We're having trouble deciding on how to plan the shuttling portion of our day! We know we don't have to provide transportation, but all 150-175 of our guests will be coming from out of town so we thought it would be a nice gesture. The hotel we're having the shuttle service from is maybe 20 minutes from both the ceremony and reception venue (the church and reception venue are basically down the street from each other). We're having a catholic ceremony so the mass will probably take 1 hour give or take and them I'm sure some people might linger for pictures before the bridal party heads out for the photo loop. Then after that is when we plan to start cocktail hour (technically we have the reception for 6 hours from 4-10pm; there's a noise ordinance so we have to end at 10).
I was wondering if anyone has done this before or if you've been to weddings previously and have any thoughts on how we should organize this based on your experience! Does it make more sense to:
1. Have the shuttle service pick people up for the ceremony & take them to the reception right after & then back to the hotel at the end of the night?
2. Have people drive themselves to the ceremony and then have a break in between ceremony & reception so guests can drop their cars back at the hotel and just shuttle people from hotel to cocktail hour and then back to hotel at the end of the night?
Or if anyone else has any other suggestions, let me know!
