Wedding Night... Hotel or Home?

We’re staying at the house on our venue’s property. Going home was an option as well, but we didn’t even consider it. We wanted a neutral space where there was nothing to distract us or for us to worry about; laundry, dishes, pets, etc.

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The laundry!!! LOL That is a GREAT point, we haven't even thought about the distractions that home would bring... thank you for your insight!

We are planning to stay pit on the ocean front, however we will be getting married in the summer months and the beach where we live is a tourists area!!! The prices are very High. So we are still debating. For 2 nights for the hotel we booked is $684....... very very expensive. . Is over $300 per night.

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Wow! Yeah, that's pretty pricey, it would be a tough decision for me too. It's like, we really want something special the night of, we'll probably get to the hotel at like midnight. If it was that much I'd be having an even more difficult time! Are you going away for a honeymoon at all?

We definitely want a hotel. His mom and brother live with us till a couple months agree the wedding and we want to be "alone" which can't happen with them in the same house

We have two toddlers so we will definitely be going home lol

We stayed at the hotel that we got married at that night, then flew to our honeymoon the next morning. Going home would have been a buzzkill haha. I felt that by heading off to our honeymoon the next day, we were still on cloud nine from all the happiness of our wedding. Going home would have made it feel too ordinary! But that’s just me! And how I had always pictured it. So not trying to knock anyone else who did it differently. and absolutely tell the hotel ahead of time that it’s your wedding night and ask if they have any romance packages, like rose petals and champagne set out, etc! A lot of more upscale hotels will make it special for you!

We are sleeping at a hotel the night before and the night of. We haven't booked a honeymoon yet, but I hope to fly out the morning after.

We’re staying at the night before and after, I’m not dealing with trying to check out before i get married at 11am 😂

Our venue is an hour and a half away from where we live (10 minutes from FH’s hometown). We will be staying in a hotel fairly close to the venue the night of the wedding. We’ll drive back home the next day and sleep at home since we’ll flight out for our honeymoon at 6am on Monday. It’ll still be special for us to sleep at home because I own my condo, and FH won’t move in until after the wedding. That’ll be the first night my condo is “ours”. 😊

Our home is across the country try from our venue, but it's only 20 minutes from my parents house. We're all staying in a hotel though, Friday through Sunday. I feel like going home would be a little too ordinary, we want that special hotel experience on our wedding g night. We'll go back to my parents house Sunday to repack for the honeymoon and fly out early Monday morning.

We are getting a hotel room the night of the honeymoon. I am partially afraid that coming home afterwards would just make it feel like another day whereas a hotel kind of aids in helping it feel more of a "big night", if that makes sense. Also, we are doing brunch and opening gifts with our immediately family members the Sunday after the wedding. Since my family is all out of town, but my mom wants to host the brunch, this gives her free access to my house without my FH and I being disturbed or rushed to get up and ready.

We stayed in the hotel. After the wedding we went with our guests to a local bar and hung out for a while and got back late to the hotel and were so glad we didn’t have to go home. It was very relaxing the next morning.

Some hotels that you have blocks with give you a complimentary room. If we got a complimentary room we would consider it... but the hotel I'm considering room blocks at is less than 2 blocks from our house.

If I were leaving the next day for the honeymoon, I'd absolutely go home and stay home the night of. I'd feel less rushed and more home based before I left.

We aren't leaving for 3.5 weeks. So I'm cool with whatever.

If it's free, we will do the hotel. But spending the evening at home would be fine too.

We are staying at the hotel we are blocking rooms at. It is right next door to the venue plus a lot of our friends and family think they are going to stay there too and we also have talked about an after party in the hotel bar or somewhere close to that.

I agree that I don't want to go home to the responsibilities that I see when I look around our house.

Me and FH don’t live together yet and We are long distance . I am moving in with him in his state after the wedding . So in order to avoid traveling the night of our wedding we want a night of romance and bliss . We are planning to either stay at this hotel we have here in my hometown (where our wedding will be) that has a honeymoon package and suite or stay at a bed and breakfast that is about 45 min away 😍😍

And our honeymoon is a week or so away from wedding date

We rented a house for our wedding weekend for us along with our out of town guests to stay in so we will be going there, with them for our wedding night. We don't leave for our honeymoon until a week after the wedding.

We're thinking of renting a hotel because we will be tired. It's not a long drive but being tired during a long weekend drive home is going to suck

I’m living with my parents while she’s in tech school for the Air Force so we’re definitely staying in a hotel, but I don’t think it will be the same one as our families/friends. We might opt for a nicer one and “splurge” a bit, but that’s also because we aren’t planning a honeymoon until we get moved in a couple months!

It sounds like you might be leaning a little more towards wanting some special, so I vote hotel! And if you end up having 2 nights before you leave, you can still spend the night before your trip at home. Best of both worlds