Travel?

I once traveled an hour for a friend's wedding. I thought it was super odd that we had to travel that far considering we lived in the same town. If she hadn't been as good of a friend, I would have skipped it.

The longest I have traveled is an hour and a half

I think this really depends on the person and how close they are to you. For example, I drove from MD to NJ for a friend’s wedding, 3 hours to another wedding in the middle of VA, 3 hours to a friend’s Wedding in DE, I traveled from MD to FL for a wedding where I was a BM, I traveled to the Bahamas for another wedding I was in, my brother is getting married in FL next year. Basically, if it’s important to your individual guests to be there, they’ll make the effort. However, I do think you need to be considerate of your guests’ time. I wouldn’t have a Friday wedding or Sunday evening wedding if you’ve got people traveling.

I traveled 5 hours for my dads. 12 hours for both my cousins. Are you having reception and ceremony at same place. I do not think I will travel more then 30 or 40 minutes from ceromony spot to reception spot.

I've traveled from the east coast to the west coast for a wedding (my brothers), driven 12 hours to Alabama for my best friends wedding. For a more local wedding I would probably travel no more than 2 hours unless there was a hotel nearby I could get a room at after the reception. In between ceremony and reception I would travel up to an hour.

I’ve traveled from NY to Vegas for my best friends wedding, 8ish hours to NC for another wedding, and a variety of weddings in the 1-2+ hour range. All of the the 2 hour weddings I drove back home after. Most weddings I’ve been to if the ceremony wasn’t at the same location as the reception, I typically didn’t go. That’s also cause a majority were on a Friday so I didn’t want to take a full day from work and/or traffic.

For "local" weddings we've traveled up to an hour and a half, but we stayed in a hotel overnight - I think this may be a know your crowd kind of deal, because what's considered far for some, is completely reasonable for others

I’ve traveled as short as 5 minutes from my house and as far as another country. For a “local” wedding I’d say no more than an hour or two so people don’t feel forced to stay in a hotel if they don’t want to. Now, in between the ceremony and reception is a little different. I would not want to travel more than about 45mins/1hr and I don’t like when I travel and there’s still a gap of wait time

I've done 1.5 hours or so before. It was ok with me.

The furthest I've traveled for a "local" wedding is an hour, but I've traveled over 2 hours for friends that have lived in different cities. . My wedding will be 10 minutes from FH's hometown, but an hour and a half from where we currently live and 2 1/2 hours from my hometown. There will be a lot of people traveling!

FH and I chose a venue that is local to us but a considerable difference for nearly all of our guests to travel. I'm from Pittsburgh, PA; he's from southern WV, and we are getting married in Deep Creek, MD. Therefore, the majority of our guests will be traveling 1+ hrs to our wedding.

I think if you give your guests enough notice to plan for your wedding, it shouldn't be an issue. Also, count on some declines due to the distance. For example, we are inviting 207 and are anticipating around 150ish to attend. Hope this was helpful!

If virtually everyone lives in the same town or surrounding towns I would think about an hour? I would definitely make an exception if it was travelling to a sort of “destination” though, like to the beach or mountains. If it was going from one town to a similar town I would think an hour radius is fine.

I wouldn't travel more then an hour for a local wedding. We did travel 3 1/2 for my brother in laws wedding but it was at the beach and my fiance was the best man. We got a hotel room for that one.

I would say about an hour and a half for locals. Our venue is about 40 minutes from our house and about an hour-ish for some of our other Jersey friends, but we will be having a hotel block that I’m sure many locals will use due to the open bar

It just depends... For locals I would probably only want to drive an hour. But I've driven 8 hrs to a wedding, driven 13 hrs for another wedding, and recently flown to another wedding so it just depends on your people.

I've driven to another state!
Overall if it's more than a 30 minute drive I'd try to have the ceremony and reception in one place.

We are getting married about 1hr 15min from where the majority of the guests live. I wouldn't call it local, but definitely not destination. I expect 95% of guests to stay in a hotel and make a weekend out of it. Haven't had any complaints what so ever, people like an excuse to get out of the city for a night

My wedding is about an hour away from where the majority of our guests live. The reason we chose that venue is because of 1. how much cheaper it was and 2. it had everything we wanted in a venue. We are paying for the wedding ourselves and all the venues around us are more expensive. Besides, if people really want to be there, then they will be.

I drove 3 hours 2 weeks ago for a friend's "local wedding". I also drove 90 mins for another "local" wedding. The people that want to be there will be there.

If we can drive it, we will probably go. If it requires a flight and more than 1 day off work, we probably won't go. We went to a wedding 10 hours away last year, and another one that was 6 hours away. Drove them both.