Destination Wedding - Airbnb Venue and Hotel for guest

Are you doing online RSVP? If so, then I'd have it on your website for them to RSVP and pay. If not, then I'd include a details card in your invitation suite explaining payment and deadline.

I wouldn't expect my wedding guests to pay for my venue, however, if they are aware and have agreed to this, I would assume any of the above would be a fine way to collect money. If you have older or less tech savvy guests, cash or check would probably be best.

Are they all aware of the cost? Is the cost per person depending on how many people rsvp? What will you do if someone doesn’t pay you by your “due date”?

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We are doing RSVP online. We are not doing the traditional paper STD's and invitations. This information explaining payment and deadline will definitely be on our website.

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I wouldn't expect my wedding guests to pay for my venue either. That isn't what I said.

Will everyone/every couple have their own room and bathroom? Have you considered that you should be paying more since part of your cost in renting the property is using it as your venue? Will the cost change if people decline the invitation or will you eat the difference? I feel like there’s so many factors here that asking this of your guests is going to get messy.

View Quoted Comment You would still be using it as your venue even if you didn’t have any guests volunteer to stay there. Your venue = your cost.

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It is a destination wedding. We have done our best to make them aware of the cost and we have outlined the price on our wedding website. Ultimately if they can't go for any reason they have the option to decline coming to our wedding. We aren't forcing anyone.

Our wedding is more than a year away. We are giving them more than 6 months to pay for anything. If they can't afford to pay it in that time frame then I don't think they can afford to attend a destination wedding. And that's perfectly okay! We want people to do what's best for them.

My question wasn't about the cost, my question was about how to collect money for the hotel from my guest since I won't have a travel agent.

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We are renting a multi- villa property. Every couple will have their own room and bathroom.

Since we are having a small wedding all of the people we are inviting are our close family and friends. If someone does decline we will have to eat the cost, we have already paid for it.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

The guest are paying for their stay on the property as they would if they went to a Destination Wedding at a large hotel or resort.

Our reception/ceremony fee is different and not what we are asking guest to pay.

My original question was what method would be easiest to collect money for my guest hotel/stay?

Any of those methods are fine. It is very tedious to deal with the money portion. PayPal is probably your best option but since it’s family and close friends cash app is fine as well. My only issue is some people like me have scheduled payments coming out per check so I like payment plans. But I understand your request for full payment.

I’m deciding whether to do book a venue that would put me in the same boat as well where the guests can sleep in the house. Let me know what decision you went with. It sounds very stressful dealing with the payments and what not. I stalked a few couples wedding websites and most are handling it through Venmo.

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I’m wondering what you ended up doing in this situation and how it worked out. I am looking to book a villa for all of our guests but don’t know how to collect everyone’s room cost.
Hope your wedding was amazing!