As I've posted before, most of our wedding guests will be from out of town. My FI and I moved back to my hometown about a year ago. The state we live in now (Alabama) is not a destination or place with exciting things to do that you'd ever travel to on vacation if you didn't have a reason to come here.
We chose to get roomblocks in the downtown area because that will be a good area for guests to have things to do and we know a lot of them will want to go out to the bars. Our venue (we will have ceremony and reception at the same place) is about 30 min from the hotels we chose. It is also kind of in the country and you have to drive over a one lane bridge to get there.
Both my parents grew up in my hometown and both sets of grandparents lived here. All my extended family (although they live all across the country) grew up with visiting my hometown very often to see our grandparents.
All of my FIs guests will be flying/driving in from out of state and honestly would probably never even dream of coming to Alabama if it wasn't for our wedding taking place. Because of this, we decided to rent a shuttle bus (holds 33 passengers) to take these guests to and from the wedding and reception. The idea is that the bus would be intended for the grooms out of town guests with no ties to Alabama. The groom is paying for the bus. We have scheduled the bus to pick up at the hotel and drive people to the wedding venue then make 2 return trips- one halfway through the reception and one at the end of the night. This will give people the option to leave early if they wish.
Now...I have a lot of family flying in and driving far distances to be here for the wedding as well. All of my family as I mentioned has been to Alabama many many times before. However a few of them have found out about the bus and have started to ask some questions regarding it. My family loves to drink so I know a free ride probably sounds great to them.
Ideally we would be able to provide this bus transportation to everyone but since it only holds 33 passengers, we will likely only be able to fit the grooms guests.
My question..is this rude to only offer this bus to the grooms guests? Should we try to find a bigger bus (that would likely be much more expensive and also this smaller bus is rated to safely drive over the one lane bridge)? Unfortunately this is the only 33 passenger bus available in our whole town (it's a small town). Just trying to find out how much etiquette we might be breaking here...