Making guests pay for entry...

liz&fred

Something similar was brought up in the "outdoor weddings" board about whether or not it was rude to make people pay for parking. The bride that asked was having her wedding in a metropark and there would be a $4 entrance fee per car to enter. My wedding is also in a metropark which will require guests to pay $4 per car to enter. Our Wedding is at a metropark as well which also has a daily fee of $4 per car. Since not everyone carries cash on them, we wanted to make sure everyone would be prepared to pay the fee. We printed "There is a $4.00 Toll Admission of which will be reimbursed at ceremony" at the bottom of the maps we sent out in our invitations. We thought it inappropriate to require guests to pay so we came up with our own idea:To reimburse everyone, we bought 2 matching baskets covered in purple fabric. One is filled with the bubbles that will be passed out before the ceremony and the other one will have 4 dollar bills rolled up and tied with the same purple ribbon that we tied on to our bubbles (enough rolled bills to accomodate the maximum number of cars coming). One of our bridesmaids will be standing on one side of the aisleway handing out the bubbles as people come through to be seated, and one of our groomsmen will be holding the other basket filled with rolled money on the other side of the aisle way handing out the reimbursements as people come through.

tommyandy

I would keep looking for a different ceremony site. $550.00 for just the ceremony sounds a bit high to me. Call the local Garden Club to see if they have any suggestions for a location.