Wedding Location: Hometown or Destination?

I'm getting married in my hometown which is 1.5 hours from where I currently live.

(does that make it a destination :-)

Definitely hometown!

I was born and raised in North Jersey, FH was born and raised in Philly. We both live in South Jersey at the shore so that's where we're having it. Local for us, destination for everyone else.

We avoided the summer season since it's absolute madness here and fall at the shore is usually peaceful.

We went with the winery DH and I have been wine club members of for a few years. It was the first place we "looked" at to have our wedding. Every other place we looked at had to beat our winery. When we are there it feels like home. It's a small family owned and run winery. I'm all about small businesses so it has extra appeal to me. The staff there is fantastic! All of them may not remember our names but they surely remember our faces and talk to us like we have all known each other for years. The venue itself is just beautiful and they have a lot to offer. All you really have to bring in yourself is a DJ, photographer and cake. They do the food, bar, set-up and tear-down, they have centerpieces you are free to use, linens, glass wear, silver.... And I love the gals in the events office. They made us feel comfortable from day 1 until beyond the wedding day

(near) hometown

He grew up 15 hrs away, but his whole family lives here now (45 mins away from where I live). From either household, wedding venues are at least 1-2 hours away. So yes it's difficult to pick one. I have consider a going off to the beach or the smokies (it would cost less), but I want our families there.

Both of our immediate families and us live within 20 minutes of each other. We knew we wanted to have the wedding within 30 minutes of where we lived. We looked at venues up to 1 hour away though. We ended up choosing a venue about 20 minutes from us and 5 minutes from my parents!

Both my FH and I were raised and live right outside of Philadelphia. We both love the shore and wanted to have our wedding on the beach. We also wanted to extend our wedding into a week long celebration with family and close friends. The fee for renting house was much more reasonable in North Carolina than it is at the Jersey shore, so we are having a destination wedding in the Outer Banks.

We both love the Jersey shore though. Jac-Jac, where will you be having your wedding?

My FH is from a farming community where everyone expects to be invited to everyone else's shindigs regardless of how close they are. With two big families plus pressure to invite an entire town, it was just not affordable- even though small towns are less expensive for weddings.

I would rather a nicer smaller wedding than a big cheap feeling one and my FH wanted to get married somewhere different than the one venue in town that ALL his friends and family get married in. We chose to get married in the City I'm from in the winter time, hoping most of his farming community won't bother travel to a City in the winter- unless we really mean something to them, plus then 100% of my family isn't travelling.

It was a STUPIDLY difficult decision. We're getting married where we are both living now, neither of us were raised there. I grew up about 90 minutes away, and he grew up 6 hours from there.

My mother wanted it to be in my hometown. Stated reason: "that's what brides do." Actual Reason: She was scared my FMIL would take over the wedding planning if it were in Caleb's hometown. (In all fairness, that wasn't an impossibility.) FMIL wanted it practically in her back yard.

I got so fed up, I made the wedding in a completely neutral location, away from anyone. This was a nightmare. So when we got jobs where we are now, we just said Fk it, we'll do the wedding here.

It is gonna be in my hometown "Panama" so it is kinda destination wedding. Since the beginning he decided it has to be there. It was not a hard decision.

A lot of my family would have to travel anyway, so why not make our wedding a party in another state. Besides, I'm tired of Florida.

I grew up in North Jersey and live just over the border in New York State. About half my family is nearby and about half is in that part of Jersey that calls itself "Central" but those of us in the north call "South."

My spouse is from Louisville, KY, 800 miles away.

We knew first of all that we wanted to be surrounded by family and friends, so that ruled out "destination." Since I have a huge family and she doesn't, doing it here made sense. We didn't imagine most of her friends would travel the distance, but almost all of them did!

Our wedding was in NY State, so my south/central Jersey family mostly stayed overnight. Since we knew people would travel from Kentucky, we chose a venue that had available overnight accommodations for wedding guests, and we had a breakfast there the next morning.

We're having ours north of Dallas (where I used to live and near where we met) just because it's closer to an airport. We thought about having it in his family's orchard but it was too remote. We looked into San Diego (my hometown) but that was too much, too far and too freakin expensive... soooo. Texas it is!

Our church is in FH's hometown and the reception venue is 5 minutes from my hometown! We picked the reception venue because it was close and we loved it!

Hometown. Church is FH's church that he grew up in(mine is only 15 minutes away, but I didn't care if it was mine or his). Reception is the next town over from where we live now. Church and reception are about 20 minutes away from each other down the Parkway.

@Jac-Jac we had to stay away from summer months too... way too much traffic.

Our vow renewal is in Tenafly, New Jersey. We live in Teaneck which is approximately 10-15 minutes from the hotel which is our venue. We stayed there for our second wedding anniversary and several times after that and love the place. We always said if we ever had an event, we would have it there. And when we decided to renew our vows, we knew this would be our place.

I'm from Los Angeles, and we got engaged at Disneyland so we initially wanted to get married at Disneyland.... But it is SO expenisive and we just couldn't afford that. Also, we realized how hard planning a wedding was going to be, let alone planning one in a different city so we just started looking for venues in our area. 95% of the guests are local anyways, so by keeping it here we're ensuring that the majority of our guests can make it and the out of town guests are family members so we're not worried about them not taking the time to come out to AZ

Destination Wedding. I'm from Va Beach. My mom lives in MI. My dad and stepmom live in FL. One sister lives in Chitown and one lives in Savannah. FH is from Philly and his whole family does for the most part still live there. We currently live in DC.

The entire east coast is just expensive. When I was repeatedly quoted over 10k for JUST catering, I said eff this and we looked into DWs (after extensive searches everywhere on the eastern seaboard - from Philly to around the tip of FL into the Keys). I could find nothing that would accommodate us within our budget in season.

So we're getting married in Mexico. And if people want to come, great!

Getting married in my hometown of Boston, MA! I would have preferred a destination wedding but...

My FH lost his brother and mother within days of each other just before our engagement. We decided to do it at home to have a joyous occasion for our families because there has been too much sadness (deaths) in the past 2 years.