Spend wedding night at home?

Re: Spend wedding night at home?

• desireedp

  

  November 2009

  I would get the Hotel Room to make the wedding night more special. Sometimes if you tell the hotel that you'll be staying there for your wedding night they might even throw in a freebie.

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• l33anna member

  

  November 2009

  I think that it sounds like you want to get a hotel room because you don't want to just go home after your wedding. You should do what you want! Will you be getting a hotel to get dressed with your girls before the wedding? You could use the same room!My husband and I partied until 3 or 4 in the morning and then went home and slept for 1 hour and then we left to the airport at 5. Since you are not leaving for your honeymoon until 2 days after, I would put the money towards something else and just go home....You will be somewhere different anyway in a few days and you would have saved some money. Just my opinion. Good luck!

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• Leah&Christian09 member

  

  November 2009

  We stayed at a hotel 3 miles from home.  It was sort of silly, but there were tons of people getting ready at our place, and it was a total disaster.  If we'd gone home that night, there was no way I could have just relaxed and had a good time.  The breakfast in bed was pretty awesome, too.It's really ok to do whichever you want.  If you can find a good deal at a nice hotel, it's worth it, but you might decide that you'd rather spend that cash on a really nice dinner out on the HM or an excursion.

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• ldcf11206

  

  November 2009

  Thanks for all of your thoughts!I think I would like to get a hotel room, but I'm just concerned about wasting the money I could drive 5 more minutes down the road and stay at my house for free.  I just don't want to get home at the end of the night and be like "ok...now what??"  I just want the fun to go on and on forever!  Lol.  My wedding isn't until 10/16/10, so I have a while to think this through.   

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• phoeny_moonstar member

  

  November 2009

  We stayed home on our wedding night. Saved us money and we had our comfy bed to sleep in.

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• Spim7

  

  November 2009

  We are going to get a hotel room. We'll have a house full of family so we're turning the house over to them and spending our wedding night in a hotel. The reception will be over by 5pm so we're heading straight to the hotel and later on that night we will be going out with our wedding party and any other OT guests that want to join us.

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• ldcf11206

  

  November 2009

  Spim...that sounds like a good idea, giving your house to your family and spending the night yourself in a hotel.  That might be a possibility for me.  I also like your idea of leaving the reception at 5, going to the hotel and then going out later that night.  But, the only problem I see here is that I love my wedding dress sooooooo much I want to wear it for as long as possible (lol).  When you go out at night, are you wearing your wedding gown?  And where are you going?

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• lilcassers member

  

  November 2009

  Depends.. I am not moving in with my FI until the wedding night. Until then, I have my new home decorated and waiting for me and cannot WAIT to spend my night there. If ya'll already live together, I would go to a hotel (maybe one with a spa too!) and live it up!

  

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  November 2009

  My future inlaws will be renting a house in Los Angeles for the wedding, and my FMIL said we could stay there on our wedding night.While I was greatful for the offer.  I was pretty much against having my wedding night in any other location where it wasn't just us, alone.I mean seriously if it had been any other night or any other day, I would have been totally okay with it.But I figured it was our wedding night, and I took it as a personal boundary issue for us to spend the night in a hotel room  rather than any of our parents' roofs.  Privacy is privacy, and I figured if my in-laws or parents aren't going to respect our right to privacy on our wedding night, they never will.Really if you can be alone in your house, that's all that matters--if you think a change of scenery would be better for the two of you then go for it.

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• StarJay

  

  November 2009

  We are getting married a few blocks from home too.  But like Spin, we will have house guests for the wedding, primarily OOT WP to can't afford the hotel we reserserved, or who are coming out way early to help with stuff and shouldn't have to get a hotel for a week.Since FI and I live together I am staying the night before the wedding at the hotel, b/c he is very traditional about the not seeing each other the day of, and then we will both stay in that suite the wedding night too.  The hotel we're at does a wedding night special with strawberries and champagne, so it will be fun and we won't just be going home to be surrounded by the 6 people sleeping at our house.

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• janedoe1113a member

  

  November 2009

  We're staying at our own house on the wedding night.  We were going to rent a hotel room to make it more special, but we figured that it would be stupid to spend money when we could just come home.

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• megk8oz member

  

  November 2009

  We're staying in a hotel that night.We only are doing this because our venue includes a stay in their bridal suite in every package. If this wasn't a "freebie", we'd be going home. And we live a half hour away.

  
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• hollieheidi member

  

  November 2009

  We're not close so we're staying in a hotel, but what if you decorated the house a little differently....had champagne waiting and a bubble bath with lots of candles for the night.......kinda do the home away from home vibe so you have the best of both worlds....

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• LaurenDGmom member

  

  November 2009

  were going to stay at an Inn about 30 mins from our house. Its a cute romantic little suite with a jacuzzi! We have lived together for 4 1/2 years and have 2 kids.. we need something  alittle different for our special night and its not THAT expensive.. under $200... worth it imo!

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• mags0607

  

  November 2009

   I think it would be fine to splurge and spend the night at the hotel and make it a liitle more special for both of you. This will be somehting that you guys will remember that will probably make the money you spend on it worthwhile.
  
  We are staying at a hotel the night of our wedding so that we can go out with our friends and all after if we choose, or just stay in our hotel and not worry about other people if we are worn out.
  
  By the way, we are date twins, and our reception is during the day as well!

  

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• DianneCar member

  

  December 2009

  We don't live together but we're spending the wedding night in a little guest cottage about a half an hour from my house, my parents' house, and the reception venue.  It's less than $150 and my FMIL is having a brunch for the out-of-town guests the morning after the wedding in a restaurant about three blocks from the guest cottage.  We figure it's not a lot of money and we want a special memory in a private place.  Years from now, we want to tell our children, "That's where mommy and daddy spent their honeymoon."

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• shwethasrin member

  

  February 2010

  If you're blocking out rooms for OOT guests, can you get a free room or a discount on a suite? My FI and I blocked out about 20 rooms so we're getting their largest suite for half the usual rate. 

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