Is it okay to ask people to travel for a wedding?

My family has to travel 10 hours... I don't live near his or my family so it was either my family travel or all families travel... So... No, we're not paying for their hotels. They can choose not to go.

It's an hour drive, at least not too far. Yes it's ok but expect a few more declines.

You can put an insert into your invitations with a list of hotels in the area. If it's in the budget, you can reserve a block of rooms in a hotel to hold for the night.

Its fine, so long as you're okay with the fact that you may have a higher decline rate. you aren't expected to food the bill for lodging. its can be nice to do for your bridal party if you can swing it, but its not a requirement by any means - and DEFINITELY not for all your guests.

My closest family member is 1500 miles away from my wedding. We've got a block of hotel rooms, but many people are coming for a week and finding their own places to stay. I am providing a house for my parents, FH's parents and our wedding party, but only because we are getting married in the back yard of the house and have it for the whole weekend. And really the parents are providing it since they're paying for the wedding.

You might have a few less people who come because it's an hour away, but I don't think it would be that big a deal for most people. Like other's said you don't need to provide lodging, but a list of places you recommend would be nice.

An hour is definitely not that far. Go for it!

An hour is nothing. My wedding is 1,200 miles from everyone (or more). I'm flying 1,200 for my best friend's wedding in June. If it's an hour away I wouldn't even bother mentioning hotels on your website or invitations.

However, just be aware that if people choose not to stay the night, they may leave a little early than normal to drive home, so I wouldn't plan for an all-night party with all the guests (especially if they hired babysitters for the night).

I'd say go for it. This is exactly what I'm doing as well.

It's perfectly okay to have a location guests have to travel for. It does mean increasing the likelihood of declines, but for an hour it isn't too bad.

Only my parents will be living in the area the venue is located lol, I'll have moved by then. The rest of the guests will have to travel, some from only an hour and a half away others from other states like Nebraska and North Carolina (Florida wedding) and some are in state but 3 or 7 hours away. Literally everyone will be traveling lol, it's not a crazy or awful thing to do as long as you don't get upset by the decline over the distance either.

My fiance's family and several of our friends will be traveling nearly 3,000 miles for our wedding! It is definitely okay to ask guests to travel (they can decide if the amount of travel is something they are okay with). An hour drive will most likely not be a deterrent for your guests. You are not required to pay for hotel rooms for your guests. You could look into arranging a room block at a hotel, which would get your guests who may want to stay the night a discount. If you do this, you can include an Accommodations card with your invitations that informs your guests of the hotel's room block information (address, contact info, deadline to book, and cost).

At an hour I personally wouldn't feel the need to stay the night. I will say I wouldn't be drinking much if I had to drive but honestly the distance doesn't really affect that. If I have to drive 1 mile or 100 I'm not going beyond a certain point. Only thing it might change for me would be I might leave a tad earlier if I have to drive a long ways but for me an hour isn't any farther than from one end of the city we live in to the other. Heck, we recently (well, a year and half ago) moved from the suburbs to in the city and to get from our old house to our new house takes 45 minutes to an hour depending on traffic. So for city people really an hour is a pretty typical commute time. Those from smaller towns might not be as used to it, though. Personally, if I want to be there an hour won't even phase me.

Guests pay for their own travel and accommodations.

Our wedding is about an hour from our home but we have family from all over traveling for it. Most of our friends would only have about an hour drive however we know they will want to drink and stay late so we got a hotel block and we are providing transportation to and from the hotel to make it more appealing to stay. You know your guests the best and if you know people will stay, then get a block of rooms at a discount, you don't have to pay for them but it might be a nice bonus to add in transpiration for those guests who are staying

An hour is less than a one way commute for most people. I also assume these guests sometimes do things outside their own cities. It's totally fine! Don't pay for anyone's hotel room.

Like some mentioned above, include an accommodation card that has a few hotels listed or a block of rooms somewhere. In this case I think providing transportation is a touch too far. It's a nice gesture, but it *is* pricey and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to figure out their own DDs. In my situation, there are many sober/non-drinking family members who tend to shuttle everyone to and fro where they're staying. Big family, many weddings, we all tend to stay together. This is just how it's done.

Mine was a bit over an hour away from our city (which is saying something, but we have a major case of urban sprawl). I just put the address on the invitation, and people figured it out. I had maybe 30 declines. Some people not only came, but came for the wedding and left before the reception (we have theatre friends who were in a play that night), so they drove almost 3 hours round trip for a 20 minute ceremony. Those who want to be there will be, but don't get angry at those who don't want to make the drive.

That's not that far. I have some people flying in from across the country and in other states to be there.

An hour isn't that bad at all we drove almost 5 hours for cousins wedding and we paid for our own rooms. I don't think I have ever been to a wedding where the bride and groom paid for the hotel room.

Only an hour I wouldn't even consider it to be a big deal

Ours is 4 hours away for most. Sometimes location is important. I think it's fine.

An hour is nothing. I'm in the same boat. Everything around us is out if budget but going about 45 mins north is way cheaper.