Night Before?

AustralianSam · September 2014

Is everyone staying in the same room as their groom the night before the wedding? As we are in hotels, I think we will HAVE to stay in the same room.... unless he camps out with one of our guests! (his family are share a room so he cant stay with them!). I plan on kicking him out to get ready with his best man first thing in the morning.... but cant help but feel its "bad luck" to stay together the night before!!

Then again, we are getting married in Vegas, and already have a son and live together... so its not like we are traditional!!!

destinationtake2 · September 2014

H and I stayed in the same room together the night before our wedding. But the day of, he left first thing in the morning and we stayed apart all day. The wedding was at 5. I didn't want to "waste" a night of our vacation by being apart but avoiding each other all day was fun and we still had a sense of anticipation. it was awesome when we saw each other as I arrived for the ceremony.

aggiespartan · September 2014

We are staying in the same room the night of but will have separate rooms to get ready in. We are having a pre-party the night before in our suite and will probably be out pretty late. I doubt either of us will be able to sleep much anyway.

amelisha · September 2014

We are definitely staying together. We've been living together for years, we're not into tradition for the sake of tradition, and I'm booking a nice room that we both want to stay in...I want us to have a great vacation together, not have to spend part of it apart.

Rosebubbly · September 2014

We're staying in the same room too. Well get dressed separately

Ndelible · September 2014

Staying separately. He in the suite and he at a cheap hotel downtown. Of course they are doing the bachelor party that night, so we won't see each other for a good 24 hours at least.

vegasgroom · September 2014

I had a separate room for my wife and her girls to get ready in, and they had to start well before check-in, so I got it the night before and she stayed there. I didn't really care either way beforehand, but in hindsight, I think it made wedding day more interesting, her waking up nice and early for the girls to start getting ready, and me waking up at maybe 10 or 11, calling the boys over and having some drinks lol. It was very relaxing and just made it that much more exciting to see her at ceremony time.

nicolajane81 · September 2014

We are staying apart. We got a free room at the Wynn as part of our package, so booked another night there so we didn't have to worry about checking in/checking out on the day of the wedding.

So I will stay at the Wynn with my sister the night before, and he will stay in our room at the MGM, where most of the guests are staying. It will be quite nice I think, as we are having drinks the night before with everyone, then we will head our separate ways. I'm then having breakfast on the terrace at Tableau with my mum and bridesmaids the morning of the wedding.

hmgiffor · September 2014

We are staying apart. He will be staying with some groomsmen and I will be staying with my girls in our suite. We have to get up early for hair/makeup so I don't want disturb him if I don't have to.

sassyshosh · September 2014

I will be staying with my fiance since A) we already live together,

hate to be without him and C) we will never compromise on who has to leave the room and who gets to stay since we booked a suite and are super excited about it!

missbruiser · September 2014

Thanks for the input, I was curious about this myself.

vegasbride2015 · September 2014

The plan is for us to separate after dinner the night before the wedding, he will stay with his family in their hotel, and I will keep the room. We won't see each other til the wedding the next day. My MOH is taking me out for a "Last Fling before the ring" night, just not sure what we are doing yet.

khristiana · September 2014

We are staying together Friday night at Excalibur, since we get 2 nights as part of our wedding package. But he's leaving by 9am the next morning so I can get ready!

vegasbride2015 · September 2014

You guys have me rethinking the entire thing now. I read this to FI and he is starting to wonder if we should just stay together for the night. I guess we will see. I like the points everyone makes, that has helped sway our decision making...

mspenn · September 2014

The original plan was to stay apart, I was going to stay with my niece. However, since we had issues with our original room, we ended up being moved into a suite. We stayed together in the suite, had breakfast together with my brother's family. Afterwords, I went to get hair and make up done and then got dressed in my niece's room as my dress etc were already there.

azwildcat · September 2014

We stayed at separate hotels after we had dinner with our guests on Friday night. I stayed at the Wynn where we were getting married, and he stayed with his son at the Embassy Suites- just a few minutes away. I'm glad we did it this way- it was nice to see him for the first time on our wedding day waiting for me at the end of the aisle!

aggiespartan · September 2014

We have actually decided to have a nice breakfast together the morning of the ceremony. I think this will be wonderful because the more we plan, the more I'm realizing we will likely have very little time alone that day.

AustralianSam · September 2014

thanks guys! we don't really have anywhere else for him to go unless we book another room... so we will stay together and he can go find somewhere else to hang out for the day and get ready (prob with his best man). We wont see each other all day either.

wrigleyville · September 2014

It didn't even occur to us to sleep separately. We live together and travel together all the time, so it wouldn't have made sense to pay for two hotel rooms.

My MOH came over with brunch trays from Jason's, and then my mother and MIL joined us a bit later. H got up when Harmony arrived, took a shower (we had a suite, so it was more private than it sounds), and then went down to meet our BM, my father, and FIL for brunch. H had stored his suit in our BM's room, so he got ready there, and then we met up for our First Look.

kellamity · September 2014

We stayed in our room together the night before. He was up until about 5 AM the night before, gambling with his friends but had to get up around 9:30 because the bridesmaids were coming over to get ready, so if your schedules are going to differ that would be a consideration.

We really aren't superstitious at all though so we didn't really worry about the "bad luck" part.

dbacksgirl · September 2014

We're another couple that have been together for a long time (almost 10 years!) and already live together so seeing each other before the wedding is not a big deal to us. That said, just due to logistics purposes, we will be staying apart the night of the wedding. We're doing a Meet & Greet party the night before so we have a Vista Suite. Check out the next morning (day of wedding) is 11 and I couldn't check into Venetian until 3 so that was out because girls and I need to start getting ready around 10 am. Therefore, I'll be at Venetian and he'll be at Mandalay Bay the night before. We will be taking photos before the ceremony though so he'll see me most of the afternoon. I asked him if he had any feelings about that and he said, "I can't wait! Any of that nonsense about it being bad luck to see the bride before the wedding probably comes out of the days of arranged marriages." He thinks that if some of the brides saw the trolls they were being forced to marry, they would have run away. LOL! He said, "We've already seen everything there is to see about one another and if either of us wanted to run, we'd have done it a long time ago." Haha. Very true. I do, however, think it's sweet for some couple to wait until the ceremony. You'll never get a chance to see those reactions from each other again. FI and I wrote our own vows though and we aren't sharing them with each other until the ceremony. There will be plenty of tears shed then, I'm sure, so I'm kind of glad that we will have spent some time together earlier in the day and got some of the jitters out of the way already.

EAR123 · September 2014

Like many of you and OP, we went back and forth on what to do for our upcoming wedding, but ultimately decided to stay together the night before, mostly for the ease of it.

We will be spending three nights total at The Delano Las Vegas/TheHotel at Mandalay Bay, where our meet-and-greet, wedding ceremony and reception and after party are all taking place. The night after our wedding, we will spend one night at Bellagio before flying home to swap bags and fly out for our honeymoon.

We made the decision mostly because the idea of checking in and out of three rooms during a four-day period was unappealing. We booked a nice suite so will have ample room. Like others here, we plan on parting early in the morning of our wedding day and not meeting up until walking down the aisle. We may need to coordinate a little so we don't run into each other, but I think we will both be busy (me, with day spa appointments, gym, hair appointment, etc.) and both of us with seeing family and friends and the like before our evening start time.

Let us know what you decide, OP!

Bigm1056 · September 2014

We are also planning a nice breakfast together alone, since the day will be insanely hectic afterwards. And I wanted some quality time and a lil memory of just us.

aggiespartan · September 2014

@Bigm1056 where do you think you will have breakfast? We are thinking about doing it at Bouchon.

Bigm1056 · September 2014

aggiespartan said:

@Bigm1056 where do you think you will have breakfast? We are thinking about doing it at Bouchon.

I was debating Bouchon, but I think we're going to do Mon Ami Gabi, since it's a little romantic and it's close to Planet Hollywood since the day is going to be extremely rushed

aggiespartan · September 2014

Bouchon is kind of far from us at Aria too, but I think we may just taxi it down there (or limo if we can convince the concierge to let us use it). When we had dinner at Bouchon, it was outstanding, so fiance is a little obsessed with it now.

khristiana · September 2014

destinationtake2 said:

H and I stayed in the same room together the night before our wedding. But the day of, he left first thing in the morning and we stayed apart all day. The wedding was at 5. I didn't want to "waste" a night of our vacation by being apart but avoiding each other all day was fun and we still had a sense of anticipation. it was awesome when we saw each other as I arrived for the ceremony.

Sounds just like my future wedding! 5pm... We're staying together the night before, but I'm kicking him out (gently) around 930am the day of the wedding so my girls can help me get ready... I think I'll be tickled pink with the anticipation of seeing him again at the altar.

destinationtake2 · September 2014

Absolutely!! It will be awesome. @khristiana

tasa4508 · September 2014

This year marks our 20th anniversary of being together as a couple. We've never gotten married in the past because neither of us are super religious and to us it was just a piece of paper declaring we are legally a couple. We have a home, 2 beautiful children, pets, the whole deal.

We wanted to do something special since it was 20 years and it was our soon to be 5 year old daughter that was the one that suggested we get married. We thought about it and decided to do it. At first just the two of us were going to go but we have a 16 month old and the thought of us leaving the two kids behind didn't appeal to us. My MIL suggested they would go to look after the kids so we could spent some solo time together but still see the kids daily. We couldn't invite one set of parents without the other so from there it just ballooned. We have 20 of us going not including us or the kids.

We plan to spend the night prior together, get up, drop the kids off with my Mom and Dad to join them for breakfast while we go for breakfast and a couple's massage. We'll then part ways and he'll get ready with the guys while I get ready with the girls. That night the kids are staying with the grandparents while we go out on the town. The rest of the time the kids will be with family while we enjoy a mini vacation/honeymoon together. It works for us as we'll get some adult time, alone time and still be able to kiss our babies goodnight. I wouldn't have it any other way. What started out as my daughter's idea has blossomed into a fun time. We planned all of this in 3 months.

vegasbride2015 · September 2014

That is a wonderful mix, @tasa4508! I love it!

We decided to stay together the night before, too. We are going our separate ways that night for our "last fling before the ring", but we will meet up later that night.

rabidsmiles · September 2014

I don't see the point of separating before the wedding, I sleep much better when I hear his snores at night. And I need a good night's sleep before!

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