To hate remote wedding venues with no overnight accommodation at them

This is the reason I chose to have my wedding in a city. Great public transport links and parking available for people who didn’t want to stay. Lots of hotel options if they did. A wedding is about guests as well as the bride and groom imo.

The only weddings we have travelled to have been where the couple live, so not really a "destination wedding". We just happen to not live anywhere near any family.

Meh, not convenient but can’t really get upset about it. It’s their choice and as an adult I have a beautiful thing, called free will. So if it’s a real pain in the arse I just decline, but more likely one of us will just drive, problem solved.

I have a sliding scale of how much cost / inconvenience I will suffer for a wedding/ event.
parent/child/sibling - anything
close old friends - uk and Europe
extended close family/good friends- uk only
extended family/friends- within a couple hours from my house or easy location
people I’m less close to/ work colleagues- my town only

I couldn’t agree more. I still have bad memories of a wedding I went to where we got stranded at the venue at the end of the night and my partner and I had to wait for two hours outside in the pitch black car park for the only taxi driver who worked in the area. Longest two hours of my life!

...but don't you know, it's all about "their dream wedding"... 🫪 It's selfish and crass to put every single thing above the comfort of guests, but badly raised people don't consider this.

They cover it up with one free glass of pish prosecco each and a fucking photo booth full of cardboard props. While obligingly smiling grandma slowly wilts in the corner on a rock hard conference room type chair with a ribbon on it, eating her chunk of melon and sliver of salmon, after hour 75 of the "photo shoot" involving only 14% of the guests. And the credit card debt continues to rack. FUN

(Pessimistic, judgemental, yes, but I'm finished with the cookie cutter weddings and their money wishing wells and it's such a relief)