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Transportation Advice Needed.... please help!

Our wedding reception is going to be held about 20 miles from my home town.  It’s only a short 20 minute drive from the chapel where we are getting married.  Now here’s my dilemma.  I live in Wales in the UK, and my family and H2B’s family all live in different villages.  Bare in mind that I live in quite a rural part of Wales, we had thought about providing transport (bus or coach) for our day and evening guests, to take them to the hotel where we will be having our wedding reception.   The problem is, more guests have expressed interest (verbally) than intended on using the coach, and it looks like we will have to supply 2 coaches, when we had only intended on supplying one.  We have not allocated enough money in our budget to provide 2 coaches which will cost £600 (not sure how much that is in dollars!)  I’m thinking it’s not fair to provide only one coach, but on the other hand we cannot afford to supply 2! If this is the case, we would have to remove something from our wedding in order to allocate the extra cash for the coach, but I really don’t want to do that! What would you guys do? Bare in mind that it’s us whom will be paying for all transportation, and not the actual guest. Is it expected for the bride & Groom to pay for guest transportation? Advice please…….x

Re: Transportation Advice Needed.... please help!

  • It's not expected, but since you already offered it I think you might have to just go with it.  There's not anything you could cut from the wedding?  Maybe favors?  They're not neccessary either.
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  • I have seen some posts from brides with wealthy parents who want to show off by providing a shuttle bus of some kind for their guests.

    I have never seen this is real life.  We go to about two weddings a year (DH and I are both teachers), and no one ever has provided any sort of bus or shuttle.  Not even my friend B who had her reception about 35 minutes away in another city.  Just not common. 

    So if you want to do ONE shuttle bus but NOT TWO, that should be appreciated by those who choose to ride the bus.  I don't think DH and I would choose to ride a bus if we could just drive over there in our own car anyway, so maybe half of your guests would really choose the bus and half of them would rather drive their own cars anyway.
  • Thanks guys, well if it isnt really expected then I wont go ahead with it. 

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