5 Things to Tell Your Out-of-Town Wedding Guests

5 Things to Tell Your Out-of-Town Wedding Guests

There’s a good chance that not all of your wedding guests will hail from your home city. You may have a few university pals are flying in from across the country or some relatives heading over from abroad all to celebrate your big day, and that is awesome. Just remember, these guests are going to need a bit of info to get settled and prepared for your big day. From offering up event info to giving them a list of emergency contacts, this is everything you need to do to be the hostess (or host) with the most.

Here’s what to tell your out-of-town wedding guests.

Event info
Don’t leave your out-of-town guests to fend for themselves up until your wedding day. Try to squeeze in a few pre-wedding events to make them feel welcome. Whether you simply want to include them in your rehearsal dinner or throw them a dedicated welcome event is up to you. If these events aren’t open to all guests, don’t add the info to your wedding website, just let the guests know in a one-on-one convo or email.

Accommodation info
Booked a block of rooms for your friends and family at a local hotel? Make sure your out-of-towners got the memo. Consider sending those travelling from a distance an email with all the booking info along with the hotel name, address and phone number so that they know to take advantage of it. If they wait too long and miss out on reserving their spot, you can always offer up some suggestions for different hotels nearby.

Transportation info
Yes, nowadays pretty much every smartphone is equipped with maps, but don’t skimp out on offering transportation and travel info. Give your out-of-towners a link to a map of your hometown and suggest a few apps that’ll help them better navigate the city’s transportation system (like RocketMan). Don’t forget to inform them if you’ve hired a shuttle service to get them to and from your wedding.

Recommendations
Let them know the lay of the land. If your visiting guests aren’t regulars in your hometown, you’ll want give them a few pointers on the best places to scope out. Put together a list of amazing restaurants, must-see galleries and your favorite places to shop. They won’t want to spend their entire stay cooped up in their hotel room, so the more suggestions the better. Tip: make you’re out-of-town guests feel extra special with a welcome basket (containing snacks, keepsakes and essential info) in their hotel room. 

Emergency contacts
You’ll want to let your out-of-town guests know who to reach out to in case of emergency. While you may be tempted to put your own info down first, save yourselves for a last resort (remember, you’ll be tied up with planning and prepping in the days leading up to your wedding). Use a trustworthy wedding party member, like your maid of honor or best man, to help guide them through any issues that may arise.

6,620 thoughts on “5 Things to Tell Your Out-of-Town Wedding Guests”

  1. Thanks on your marvelous posting! I definitely enjoyed reading it, you happen to be a great author.
    I will always bookmark your blog and definitely will come back
    very soon. I want to encourage you to continue your great work, have a nice evening!

  2. hello there and thank you for your information – I’ve definitely picked up something new from right here.
    I did however expertise several technical issues using
    this web site, since I experienced to reload the website a
    lot of times previous to I could get it to load correctly.
    I had been wondering if your web hosting is OK? Not
    that I am complaining, but sluggish loading instances times will sometimes
    affect your placement in google and can damage your high quality
    score if ads and marketing with Adwords. Well I am adding this RSS to my e-mail and could look out for much more of your respective interesting content.
    Ensure that you update this again very soon.

  3. I simply couldn’t depart your site prior to suggesting that I actually enjoyed the usual information an individual supply on your visitors?
    Is gonna be again incessantly to investigate cross-check new posts

  4. I was excited to find this website. I need to to thank you for your time for this particularly fantastic read!!
    I definitely savored every part of it and i also have you book-marked to look
    at new things in your website.

  5. After looking over a number of the blog posts on your
    website, I honestly like your way of blogging.

    I added it to my bookmark site list and will be checking back soon. Please check
    out my web site as well and let me know your opinion.

  6. This design is spectacular! You certainly know how to keep a reader amused.
    Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my
    own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Great job. I really loved what you had to say, and more
    than that, how you presented it. Too cool!

  7. Greetings from Ohio! I’m bored to tears at work so I decided to browse your site on my iphone
    during lunch break. I really like the knowledge you provide here and can’t wait to take a look when I get home.
    I’m amazed at how fast your blog loaded on my cell phone ..
    I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyhow, great blog!

  8. Cool blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
    A theme like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make my blog stand out.
    Please let me know where you got your design. With thanks

  9. You are so cool! I don’t believe I’ve truly read through
    anything like that before. So good to find someone with a few unique thoughts on this issue.
    Really.. many thanks for starting this up. This web site is
    something that is required on the internet, someone with design a koozie bit of originality!

  10. I do agree with all of the concepts you have introduced to your post.

    They’re really convincing and will certainly work.
    Still, the posts are too brief for beginners. May just you please lengthen them a
    little from subsequent time? Thank you for the post.

  11. Hello! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any trouble with
    hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing several weeks of hard work due to no back up.

    Do you have any solutions to stop hackers?

  12. I have been browsing on-line more than 3 hours lately, but I by no means
    found any interesting article like yours. It is lovely value sufficient for me.

    Personally, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you probably did,
    the net might be much more useful than ever before.

    Also visit my webpage – agile thinking training

  13. I think this is one of the most important info for me.
    And i’m glad reading your article. But want to remark on some general things, The web site style
    is great, the articles is really great : D. Good job, cheers

    Here is my site … Sunnyside Sisters

  14. Interesting blog! Is your theme custom made or did you
    download it from somewhere? A theme like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make my blog shine.
    Please let me know where you got your theme. Appreciate it

  15. The best approach is to think about professional help when discover helpless.
    For years, i thought sold like a beneficial associated with building inlinks.
    Let me give you another example so you’re able to relate.

  16. An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a friend who has been conducting a
    little homework on this. And he in fact bought me lunch
    due to the fact that I discovered it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this….
    Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending time to discuss this issue here on your internet site.

  17. I’m amazed, I have to admit. Rarely do I encounter
    a blog that’s both educative and amusing, and without a
    doubt, you’ve hit the nail on the head. The issue is something that not enough people
    are speaking intelligently about. I’m very happy that I stumbled across this
    in my search for something relating to this.

  18. Hey there! This is kind of off topic but I need some guidance from an established blog.
    Is it tough to set up your own blog? I’m not very techincal but
    I can figure things out pretty fast. I’m thinking about making my
    own but I’m not sure where to start. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?
    With thanks

  19. My brother suggested I may like this website.
    He was entirely right. This submit actually made my day.
    You can not imagine just how a lot time I had spent for this info!
    Thanks!

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published.