I live in Lancaster but I'm going to get married in Lincolnshire so my guests are going to need to travel quite a distance. I'm wondering if its rude and akward not to buy coach travel for our guests? I feel tight on them but we can't really afford it?
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
I really don't think it's necessary. We got married in Vegas and people paid for themselves LOL! No, seriously, people expect to travel a bit for a wedding, so stop worrying about it x
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CommentAuthorMrsCross2be
We are getting married in Preston and have people travelling from Sussex and a whole side of a family travelling from Cheshire. I worried about this but having chatted to MiL2b and others I decided that if they know the date far enough in advance and they know the location then it's up to them to accept or decline the invite and I won't be putting on transport too expensive!
CommentAuthorsarah
I don't think you need to provide transportation for your guests. You don't say your wedding date, but I suggest you give your guests a lot of notice so they can make travel/lodging arrangements
CommentAuthorSonya
I don't think it's something you should be providing. We have family in Nottingham, Essex and Ireland and anyone coming will be making their own way here. That said MIL2b told us we had to provide transport for them and we just told her no we don't!
Lots of our family and friends will have to travel we are in devon and have family in oxford, london, derby, yeovil , spain and austrailia. But if you have a fair amount of family in same area could always ask them if it would be easier if you organised a coach /bus to venue so more relaxing for them!
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CommentAuthorAna40
I have family travelling to my wedding and i wont be putting on transport to get them there. Like some of the others have said with enough notice they can make appropriate plans or decline. X
CommentAuthorNataleeM
i know i have been thinking about this alot to! we was planning on getting married in a hotel or somewhere with lots of accomadation near but we fell in love with something nothing near anything, and now im feeling guilty thinking maybe i should book mini buses for guesses, but we really dont have the funding for that, so not too sure what we doing yet xx
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CommentAuthorWhovianbride
You can always find out hiw many people would be inteested in coach and enquire how much it would costs and then say i got a quote from here and it wotks out much cheaper per person to do that than everyone coming individualy! Im thinking of asking my family who all live in my town if they would want to get a small bus so they can drink and them get bus back which would be cheaper, as we did that for my grans 70th and its not to far away and our hotel has limited space! 12 rooms. There us a hotel about 10 min walk awau but its all dark country lanes, an our venue said they can drop people back localy!
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CommentAuthorBecky1608
I think it's common for people to travel to weddings. We're getting married in Oxfordshire. Most of my family and friends are from Sussexso will need to travel xxx
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CommentAuthorNataleeM
just do what you wanna do hun x
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CommentAuthorGiggler81
Its not tight - At the end of the day - your friends and family should want to share this day with you and be prepared to make some efforts.
We have nobody local in Lincolnshire - We have only been here a short while - but we appreciate that they will need to travel so have tried to lay on an good day - worth the effort of them all travelling.
As others have said give them enough notice and help suggest local b & b or hotels with reasonable prices and it shoudl all turn out right!
Weddings are expensive enough without worrying about paying for the guests to get to you as well!
CommentAuthorValentinaK
I would strongly reccomend you don't put transport on for them. Totally unnecessary and will eat up a huge chunk of money.
Instead, give guests adequate notice of your wedding and location and give them suggestions of hotels in the area and maybe even negotiate a deal with a couple of hotels.
Lincolnshire is cheap anyway and LOADS of hotels in Lincoln!
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CommentAuthorInDreamland
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It's really not necessary hun. We got married a good hour or so away from where most of our guests live, some travelled from abroad on a long haul flight to share our day with us. We didn't provide them with any transport although we arranged for some to get lifts with other guests who had room in their cars. If they want to be there they will find a way. Just provide details of local hotels and b&b so they have options to stay overnight if they want to xxx
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CommentAuthorvic:)
im getting married in yorkshire, but im originally from lincolnshire, and a lot of my family from there...we giving them directions on how to get here, names of hotels etc if they dont want to go home same day. directions from train stations if they dont want to drive.... i got family in devon, and h2b is from greece so his family coming over and noone mentioned anything about having to travel. xx
CommentAuthorLauraJo87
I agree with the others, most people expect to travel for a wedding.
Just provide details of accommodation and transport, local taxi firms etc and they'll be fine.
If there's a large group coming, it may work out cheaper for them to hire a coach and pay per person....we did this once and it worked out at about thirty quid each for a 150 mile round trip.
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CommentAuthorJanetM46
We are getting married at Gretna and a lot of our guests are travelling from Northampton only 4 people have said they can't come so we are really pleased with that. We aren't providing transport apart from immediate family, we have hired a people carrier more for the dresses and paraphernalia to be honest than people lol x I wouldn't worry as people have said it's the norm to travel.
