To travel from a different airport?

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I'm bridesmaid for an old friend next year, and her MOH has organised her hen weekend abroad (2 hr flight away).

I moved last year and now live a 5/10 min drive from an airport. WIBU to travel from my local airport rather than travel an hour to fly with the bride for 6:30am flight?

At 6.30 you’re surely not going to be swilling champers and partying on the way, so it wouldn’t seem a big deal to me. Some people might put a lot of weight on it being “part of the weekend” though so sound them out to make sure they’re not those people.

As long as you arrive at the same time so they don't have to hang around at the other end.

Frankly if it's only an hour, I'd go with the rest of them.

Go from your local airport. Makes sense. Try and see if the flights land at similar times, you could all meet at the destination airport.

Could you stay overnight with the bride so you don't need to get up an extra hour earlier to catch the flight?

Can you stay at the airport that the others are using, or with one of them, so you can all fly together?

It depends what the pros and cons are, possible inconvenience of different flight times depending on how far you are from the airport at the destination, any difference in prices or flight availability, but yes, you might feel like you are missing out if you are not on the same flight as everyone else and many hens do make getting through the airport and the flight part of the holiday.

I've seen many a big group enjoying cocktails in their themed outfits, even at 5 am followed by more partying on the plane, which reminds me why it's a bad idea to go to Mallorca on a Friday morning, even when not going to Magaluf.

Go from your local airport just tell them you can organise own fights. Guess the think here is in n how you communicate it. Don't 'ask' or 'would you mind' just say something like "now that I live in X can fly b from Y airport happy days, one less to include in the group booking"

Would it cause logistical problems at the other end?

I had this - travelled with them, but flew back to my local airport so I could get straight home with my hangover.

The timing of the flight is definitely the big factor - I don't feel like much will be going on at that time of the morning. There's an almost identical flight from my local airport so it wouldn't affect anything on the other end.

I could stay over the night before but it's already a 4 night hen do so didn't want to leave the DC's another night really.

I ask because I genuinely didn't care when it was my hen, a couple of people did the same thing. but mentioned this to the MOH (her sister) and it didn't seem to go down well.

It's a bit of a bridezilla situation and things have been a bit strained with our friendship generally. I'm actually wondering why I'm even a BM - wasn't invited to dress shopping etc. So I'm reluctant to put myself out!

Thank you all x

Yanbu, you are going to more than enough effort and expense going abroad for a hen do.

However you may get different responses if you have any on the awful hen/stag obsessives who dont understand the trend for a £500+ hen weekend abroad is the last thing most people want to spend their money or time on.

A bloody 4 night hen do?

I literally would refuse to go at all. I had 5 hens one year. If they had all been 4 nights away a big big chunk of my annual leave would have gone on that and I would barely see the DC.