Wedding Etiquette for Out of Town Wedding Guests

By Lori Voth (Revezbelle), published Apr 18, 2008
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You are engaged to be married and as the traditional bride to be often does, you have accepted and welcomed the role of primary wedding planner. Chances are you've already delved into the creative and exciting planning process and have your hands pleasantly full with various to do tasks. Catering companies, wedding cake tasting events, bridal dress shopping, music selection brainstorming, it can get overwhelming.

Before you get carried away in your fantastically wild imaginary dream world of lavish ideal wedding ideas, though, there is a particular wedding component that you might want to take care of well ahead of time, a particular constituent that is often overlooked until a more last minute occasion renders it necessary to address.

I am referring to the portion of the wedding plans that deal with your out of town guests. And more specifically, the measures you will take to assist them with their travel plans and lodging arrangements.

It should be noted here that orchestrating travel arrangements for out of state friends and family is not necessarily a given responsibility of the bride as wedding planner. Certainly, your guests can do it themselves.

Often times, though, and especially true for the out of town wedding guests who have never visited your chosen wedding city location before, they are waiting on you to give them information or suggestions about where to stay once they get into town.

Again, it is not something you have to do, but it is the more considerate option. If you must, ask your mom or sister to do it for you. Just so that those flying or driving in from another state have some direction in their planning.

It is really nice of your guests to pay for the expense of travel and time off of work to attend your wedding. Helping them plan their arrangements (minus the flight-as obviously that would be their responsibility alone) is a proper way to further demonstrate

how honored you are to have them at your wedding,

Takeaways
  • An out of town wedding guest will likely rely on your input to help determine travel plans.
  • An extra special component of wedding planning is to help out of town wedding guests book hotels.
  • Out of town guests at a wedding are likely to stay at whatever hotels you suggest for them.
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Helpful hospitality hints!

Posted on 05/14/2008 at 9:05:32 AM

 
Great advice, thanks!!!!!!!!

Posted on 05/02/2008 at 5:05:53 PM

 
that was excellent advice!!

Posted on 04/26/2008 at 4:04:49 AM

 
Great advice!

Posted on 04/22/2008 at 4:04:18 PM

 
By arranging for a block of rooms for guests who choose to use them, the bride and groom can obtain a discounted rate which is nice for the guests.

Posted on 04/20/2008 at 1:04:31 PM

 
Great advice and article.

Posted on 04/20/2008 at 10:04:09 AM

 
Fantastic, nice timing!

Posted on 04/19/2008 at 10:04:36 AM

 
Knowing about hotels I think is VERY important advice!!!!! great job on this one!!!!! I look forward to more!!!!! *********************************************************************************

Posted on 04/18/2008 at 2:04:50 PM

 
Thanks for writing this article, as well as your other ones about wedding planning. I am currently planning my wedding and have had numerous questions of my own about out-of-town guests, so I've been putting that part of planning aside for awhile. I have about 6 months left to go, but it's still good to have an idea of what may help my out-of-town guests. Thanks again!

Posted on 04/18/2008 at 12:04:53 PM

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