How to help your guests who are traveling for your wedding

Traveling abroad for a wedding can be challenging for the newlyweds. Aside from preparing yourself for the destination, a good idea is to also prepare your guests. Here are a few things you can collect while preparing for your wedding and send along to your guests before their travel.

1. Narrow down the radius...

...of recommended accommodation to your wedding location, this is one of the first questions your guests will start to ask you once they RSVP to your wedding - where they should find accommodation for their stay during your wedding celebration. So once you find your location, set up a radius of 15-20km around that location so that guests can easily find their way to your location by car, or if an Uber is needed, that they don't pay too much to get there.

2. Documentation

If there are regulations for traveling or specific documentation needed, or laws that can conflict with some guests, make sure you let them know early on if such is needed. For example if you are inside an EU country but your guests is from an non EU country but doesn't have a passport, just and ID - he/she will need some time to get one made. Some laws and regulations from their origin country might not apply to your destination so maybe a heads up will do.

3. Transportation

Maybe you will know in advance that traveling by car to the destination will be more expensive than renting one (or vise versa) so advise them so. If your destination as excellent local transportation, urge them to use those resources and save up on cash for other things.

4. Stake out your destination

Many guests who come to abroad weddings usually take a vacation from work and spend a few weeks there. Check out for good day trips of excursions, maybe cool hangouts to give them idea where to spend their time.

We had a wedding a few years back that had a great solution for their guests - they made a small digital booklet with all the information they thought was necessary to ease their travels to the wedding, including maps, phone numbers, ideas and suggestions. They shortly described the city and how to move in between places with some local information. They sent it in advance so that anyone who had any extra questions could contact them in time, and at the same time by in advance answering FAQs by themselves saved up on time and money opposed to answering them individually a dozen times.

Also, since it was a bilingual wedding, they had the ceremony and timeline translated and waiting on their seats so no extra question on the wedding day either ;).

So that's a wrap!

xoxo

Denise

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