Limos on Wedding Day

enmore

Hi Ladies-

Can people tell me what the protocol is for limos on the wedding day?  IE - I have the bridesmaids with me and so are my parents.  My fiance and the groomsmen will be elsewhere.  How many limos do we get and who is supposed to go with whom  before and after?  Is it ok for our parents to ride with us (myself and my fiance) after the ceremony to go to take pix before the reception?  And then have the bridal party separate?

Thank you!

AmoroAgain

Well, I had 6.  One for me, one for each pairing of my bridesmaids, and then one for my groom.

I made the parents drive in a beat up Chevy.

mwhitson14

You can do whatever you want with everyone. There isn't any etiquette about this that I'm aware of. It sounds like you need two limos, one for your FI and his men (and maybe his parents?) and another for you and your girls and your parents. Just ask your parents with they want to ride with you after the ceremony for pics. I don't know why the BP would be seperate, unless there's not enough room. I have no idea how many people fit in a limo.

angned

To me- that stuff is expensive and I REALLY don't need it.  I would rather use that money for other stuff.

danieliza1127

We didn't have any limos.  My Mom drove me and the bridesmaids to the venue in her car and the guys got themselves there.  At the end of the night my Mom dropped me and my H off at our hotel. 

Limos aren't required or anything.  You can just use cars available and car pool in a way that makes common sense for your plans.

AmoroAgain

Ha.  Dani, you should have seen the faces of people when we pulled up to the hotel after the wedding.  OMG it was awesome.  First time we were there was in the vintage car you see in my sig pic.  Second time was in our borrowed 1990 Honda that the muffler had fallen off on.  The doormen tried to not let us pull up in front of the hotel.  It was fuucking hilarious.

ac_in_dc

Limos aren't necessary. But I don't think they're totally ridiculous and superfluous either if you have the budget for them.

We had one for the guys and one for the girls to take us to the church. We just sort of piled into the limos haphazardly between the wedding & reception (they were very close). And many of the bridal party's dates took them to the reception & home, or they took the shuttle to the hotel, DH and I kept one limo for after the reception to take us back to the hotel.

kkchisholm

I think just the bride and the bridesmaids will ride in the limo to the ceremony. The bride, groom, wp will ride to take pictures and reception. Parents will be in some other car. But I doubt we will get a limo.

ootmother2

We only had two, an antique RR and a regular stretch

Parents drove with bride in the RR to the church and B&G left the church in RR.

Bridesmailds drove to the church in limo and left in limo.

MOB & FOB left the church with parents of the groom

squirrly

No limos for us.  We're renting a 15 passenger van to transport the WP and some OOT family, and have a mini-coach to get the rest of the guests from the hotel to the wedding and back.  The reception is about 40 feet from the ceremony. 

enmore

Thanks everyone (even though some comments/thoughts were a little odd?)
We are definitely doing a limos but the budget is obviously a consideration and therefore we didn't want to go overboard.  It sounds like 2 makes the most sense and parents in the limo are ok with us.  I would rather have it that way anyway but someone told me otherwise which I thought was weird.

Thanks again!

kristinanddan

We had 2 - an 8-10 passenger, and an 18-22 passenger. One took the guys to the picture location and the other took me and my bridesmaids, then went back and picked up the parents and wedding party dates from the hotel. Both limos took us to the church, then we all took the large limo to the reception.