At what point is it considered a "destination wedding"?

To me, a destination wedding is leaving the country or having it where no one lives (like neither you or your guests live anywhere near by and everything is being brought in). I would not consider you're wedding a destination wedding. In today's day and age, someone always has to travel to a wedding. People just don't stay in one place anymore, it's not a big deal.

Yeah, what Jeanne said. A destination wedding is when it's in a place where bride and groom and families all don't live. Yours just sounds like an out of town wedding to a lot. That's common.

I dislike when everything starts getting called a destination wedding. There's a huge difference between just having to drive one or two states over and book a hotel room vs. having to fly to Jamaica.

I'm getting married in the Bay Area and we're having family of FH coming from all over the State (furthest is San Diego), but I still would not consider it Destination wedding for any of them. My family on the other hand is from Switzerland, so it's definitely a DW for all of them.

See, that's what I was thinking.

I had a college friend go to Hawaii with her and her husband's immediate family and vacation there for 2 weeks - that's what I would consider a "destination wedding".

I just started second guessing when even one of my vendors labeled my wedding a "destination wedding".

Out of town wedding definitely fits the description better.

It's maybe because it's wine country and they are more used to destination weddings and so they call everything that?

That might be it, wine country is a bit of a vacation spot.

It is kind of funny, though, that my out-of-state grandfather is closer to the venue than myself of my parents, and we live in CA.

We're Bay Area and got married in Tahoe. We called it a semi-destination wedding. In reality most people flew in though from the east coast

If no one lives there, it's a destination wedding is what I've heard. So yes, yours would qualify as a destination wedding since you said it's 6 hours north of you and at a specific destination (wine country).

Also, the destination wedding would be from the vantage point/location of the bride and groom. So if you have a local wedding and guests have to travel from out of the country to get to it, it still isn't a destination wedding.

I plan destination weddings all the time.

If most guests and/or the couple have to stay overnight, it's a destination wedding. In other words, hotel rooms or campsites (yes I do weddings in the forest!!) are needed, then yes, it's a destination.

If it's a 1-2 hour drive away, and people can go home at the end of the wedding, it's a getaway wedding.