Transportation to/from the reception

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Even if you're getting a hotel room block, some people will opt into staying somewhere else, anyway. You may consider looking into whether the hotel offers shuttle services, if that helps, but people will still be parked at the venue. Over all, I doubt people will be terribly concerned by this and it's super sweet of you to worry, but don't stress too much

I would definitely offer transportation to the venue for the ceremony. I know I wouldn’t leave my car at the venue if I had to drive it there so I wouldn’t use transportation back.

Yea I don’t think you need to worry about that either

Personally, I wouldn't offer a shuttle service at all because that's just going to cause additional stress. But if you really want to then I would offer it for before and after because as a guest I wouldn't want to leave my car at a venue overnight.

I agree with the PP to offer transportation either before and after or not at all. I wouldn’t leave my car at the venue overnight even if they said it was fine.

I did it. My venue was 30-45 minutes from the hotel blocks. No used it. I’m out $1000. I say don’t bother.

I would either offer round trip or not at all. If they leave their cars overnight, they then have to figure out how to get from the hotel to the reception space the next day to retrieve their car. That may be a lot of hassle combined with checking out of the hotel. If it was only 1 way transportation, I wouldn't take it. If it was 2 way, I would.

Guests will manage their own transportation and most people wouldn't leave their vehicles overnight anyway.

I would skip it all together.

I think it's a good idea, especially if your venue is in a kind of inconvenient place. If you leave welcome bags for people when they check into the hotel, you can include a schedule with information on when and where the shuttle will leave the hotel. If you do that, most of your guests will take the shuttle. Most people are happy to avoid having to drive home/to a hotel from a wedding, but no one wants to figure out how to get their car that's 25 minutes away the next morning.

Our venue was 35 minutes from our blocked hotel, there was no way to avoid it (unless we picked another venue) because the venue was in a rural community with no hotels. On our RSVP cards, we had the typical "yes" and "no" box, but we also included one for provided transportation to & from the hotel. Then we had a details card that talked about the distance to & from the blocked hotel, and how cars left had to be picked up by 9AM the next morning, and the lack of uber/lyft options due to no service and nothing nearby. It gave us a great idea of how many 55 person buses we would need! We needed two and that was leaving 10 extra seats on one bus.

I wouldn't book a formal shuttle service, but you can try an Uber/Lyft fund. They'll let you set a max budget with a code and when someone in your party puts in that code, their fee comes out of your budget. So then you're providing transportation, but only paying for those that use it.

I had the same question! These are some great ideas! I'm going to go check out the Uber/Lyft fund thing! I would hate to make my guests (who are paying for hotels and plane tickets) also pay for rental cars. Personally, it wouldn't be a big deal but I'm trying to be as considerate as possible to all budgets. Plus, then they can drink and not worry! lol