Whether or not to provide transportation for guests

Adults can handle their own transportation. They can either drive or Uber. Getting everyone there and away is not your responsibility

If people don't want to risk drinking and driving, they can take a taxi or Uber. You are not out in the middle of nowhere, such that your guests don't have other options. There is no need for you to supply transportation.

I've never been to a wedding that offered transportation. I've seen people on here suggest Uber events, but I'm not sure how that works.

We are not dealing with anyone's transportation other than our own and possibly BP. like your,s, it's not destination and both ceremony and reception are at the same place

They can take care of themselves. I didn't realize before coming here that some people actually paid for their guests transportation. Very generous, but super unnecessary. Save the money.

I usually advocate for paying for transport. However, once you said ceremony and reception same venue I changed my tune. People are adults. They can figure out how to get home. The only need for transport by the wedding couples is if you have separate ceremony and reception locales.

The only weddings I went to where transportation was provided was when venue parking was literally non-existent. But you're in a big city with Uber and taxis, so people can figure it out on their own. Perhaps provide transportation/parking options/costs on your wedding website for your OOT guests to plan. Some country people will likely have sticker shock at parking costs in a big city :-)

Every venue we looked at has nearby hotels that offer free shuttles. I'm starting to think this is a regional thing? Anyway, not really your responsibility to provide transportation.

I didn't want to worry about anyone drunk driving. We hired a school bus to shuttle guests (10 minute drive) to the venue and back to the hotel. It's only $375! Definitely call around local bus companies in your area. We have guests coming from 12 states so no one knows the area

NO need to provide transportation. Especially in big city. Uber or Taxis are abundant.

I'm in the same situation! I haven't looked into pricing yet, I was surprised/disappointed to see none of the nearby hotels have a shuttle.

I think it's totally fine to not provide transport, especially at that price. Or if you want, look into other options(someone mentioned a school bus, friends of mine are also doing that to save money). $3k is a lot.

We're not providing transportation. We didn't have enough out of town people to justify the costs. They're adults and there are Uber's and cabs and carpooling. It's just not something we could justify spending money on.

I've actually never been to a wedding where transportation wasn't provided if you stayed at the hotel.

That being said, I would probably just take an uber in your situation.

Like someone else mentioned, you may want to try school busses, they are a lot cheaper. Once we saw the cost of shuttles, we balked too and ended up going with those. That said, if you're in a major city with cabs and ubers I don't think it's a necessity. The only reason I felt it was a necessity for us is because our venue is in the middle of nowhere, 25 minutes from the hotel, and we were told that uber won't travel there at midnight

Any chance the hotel has a shuttle they could use? We have two hotels blocked one where the ceremony/reception will be and one 5 min away. We told guests they could use the hotel shuttle to get to and from the wedding location. Call the hotel and see what they say!

That's outrageous. I booked a trolley for about $1,300. We got a discount because our wedding isn't during peak wedding season. That's for 12 hours of service, starting before the wedding to drop people off at the venue, and then starting to shuttle people back to the hotel about an hour before the wedding is over. They will be in the area available to take people back earlier if needed. If they had quoted me $3k there is no way I would have booked transportation.

We rented a 15 seater van. It only goes to and from the hotel we have a block at, if people booked elsewhere they need to figure their own transportation. Another option is a school bus, it's not glamorous but it works!

I always advocate for transportation, we are having an open bar so I want to make sure that I offer a safe ride home for everyone. I would check with the hotel, they may offer some sort of transportation or shuttle service and I am sure much less than $3000. People don't care how nice their ride is, I think people just appreciate the ride.

Hmm, well I am offering paid transportation for all of my guests. My situation is a little different and the hotels are around 20 minutes from the venue and where the wedding is we don't really have taxes and no uber. So I wanted to make sure all my guests had fun and we didn't have to worry about people leaving early or drinking and driving. We got two school buses instead of anything luxury. We are paying around $1500 for two buses. one will run all day and the other will only run before the ceremony.

Soo I'm lucky and I rented our city trolly and it's $30/hr so I booked it from **** and it's only going to run from reception to hotel in those hours I did it because why not for that price ETA: I do not live anywhere that there is Uber and there is only 1 cab in town