How far is too far?

If the ceremony and reception are at the same venue (or very close), I think it should be ok, but I wouldn't expect my guests to drive 2-3 hours in between the ceremony and reception.

Could you maybe move the wedding site closer to the reception? I would say an hour at the farthest.

The ceremony and reception will be held at the same place. I'm just worried because most of our guests will be coming from the Boston area. We found sites in New Hampshire and Vermont that we like. Thanks for the help!

I say go for it! It's a destination wedding!

I agree with melissa!Go for it Destination Wedding!!!

Yay! I'm glad that doesn't sound unreasonable!

It gives people reason to possibly travel somewhere new without the airfare. I think its a wonderful idea!

Oh, I thought they were in two different places. No 3 hours isn't bad, were having people travel 2, and I've driven 6 for a wedding before!!! Sorry for the mix up. Go for it

I think its ok. Just reserve a block of rooms in a nearby hotel in case some of your guests would prefer to stay there instead of driving 3 hours back at night.

Some of my guests will be driving 6-7 hours for my wedding...but yeah at first it sounded like you were having your wedding and reception at different places...2-3 hours apart..but yeah...go for it...sounds great...

I say go for it! We are doing our wedding an hour & a half away from us & at first I felt the same way you did but now everyone keeps thanking me for their mini vacation they are taking while attending our wedding, even our photographer!

Not at all! My best friend is doing a wedding 3 hours away. It's close enough for people to drive without being forced to stay somewhere.

We're doing the same thing... our ceremony/reception site is about 2 hours away from where most of our guests live. We're treating it like some other people said: a destination wedding! We hope to use a cake lady from home but she only is charging $75 dollars to deliver. Everything else so far is around the "destination". We're reserving rooms for our guests but since we're having a lunch reception, most people shouldn't have to stay the night after the wedding, they can just drive home. Good luck!

I don't know that I would drive more than about an hour to attend a wedding if the person lives local to me. If it's 3 hours away, that means your guests will be driving for a total of 6 hours to attend an event that probably won't last longer than their drive time. That's not very practical to me.

I mean it is up to you. But if you did decide to do something like that I definately would book a block of rooms somewhere so people have the option to stay over somewhere if they want to.

If you present it to everyone as a mini-destination wedding, I think you will be fine! Book a block of rooms, maybe create a schedule of activities or a list of local attractions for them to enjoy during the weekend. If your family and friends love you and are as happy for you as I'm sure they are, of COURSE they will come to participate in the biggest, happiest day of your life.

Tracy-I've gone to several weddings for my sorority sisters where we had to drive a few hours. ROAD TRIP! Sometimes we would stay the night and sometimes we wouldn't. Your friends will understand why you had to have that specific place

I have mixed feelings about traveling long distance for the wedding of somebody that lives locally. An hour or 2 might not be that bad if I really like them and I know in advance that it will be a destination wedding but I have one friend who recently told me that she is getting married 10 hours away from here (and yes her and her whole family live locally) and I told her that I wouldn't be able to travel that far, especially since she wasn't giving people an early heads up that we would need to travel.