So, once again I'm stressing about venues! As I've said before, I've found the perfect venue, only thing being is that it's all inclusive 13rooms (basically the entire house), BUT in order to afford the venue, we would have to ask 12 guests to pay £120 and stay the night; I feel really guilty for it. Has anybody else had this problem? Admittedly, for what you get, it is definitely amazing value. They would get a hog roast in the evening, beautiful house and gardens to see (with peacocks and other animals too!) And they would be provided with breakfast in the morning, but still, I kinda feel as though I'm saying "here's your invitation to our wedding, but will you please pay £120 for it?!" xoxox
Ps, sorry for the rant
CommentAuthorMrsL2be
Hi Trasa,
The rooms at our Venue are £125.00 and I don't think it is too bad. If I go to a wedding and they have rooms at the venue I always try to book one as its worth paying a bit more for the convenience of being able to go straight to bed when I have had enough plus it means guests can drive there and have a drink then drive home the next day. We are lucky that we have large families travelling from abroad and things so we had 16 rooms to sell and we have none left now. We booked the venue a few days ago. Don't worry about the cost, people would expect to pay for a room and even some premier inns are charging almost 90 for room only. Just put the word out to your guests and see how many people would be interested. Xxx
CommentAuthorLauraY27
Ours are £110 a night including breakfast. They do breakfast with everyone together on a big table. Although it's not exclusive use for rooms. We don't have to book all of them though. We know that my mum and dad will stay, h2bs mum, stepdad, dad, step mum, brother and sister and one of our bm's will all stay, so that's 7 rooms, i think there's 8 altogether. But we're requesting that family stay to have breakfast with us. My uncle and grandparents will probably also stay as they live in Milton Keynes and lincs. You'll find that a lot of people will want to stay as it's easier, just request that close family stay. It'll be easier to tell them that you have to book the rooms that way x
CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
I think if u out it across as u having to book rooms through u Is ok but be careful how u word it
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CommentAuthorWhovianbride
People will have to pay for roms an most prefer to stay at the venue anyway. One vebue we looked at was £150per room. But the venue we settled on is £90 pr , but only has 12 rooms. So some gyest will have to stay at a diferent hotel down the road x
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we looked at a venue that had this sort of deal and most people i asked said they would stop over anyway i think if you ask people you think would stop that you need to book their rooms when you book venue then it won't sound like they're paying for the venue xx
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CommentAuthorMrs T. 2 Be
We have rooms included in our package and we are charging people to stay with the exception of parents, brother and sister and my grandparents. The rest we are charging.
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CommentAuthor*KelBel*
We don't have anywhere to stay at our venue but we are all staying at a hotel down the road which is about £100 a night with breakfast, I think if you mention rooms are available but are limited I'm sure you'll get family and few friends that will want to stay over x
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CommentAuthorSoonToBeMrs.C
I wouldn't worry about it too much hun, the rooms at our venue are very steep at £150 B&B. When we sent save the dates we mentioned that there would be rooms and for people to let us know if they wanted to stay over. When people asked we let them know the price, saying we knew it was steep but people said they preferred to stay at the venue and we have 26 of the 30 rooms booked already. Like Mrs T said - we are going to pay for parents to stay over and we are putting some towards one of the ushers who would struggle otherwise, but the rest of the guests are paying for their own rooms.
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CommentAuthorTrasaD
That's a relief! Thank you. I hate asking people for anything, I always feel like I'm being rude :/ xoxox
CommentAuthorElizabethF49
I think if you word it properly you will be fine. My sister had a venue like yours she has to take the 12 or 15 rooms cant remember exactly they take responsibility for them and they allocate the rooms they have said that they wont be paying for everyone to stay over and thy will need to sit and work out how much each room will cost and depending on the size of the room depends how much it will be. What she is going to do is say to people that if they would like to stay the night then it will be such and such a price but because its exclusive use they need to pay the bride and groom and they will sort it out.
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CommentAuthorMrsThomson2B
Our rooms arfe not included but will cost £132 for one night B&B or £220 for 2 nights DB&B on first night and B&B second. I will include a list of hotels and prices for each and people can choose wether or not they want to pay.. Do the same with yours...speak to your venue and say which rooms your are reserving for your parents/grandparents etc and ask them to allocate as people callin and those people are to be charged for the rooms and the booked room fees can be deducted from your final balance. There isno need to tell your guests they were included in your package xx
CommentAuthorbarbie86
Our contract is the same: all rooms have to be booked out.
We negotiated a deal on the rooms with the venue, of £160 a night. Then, guests who wish to stay book their rooms directly with the venue. If any rooms go unsold, we will take the cost out of the bar tab (ie put less behind the bar).
We haven't told our guests what the situation is; as far as they know it's just a hotel wedding and they can book if they choose. We also haven't put pressure on people to book; hopefully, all the rooms will go, if not, never mind.
Personally I'd probably handle it like that. If you ask people to book because otherwise you'll have to pay, they might find it rude. And depending on the size of your wedding and the income of the people coming, I doubt you'll have an issue getting rid of 12 rooms; I'm sure there'll be 12 couples wanting to stay.
PS: as it stands at the moment 12 our of 23 rooms have been booked, with 7 months to go (invitations haven't gone out yet).
CommentAuthorTrasaD
Wow, really? That's very reassuring. Thank you barbie86. xoxox
CommentAuthorluratraloora
We have 10 rooms at ours at £150 a night. 5 of the rooms we get free for guests. Any more rooms are £150 each. We are giving our guests the option if they want a room or suggesting accomodation closer by if they wish to go cheaper. 97% of our guests will have to travel and stay over as we have no family where we live so we are giving them the option wherever they want to stay. :)
