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Wedding Eve (the night before)

Meg, on October 27, 2017 at 3:15 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 60

Are you/did you spend the wedding eve apart?

We are staying at a snazzy hotel for 2 nights, starting the night before (logistics: the hotel is 5 minutes from our venue, we live 45 minutes from the venue).

I am just wondering what others plan to do. If you live with your fiance and/or are staying at a hotel like me, are you planning to wake up with your fiance on wedding day, then split ways to go get ready with the girls? Do you plan to sleep apart?

It's the little details. Smiley smile

60 Comments

Latest activity by Carrie, on October 29, 2017 at 9:46 PM
  • Jennifer
    Master September 2018
    Jennifer ·
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    We are staying together, then will split after breakfast, it will keep my nerves calm I think. I am honestly just commenting to tell you I love your avatar! So freaken cute!

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  • Kourtney
    Beginner December 2017
    Kourtney ·
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    FH and I live together, and we didn't have any "need" to sleep apart the night before. That being said, knowing me, it would probably take me longer to get out of bed and get ready for my HMUA appointment if I stayed at home, so I'm staying at my mom's house with my BMs the night before. Not for any "traditional" reason, just to make sure I get out of bed

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  • CaboBride2018
    VIP May 2018
    CaboBride2018 ·
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    No. We're having a DW and we'll be at the resort a few days before. We aren't getting an extra room for getting ready or anything. Our plan is to spend the night together, have breakfast, and then split for getting ready.

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  • Elizabeth
    Expert April 2018
    Elizabeth ·
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    I am in the same situation (but get 3 nights instead of 2). We're spending the night together and in the morning I'll kick him out into his sisters suit (to get ready with the boys) and the girls will come over to our place to get ready.

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  • M
    Devoted November 2017
    Melanie ·
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    I'm spending the day and night veggie with my best friend and my sister. We're staying in the same room that FH and I will return to after the wedding. It's on the same property as the wedding and reception. Not long now!!

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  • TheeOne2Love
    VIP December 2017
    TheeOne2Love ·
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    We do live together and have for years but we are splitting the night before the wedding after the rehearsal dinner. We wont see each other again til I am walking down the aisle. ( our personal choice)

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  • melanie
    Master August 2017
    melanie ·
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    We stayed together the night before and in the morning until the hair and makeup people came then he left

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  • N
    Devoted October 2017
    Nats ·
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    We split up and I stayed with my parents while he got our room to himself for a night. I would have rather not done that, but it was a big deal to my parents so I just went along with it.

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  • Emma
    Master May 2017
    Emma ·
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    We live together. We stayed at our home the night before. We drove to the venue together in the morning and split up to get dressed. Then we saw each other at the ceremony.

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  • Future Mrs M
    Super June 2018
    Future Mrs M ·
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    We have a manor rented the entire weekend. So the night before my bridal party will stay there together. We have to be up early for make up and hair, so it was easiest to stay together. Me and FH did not want to stay together the night before!

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  • FutureHennigan
    Super September 2018
    FutureHennigan ·
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    We live together (and have lived together for a few years) but we will be staying that night apart. Just one of those funny traditional things that we wanted to stick with! He'll be staying with his parents the night before and getting ready there (about 30 minutes from our venue) and I'll be staying at our house the night before the wedding with my mom, and all of the bridesmaids will come get ready there with me the day of. Once we leave the rehearsal dinner, I won't see FH until the ceremony!

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  • Yoomie
    VIP October 2018
    Yoomie ·
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    FH live together and will be getting a suite for three nights wedding weekend. His parents are also getting the same size suite in the same hotel block (the suite costs were negotiated with our hotel block prices); the bridal party will get ready in one suite while the grooms party will get ready in the other suite. As for the night before, night of the Rehearsal Dinner, we will be spending the night apart with me staying the night with one of the BM (she's single). All of the wedding party members are staying at the same hotel block, there are three wedding hotel blocks.

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  • mataDC
    Devoted September 2017
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    We lived together. I stayed home and he stayed at his parents' hotel. I wished he didn't believe in that superstition though, because I barely slept a wink that night with anxiety!

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  • TXBride
    Expert September 2017
    TXBride ·
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    We stayed apart. I stayed at a house my mom rented and then I rented a different house on the same property for him and the groomsmen. We didn't see each other until I came down the aisle and his reaction was perfect. We live together but he is very traditional, so this is what we both wanted. Plus he got some extra time with his guys.

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  • Jeanmarie
    Super December 2017
    Jeanmarie ·
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    We are staying in a hotel suite together, ordering pizza, watching movies and trying to sleep!

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  • BoudreauToBe
    Master July 2018
    BoudreauToBe ·
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    I will definitely be staying at home, FH probably will too. We are getting ready at our relatives' houses the morning of, which are 5 minutes from the church. I don't start hair and makeup until 10:00, so I don't need to be there too early.

    FH wants to play golf that morning, so if his tee time is super early he will probably stay over at his friend's or his brother's house.

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  • 2d Bride
    Champion October 2009
    2d Bride ·
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    We slept together, sharing a double bed with two dogs. (That was cozy!) We also got ready together. Neither of us is superstitious, and it was a lot easier than trying to find separate places.

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  • Runawaybride
    VIP May 2017
    Runawaybride ·
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    We got married in my hometown, where we no longer live. We stayed in the same hotel room for the entire wedding trip. On wedding day, we woke up together, but split up during the day to do different activities with our wedding parties. We didn't see each other again until the first look. FYI, we lived together for two years before getting married.

    ETA: clarity and extra details. @2nd bride I wish our dogs had been with us! That sounds perfect. I missed them like crazy.

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  • Trish
    Devoted November 2017
    Trish ·
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    We're spending the night apart. My parents are staying at our house with me and he is going to spend the night with his family.

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  • Malei
    Super October 2018
    Malei ·
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    We live together now and will be spending the night before together, then splitting to get ready. We can't sleep when the other isn't there (sappy, I know, but it's the only sappy we have!) so no point in getting zero sleep the night before our big day

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