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To ask for your opinions about who should sleep where? (Allocating rooms to guests)

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GuestCat · 17/04/2015 14:51

DP and I are getting married soon, having a quiet registry office ceremony (I'm pregnant so don't want stress of big wedding). We want a few close friends to attend the registry office and have a group meal in nice restaurant afterwards. As most of our close friends live far away, they'll all be staying with us for weekend and celebrating. We've narrowed it down to 4 couples who are all keen to come.

Our dilemma is who to put in which room. We have only one guestroom (with double-bed) but can accommodate one couple in lounge on double sofa-bed and one couple in study on floor. There is space for the other couple to sleep either in lounge (sharing it with others) or in dining-room (not very private as you have to walk through it to reach lounge). I feel we need to decide on rooms now, so people have option of getting a B+B instead if they don't like sleeping arrangements. All but one couple have visited previously but they've all had guest room as came individually. All are similar age (30s) and everyone apart from Couple A (and the gf of Couple C) know each other .

Couple A: don't know any of the others and will be bringing their baby. I therefore think they should have the guest room.
Couple B: Quite fussy about where they sleep, privacy, like to sleep early etc, may make a fuss about not having guest room.
Couple C: More laid-back but gf is new to group and very shy.
Couple D: Laid-back and likely to be flexible about where they sleep.

Who would you put where?

OP posts:
iwantgin · 17/04/2015 17:03

B &B for me

I would hate to be either the host or the guest in a house full like that.

Unless you are all skint then fair enough.

teacher54321 · 17/04/2015 17:30

B and B for the lot of them, but set up a travel cot in the spare room for the baby to have a kip in the evening and then they can all GO AWAY AND LEAVE YOU ALONE!

bananayellow · 17/04/2015 17:38

I'd do a group email to the three couples who know each other suggesting couple with baby have guest room as they don't know any of the others and it will be more comfortable providing for a baby in a home rather than a guest house, and asking the other lot what they want to do. Do they want to squeeze in (tell them the options) or do they want to book a b&b? They may discuss it between them and go for the b&b option or they may decide to bunk at yours, but then they can sort out who and where. That way you are being considerate but flexible.

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