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Hotel Room Block?

BILLSFUTUREWIFEBILLSFUTUREWIFE
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in Pennsylvania-Philadelphia
Do they Bride & Groom have to have a room booked in order to reserve the room block? How far out did you make the reservatioons?
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Re: Hotel Room Block?

  • ValAndRyanValAndRyan
    500 Comments
    edited December 2011
    B&G do not need to have a room reserved for themselves and I believe I made mine about a year in advance.
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] member
    5000 Comments Combo Breaker
    edited December 2011
    B&G do not need to have a room booked. I made mine while I was home in April, over a year in advance.
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  • BILLSFUTUREWIFEBILLSFUTUREWIFE
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    Thanks Val! Oops typo above, should say "Do the..."
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  • LaRositaMonitaLaRositaMonita
    1000 Comments Fifth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    edited December 2011
    Don't think so, but this may vary by hotel.  Just call up and ask any hotels you're thinking about doing a block with.  At Normandy Farm, for example, the bride and groom get a free suite just for having their wedding there and setting up a block.
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  • BILLSFUTUREWIFEBILLSFUTUREWIFE
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    Thanks Girls! Just checking because Fi and I live about 6 minutes from our reception site and we are leaving at 4:45am the next morning for the airport so we did not see the point in renting a hotel room for us. I'm going to call local hotels now! Thanks again!
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  • ButtonsPepperButtonsPepper member
    2500 Comments Combo Breaker
    edited December 2011
    I blocked a ton, so they are giving myself and FI a huge discount on the room, however we don't need to stay there in order for the rooms to be blocked. We did this two months ago, about 8 months out. If you are getting married during the spring/summer/fall you may want to do a year, as a lot of other weddings are around this time and you want to make sure you get the blocks you need.
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  • ooodsieooodsie
    2500 Comments Fourth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    edited December 2011
    You may want to reconsider, the only reason being if you go "home" the night after the wedding, it's going to feel more 'back to reality' as opposed to just staying and going straight to your honeymoon..  thats what we're doing when we could have easily have come home as well. 
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  • HeatherWainHeatherWain
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    BFL, stick with your plan.  For you, getting a hotel room after your wedding is stupid. Why pay all that money to be there for 2 hours or so? We had the same situation as you.  Reception was over at 12am and Dave's Limo was at our door at 3:45 in the morning to take us to the airport. We didn't sleep after the reception (I was still packing! ugh.). By the time we left the reception and got home, it was around 1am. Booking a hotel room wasn't even in our thought process for that night. 
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  • BILLSFUTUREWIFEBILLSFUTUREWIFE
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    We are definitely not going to get a room, it just does not make sense to me. Also, I too will probably still need to pack up some things :)
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  • JSantilliJSantilli
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    Our hotel block is at the Sheraton Society Hill and I have had nothing but good experiences with them.  Carroll is the person in charge and she is lovely.  The b&G didn't have to have a room there, although we did book one.    I booked mine in November for our wedding that is in 18 days! (ah!)
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