How to tell people about shuttle?

Re: How to tell people about shuttle?

• pinkshorts27 member

  

  March 2014

  You can print little pieces of paper off at kinkos or staples or office depot and it would cost almost nothing. You could fit 10 to a page easy and then cut them business card style and add them to invites. Or you could get business cards from vistaprint for $10/250cards and add them. Or you can spread the word, but I would think putting it in the invite would get the best results. 

  
  

  

  
  

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• Gerbertmcway member

  

  March 2014

  I think spreading it by word of mouth should be fine. But I'm confused about guests leaving their cars at the reception site. Is there a shuttle available from the reception to the hotel but not the hotel to the reception?

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• kns1988 member

  

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  Gerbertmcway - Yeah, that's what we could afford to provide. My friends and I are always able to get back to where we leave our cars after a night of drinking, so that won't be a problem.  The hotel is also only 10ish minutes away.

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• HisGirlFriday13 member

  

  March 2014

  Passing over the bizarre nature of only providing it one way...
  
  Back when people hired private carriages, they provided cards in the invites that informed their guests of the private train car. Just print off business cards (you can buy pre-perforated ones at Staples) that tell them about it.

  

  
  

  
  

  I'm gonna go with 'not my circus, not my monkeys.'

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• RebeccaB88 member

  

  March 2014

  I wouldn't take the shuttle if it only went one way. Nonsensical, bizarre, and totally defeats the purpose of having it. I think you'd be wasting your money if you did it this way, or have a lot of upset people wondering how to get back to their cars. If you can't do it both ways, then don't do it at all. JMHO.

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• photokitty mod

  

  March 2014

  RebeccaB88 said:

  I wouldn't take the shuttle if it only went one way. Nonsensical, bizarre, and totally defeats the purpose of having it. I think you'd be wasting your money if you did it this way, or have a lot of upset people wondering how to get back to their cars. If you can't do it both ways, then don't do it at all. JMHO.

  Yep, i agree. I would cab it if i planned on drinking. I might just miss 10 to 20 mins of happy hour. I wouldn't take a one way shuttle.

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• kns1988 member

  

  March 2014

  I get what you're saying... but the cab service isn't reliable, and I know people won't stop by the hotel after the ceremony to drop off their cars and call a cab.  They'll drive to the reception and then hope for the best (i.e. hope they can get a cab after or plan on driving if they're "not too drunk").  I would prefer to have a ride home from the reception and then have a friend or someone with their car still at the hotel drive me back to get my car in the morning, or call a cab to get my car in the morning when I have time to wait in case it doesn't show up.  If it is a waste of money and no one uses it, at least my FI and I will know that our guests weren't left stranded.  

  
  

  I went to a wedding once where they said there was cab service in the area and printed out cards with cab information, and then when I called for a cab I was told they only serviced the town over.  I was stranded after being at a wedding with an open bar - I would have appreciated the shuttle. 

  
  

  I'm not trying to start an argument; I'm just trying to explain my choice.  I always appreciate the advice on this board.

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• photokitty mod

  

  March 2014

  I think it would be best to find money pay for the shuttle both ways then, there is always something you can cut. Favors for instance...I'd much rather have a shuttle than a favor

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• MrsAitch member

  

  March 2014

  RebeccaB88 said:

  I wouldn't take the shuttle if it only went one way. Nonsensical, bizarre, and totally defeats the purpose of having it. I think you'd be wasting your money if you did it this way, or have a lot of upset people wondering how to get back to their cars. If you can't do it both ways, then don't do it at all. JMHO.

  I agree--it might not cost as much as you think, OP.
  

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• melbelleup member

  

  March 2014 edited March 2014

  I put about ours on our website and also in the accommodations card.
  
  ETA: Just read your last sentence (sorry, I'm sick currently)... I would throw another piece of paper in about it. No one would know otherwise. I would also offer it both ways. How will they get their car?? It's ten minutes... imagine how long that would take walking! and if cab service is unreliable what makes you think it will be reliable the next day... Honestly, I'd scrap it or get it for both there and back. Otherwise no matter what those people would be paying for a cab.
  

  

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• indianaalum member

  

  March 2014

  Did you check witg your hotel to see if they have any type of free shuttle?

  
  

  Ours did if we booked so many rooms. For those staying in hotel, this is what they did:

  
  

  Went to ceremony, Went back to hotel, got on shuttle to reception and it picked them up from reception at the end of the night...so no cars were left there

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• lyndausvi mod

  

  March 2014

  We put our info on an enclosure in the invite envelope.

  
  

  I think a one-way shuttle is odd.  That said, more than likely we would take a cab or car service to the venue if we knew there was a way home.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  What differentiates an average host and a great host is anticipating unexpressed needs and wants of their guests.  Just because the want/need is not expressed, doesn't mean it wouldn't be appreciated. 
  

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