A good friend of mine, Veronica, who was a former supervisor that I've grown very close to is officiating my wedding. Her and her husband have both been there for me and my fiance during extremely difficult times the way nobody else has. They even found our wedding venue for us. As my fiance and I are from different faiths, we wanted to ask a friend of ours to officiate our wedding. So, we asked Veronica. We're having a destination wedding and paying for our own wedding. Money is EXTREMELY tight, we're kind of in over our heads a bit but will figure it out.
Veronica and her husband are coming to our wedding, they've made it clear and said they would spend 2 nights at our destination. Recently I've asked Veronica to officiate my wedding, she said yes. She then asked if she should book a hotel. In the moment, I said "that's up to you if you'd like to book one..." leaving the option open if she wanted to go home the night of my wedding, I didn't want it to seem like I was requesting her to stay the night. Now that I'm replaying that moment in my head, I think she was asking if I was going to book her hotel room for her and pay for it. I was planning on getting her a gift but not one that costed $1,000 (2 night stay at any hotel in the area costs $800-1,000). To me, she was coming to my wedding either way and would have paid for it whether or not she was officiating. Am I wrong? Should I be paying for her hotel room?