Wedding Night... Hotel or Home?

I highly recommend staying somewhere that night. It will feel special and more real especially when you leave the next day to jet off for the cruise. We rented a cabin for us and the wedding party for 3 nights before and 3 nights after the wedding and our room is secluded on its own floor. Our wedding is destination and wasn't in our budget to get a hotel room for the night but we are glad we aren't going back to our house. It will be nice!

I've never heard of a hotel decorating a room but it doesn't hurt to ask. We just got a suite at our blocked hotel, and will have champagne waiting for us when we get back from the wedding!

Originally we were going to stay home, by home, I mean FH's house which I will be moving into following the wedding. BUT since we leave for our honeymoon the next morning we decided to beat the morning traffic and just drive down to the port and get a hotel after the wedding.

I have to be honest and say I didn't read everyone's responses so if this is a repeat I apologize but IMO I think finding a place to stay that is private and away from everyone else is important. I have had many friends get "interrupted" on their wedding nights because some people find it funny to mess with newlyweds. I definitely would not want that happening so I say pick a place and keep it a secret therefore no one can bother you

View Quoted Comment I think you're exactly right.. it would seem a little to ordinary

We're planning on staying at a hotel our wedding night & leave for our honeymoon 2 days after the wedding.

We stayed at a hotel for the evening.

We're staying at our hotel on the wedding night only because they're giving us a complimentary room.

We really want to stay in a nicer hotel in the city (SF) on our wedding night. But in planning our honeymoon, I'm realizing that we'll leave for our cruise the next day, but we are on the west coast (CA), and our cruise will depart from the east coast (FL), which means we have a 5-hour flight first, and a time change to deal with, and the time change is not in our favor. So, we may end up on a red-eye flight the night before, so we aren't late for our cruise departure. Ugh. So, I'm still not sure what's going to happen!

We’re ending the reception at 9:30 and heading to Tennessee. We were going to go home but I know I won’t want to just go home to our norm. So we decided to go ahead and make the drive

I wayyy late to this convo, and didn't read all of the comments but, I would like to recommend you get a hotel NOT where your hotel block is. Sure its convenient, but do you really want all of your guests to also be THAT close by, speculating if you guys "did the things" or were too tired and just went to bed. Or even if you have those nosy ones that might try to find out what room you're in, so they can snoop or stop by because they want to chat/hang out more while you're trying to either spend time with your spouse, sleep or even "do the things"

We're probably going to go home and stay there for the night. A hotel is great but for us we don't really care about getting into that honeymoon groove til we're actually on our honeymoon.

There are three hotels about 5 minutes from the venue. I'm planning on getting a room the night before the wedding for me, so that I can get ready there, close to the venue so I won't be stuck in traffic or by a train, but issues in that area. We'll probably book it for two nights in case he drinks and isn't good to drive home, even though it's only about 8 minutes from our apartment

We are getting a hotel because although our wedding is in our hometown, we no longer live there and don’t want to stay with parents. We want to be alone and enjoy each other’s company without other people.

View Quoted Comment Hahaha! Touche! That is definitely good advice that I hadn't really thought about. Maybe we will go to a smaller more romantic hotel! I like the idea like previous posters have said about home being so ordinary or "the norm" but also don't want to just go back to the hotel with everyone else. Good idea!

We're staying at home on our wedding night. I figured it'd just be silly since our venue is only a block from home. Plus the hotel we have rooms booked at is my parents so if we need one last minute it shouldn't be an issue

We are getting a air B and B

View Quoted Comment Air B and B is cheaper then hotels plus you get it to yourself. We plan on doing that then ordering some breakfast before going to the mini moon.

FH and I also own a home together. We are planning on staying the night at a hotel, coming home the next morning (Sunday), then leaving for our honeymoon on Sunday or Monday. We figured it would be nice to not have to drive home after our reception. The hotel we are looking at is 2 minutes from our venue whereas home is 30-40 minutes away.

We're staying in a suite at a hotel close to the venue. It's the same hotel we used for our room block, and we figured we'd rather stay out having fun with guests after the reception!