Living away from home.

We live 5 hours away from our family. We just moved to the city we live now so we don't have that many friends here but knew trying to plan a wedding in our hometown would be hard living so far away. We decided to have the wedding in our college town that is 1.5 hours from us and 3 hours from our hometown. It's a little bit of a drive for everyone but we're more familiar with the area and it's close enough for us to coordinate with vendors. Also a little more convenient for our families and friends back home (3 vs 5 hours)

So I’m moh to my friend who lives in another state. Her and her fiancé are from the state I live in and that’s where a majority of their family live. She initially wanted two receptions- one at her state and one at the home state but in the end she decided just only doing one celebration in the state she currently lives in and she said a lot of her invitees are people in the home state so she hopes some people can travel to make it

Our wedding will be taking place after we move and therefore we will live in California at the time. Every family member will live in a different state. We opted to have a wedding in Sedona, AZ and just make traveling a requirement for everyone who wanted to attend. That way no family feels like they are being put out while another family may not be.

We live a 3 hour plane ride away from most of my friends and family. My husbands parents and a lot of his friends are an hour and a half drive away but most of his extended family is on the other side of the country. We had our wedding where we currently live and had everyone travel to us. It’s so much easier to plan a wedding where you live now versus having to make trips or coordinate with vendors by email.

My sister was in a similar situation, we live about 2 hours north of philly and her husband was in NC. they decided to do a wedding reception in Pennsylvania as we knew a lot of our family and his couldnt travel that far. it's really up to you what you think will get a better turnout. the only downside is you'd be far from the actual vendor site, but I live about an hour from mine and only went to view it and for the tasting, all my other vendors ive done over the phone or email.

We live outside of Denver. Most my family & friends live in or near San Diego, and my husband's friends are scattered all over since he was in the military and met most of them then. We had our wedding about 1 hour north of our house (so 1.5-2 hours north of most his friends here and family). Basically all our guests stayed in our blocked hotel.

We live about an hour from my hometown and about 4ish hours from where my FH's dad lives. The rest of my FH's family is scattered his sister is the LP of Michigan, most of his aunts and uncles in upstate New York by the Canadian border and his cousins are scattered throughout. Most of my friends like within an hour or 2 of us. My FH was in the military but his best friend lives down in Louisiana. So everyone is spread out. We decided to have the wedding where my FH and I live because it would the easiest for us to plan.

My husband and I live in Ohio, but we are both from Minnesota and most of our families still live there. We had our wedding in a town in Minnesota that was kind of central to where everyone lived as we figured it was easier for the two of us to travel than to have everyone else travel to Ohio!

View Quoted Comment Your situation is so similar to mine I was MOH to be best friend for her wedding a month ago she lives in Florida and all of her family are from philly and she did it in Florida and she had a pretty decent turn out to everyone coming down!