Someone on here is getting a double decker red bus which i thought was fantastic and would def do if my reception was elsewhere lol. Not sure if shes paying for it tho? Hope she sees this and lets you know.

i agree with dove, if people really want to be there they will do whatever it takes, even if that includes a 25 minute drive!!

as we are getting married at the venue we don't need cars so l have put on two buses to bring all family and friends day and night to and from the venue xx

hi i am getting the double decker bus it is £600 there and back i am charging this to my 60 guests at 10 each which they are happy to pay as it is cheaper than a taxi both ways !

I would say that it's a 'nice to have' rather than an essential x

I'm hiring a routemaster bus for £350. It will collect family from 2 different hotels, including bridesmaids etc, take them to church and then onto the venue. After that my guests have been given local taxis numbers to get home. That way they can leave at anytime (those with small children, may want to leave earlier) and they only have to pay for a taxis one way!
I didn't think about passing this cost onto guests. I have a think about that one :-)

Em xx

I think if alot of your family want to travel together it's up to them to get a mini bus or whatever, look a few up and give them the details, but make it clear they are paying NOT you! x

Give them the taxi numbers.

We're putting on our wedding website that guests have to make their own way and putting the numbers of taxi firms on (we have a few out of towners that wouldn't know who was best to ring)
Transport for Ross and I is costing enough without shelling out for everyone else!!

I won't be supplying any transport for my guests. However on the night of the celebration party I am offering my grandparents a room at a local hotel and taxis to and from because my Grandad doesn't like driving in the dark and I really want him to come.

We didn't have to put on transport for guests in the evening because 99% of the guests were either staying in the same hotel or the hotel a couple of doors down the road. Only my in laws were staying in a hotel at the other side of Gretna, because they couldn't get the same hotels as the rest of us - but they got their own taxi back.

From the wedding venue to the reception (about a mile) I rang the local taxi company and they supplied a couple of minibuses for us to get all the guests there. For that, the in laws taxi from their hotel to the wedding venue and a taxi for a couple of the guests from the hotel to wedding venue only cost us £20 altogether (so reasonable in Gretna lol).

25-30 mins - I cannot believe people are moaning. I have been to weddings all over the country and have never expected the couple to sort out our transport or where to stay.

Most of my guests live 25+ miles from the venue - I will be trying to contact a premier lodge or similar to see if we can get some discount on rooms and I will tell the guests where I have arranged discounted rooms - but I will not be getting them to and from the hotels (Prob 2-3 miles away) and will leave taxi numbers near the bar.

Don't people realise how much a wedding takes to organise without extra bits like this!

Iv got a bus going from hotel to church then back again only because it an hour away and my church in not in the town you have drive 5mins out of town down little lanes to the church which is sit at the month on the river on rock next to a castle and it hard to get to, the bus is taking to the town then a boat out to the church, iv told my finished who helping get people in right place that if anyone moans about the boat show them the taxi rank and tell them to make there own way to church.
I.v put a list of hotels on info sheet so people can make they own choice of where to stay as there is lots of hotel all in walking distance from each other on that if put taxi number as will, and said bus pick up at hotel 10.30am so they have make there own way to hotel then after party make own way back to where they are staying.

so im getting married abroad.... thankfully nobody expects me to pay for them to get there!! (relief!) however the airmiles would be fab.
I dont think you should have to do that at all 25minutes??? thats a joke.... i travel further than that to work every day!!! and i bet some of them do too.

You are not being unreasonable by suggesting taxi numbers- maybe call ahead to pre-book some for a preferential rate???

They will be there wether you organise the transport or not, wont they?! So stick to your guns...and your budget and tell them you'll see them on the dancefloor. lol xx

** Can i point out this thread was started in 2010 and the lady is now married so no point in replying about her original thread as been re-bumped but a good thread to read if you have similar issues **

haha millz i never seen it either you must pay attention to detail. x

We're putting on a coach for people, but just for the evening guests. If people want a lift for the night who came to the day do they need to ask us, and we have put it in the invites to make sure that people RSVP and let us know if they want the coach.

It's costs us around £380 for a 70 seater.

On the other hand, I've been to plenty of weddings where transport wasn't put on and I never really thought about it, I just made arrangements around it! xx

Oh dear, how stupid do I feel?!

Because this is such an old post! Ah well!