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Or does a bowling afterparty (scroll to the bottom of the page) sound like an absolutely FABULOUS way to top off the wedding?
It's really too late to go all the way with this idea, but I'd really love to make my wedding more of a wedding weekend party than just a one evening affair. I'm already planning on starting the festivities Friday night, at least if I can get enough people to trek across the state on Friday vs. Saturday. I'd love to host a gathering at The New Holland Brewing Company after the rehearsal dinner. This way we can actually spend time with our friends before the wedding (I've been to enough weddings at this point to know that you don't actually get to talk to the bride and groom the entire evening). Then Saturday would be the wedding, naturally (potentially followed by the afore-mentioned bowling party) and then, depending on the honeymoon plans, have a brunch on Sunday.
I'm currently leaning towards delaying our honeymoon...I know, it sounds a little crazy, but here's the deal: we want to do Disney's Land/Sea Cruise package, where we split a week between going to Disney World and a Disney Cruise. It's totally perfect, but because cruises have strict departure schedules, we either do 3 nights on land and 4 at sea starting on a Thursday, or we do 4 nights on land and 3 at sea starting on Sunday. So in order to get any mileage out of that first day in Disney world with the latter package, we would pretty much have to leave immediately after the wedding. No bowling party. And no "wedding night."
Boo. Hiss. Et cetera.
Of course, delaying the honeymoon by very much means we start getting into Spring Break time...followed by hurricane season, when I DO NOT want to be in the Caribbean (true fact: last time Billy and I were considering taking a cruise, Hurricane Katrina ended up hitting. We ended up in Hawaii and as we were coming back we wondered why all of the TVs in the airport were showing New Orleans flooded).
Which means the dream honeymoon might actually become a one year anniversary deal. Which wouldn't be awful, but it wouldn't be ideal, either.
I thought planning the honeymoon was supposed to be the FUN part of a wedding!
It's really too late to go all the way with this idea, but I'd really love to make my wedding more of a wedding weekend party than just a one evening affair. I'm already planning on starting the festivities Friday night, at least if I can get enough people to trek across the state on Friday vs. Saturday. I'd love to host a gathering at The New Holland Brewing Company after the rehearsal dinner. This way we can actually spend time with our friends before the wedding (I've been to enough weddings at this point to know that you don't actually get to talk to the bride and groom the entire evening). Then Saturday would be the wedding, naturally (potentially followed by the afore-mentioned bowling party) and then, depending on the honeymoon plans, have a brunch on Sunday.
I'm currently leaning towards delaying our honeymoon...I know, it sounds a little crazy, but here's the deal: we want to do Disney's Land/Sea Cruise package, where we split a week between going to Disney World and a Disney Cruise. It's totally perfect, but because cruises have strict departure schedules, we either do 3 nights on land and 4 at sea starting on a Thursday, or we do 4 nights on land and 3 at sea starting on Sunday. So in order to get any mileage out of that first day in Disney world with the latter package, we would pretty much have to leave immediately after the wedding. No bowling party. And no "wedding night."
Boo. Hiss. Et cetera.
Of course, delaying the honeymoon by very much means we start getting into Spring Break time...followed by hurricane season, when I DO NOT want to be in the Caribbean (true fact: last time Billy and I were considering taking a cruise, Hurricane Katrina ended up hitting. We ended up in Hawaii and as we were coming back we wondered why all of the TVs in the airport were showing New Orleans flooded).
Which means the dream honeymoon might actually become a one year anniversary deal. Which wouldn't be awful, but it wouldn't be ideal, either.
I thought planning the honeymoon was supposed to be the FUN part of a wedding!
Lauren
But if you extend it, how expensive will it be for your guests to pay for more nights in a hotel for your wedding weekend? I suppose they would need to decide for themselves if they have the time and money to do so. But I really don't know anything about formal weddings or honeymoons.
Either way you decide with the honeymoon, I hope it goes well and you are happy with your decision!
Unfortunately, Billy has vetoed the idea. Crazy ideas about wanting me to himself on the wedding night.
Money is a bit of a concern, but I'm hoping that people are going to be staying Saturday night anyway. We're having an open bar, and with the way my friends drink...yeah. We're reserving hotel rooms both at our nice hotel rooms (which have reasonable rates if you put four people in a room, which, again, my friends could probably do easily) and at the uber-cheap hotel next door (haven't actually checked their rates, but it's an "America's Best Value Inn" in the middle of February in Michigan. If they're not cheap I'll eat my veil).
Ah, okay. I have never been sure if the couple find places for the guests to stay at or if the guests have to do it themselves for a wedding.
We're reserving rooms at two hotels because the one we're having our ceremony and reception at is a little on the pricey side, even with the group rate discount. It's a lovely hotel, but really if you're just going to be staying there to sleep off a night of partying, it's a bit much.