Distance to Wedding venue

I'm sure family will travel, but I wouldn't go to a wedding that was that far away personally

Farthest I've gone for a wedding was 250 mi. Our venue is about 5mi from us but about 45min drive for the majority of our guests (we live in a resort town). One of my guests will be traveling about 2k mi and is planning her summer vacation around our wedding. It really depends on your guests. Hope this helps.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having your wedding 81 miles from your hometown. Seriously, its not that big of a deal. People on here are extra dramatic. Is it really an inconvenience for them to wake up a little early one Saturday morning out of the entire year to celebrate the most special day of your life? Give me a break.

Also, most people here are not from Texas, so I wouldn't necessarily poll them on how they feel about distances. I've lived in Texas for 8 years now and everyone who lives here knows how massive of a state it is. All of your family and friends that live in Texas will be very accustomed to traveling. An 80 mile drive is really not that big of a deal. Especially on a Saturday morning on the I-45. There won't be too much traffic.

Don't change the venue.

You need to make a decision soon....I booked my venue in March and we snagged the only Saturday left in June...

Ty for your encouragement and support Brittany E

I think that's a fair distance to ask people to drive.

I think it's totally fine. Know that some of your guests may feel it's too far, and that's ok. You can't get mad if people don't come. As long as your guests have hotel options and don't have to drive from venue to venue the day of, I don't see the problem.

I've driven 4+ hours for a noon wedding with a time change. Was it a pain? A bit. It was the travel to the reception and four hour gap that peeved me. A later wedding would be more convenient for your guests, but I don't think it's necessary to change it.

I don't think that 81 miles is that far to drive. I am driving 106 miles to a 4 pm wedding on a Friday afternoon with HORRIBLE LA traffic, so I will just plan on getting a hotel for that night.

Sure, I may grumble about getting up early that morning if I were one of your guests, but once I was up and about I would definitely get over it. If the venue is perfect, then go for it.

I live in Houston, too. I'll tell you, that mileage and time is not a big deal when most surrounding wedding venues are out of the city.

My venue is out in the country, exactly an hour from my home. 90% of my guests live in the area. The rest will be getting hotels near the venue the night before. Not worried.

I can't believe some of the comments. God forbid anyone is in a car traveling longer than 30 minutes to go anywhere! Goodness.

@Sheri if you've found the venue of your dreams and there is lodging near the venue, which I know there is since I'm a Houstonian familiar with your venue location, then don't worry about it. You and I both know that this drive is typically nothing compared an 8-5 commute in this city. You know your guests.

Definitely not at 11am.

Having driven through Houston during rush hour, I doubt most of your guests from there will have a problem with it. I set a hard limit of no more than 2 hours from our home (where many guests live) and the airport (we also have several out of town guests). Our families will be driving in from further away (but not too far to fly), so they are happy to not have to pay airfare. A few local people are going to make a weekend of it and a few more are going to stay Saturday night only.

On a personal note, you would have to be a very good friend of mine for me to get up that early on a Saturday. Good luck, OP!

That's not too bad

I have a toddler, who I would never take to a wedding. If we had to pay a babysitter for the day, to include a 3-hour round trip, I'd have to think over it. If I was immediate family or a close friend, I would attend. If not, it would be questionable.

If I was in the questionable zone, I'd also have consider the type of guest hosting you were planning. Cake and punch only, with 3 hour round trip and 11:00 AM = sorry.

I might be a Debbie Downer, but I'm skeptical after flying to 2 weddings and they offered some of the poorest guest hosting I've ever seen (unlike our region). We left after the cake was served, to stop and get something to eat.

Our venue is out in the country we're having both our ceremony & reception out there. It's 39 minutes (28 miles) from our house to the venue.

So for my side of the family is either out the way or same distance as we are from our venue but my FH side of the family all live down in Kentucky and especially my FMIL lives 1 hr and 3 minutes (63 miles) from our venue which before she moved to Kentucky she used to live out where were having the venue so she is okay with the drive anyways💚