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This is pretty straight forward, no doubt, but I have no experience with it. When you get a hotel block do you get a discount? I mean, I know some places do group discounts and such. I'm just checking before I start calling places. Thanks so much!

Thoughts on having family or friends as officiants? We are considering asking a girlfriend of mine to be ours. He isn't religious at all, I have faith but am not much of a church goer. She is an actress (not to say she needs attention, but rather...