedding party and their travel needs. (Is that always the case?) But not necessarily for other guests.
I don’t know if this makes a difference: About 20% of our guests will have to travel (by plane) no matter where we have our wedding.
Logistically (last question, I promise!) how do we get to the wedding? I assume that my fiance and I go there at least a day ahead of time (his family has a house there), but what about the bridal party? Is it more appropriate for me to ride with them down there, or with my future hubby?
Sorry for the complicated question – but any advice would help. I’ve pretty much had it with the wedding planning books/websites because they all say the same thing and none of them have answered any of these questions.
Thanks!
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