Location dilemma!

Floss

raspabarbas wrote: »

We did decide on Liverpool in the end. We'll probably end up organising a coach or a great big convoy to bring people over. Does bring up the problem of where people will stay though! My family will only be around for a night or two but if his are flying in from Latin America they will probably want to stay for longer than a weekend...

Don't forget that they may not be able to fly into Manchester, depends on airlines & their hubs. Check out possible flight routes & whether they can then get to Liverpool John Lennon easily (Easyjet or BA?)

bluemeanie999

where bouts in Liverpool do you live or thinking of having your wedding & reception ??

there are quite a few places I recommended to friends of mine who came over last year to see Paul McCartney in concert at Anfield - they were all very cheap and they loved the places they stayed too

weeclick

Id say choose the stay local to where you live. Its far easier to meet suppliers were you are instead of having to travel all the time, theres no way you could get things planned and perfect for your day without you going insane and wasting precious extra cash on petrol!

As someone had already mentioned a wedding is usually a major deal for everyone a in the family circle and parents especially will be prepared to travel to see their son/daughter getting hitched!

Congratulations and enjoy whats to come!

debs2327

hi ya im from northeast and h2b is from coventry we live in coventry too aand thats where we are getting married purely because its where im most happiest , i have some of my family traveling down to the wedding but not all of them but that was there choice not to come , but the ones who are coming is the ones im most close to anyway so im happy ,
id say have it where you and your h2b is more happy hunni if ppl want to come they will xx

shelovestobuystuff

Not that I am a great traditiionalist,but if you are then I believe it is traditional to get married close to where the bride lives.
Personally I would be very practical about it.I would consider how many people are to be invited to the wedding from each side and have the wedding close to where the majority live so that fewer have to travel.Also consider if elderly relatives or people you really want to be there have any medical conditions which would stop them from travelling.
Good luck deciding.

raspabarbas

Floss wrote: »

Don't forget that they may not be able to fly into Manchester, depends on airlines & their hubs. Check out possible flight routes & whether they can then get to Liverpool John Lennon easily (Easyjet or BA?)

There are flights every day from Manchester with Continental (we've been over a couple of times and it's not too bad - just one connection in NY) and then it's only a train ride into liverpool, so I think that would be easier than trying to catch a flight straight into Liverpool. Plus it's not prohibitively expensive if you book in advance. I think OH paid about £560 for his return ticket in December. Mine was more but had to wait to confirm time off from work/flying close to Christmas/only had business class left/yaddayadda.

Plus I think his uncle works for the airline so you never know - could even get them some money off (here's hoping!)

We chose Liverpool because it's where we both live, where OH has been going to church since he got here, to save us having to go back and forth to Notts (and neither of us drive), the church is prettier than the one in my home town and my family are happy to come over. Driving it's only about two hours for them. Wherever we had it his family would have had to fly in and it's probably easier for them to get from Manc airport to Liverpool than lending anywhere else and going to Notts. The only thing there is if we had it in Notts then family would have possibly been able to put them up. Hopefully next year we'll have a bigger place with a spare room and maybe a couple of friends could lend space. Alternatively it will be hotel/short stay apartment or hire a caravan!

raspabarbas

Bluemeanie - we live right in the city centre. Wedding will be at St Philip Neri,the little catholic church by the uni. Not sure about the reception yet - need to start looking!

blonde36er

Is it possible to go to Panama (my mistake!) for your honeymoon? Have some sort of blessing or something there?

raspabarbas

(He's from Panama!)

Not really thought about the honeymoon yet. We won't be able to take it straight after the wedding because I'll be on rotation in A+E and the schedule is horrendous - we'll probably wait until that finishes and my hours are less antisocial.

May have a blessing over there, but more likely just have a big party instead and invite all his family and friends who couldn't come here

MsChazzer

We had to get married in Scotland as we wanted a humanist ceremony and they are only legal here (although you can have one after a registry office wedding elsewhere, seemed like more expense to us). We did look around and initially thought about just sticking to close family and going somewhere up in the Highlands. In the end we've stayed in Edinburgh and organising it has been much easier.

Our families are mainly based in Yorkshire and the south of England and have all been fine with it. I think it all works out fair in the end as we don't have a problem travelling south for their weddings.