Hotels and Accommodation

Whereas in the past, when hotels were often the chosen venue for an evening’s wedding reception - following a church wedding or register office wedding, since the change in law, there are now literally thousands of UK hotels, throughout the whole of Great Britain, licensed for wedding ceremonies. So it is quite customary, nowadays, for the daytime wedding ceremony to take place in the same hotel as the evening wedding reception.

Becoming increasingly popular are weddings abroad – where hotels play an even more significant part in wedding arrangements. The bride and groom, and almost all, if not every guest at overseas weddings - require a quality, private area, to call their own, very often a week previous to the date booked for the wedding ceremony.

So apart from the actual wedding ceremonies and receptions taking place in hotels around the globe, - hotels, and other types of dwelling places, invariably have a major role to play in actual accommodation. If the wedding venue has overnight accommodation, it is quite usual for the bride and groom (at least) to stay overnight at the same place as the wedding reception. If the venue is particularly grand, many guests may prefer to book their overnight accommodation at a local, less expensive establishment. This also may be necessary if the wedding venue has very few rooms available for occupancy on the night of the wedding.

Should several/many of the guests require transportation to other hotels, or places of accommodation, following the wedding reception, it may be wise to arrange in advance - for a fleet of taxis to arrive at an appropriate time, say midnight, to ferry them to their nearby places of temporary residences.