Should we stay at hotel after wedding

DH and I stayed at a hotel after our wedding but looking back on it, we probably would have been more comfortable at home. We ended up waking up early and just going home. It was $100+ we could have spent on our honeymoon instead.

This is personal preference but we just came home. The money wasn’t worth it in our opinion and it allowed us to splurge and pay for a limo the next morning to the airport.

We are, but our venue is 1 hour 30 minutes and our hotel is 1 hour from our house. We are staying Thursday - Saturday night so we can get settled in the hotel, relax and get everything settled. Are you doing a hotel block? Some offer a free room for the bride & groom if you book enough from your block too!

We are but its because we have pre-teen and teenage kids and we want some privacy.

We are staying even though we are close to home

I think this is a completely personal decision!

I personally don't want to go home after the wedding. To me, it sort of takes away from the magic of the evening. We're also having a day-after brunch sort of thing to say goodbye to his family who is flying in from California and Oregon, so this is easier.

If you want to save on the costs, go right ahead and go home! If you wanna stay the night at a hotel for the heck of it, why not?

Weigh the pros and cons of it and decide that way.

We stayed at a hotel even though the reception was only about 15 minutes from our home. I agree with Kristina that just going back home after the reception would have felt too normal to us. It also allowed us to see some of our extended families the next morning and say bye to them.

I wouldn't say it's necessary to stay in a hotel though because it is just an extra expense that isn't needed. We also used the room we stayed in that night as the room H got ready in the day of the wedding.

We are staying at a hotel, but that’s because we live two states away from our venue (we are getting married where both of our families live) and I didn’t want to stay at his mothers house. I think it’s personal preference. If our home was closer, we would’ve stayed there and saved the money for our honeymoon.

Staying at the hotel, despite my fiancee' lives on the same street
However, our room is free due to blocking a certain amount of rooms (20).
Perhaps inquire about this. As previous posters have said, this is definitely a decision that's up to you. We just figured to prolong the celebration..

We are staying at the hotel (its also our venue) they gave us a free night included in our deal.

We're staying at our venue the night of the wedding (I'm also staying there the night before), but we're getting married out of state and staying at my FMIL's house the rest of the time we're in town. We figured we didn't want to head back to her house after the wedding. If our room block at the hotel had filled up, we would have gotten two nights free for us.

But if we were getting married close to home, I'm not sure if I would prefer to go home right after, either. It kind of would make it feel like any other night and I'd rather have it be more special - even if we're exhausted.

Well we had enough rooms reserved in our block that we earned a free suite. If that hadn't happened we would have stayed at home vs spend the extra money!

It really is a personal preference as others have said. Our venue is about 30 mins from our home. But we are staying in our favorite hotel built in the 1800s. It's a very romantic hotel that we always stay at and it plays a huge part of us. Plus I think just going home kinda takes away from the excitement and it's just like an ok back to business type thing. We are leaving for our honeymoon the next morning but have to go home first to drop off wedding stuff. The hotel is such a big part of our relationship so we are staying in it

We are! Our reception will end by 9, so we can continue the party in the hotel bar. We also will be able to visit more with the people who traveled long distances to see us, and if we decide to do breakfast in the morning we will all be in the same place already. It would be at least 30 or 40 minutes each way to drive home and back in the morning to see everyone again.

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This is almost word-for-word what I was going to say!

We are staying in the suite after the reception because it's literally right across the street (so our big exit will be walking across the street after seeing everyone with sparklers, and we won't need a car). I also wanted it to be special and will get back to reality the next day haha.

We stayed at a hotel 15 minutes from our house it was actually nice just to kind of pamper yourself for a night and sleep somewhere other than your house, that and we had a rehearsal bbq at our house too so didn’t wanna come home to that mess the night of haha!

Our lodge has a two night minimum so we are staying there the night of the wedding. Very frustrating that they rented the room we had booked to someone else not in our wedding party, after we had agreed to have all available rooms blocked off for our guests until 30 days before..

I think what ever you are going to feel most comfortable doing. Do you have a driver? Do you both plan on drinking? Are you two night owls? Would it add romance?

I reserved our room last year. We live maybe 20 mins from the venue. We have teens and wanted a night of privacy after marriage.

We are staying at a hotel close to the airport so about 2 hours away because I have a hard time waking up and don't want to rush to get to the airport in time for our flight the next morning.