Transportation for out of town guests

MelanieMillet

Hello! I need some advice. I am planning a wedding with 150 guests and I want to have the wedding ceremony and the reception at two different places that are about 45 mins away from each other. We have a lot of out of town guests coming for the wedding and I know that travelling to different venues can be a pain in the butt anyways. Does anyone know what the rates for party buses are and will it be more of a help or a hindrance to have this bus take them from the ceremony to the reception and then back? Won't everyone have to come/go at the same time? Is it weird to provide a huge party bus for some of the guests and not the others? Should I just get two so that way more guests can choose this option?HELP! I'm just trying to come up with the best way to transport guests without making them feel uncomfortable or burdened.Thanks,Melanie

~mRm~

Post this on your local, this board is international. We did shuttle buses to and from our reception venue and they were a big hit!

lyndausvi

ditto pp.. On both points.  Our shuttles were a hugh hit.

BecW2be

You need to check your local for rates. We are using a big bus from a hotel to the ceremony/reception, but the hotel is only about 10miles from the ceremony location. Parking at the ceremony is our issue.  It's going to make two big trips to the ceremony, and then start about an hour into the reception with trips back and forth at our guests' convenience, so they don't feel trapped at our wedding. I'm not sure how that will work for a 45min. travel time for you. Perhaps the two buses can make alternating to and from trips, so that guests can leave every 25 minutes?

jefisher05

When/if you do a room block, check with the hotel to see if they have a shuttle and if you are able to use it.  Our hotel is letting us rent it for $50/hr. which is a fraction of a price of a limo bus from an actual limo company.  We are just doing it from the hotel to the reception.  When I do my OOT stuff, I will include the times the shuttle will be running. 

sarah0725

I have this same problem. My ceremony and reception are about 15 minutes apart. The reception is conveniently located in a place that will be within a couple of blocks of where a lot of people might be staying, but the ceremony is in the next shore town up, and parking there is devilish, especially considering that the site itself has no spaces and it will be in the middle of a Saturday in the summer in Jersey.I am considering going the yellow school bus route... or trolleys... but I don't know any prices yet. I tried posting this on my local, but my local sucks.

aerinpegadrak

If you're going to offer the shuttle, you should have enough seats available so that all of your OOT guests can use it.  For that many people, you may want to skip the "party bus" option (the most I've seen those hold is about 30) and go straight for big honking Greyhound territory.Try posting this to your local board, or call your venues and see if they can give you any recommendations.