Transportation from ceremony to reception

We are renting a school bus! $250 for the whole day.

Our ceremony and reception are in different locations. We'll be having shuttles for our guests from the hotel we have our hotel block at to the ceremony, from the ceremony to the reception, and from the reception back to the hotel. We'll probably also have separate transportation for the bridal party due to timing and other logistics.

We had a limo take us from the chapel to the reception venue (about a 15 min drive). I really don't think you need to transport the bridal party dates though. They'll just be sitting around waiting for an hour while everyone else is taking pictures?

I guess I need to figure out if our hotel will shuttle people back and forth.

Thanks y'all!

Hi Katelin. IMO, the Bride and Groom are not responsible for anyone's transportation to any location, including the BP. It is a wonderful gesture and a convenient way to keep the BP together if meeting at a photo location between venues but certainly not necessary. Getting the BP back to the hotel from your reception is definitely not your responsibility... unless you make it yours. I would not.

Thanks Kathleen,

The only thing that worries me is that people will be drinking (drinking a lot) lol. So its the drinking and driving that worries me.

Find out if the hotel can provide a shuttle or opt for Uber.

Dad's driving me, mom, MOH, FSIL and FG to the wedding, FH's taking RB, his dad and brother. After the ceremony they'll drive with dad and FH and I will go on ou own. For after, MOH's by then DH will take her and FG/RB back home

You asked a great question. We are having the same issue. Our reception is about 2 miles up the road. We looked into renting something but the money for that was crazy! Especially for a 2 mile trip up the road. So... it looks like we are going to have people in the wedding party take as many as they can in their cars or each drive themselves. They all will have cars, either their own or they are renting one.

Katelyn, have you looked into Uber events? You can register and set up a code to give your guests so they get a certain % off their Uber rides. I believe you also have to set up the locations, so it would only work from your venue to the hotel.

Our ceremony and reception are in different places too. We are having guests drive back to the hotel after the ceremony, where busses will shuttle everyone to the reception, then back to the hotel at the end of the night. The hotel is only about 5 minutes away from the reception

In my experience as a bridesmaid only the bridal party rode in the limo. Significant others not in the bridal party drove separate to the reception.

IMO let adults be adults and figure out their own transportation. My ceremony and reception are about 20 minutes apart. The hotels are also about 20 minutes from the reception.

Responsible adults know not to drink and drive. They'll get themselves a ride if needed.

You should pay for their transportation. You can do a party bus

I disagree. I do not think that you are required to provide transportation, although it is a nice gesture.

Everyone met us at the ceremony venue. I rode with a BM (spent the night at her house) and had left my car at the reception hall the night before. Hubs rode with a GM who had stayed at our house. We rented a hummer limo to take us around for pictures for a few hours ( yes we had the dreaded gap, but its common in my family) and had our limo run us by the ceremony venue to pick up a few cars and some of our BP met us at the reception hall, that was 20 minutes away. Most of our BP had brought dates who took their car from ceremony to reception. If you know this is the case please take this time into account and traffic, as we were about 25 minutes later than we planned getting back to reception.

I was thinking about getting a shuttle bus for my guests staying at the hotel and that quote came in at $1200 because they would need to be picked up at the hotel then taken back at the end of the night so I had to reserve for 9 hours. Now after seeing CMC's post about Uber events I tgink I'm going to look into that. From what I can see you set up a time period that your guest can use your link you provide for them and you can set how much the max ride is also. When you Google uber events it actually comes up wedding so I'm thinking they must do this all the time.

If you shuttle them to the church and to the reception, you need to pay for transportation back- otherwise, you have stranded them. If you don't want to pay for transportation, let your BP know in advance they will have to find their own rides to the church and from the church to the reception -- which is an option, but obviously less than ideal because you risk people running late and you lose out on that time together as a bridal party.

I booked a party bus for the wedding party and a shuttle to run from the hotel to the venue and back afterwards. This way everyone that's in the wedding as well as all overnight guests have transportation.

I know it's not required to do this much but I really want to accommodate those spending the most money to attend.

We had a party bus, and all my girls stayed with me at a BM's house Friday night. We dropped all their cars off at Saturday night's hotel on Friday night and I drove them back to my BM's house, and then we let them know in advance to find a way to the hotel Saturday after the reception, which was only a couple minutes away but too far to walk. Everyone had a date/parent/friend there and it worked out well for my group.