Aibu to not want to stay at wedding venue hotel

[UsernameAB12]

Wedding starts at 11.30 am and goes on until midnight. You can stay at wedding venue hotel the night of wedding. But the cost is between 110 - 160 pounds. Me and dh planning on staying until 7pm/8pm and travelling home (live about 80 miles away from venue). Mil things we should get hotel and we are being unreasonable, and if we don't use it we can give it to someone else. AIBU?

Well that makes it even easier for you to say no - why should you pay for a room you don't even want when she's paying for SIL?

Really does sound like B&G have committed to a number of rooms being taken which they are now struggling to fill.

The wedding was on a Saturday. If the guests weren't into ceilidhs, well fine, but they could perhaps have said something when they accepted the invitation. I just think that picking and choosing which bits to attend of an event that's taken a substantial amount of money, organisation and effort is a bit rude, frankly. Anyway, enough of me, this is OPs thread and I think it would be quite reasonable to ask MIL to lay for her room too. I paid for my adult children's (and stephildren's) accommodation!

Aarrgghh, PAY for her room, not lay for it