Wedding Day Transportation Advice
Wedding day transportation is often the least fun thing to pay for, the most time consuming thing to think about and a factor that can greatly impact your guest experience.
Every movement throughout your wedding day needs to be considered. How are each of you getting from your getting ready spot to your next location… and the next and possibly the next? What about your parents and wedding party or family VIPs? What about your guests? The answer to all of these cannot be a shrug or “Uber?” You need to have planned and scheduled wedding day transportation.
Rideshare apps have greatly changed and mostly improved my experience as a wedding planner over the past decade. However, it is not perfect or ideal for any situation. If you have 100 guests, you cannot rely on 25-50 rideshare cars to be available to move wedding guests around in a timely manner. Often times if you are more than ten miles outside of an urban center, rideshare options will be even more limited as the night gets later.
It can be cheaper to rent one large coach bus rather than two smaller shuttles for your wedding day transportation, but moving a coach bus around either an urban center or narrow country roads can be very challenging.
When picking a location for your first look or for group portraits, make sure there is parking available if you will be arriving by a limo. There is nothing safe about a stretch limo stopping in the middle of a busy road to drop you and your wedding party off at the desired location!
And finally, how are you departing your wedding venue when the event concludes? And where are you going? The rideshare epidemic is causing wedding guests to linger at wedding venues after the last dance, and this is slowing down your vendor load out. This is an issue if your venue has a strict and contracted end time for all vendors to be out.
Photo by Orange Lemur, Edinburgh Scotland
Lessons Learned is a recurring series about the little and sometimes not so little things I learn at each and every wedding. Even after 18 years and 250+ weddings under my belt, I still learn something new at each one!
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