Accommodating Out of Town Guests
Recently the number of out of town guests attending weddings has been on the rise. Years ago, young people grew up and got married in the town they had lived in all their lives but nowadays couples are attending out of state colleges and accepting jobs far away from their hometown. This travel leads to more and more out of town guests attending weddings as the couple may have friends from their hometown, friends from college and friends from the new area where they live and work. Wherever the couple opts to get married there are bound to be a number of guests who are traveling from out of state for the occasion. As the attendance of out of town guests is a relatively new phenomenon, there are not many established traditions regarding out of town guests and the couple has some leeway to deal with the situation as they see fit.
It has become commonplace for the couple to reserve a block of rooms at a hotel that is near the wedding location for their out of town guests. Many hotels will offer a discounted rate if you block out a certain number of rooms. Knowing that you can assure the hotel of a number of guests, gives the hotel the ability to offer a lower rate because they are assured a certain number of booked rooms. Out of town guests will appreciate this gesture because they are receiving a lower rate than they would have found on their own plus they are spared the hassle and inconvenience of trying to find a hotel in an unfamiliar city.
One increasingly popular trend for accommodating out of town guests is to prepare a package featuring brochures and information regarding some of the points of interest in your city and mailing this package out to all of your out of town guests a few weeks before the wedding. Since many out of town guests may try to schedule a vacation around the wedding, this packages offers them a good starting point in their research by highlighting some of the tourist attractions in the area. You could also include a listing of local restaurants and personal recommendations for your guests.
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