Lodging night-of-wedding?

CurlsNpearls12

I'm trying to talk FI into taking the 20 minute drive to stay at a really nice country club that has multiple "honeymoon" suites that also provide breakfast at their main building.

I think it would be really nice to be able to come back to the same room on our anniversary every year, but he keeps saying he wants to go home.

Since we've lived together for over a year, we're more comfortable with our house than going to some new "strange" place.

Are any of you going home rather than lodging somewhere the night of your wedding?

DEE0979

We are staying in a honeymoon suite the night of our wedding. My fiance wanted to go home as well, but I pretty much told him, oh well.lol  I want our wedding night to be special/different, ya know?  

rungirl12

We're going home.  There are two major reasons.  First, I am doing a triathlon in the morning, so we will need to leave around 4:30am for that and a hotel room for 5 hours seems silly.  Second, prior to me signing up for that, we had decided to go home since we would be spending $$ for lodging on our honeymoon for 2 weeks.  Why add paying for yet another night?  I'd rather splurge on the honeymoon for a night or two in a fancier place with that $$ saved, if anything.

DeClue82

Our wedding night is free at the hotel because we have 20 guest rooms booked under our block, so we're staying the night of and the night before. I should add we also won't have a "home" to go home to, since we don't live in Charlotte anymore, and that's where the wedding is. But I encourage everyone to talk with the manager of sales at the hotel you have a block of rooms at, every place that I talked to offered a free room with 15-20 rooms booked...

StephyD216

We booked a hotel suite to day in the night before and night of the wedding. Its only 5 minutes from the reception, where as our house is a 45 minute drive.

mbatzlaff

We are going home because after a long day I will just want to go to sleep in my own bed in silence. I dread loud hotel guests in ajacent rooms and I don't sleep as well in hotels.

unicorntrees

The hotel that our wedding is at offers a complimentary bridal suite in its wedding packages, so we didn't have to pay for it. We are staying in it since things will be hectic and we anticipate hanging with our families after the reception anyway, since a bunch of them are staying in the hotel. We are also leaving the next morning for our honeymoon, too. Somehow staying in the hotel made sense.

Plus, personally, I wouldn't want to go home my wedding night! I want to do something a little bit more special than just going home.  That's just me, though.

Sunshine811

We are staying in a hotel, just a standard room with King bed, the night of the wedding. But, we had to... my family all lives 30 minutes from the venue, so they will be camping at our house the weekend of the wedding. The closest hotel is 20 minutes away (where we'll be going) and our house is about 5 minutes. Fi and I decided that it would be better for us to get a driver to drive us to th hotel than for my whole family to get a driver, or risk driving after drinking on the night of the wedding. I know this is not my responsibility, but it will give me peace of mind on my wedding night.

libby2483

We are staying in a suite that is free because we have a certain number of rooms reserved in our guest block. I'm excited to do something special after the wedding. And we are getting married near our hometowns, so we currently live 2 hours away from where we are getting married.

ohnoitskaroljo

We changed our mind since we just got an apartment for July 1st. We've decided to stay at our own home since my folks will be taking our daughter for the weekend after the wedding. We're just gonna hole ourselves up in our apt for most of the weekend

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We live 10 mins away from the venue but were having alot of oot  guests so we are gonna stay at the hotel until Monday ( the wedding is Saturday - so were gonna stay in the suite Friday - Monday) Kinda like a MINI -MOON! I cant wait cause the hotel is so nice! 

i2012do

We are staying over, but its a 45  minute drive home and the hotel ois 5 min away
also a lot of our guests are from oot so we are spending the next day with them, having a brunch at the hotel etc

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We are also staying because it's over a half hour drive, and coming home to a house without the dogs (they'll be on their vacation) would just be weird...

m tulli

We are driving home as of right now... It's a 45 min drive but we are use to driving we live in the middle of no where.  But the main reason was just the $$  if we have some spare cash closer it might change.  

random4180

We're staying at a hotel for a couple of reasons- we're getting married almost an hour away from home AND we've never stayed in a hotel the whole time we've been together; it seems a great time to try it out!

spazticrexe

We are staying in a fancy hotel that is actually within walking distance of our townhouse. We decided to stay in the hotel's best suite since we already live together and didn't want to go home and have our wedding night feel 'routine.'

 We'll probably only stop back at home to drop off our overnight bag, pick up our luggage and say bye to the cats before shipping off to the honeymoon

jezabella

For us, we are leaving on our honeymoon two days after the wedding and we absolutely love our house and where we live, so we are both loving the idea of coming home to our own house and sleeping in our own, super comfortable bed, after a very long and busy day.  I think we will both be completely exhausted from the whole day, so staying in a hotel does not appeal to us at all.  I honestly am excited to be able to go home to a quiet place with nobody else around that night.

KT020803

The reception is actually at my fiance's parents property so we will be staying there at their house. We likely will both be fairly intoxicated so there was no way we would consider driving anywhere and we have the rest of our lives to make up for likely skipping the wedding night lovin! LOL

Some really traditional girlfriends have been giving me a hard time about "what about your wedding night?!?!" I reply we've lived together for 4.5 years, been together for 9 and I would rather party well into the night after putting ALLLL this work into the reception plans.