WR questions...

number55

so how much do we give our limo drivers? We have two, one 6 seater that we have for 4 hours during the day and then a late night pick up sedan that is doing a couple of runs for us...any thoughts?

also, what the hell did you do with gifts and cards? I was hoping that we would only get cards (since most people in my crowd just give money) but FIs family is all boxed gifts. Some will be delivered to his parents house over the course of the next week (we already got some) but apparently we need to prepare to get some at the wedding. I wanted to dump it all in my car but I get the feeling that FMIL doesn't feel like that is safe (except unless someone at our wedding breaks into the car I can't imagine who would, our wedding is in the middle of nowhere)...anyways, what did you do?

TIA

JennaV26

I have no idea about the limo drivers as my ILs took care of that.

We had a ton of people bring gifts (and cards) to the wedding (to my surprise, I always send my gifts early so I didn't realize just how many people bring gifts to a wedding). Our venue coordinator gathered them all up at the end of the evening and gave them to my parents who took them back to the hotel.

We transfered most of them to my car the next day for DH and I to bring home since we didn't get to go on honeymoon, but my parents ended up having to drive down a ton of presents a few weeks after the wedding. It was pretty rough. A lot of those were from people who sent gifts after the wedding too.

K Byte

I can't answer the limo question, our limo price was all-inclusive of the limo charge itself, tax, and tip for the driver. =/

As for boxed gifts, we got A TON! The staff at our reception site loaded all the gifts onto a dolley and we piled them all into my dad's car and H's dad's car at the end of the night. Our dads left the gifts in the cars overnight (locked in the trunks in a very safe neighborhood) and then the next morning we all drove them to our apartment and opened the gifts at home.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I have to double check. Sadly, $100 is like 20% of our limo bill, so I think we'll give the limo driver $100. Plus he's taking us lots of places. The shuttle driver is working from 4:30 to 11:30 (though mainly from 4:30 to 6:30, THEN 10-11:30), so I kind of feel bad for him.

reddy123

I had a friend with a mini van bring all the presents to my house while we went on our honeymoon. It was a lifesaver and I'm going to do the same thing for him at his wedding.

vegasgroom

I've never taken a limo that did not have gratuity bundled in, so you will probably find that you're tipping him already.  Shuttles usually don't though and those guys often spend a lot more time unloading/loading baggage so they appreciate a nice tip.

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We did our own transportation, so I'm no help there. As for gifts, we had a card box for the cards and gift cards. We only got 2 boxed gifts and we put them in he upstairs bedroom that was off-limits to guests (we got married at a private cabin). When the ceremony started my mom took the card box inside.

raynes

I believe that our gratuity was rolled into the limo package, so no advice from me there.

As for gifts, we had mostly cards, but maybe half a dozen boxed things brought to the actual reception.  One of my BMs H's drove my parents Expedition to the ceremony/reception and then he and I think my brothers loaded up the gifts near the end of the night.  My parents neighbour's drove the car home and we picked up the gifts the next day.

jcamm11

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_wr-questions-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:106b5905-8676-4938-b50b-73b0a5e497d5Post:8b3eb93c-153c-4e1e-8bc6-f7191d6f3a6e">Re: WR questions...</a>:
[QUOTE]We didn't use a limo nor a shuttle, so no advice there. On your GIFTS question: <strong>There really should be no gifts / cards brought to the reception venue at all.  All gifts and cards should be delivered to the bride's parents house two weeks ahead of the wedding.  If you lived in the old south, this would be what everyone did.</strong>  But I went to high school and college in northern Ohio near the Canadian border, and sometimes people DID bring gifts to the actual reception up there.  In those cases, the Best Man was in charge of gathering up those gifts/cards/whatever and taking them to HIS house, and then the bride/group would pick up these things from the Best Man when they returned from the honeymoon.
Posted by Kristin789[/QUOTE]

That sounds really convenient; I wish I lived in the old south!  My family all brings gifts right to the reception.

leia1979

My friend's wedding was all card gifts at the ceremony (a lot of them). They all went into a card box at the guest book table. During the actual reception we BMs moved it to underneath our table for safe-keeping. The MOH (bride's sister) took it to her hotel room afterwards.