Limousine Wedding Etiquette?

AKatharine

In our planing we have stumbled upon another grey area, the limo.

Who is supposed to ride with who? When do we have to provide limos? My BM's are coming with us to get our hair done, then to get ready, and eventually to the church. Should we provide limos to and from hair appointments, getting ready, to the church? Then from the church to the reception, and eventually home?

How many limo's do we need? I'm really confused about limo's and who rides where and how many we are supposed to have.

Thanks.

sucrets4

You don't HAVE to have them, but it's nice to keep everyone together.

We didn't use them, so I have no further advice.  Sorry.

banana468

I think it's fine to drive your own cars to and from the salon and your house (or wherever you get ready).  That would be a VERY high cost to you for the expense and time if you didn't.

My BMs and I drove to the salon, got ready, and then we took a limo to the church.  The men had their own transportation to the church and then we took one limo to the reception with the BP - and the spouses of the BP took care of getting vehicles to the reception.  For us, it was all local and it worked logistically.

I was just in a wedding where the limo picked us up at the bride's parents' home, took us to the church, reception, and then BACK to the hotel at the end of the night.  They also arranged for the dates of the BMs and GM to ride in the party bus as well (following the ceremony) which worked out very well.  DH and I were in the wedding (his brother was the groom) but it was by far, the nicest way I've seen a couple deal with the transportation.

sucrets4

PS - read the title of this board for the correct way to spell etiquette.

betrothed123

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[QUOTE]PS - read the title of this board for the correct way to spell etiquette.
Posted by sucrets4[/QUOTE]
<3

We didn't use any limos.

shellydiane820

We just had one for the WP from the church to the reception.  We did a lot of car pooling to the church so cars weren't left there, or (in our case) we had a family member drive Nick's car so we had one to leave the hotel the next day.

AKatharine

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[QUOTE]PS - read the title of this board for the correct way to spell etiquette.
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Yes master.

sucrets4

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Limousine Wedding Ettiquite? : Yes master.
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Best response EVAR! 

brookelynpaisley

I don't think there is 'etiquette' for limos. It isn't mandatory or rude to not use them. We didn't use limos at all, but then our ceremony and reception were all at the same place and we all stayed there. We considered them for the after-party, but I have a BM who doesn't drink and she volunteered to drive us, and my parents volunteered to drive as well, so it worked out. Personally, I think they're an extremely optional expense.

pandasquishy

We had one limo that picked the guys up at the hotel and dropped them off at the church.  The same one then came to my house, picked up the girls, and took us to the church.  We had a big enough limo so that the dates of the WP could ride with us to reception site after the ceremony, though none opted to.

tlv204

Yeah we just had a party bus that took the whole wedding party from the church to take pictures then to the reception. For H and I we actually had a "getaway car" that came with the party bus that took us from the reception to the hotel, and the wedding party mostly figured it out on their own what to do after the reception since many of them wanted to do different things. Most of them took cabs to bars and then back to the hotel.

The morning of the wedding, we did lots of carpooling (everyone met at my apartment, I drove to hair appointment, back to our apartment to get stuff, then I drove everyone to the hotel that conveniently everyone wanted to stay at, then my mom drove us from there to the church) to make sure my car ended up at the hotel, so that the next morning all of the BMs rode with me and H back to our apartment to get their own cars. I

Actually I'm not sure what the GMs did, I told H he was in charge of that, but somehow they all got where they were supposed to go