Suggested inexpensive wedding weekend activities (DW for most guests)

I wouldn't schedule anything else. People can entertain themselves.

I have many people coming from out of town. Our wedding is on friday so we are providing guests with a list of our fav things to do around the city if they choose to stay the weekend. We arent providing a brunch or anything. Everyone will be on their own to do as they wish. I wouldnt stress about this. It will be fine!

We're telling everyone that we're going to be at this out door bar that serves breakfast tacos, and has live music the day after and if they want to come great, if not no pressure! We also are giving our guests a list of our favorite spots to eat/ things to do since 98% of our guests are from out of town. That way its an opp in, and not a requirement. We also weren't sure how many guests might be hung over, or just not feeling like socializing after 2 days of wedding things!

I am always hungover the next day and hate that I am expected to go to Sunday brunch. There will be no activities the Sunday after my wedding.

Ahh okay. Yeah, originally I hadn't intended to do anything at all unless a family member offered/wanted to take it on, then got a few questions in as many days about it. I've been to weddings that have both done something and haven't, but I know often when they have it's been like a month before I find out and bride's mom is paying for it or something of that effect. I think all of the like full weekend plans for "DWs" on here is throwing me off. I was like jeez I just want them to come witness and celebrate our marriage with us .... maybe I should have made it 25 people to accomodate :p haha. Appreciate the feedback

Definitely no expectation for you to host anything additional. Your guests can find something to do if they want to stay the weekend.

People can find their own things to do. If you invite them then you should pay though

We have a similar demographic. About 80 of our guests will be flying or driving 5+ hours. While we would LOVE to have activities for everyone, since we're paying this on our own... it's just not feasible. What we're doing instead is having a rehearsal brunch at the house and everyone is welcome.

Otherwise, like the girls have said... put together a list of things do to in the area on your wedding website and let your guests get to see your favorite spots!

Thanks @LibraryBelle, we put a few activities on our website to help people (both kid and non kid friendly as we live in wine country, more adventurous and not). We are doing a more informal happy hour the night before (not rehearsal dinner as we're so small) that family is invited to so both sides can get to know each other better before the actual wedding (about 70% of our guests are family), and then we decided to park our butts on Sunday morning at our favorite local coffee shop (the owners are friends and will be coming to our wedding) so that people can come by, say hello/bye, grab a coffee, and head out (since I know a lot need to drive home for work on Monday). We're hoping it's just casual enough with enough optional things that people can kind of pick their own desires for the weekend, if that makes sense. We live in the Central Coast of California, so there's a lot to do between it being a beautiful time of year, on the ocean, wine and local breweries 10 minutes away, great hiking, etc.

We hung out in the hotel lobby and brought in pizza and some people brought in alcohol.

And that happened more organically than anything else.

I gave suggestions of nearby things on my wedding website, but I generally left my family and friends to entertain themselves.

Our wedding is out of town. ALL of our guests have to travel. We are not doing anything the day after. Instead we are buying some wine and serving the grooms cake the night before the wedding. We are big game players so we will have the fires blazing and games for people to play. For us, It is a nice way for guests to stop in, hangout and chat a little. It's from 8-10pm- after the rehearsal and dinner. We are thinking many guests would eat before they come over.

As for guests entertaining themselves, we added some local hot spots and attractions to our wedding website. Luckily my FH and I are familiar with the area so we made it very personal!

We are having a Friday wedding so we're having a picnic the day after at one of our favorite winery's in the area. We will buy some bottles of wine and provide some light snacks, but anything more than that our guests can purchase for themselves. We aren't leaving for our honeymoon until the Monday after so we thought it's a nice way to unwind and relax with all of our OOT guests and whoever else wants to join. We put a message about it on our wedding website, but kept it pretty vague so I don't think anyone really expects us to go all out for it.

It's definitely not your responsibility to pay for something the day after your wedding. If anything, just give suggestions of things to do or let people know that you and FH will be doing X and that anyone can join.

Ex. My friend had a wedding in wine country and told people that they were doing a tasting the following day and to let them know if you wanted to come along. They also put a list of other fun local things to do or good restaurants on their web site.

Maybe tour Hurst castle?