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. I’ll right away take hold of your rss feed as I can not
    find your email subscription link or e-newsletter service.

    Do you have any? Kindly let me recognize so that I may just subscribe.

    Thanks.

  2. Hmm it appears like your website ate my first comment (it was super
    long) so I guess I’ll just sum it up what I had
    written and say, I’m thoroughly enjoying your blog.
    I too am an aspiring blog blogger but I’m still
    new to the whole thing. Do you have any tips and hints for beginner blog writers?
    I’d definitely appreciate it.

  3. This is really interesting, You are a very skilled
    blogger. I have joined your rss feed and look forward to seeking more of your fantastic post.
    Also, I have shared your website in my social networks!

  4. Greetings from Los angeles! I’m bored at work so I decided to browse your site on my iphone
    during lunch break. I love the information you present here
    and can’t wait to take a look when I get home. I’m amazed at how quick your blog loaded on my mobile ..
    I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyhow,
    awesome blog!

  5. I am extremely impressed with your writing skills
    as well as with the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself?
    Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it’s rare to see a nice blog like this one today.

  6. Aw, this was a really good post. Taking the time and actual effort
    to produce a superb article… but what can I say… I
    procrastinate a lot and never seem to get anything done.

  7. great issues altogether, you just gained a emblem new reader.
    What would you suggest in regards to your publish that you simply
    made some days ago? Any positive?

  8. My programmer is trying to convince me to move to .net from PHP.

    I have always disliked the idea because of the costs.
    But he’s tryiong none the less. I’ve been using Movable-type on several websites for about a year and am worried about switching to another platform.
    I have heard excellent things about blogengine.net.

    Is there a way I can transfer all my wordpress posts
    into it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  9. We’re a bunch of volunteers and starting a brand new scheme in our community.

    Your web site provided us with helpful info
    to work on. You’ve done a formidable job and our
    whole group will likely be thankful to you.

  10. Hi! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading through
    this post reminds me of my good old room mate! He always kept chatting about
    this. I will forward this post to him. Pretty
    sure he will have a good read. Thank you for sharing!

  11. I’m extremely impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your weblog.
    Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it is rare to see a great blog
    like this one today.

  12. Greetings! This is my 1st comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out
    and tell you I genuinely enjoy reading your blog posts.
    Can you suggest any other blogs/websites/forums that deal with the same subjects?
    Thanks!

  13. I really like your blog.. very nice colors & theme. Did you create this website yourself
    or did you hire someone to do it for you? Plz answer back as I’m looking to design my own blog and would like
    to find out where u got this from. appreciate it

  14. Heya this is kinda of off topic but I was wanting to know
    if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML.

    I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding know-how so I wanted to get advice from
    someone with experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  15. Excellent goods from you, man. I’ve understand your
    stuff previous to and you’re just extremely fantastic.
    I really like what you have acquired here, really like what you’re saying and the way in which you say it.
    You make it entertaining and you still care
    for to keep it sensible. I cant wait to read far more from you.

    This is actually a great site.

  16. Hey! Do you know if they make any plugins to assist with Search Engine Optimization? I’m trying to get my blog
    to rank for some targeted keywords but I’m not seeing very good gains.
    If you know of any please share. Many thanks!

  17. With havin so much content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism orr copyribht infringement?
    My blog has a lot of exclusive cointent I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it seems a lot off it is popping it up
    all over the internet without my authorization. Do you know any solutions to helpp
    stop content from being stolen? I’d certainly appreciate it.

  18. What’s up, this weekend is nice designed for me, for the reason that
    this moment i am reading this enormous informative piece of writing
    here at my residence.

  19. I am curious to find out what blog platform you have been working
    with? I’m experiencing some minor security problems with my
    latest blog and I’d like to find something more safeguarded.
    Do you have any suggestions?

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published.