To think this wedding arrangement is a bit odd?

[Brendobfh]

I’m going to a wedding in July which is an hour away from where I live. Three of us have arranged to share a taxi there & back. All fine and I’m very pleased to be invited.

I found out today though that the church is 10 miles away from the hotel the reception’s at. I’m obviously going to try & find a local taxi firm to do the journey but it’s very rural.

Every other wedding I’ve been to where the wedding & reception are a distance away from each other has put on either a bus, asked if any guests needed to car share or at least provided some taxi information.

I had (and I accept it’s on me to check) assumed the church & reception were in walking distance since nothing has been mentioned about it. I can imagine other guests travelling to the church with no way of getting to the reception.

AIBU to think it’s a bit odd to not mention this to guests?

the food issue in eve sounds mean

transport

one of you drive to church then reception and leave car and taxi back

taxi local to you drives to church and waits for hr ish for ceremony ,pay waiting fee then drive to reception

one of you drive and find local hotel stay and drive home next day and hotel v taxi costs both ways

ring local taxis to venue and book one for 10m journey - must be some near by

The bride doesn’t sound very pleasant really. Is she a good friend? No, the groom is.

What a nightmare, it sounds like they haven’t given any thought to their guests. Most of the weddings I’ve been to have either been reception within walking distance of ceremony (eg church and then church hall or else vast conference centre site) or else a bus has been laid on to get people between the two. The conference centre venue was notable for not including any public transport info on its website but there was a helpful section on where to land your helicopter

We did go to one wedding where transport between venues was promised but then nothing materialised on the day. We ended up just going straight home. Apparently several people didn’t make it to the reception so they had the equivalent of one empty table = wasted money for them