Paying for accomodation at the reception

barbarawright

I'm guessing the OP isn't going to come back...

fierystormcloud

barbarawright wrote: »

I'm guessing the OP isn't going to come back...

I'm thinking not.

Jagraf

No as you are expecting guests to pay towards your wedding.

jackyann

I agree with belfast girl, but you could probably just quickly work out who is likely to stay: close family, people from further away who have enough money......you will already have an idea as to whether that is 50 rooms' worth......if it is fine.....but it probably isn't, unless it is a HUGE wedding OR a long way from most of the family.

It won't help with this particular venue, but when we did a wedding, I worked out that we would need about 30 rooms. I rang the local Premier Inn and asked for a deal....they agreed £30 per room for 1 night, and I had to confirm exact numbers 2 weeks in advance. I did have to ask everyone for the money, but they were pleased to have a cheaper deal than they could have organised on their own.
Two couples organised their own, superior accommodation.

wizzywills

I think some of those who have posted an answer didn't read my post properly and in fact I feel a bit cheesed off with some off your comments - I'm no bridzilla!
- We don't want or need exclusive use - the hotel say we have to have it as a condition of booking
- No one HAS to stay, I was just asking for advice on how best to position it with our guests if they wanted to stay and we were asking them to pay us rather than the hotel


Thanks of those of you that managed a positive reply x

Gigervamp

wizzywills wrote: »

I think some of those who have posted an answer didn't read my post properly and in fact I feel a bit cheesed off with some off your comments - I'm no bridzilla!
- We don't want or need exclusive use - the hotel say we have to have it as a condition of booking

Actually, you did say you want exclusive use.

wizzywills wrote: »

We're planning our wedding next year and the venue we have fallen in love with insist we have to pay for all the bedrooms if we want exclusive use - which we do.

Mojisola

wizzywills wrote: »

We're planning our wedding next year and the venue we have fallen in love with insist we have to pay for all the bedrooms if we want exclusive use - which we do.

wizzywills wrote: »

We don't want or need exclusive use - the hotel say we have to have it as a condition of booking

Puzzled...........

wizzywills

Having read some of the replies, thank you for the sensible, supportive comments.


To those of you that think it's ok to bully and rant, shame on you. You know who you are.
Yes, I'm new to using the forum and yes I took a whole 10 days away from my computer, but thanks to your bully tactics and snide comments I really don't want to be part of this community anymore

gettingtheresometime

Can we have a icon that people can put in the title which means don't reply unless you agree with me?

BarryBlue

wizzywills wrote: »

I think some of those who have posted an answer didn't read my post properly and in fact I feel a bit cheesed off with some off your comments - I'm no bridzilla!
- We don't want or need exclusive use - the hotel say we have to have it as a condition of booking
- No one HAS to stay, I was just asking for advice on how best to position it with our guests if they wanted to stay and we were asking them to pay us rather than the hotel

Thanks of those of you that managed a positive reply x

I think it is outrageous the way many of these wedding venue hotels exploit young couples who are trying to plan a wedding. They just see it as a licence to print money and seem willing to do anything to extract money for as little as possible.

I have heard of places setting ridiculous minimum numbers for meals, even at £50-60 a head, with no choice of menu, no reductions for kids and no dietary considerations. Then try cancelling, even a year or more in advance and they will try to retain a huge percentage of the deposit despite Unfair Contract Term law.

My advice to the OP is to ditch this place as they clearly are only interested in cash, not service, and find somewhere that treat you like customers and not a cash-cow to be milked dry.