My 'little' brother and I are conspiring to kill our parents by having our weddings three months apart! Anyway, he will be marrying a girl from upstate NY where they also plan on being married (July 4, 2004). ALL of our family is from LI and will travel 4 1/2 hours to the wedding. What is the protocol on what to do with out-of towners. I mean whose responsibility is it to host something for them? And what and when and where? Thanks!
SeptemberBride03
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Re: What do you do with out-of-towners??
Well, you can either invite them to the RD or have a brunch the day after.
Most of my guests are from out of state, my reception ends at 6pm on a Sat so my parents are having some people back to their house after and also a brunch Sunday. Our RD is Thurs so the only people in town then will be our bridal party and immediate family.
We also got a block of rooms with a group rate of $119/night to save our guests some money!
Back in March I sent out an info packet with the hotel info and a local LI magazine that has a map inside and things to do in the area.
Janine24
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Re: What do you do with out-of-towners??
my FH is also from upstate NY and we are having our wedding on LI. Since many of our guests are going to be from out of town, we first blocked off a bunch of rooms at a hotel near the reception so they have a place to stay and don't have to search for a near by hotel. Since I am the one who lives on LI, my parents are going to have an 'open-house' for the weekend and welcome anyone to stay there or stop by if they need to kill some time. We are not planning anything special for them right now, but I am sure my parents will have food/drinks for anyone throughout the weekend. Luckily, the hotel we booked has things that our guests can do as well... our guests also get a full breakfast at the hotel the following day so we don't have to plan a brunch or anything like that.
