Room Block

Hi im unable to secure a room block as well so im just listing our best picks for hotels. Myself i dont its tacky

I do not think it’s rude or tacky. For my wedding, I am recommending nearby hotels that are close to the venue on our website. For my situation, we had a hotel block but then realized that if your guests don’t occupy 75% of the block then you are responsible for paying the balance of the rooms that were not occupied. We opted out of that. Plus the discount wasn’t much to begin with.


Hope this helps.

We’re not doing a block. We’re just listing hotels on our site

We didn't have a room block (and 99.5% of our guest list was from out of town). What we discovered was that the price differential wasn't substantial between us having a block and people booking on the internet on their own. I think I've only once stayed at a reserved block - usually, I'd *prefer* to make my own arrangements.

I didn’t do room blocks bc I didn’t know my guests finances and I didn’t if they would actually the room blocks that I would set aside for them. So I researched hotels with in a mile or two of my venue (various costs) and made a list of them and sent them with my invitations. That way they would able to call them for the information and choose what hotel they wanted to stay at.

In the past it was easy enough to secure a room block. I have secured them many times in the past. We ran into a snag with rooms for our daughter’s wedding. All hotels in our area were 100% booked at 10-11 months prior. Thru weird circumstances my sis in law helped me procure a room block with the nicest hotel in town…but it took forever & my sis in law going to a very high corporate level to get the room block. Then I had to sign a formal contract & it took forever for me to secure an appt with them. So we have a room block but not sure it was worth all that effort!! I was able to have my siblings secure their rooms in another part of the city at another hotel (not quite as nice but still very suitable accommodations). We live in a race city & even though there isn’t a big race that weekend, all of the hotels were booked. I would share this post with your parents & ask them if they would be willing to secure the room blocks. For me it was something easy in the past & this time was so time consuming & frustrating! And I am bummed that some guests will be on 2 sides of the city but I am grateful we were able to get rooms at all.

I’m not doing a room block. Like a previous poster said, the discount wasn’t all that good and if you dont meet a minimum booking YOU are responsible to pay the rest. The hotel I was considering was not very enticing for me to commit to this. I don’t think it’s an issue - just try to list some nearby hotels in your website.

I think just listing nearby hotels is fine. Our block isn't much of a discount, but I'm arranging a shuttle from the hotel to the ceremony and back, so I wanted to try to heard everyone to one spot as best as I could. But people will book at different hotels, forget to use the room code, or any number of things, so it's not a big deal to not have a formal block.

I did for our guests since it was a destination wedding for everyone and it was around the holidays. We actually had two different hotels and it saved everyone $100-200 per night. So guess it depends on what time of the year and location.

It's fine not to have a room block. If you have a wedding website, maybe you can put a note there saying to plan ahead and book early.

We did 2 hotel blocks (one more expensive with more amenities and shuttle, one cheaper with less amenities and no shuttle), however, we weren’t able to book a lot of rooms. One allowed us to book 20 max. With an attrition clause and the other could only allow us to book 10. Are they able to do smaller blocks and you can book 2 hotels?
Also, I was worried about not everyone getting the block rate but the sales manager said do not stress yourself out about a block, you are doing this as a favor to your guests, you didn’t have to book a block so don’t beat yourself up. If people get a room at a good price great, but it’s not expected.

We’re not doing a room block. We didn’t like the contracts being offered as the rooms weren’t very discounted and we didn’t want to be responsible for the cost if guests didn’t book with them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We’ve been guests many times staying in a hotel and never once was a block offered nor did we seek one out. Guests take care of their own transportation and lodging so that is not your responsibility. The only time you really need a block is if you are marrying in an area where there are limited hotel options in the middle of tourist season. For example: having your wedding the same weekend as a nationwide music festival that draws crowds from everywhere and there are only 2 hotels for 40 miles.