Stella and I have spent much time discussing where to have our wedding. She's already posted about this on her blog, but I feel a need to write about it too. Ideally, we would do it here in California, either at a winery in Napa or an inn somewhere in Marin County. We could count on perfect summer weather and it would be very beautiful. However, a great many of our friends would likely not be able to fly to California for this.
So the other option is Michigan, where we used to live and the majority of our friends still live. Here, again, there are two options:
1) Get married at a beautiful location in northern Michigan, like an Inn where guests could stay the night or the weekend.
2) Get married in Ann Arbor, which has very limited options for beautiful wedding settings.
What is most important to us both is to have our friends present as we get married. That probably rules out the California location, unless suddenly large numbers of our friends started telling us how much they would love to fly out to California to be at our wedding.
Getting married in northern Michigan, while much closer to Ann Arbor, may still keep some people away who would attend an Ann Arbor wedding. After all, we would still be asking guests to drive four hours each way and pay for accommodations for one night (or two nights they were in the wedding party or just wanted to make a weekend out of it).
One obvious advantage of a destination wedding is that guests don't have to worry about driving somewhere after a night of celebrating. But there are various advantages and disadvantages to each scenario.
Since this event is very much about celebrating with all our friends, I'm curious about any thoughts my friends might have on where to best do this. We're looking either at next summer (if we can get it together in time) or summer 2010.
Any thoughts?
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