Destination Wedding.. Do bride and groom pay for airfare and hotel?
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at
4:14 pm
My brother is planning for a destination wedding in Hawaii next year. None of our friends and family are in Hawaii, everybody will have to travel. Are they supposed to provide airfare and hotels for people (both family & guests) that is going to attend? This will be our first destination wedding in our family, not sure how it works.
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Unless the bride and groom are rolling in dough and can afford that expense without batting an eye and thus offers to pay, then it is the guests’ responsibility to pay for airfare and accomodations.
They do not have to provide anything…but if they are in the position to do so I would imagine that they would if they expect anyone without the funds to be in attendance.
My cousin had a destination wedding and a family friend did as well. Neither payed for their families to fly down. They invited immediate family and anyone who wanted to make the trip but guests had to make their own plans.
no.
send out a "save the date (and your money!)" reminder cards to everyone you’d like to invite now!
first figure out what the cost will be for your location wedding- then break it down by how many weeks until then and put on your invites/save the date cards "put away $15 every week and you will have enough saved to share our special day with us" – or something along those lines- it always sounds more feasible when you break it down to smaller amounts rather than "it wil cost $2,500 to attend"
a friend had a one and it was great and everyone paid their own way. they sent out invites and then they sent out a break down with a payment plan and everything. it was very affordable and even easier with the payment plan and we all had fun.
Nope. Guests are responsible for their own travel expenses, always. If the bride and groom can afford to chip in, that’s nice, but they are definitely not obligated to do so.
Nope. They do not pay your airfare or hotel. That is why destination weddings are usually small. Most of the ones that I have been to were because the bride and groom could not afford a wedding and a honeymoon, so they lumped it into one. Some people just like the area for whatever reason. Unfortunatly if you want to attend you will have to pay. Hey make a vacation out of it.