What You Do When Making the Wedding Accommodations

You can remember when you were a little girl and you would see weddings at a church or on television, and you thought to yourself, "One day that is going to be me." You loved the pure white gown with the veil and the groom so handsome in his tuxedo, it was all a dream to you at that time. Now it is coming true for you!

The day is arriving and you are so excited. You have planned for this day for close to a year now and the countdown has begun. Your wedding day is going to be the most wonderful and memorable day of your life.

Getting to that day can be stressful. There is so much to plan for. How many guests? Where you will have the wedding itself? Where to have the rehearsal dinner, the reception, the food, the drinks, the cake, the guests, where will the guests stay when they come from out of state, and so much more?

Relatives are getting excited, your friends are calling, bridesmaids and the matron of honor are getting dresses fitted, mothers and fathers are pulling at their hair, which nephew or niece is going to be flower girl and carry the ring. (Oh, Lord, please help the ring get to the altar!) It will all work out and whatever does not, you will deal with it at the time.

One thing you can make very easy on yourself, early on, (and you should), are the wedding accommodations. On the day of and the day before your wedding you will have to note if there are other weddings or events which will fill hotel rooms. The more popular the location of your wedding is the less available rooms you will find if another event is going on. Imagine your guests dismay if they came to your wedding and rooms are unavailable.

Here is what you do when making the wedding accommodations. You reserve a block of rooms in two hotels if you can. Reserving them will cut down the expenses for your guests and they will appreciate it. When you enclose your map card inside the invitations, put the address and phone number of the hotel on the back of them and let those invited see where they can obtain a room. You are not paying for the rooms, just reserving them ahead of time so they know the address and phone. If you have bridesmaids coming who are challenged with what they can afford, you can quietly and tactfully offer to assist. One thing that would be great is if you could pair them up with each other. Or if another bridesmaid has a home close by with some extra rooms that would be a great help for any guest coming in from out of town. Your wedding will go off without a hitch.