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Wedding Car London to Bradford

Hi

I need help and suggestions, looking for a wedding car from London to Bradford. I looked at taking a car and then getting a more flashy car in local area but they seem to charge just as much.

My friend has got me a deal for a Bentley from London to Leeds for £900 or RR for £1,300. This is by far best quote.

Has anyone got any suggestions of companies?

I tried looking at a company local in Bradford for the day yet cost is just as high.
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  • FatVonD
    FatVonD Posts: 5,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Cost aside, I don't think I'd feel/look my best after a long car journey, could you not stay in a hotel the night before?
    Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)

    December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.10
  • podperson
    podperson Posts: 3,125 Forumite
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    If you don't mind me asking why do you need to do such a long trip on the day? For that price I would have thought you could stay in a hotel the night before, find a local company to take you from there to the venue and as mentioned above surely feel much fresher than after sitting in a warm car for several hours.
  • PM
    PM Posts: 518 Forumite
    They joys of having large family....

    I'm actually considering hiring something like a Merc.
    One company locally wants £400 for a simple drop off in morning and pick up in afternoon and both times dropping off around corner.
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    Can't you hire something else (e.g taxi) to take you to somewhere near your venue then hire a wedding car from there? Seriously, one thousand three hundred pounds to get from London to Bradford. I know it's your wedding day but that's one serious waste of money.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,845 Forumite
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    I'd be stressing the whole journey, what if the traffic's appalling and you're really really late?
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  • Netwizard
    Netwizard Posts: 830 Forumite
    Can't you hire something else (e.g taxi) to take you to somewhere near your venue then hire a wedding car from there? Seriously, one thousand three hundred pounds to get from London to Bradford. I know it's your wedding day but that's one serious waste of money.

    Hire a bloody helicopter and a pilot for that price! You won't have any traffic problems either. :T
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    PM wrote: »
    They joys of having large family....

    I'm actually considering hiring something like a Merc.
    One company locally wants £400 for a simple drop off in morning and pick up in afternoon and both times dropping off around corner.

    I have been to a few weddings in Bradford and TBH the guests who turn up in hired Lambos, porsches and ferraris, always seem to be trying way too hard, and the last one I attended a guy in a Mk1 Golf GTi was getting more attention that the parked R8 next door. :rotfl:

    I like the helicopter idea, but you would need to get from LBA to the venue, I dont think they would let you land at bradford hospital.
  • This can't be serious. I'd be asleep by the time the car got to the wedding, if not that then you'd have to do some serious stretching and walking around to wake your limbs up. Imagine being sat in a wedding dress for the time it would take tomget from London to Bradford. I think you'd look a state by the time you get there.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,845 Forumite
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    I think you'd look a state by the time you get there.
    If you didn't, the dress would. I've known brides be instructed not to sit down once they're in their dress, for fear of crumpling it. And imagine needing to visit the motorway services!
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  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    What do you mean by "the joys of having a large family"? Are they all going up in the car with you? I'm puzzled!

    Surely it would still be cheaper booking everyone ino a hotel?

    I know I'd be flapping that I looked a mess by the time I got there lol! Worried that my make up didn't look right, my hair style had dropped out, went frizzy etc, and that my dress would be creased, not to mention how uncomfortable you might feel.
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