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Selena
Super September 2019

Welcome party dilemma

Selena, on June 28, 2019 at 2:27 PM Posted in Parties and Events 0 9
We are having an informal open house style welcome party. I need to choose a venue. I have 2 choices.

One a bar that a friend owns, great food, but further away (20 minute drive with no traffic) from wedding venue/ hotel block, very little parking. The drive could be longer with traffic, but at 8pm hopefully that isn't a concern.

Closer bar, still very little parking, not as excited about the food, but it is closer.

Our room block is nearly full, but I am not sure where everyone else is staying. Lots of our guests (75% ish) are from out of town, but I don't know how many plan on stopping by.

Basically is it worth a drive to have the event in the place we really want.

9 Comments

Latest activity by Cassi, on June 29, 2019 at 10:46 AM
  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    I'd go with the bar your friend owns.
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  • LB
    Champion November 2016
    LB ·
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    Any way you could swing transportation?

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  • Kristen
    VIP June 2020
    Kristen ·
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    I would choose your friends bar. Those who want to attend probably still will, and it doesn’t sound like this is mandatory, so the distance sounds fine
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  • Sarah
    Master September 2019
    Sarah ·
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    It’s really up to you if it’s worth it. The only welcome events I’ve attended have either been at the hotel bar or at a place within walking distance of the hotel. If I was a guest, I’d probably just skip the welcome event if it was 20 minutes away.
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  • Lauren
    Dedicated June 2020
    Lauren ·
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    We were going to do our welcome reception about a 20 minute drive but a survey of my bridal party was pretty unanimous that they didn’t think people would attend, so we are doing something walking distance or a 5 minute drive max.
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  • Selena
    Super September 2019
    Selena ·
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    Transportation isn't in the budget, and with the open house format it would be hard to arrange times.
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  • Summerbride77
    VIP July 2019
    Summerbride77 ·
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    I would vote for the closer one. We also used paperless post to send out an evite and get a rough count of how many people will be there. I suspect our welcome party is similar to what you’re looking to plan. A casual get together where people.come and go as they want with heavy apps and drinks
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  • Denise
    Super September 2019
    Denise ·
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    I'd go with the friends bar. In this chunk of text alone I feel like that's where I would go. You know the foods good, whereas the other you're "not as excited about the food". I think a 20-30 minute drive isn't terrible. But ultimately it's your choice.

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  • Cassi
    Super October 2019
    Cassi ·
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    I'd do it where you want to have it. These aren't required events and the people that don't want to travel won't and the ones that do will. We aren't really doing anything special we are all staying in the same cabins so we will probably do a dinner on Friday at the cabins and rehearsal breakfast the next morning and then split off into guys and girls for day before festivities (essentially a 2nd bachelorette and bachelor party)

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