How are you getting "home?"

CowgirlK39 · June 2012

How are you and FI getting to your wedding night location after your reception? We haven't even thought about this yet, and I really don't know what to do. My FI keeps saying "I will drive my truck or your truck!" But I know for a fact that his buddies will be buying him drinks all night and so him driving is out of the question. I have always seen people leave in another limo or a fancy car. I only have the limo for the ceremony and pics, and then its leaving once we get to the reception. My family has TONS of awesome cars, but the only person who can drive them is my dad and he certainly will not be sober enough to drive.

Also, I was told by someone that I am responsible for getting my WP "home." I don't understand why or how I would even do that. How is your WP getting to their hotel/home?

SCogs18 · June 2012

We hired a limo JUST to take us from the reception to the hotel (we are getting married in my hometown, but don't live there) and only because this limo guy doesn't have a minimum # hours. I did not arrange transportatoin for the bridal party to the church, from the church, to the reception, or from the reception. Most will have cars and a couple have already agreed to carpool to the hotel. It's nice to do it, but just not in our budget.

If you don't think you will be sober enough and DON'T want to do a "grand exit" could you just arrange for a cab to pick you up? Otherwise you probably will need to hire a car of some kind, but it doesn't need to be a limo.

Kello4221 · June 2012

We rented a school bus that will shuttle guests from the hotel to reception, and then make two trips back to the hotel at the end of the night, so we are just riding with the guests. The afterparty will be in a brew house next to the hotel, so no need to worry about rides there.

abcollins08 · June 2012

We're getting married at a bed and breakfast so we'r staying the night there. Simply enough. Could you maybe "hire" a younger cousin/family member to drive you and FI home after the wedding?

As for being responsible for the wedding party, I've never heard of that. Mine will just be either staying at the B&B or a nearby hotel afterwards. How they get there is up to them. If I had money in the budget I'd love to rent a bus for everyone that's staying at the hotel but that isn't possible.

QueerFemme · June 2012

You aren't responsible for getting the wedding party anywhere after the wedding. I might appoint someone that you know isn't a huge drinker to keep an eye out for anyone who looks like they might not be able to drive, and then maybe someone can coordinate rides for those people. But, that isn't unlike any other party we go to. We all keep an eye out for each other.

As far as getting us home... we are driving our own car.

I imagine I'll be driving, because I hardly drink. So, I'll load my sweetheart into the car and go home to our dogs and our bed. LOL big fancy wedding night huh!?

kellycatalo · June 2012

our reception is at a hotel so we get a free suite for that night. we will be taking an elevator to our room!

smartlypretty · June 2012

I booked a car to take us to our hotel. Not a limo but , you know, one of those black cars? It'll be about 100 dollars with tip to take us about 12 miles from New Jersey into Philadelphia. Very much worth the money, considering we'd each like to have a few drinks + I don't think either of us will be any where near our cars.

CowgirlK39 · June 2012

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[QUOTE]You aren't responsible for getting the wedding party anywhere after the wedding. I might appoint someone that you know isn't a huge drinker to keep an eye out for anyone who looks like they might not be able to drive, and then maybe someone can coordinate rides for those people. But, that isn't unlike any other party we go to. We all keep an eye out for each other. As far as getting us home... we are driving our own car. :) I imagine I'll be driving, because I hardly drink. <strong>So, I'll load my sweetheart into the car and go home to our dogs and our bed. LOL big fancy wedding night huh!?
</strong>Posted by cmgilpin[/QUOTE]

I wanted to do this actually! My FI was the one who said no to that. I don't see the point in spending money for a hotel room when I can do the same "activities" in my own room. He said he was more afraid I would come home and complain about chores that need to be done and go right back into our usual life routine instead of enjoying a special night.

cronin85 · June 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: How are you getting "home?" : I wanted to do this actually! My FI was the one who said no to that. I don't see the point in spending money for a hotel room when I can do the same "activities" in my own room. He said he was more afraid I would come home and complain about chores that need to be done and go right back into our usual life routine instead of enjoying a special night.
Posted by CowgirlK39[/QUOTE]

HAHAHA this is exactly my situation as well....and I probably would lol

AriesAngel86 · June 2012

The hotel is in walking distance from the venue...and if we're too tired (aka my feet hurt too much from my heels), I'm willing to bet my parents would drop us off.

mamameech · June 2012

We are staying at one of the hotels where we have a block of rooms. We have a banquet room reserved there for a brunch the next morning. So we don't have to worry about getting home right away which is good because the reception only ends at 1AM.

rbwashington2012 · June 2012

We are actually driving ourselves (I am more than likely going to ride with my father for to the location for the family shoot and to the venue but afterwards riding to and from the wedding location. Limo is too costly and the whole ceremony/reception is only 3 hours (we have to do a breakdown after the reception is over). Since we are not having a bar (location has a sports bar located downstairs) and we are not heavy drinkers, we both chose to stay sober until after the wedding then have drinks afterwards.

**Bride brain freeze* We have a hotel room for three nights in the city. But that might change COMPLETELY since out guests will be coming in from out of town via train we dont want them to have to pay for three nights when they will only be there for two.

smartlypretty · June 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: How are you getting "home?" He said he was more afraid I would come home and complain about chores that need to be done and go right back into our usual life routine instead of enjoying a special night.
Posted by CowgirlK39[/QUOTE]

<div>This is me, exactly. The groomsmen will be at our apartment getting ready and I'm 100% positive that they will trash the place. I'm also 100% positive that I would start picking up that night and then spend the next day cleaning. We are planning on staying at my favorite awesome hotel for two nights and then we will leave our honeymoon. I'm going to try to convince my mama to clean my apartment while i'm gone. We'll see how that goes hahahahha. </div>

CowgirlK39 · June 2012

I just had a thought (thanks to abcollins)... maybe I can ask my brother to drive us to the hotel. He has celiac disease and therefore cannot drink very many things, so he will probably be sober. However he has a FI so she would probably have to go with us, right?

Sarah&Eric2012 · June 2012

The hotel we're booked at has a "shuttle" (read mini-van) that will run back and forth to our reception venue. We're trying to convince our wedding party to book the night at the hotel too so we don't have to worry about them drinking too much. We have some heavy drinkers in our wedding party and that's the last thing I want to be thinking about on my wedding night.

QueerFemme · June 2012

I will actually have an empty hotel room that I'm trying to convince my sweetheart to go to. It's about 5 minutes from the venue, and I'm getting ready there (staying there Friday night, but had to book Saturday too, since checkout is at noon). But, we have OOT guests staying at our house, and my sweetheart doesn't want them to be responsible for our dogs by themselves, since they aren't very familiar with them. People are afraid of our rottie... which I think is crazy... he is a big lovebug !

So, we may just tell them to take the empty hotel room and we will go home. We will still have guests... so, no "alone" time immediately after the wedding. But, I imagine I'll be exhausted anyway.

sparent2010 · June 2012

Aww I love rotties, people are stupid.

We are just going to drive to the hotel (neither one of us drink very much). Our heeler will be at the doggie spa until Sunday. So, we are going to sleep in, hit up the fair and then head home.

jamie5482 · June 2012

We're taking the elevator to our hotel room. I could not be more excited that we don't have to go anywhere far - ceremony, reception and sleep all in one place!

That reminds me though, I need to figure out who is going to watch our pets for 2 weeks!

doublenn · June 2012

Not sure how we're getting "home" yet, as we're not sure where we'll be staying (the reception is walking distance to a fancy hotel where we could stay - where we got engaged, but our room block is in a different hotel that's not walking distance). I went to a wedding where the couple hailed a yellow cab and drove off. It was really cute!

shanliann · June 2012

Yup, takin the Elevator to our room too!! We arent big drinkers but it is our wedding night and i'm sure we will drink more then the legal limit to drive, not to mention fi's family are all big drinkers, so we only looked at reception venues that were hotels so everyone can take the elevator home that night!!

jacquiroxx · June 2012

We're staying at a hotel that's a 3-minute drive from our venue. We both plan on drinking, but both my mum and Fi's little brother (who drives but is not yet 21) have both offered to drop us off. We figure we'll confirm with one of them when the date gets closer.

I wish we could stay at our place that night

But we're getting married 2 hours away from home and don't want to drive home after the reception.

Katiesue04 · June 2012

The elevator seems to be pretty popular

I made sure my reception room was connected to a hotel! Let's just say I'm a bit of a light weight lol!

HelloGoodFriend · June 2012

We actually just ordered and receieved a custom Ashen Grey 2012 SS Camaro (AW-Sorry) and that will be our get away car. It's been FI's dream car since Chevy started the reproduction of the Camaro some odd years ago and luckily we were in the position to order it.

We haven't decided on a hotel for the night. There aren't many nice ones in the area and we might have to drive 30 minutes away to a nice one. It's not a bad idea, it's a beautiful resort on the beach and I would love to wake up to the sunrise over the pacific and crashing waves ... But there's a small problem. The majority of our guest list is coming from CO (I was born and raised there) and we decided it would be fun to have an after party at this Irish Pub we frequented the first two years we dated.. It may be a hassle to drive to the hotel room, change and drive to the pub, party and then drive all the way back to the hotel and we would need a DD because I would like to have a glass of wine or two and I'm a light weight.

Trins · June 2012

The Inn we rented out for the wedding party is a 5min walk from the venue. We will be WALKING back there

There was no way I was going to pay money for that short of a distance hahaha. I like the idea of walking back with our wedding party and continuing the party on there

FI will probably head off to bed seeing as the party doesn't end till 1am but I'll probably want to stay up hahaha

wcasar · June 2012

I think we are cabbing it. It's just a couple miles from the reception to the hotel we are staying at. My FI is in charge of the hotel portion. If they have an option for a shuttle, then we will look into that as well. I think the BM is looking into talking with the hotel bartender to stay open later for the after party. That's pretty common with this group of friends and has been a fun tradition for us. Our wedding is ending at like 11pm with clean up done by midnight. So if we can get the bar open until 1 - 1:30 am that would be a good ending for the evening.

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