Hotel Surprise

Well I have to admit our biggest surprise in all our wedding planning is that we are already out of hotel rooms as part of our hotel block for the night of the wedding. When we originally signed up for the hotel block we were actually hesitant and worried about filling 10 hotel rooms! Boy we could not have been more off base on that one. We only booked 10 rooms, and then increased it to 15 and within days of that we changed it to 20 rooms, the maximum allowed in a hotel block. We still have over 5 months to go till the wedding and we're already out of rooms. We're so happy to have such organized friends and family that are clearly on top of their plans with making reservations and want to be there and share in our special day and continue the night and next morning with us.

In one way it is a little bit sad though we know there are several more friends and family members that we heard wanted to possibly stay over as well and now unfortunately won't be able to be in the same hotel with us and have breakfast with us the next morning. One of our favorite features about booking at The Manor was the fact that we would have the convenient accessibility of the hotel directly next door and within walking distance. That was a big convenience factor and draw for us!

The timing of this discovery is convenient though. Ironically our invitations were also set to begin printing this week and would have included our hotel information, looks like we will need to make an adjustment there and do a swap.

I guess this is one of those things that you never could have predicted or anticipated and just have to roll with the punches and we'll have to look into alternate arrangements. I've already called another hotel located just a mile down the road from the hotel. I'm really hoping that they can provide some type of free local shuttle to pick up the guests and transport them since we don't want people drinking and driving. Otherwise I'm not sure what we'll do about transportation, that was not something we counted on in our budget. But I guess there will also be things you don't count on.

We really are so happy that so many people want to spend the day and night with us but boy we were surprised how quickly and fast these rooms went!!!