Room Blocking Questions...Help Please!

Not going to have too many OOTs by our calculations, but then again, you never know who will RSVP with a yes. Two questions:

1. Getting married on a Sunday. Should I block rooms for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday? Just Friday and Saturday? Just Saturday and Sunday? What?

2. The place we're going to block requires a 70% guarantee. In other words, the special rate is only applicable if 70% of the room block is filled. If not, the rate reverts back to the normal rate.

My question here is: do we put that on the OOT information in the invitation? Or what? Looks like it'd end up being a difference in price of about $50 for each room if the prices reverted back.

Thank you soooo much for your help, girls. FH is being no help at all on this one. Bah, stupid boys.

I would say block it out for Saturday and Sunday and ask the hotel if someone needs to come in earlier than that if they can get the special rate.

See if you can start off with a small block of maybe 5 rooms and then add to it as it fills up. Hopefully you are not personally liable for the cost of those rooms. At the hotels we did blocks, we are not liable and as long as the rooms are reserved by a specific date, they get the rate; if they are not reserved by that date, the rooms are returned to the hotel for general use and not reserved specifically for people coming to our wedding.

So, I would say, start off with a small block of rooms and then add on later if your block fills up.

GL!

You should just do the block for saturday and sunday.

As for the information ususally the hotel gives you something to include in the invitation. It tells you the hotel and your last names that the block of rooms are under.

I hope that I helped you out.

~dancer~
charlotte