AIBU about far flung wedding?

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AIBU to think if you invite (and truly expect) people to travel to the other side of the world for your wedding, in a venue only accessible by car that's three hours' drive from the city in which you live, that you inquire about or maybe even organise accommodation and road transport to and from said venue for your elderly parents and siblings with small kids who are coming?

They are family.

Clutching at straws- maybe they haven't thought? Could you ask them to send transport suggestions to you in the hope that they cotton on?

Gutted it's not Maui

YANBU

Yes, you can Google for yourself but someone on the ground should know that Hotel A is in a better location than Hotel B.

However, given that the B&G have gone for a wedding location miles from home then I would suspect that your guess will be as good as theirs.

This is all leading me to think that the B&G are more concerned with how their wedding will look than feel. I fully expect a colour chart for wedding day wear to arrive by the next post.

not great. looks like you'll have to sort it yourself.

Canadians and Australians think that three hours is a short jaunt.

Is it in the Blue Mountains? Or is that too close?

How fresh can you be to drive for 3 hours after a 26 hours flight + jet lag!

Selfish twats

I'm impressed you're going at all!

Dammit! Too many got a Maui remark in before me

I think it's hideously uncaring. If you live somewhere and people visit, you help them as much as possible so they have a nice time, especially if they're spending money to come to your bloody wedding.

Extraordinary.

How fresh can you be to drive for 3 hours after a 26 hours flight + jet lag! DH could. He would have been asleep for 25 of the 26 hours. Bastard. [bitter]

Presumably they've included info on hotels near the venue with the invitation?

Most of Australia is only accessible by car. There are probably coaches from Sydney if it's the Hunter, but it's so much easier to hire a car as you'll be very isolated without one.

No, and it's not the Hunter Valley either.

Personally I would give yourself 3 days in Sydney before heading out of Sydney, especially if you have kids. We lived there so did the flight many times. Jet lag is hard. And you won't enjoy the wedding if it is within a day or two of getting there. We have had people fall asleep mid sentance and a 10 year old fall asleep with her head on the dinner table 2 days after she arrived.

If you can work in holidays and afford it you really want to stay for 3 weeks.

We have used a company called Hire for Baby to hire car seats before. They were very clean and in perfect condition.

If it is Hunter Valley there are lots of houses you can rent.

Thanks Fresh01. I have flown to Oz before, albeit 12 years ago, so I'm excepting Armageddon in terms of jet lag and kids! I'm going to alter the flights so we'll have a few more days in Sydney before travelling to the wedding (more $$$$ for that I guess)

Previous reply was spot on about the 'look' of the wedding as opposed to taking those travelling into consideration for a minute. It truly is the arsehole of nowhere. None of us was aware of this when we booked the flights, sort of assumed the wedding would be in Sydney or surrounds.

I know that bridezillas want the best for their wed, but for me, it's a bit costly to have it there (not just in monetary basis) but also, the time and effort. Yes, they can reach the destination, but they'll feel exhausted upon reaching there. Right after the wed, they'll prepare themselves to return home following the same trail as they did when they travel to the destination.