Our wedding is on a Friday at 6:30pm, with cocktail hr and reception to immediately follow at same venue. Normal Friday afternoon traffic we expected, which is why we actually pushed the ceremony from the recommended time (from the venue) of 6pm to 6:30pm. Figured that'd be better for whoever wanted to make the ceremony, had some extra time to get there.
Now we're about 7 weeks from the wedding, and of course, they JUST started construction on the expressway that all my guests will HAVE to take to get to the venue causing huge delays just in the past 2 weeks since they've started (think, something that took a half an hour, is taking an hour now with this construction). A family friend went to the venue last weekend for another wedding, and she said they missed the entire cocktail hour because of sitting in traffic, as did a few other guests she said.
I put a brief statement on our wedding website about it, but I'm not sure many people will even look at that now since our STD's that had the website on it went out 8 months ago, and not many 'visits' have been made since then.
We are just casually telling a few close people, through word of mouth, that the construction now is taking a lot of extra time if they wanted to make the ceremony just to plan accordingly, but just this weekend my aunt sugested sending out an e-mail to a bunch of family that we don't necessarily talk to on a daily basis. My mom didn't really disagree with her, although I think it's kinda presumptuous to assume they will make the ceremony.
What would you do, if even anything? Just let it go, and if they are late, they are late, and suck it up to our fault for picking a Friday wedding? Send an e-mail? Phone call? Thanks. I'd appreciate any advice!
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