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Just curious, how many of you are getting married where you live? Or are you going back to your hometowns, or somewhere totally different?
DH and I got married where we live, in DC, because it's home to us. We met here, have lived here for the past 5+ years, and a lot of our friends are here. DH moved around a lot as a kid so he doesn't really identify with a home town. I still have immediate family in my home town (Boston) but not a lot of friends. All of our extended family live in various places anyway, so they would all have to travel no matter where we held the wedding. DC was a really obvious choice for us.
Did anyone else have a much harder time picking a location?
Hi!
For us we got married on Mackinac Island (northern MI)...he is originally from up north about an hour from the island and I am from 'down state' about 4 hours from the island.
It was a happy medium!
@zippylef: Haha, DUH, I totally did not think of that option. Whoops!
Yup! The church (my home church) is just over the hill and visible from my parent's house, where I'm living until we find a place. He's currently living about fifteen minutes away from here. :)
I'm from the DC area originally (West Virginia, actually), but my FI is from Washington state (and we live near Seattle now). So... to not favor one side of the family over the other... we're having ours in Las Vegas. :)
We chose a place close to where we live, not where our parents live. We don't have any real attachment to our "hometown" area, but we adore our city.
i said other - its my alma mater - which is close to my hometown (little over an hour away) but far enough that its a semi-destination wedding for everyone...
we're getting married about 10mins around the corner :)
We initially planned on having a wedding in the beautiful Rocky Moutains (Banff National Park), but after taking a trip there to meet with banquet managers and check out venues, we decided to just have it back where we live. With our budget, we could have only afforded to have about 80-100 guests in Banff vs 125-140 in our city. Plus we would have had to make more trips there to meet with other vendors and we weren't sure if all of our guests would be able to make it to Banff. It would have been a beautiful wedding, but in the end, we really just wanted to celebrate with more of the people we love.
We're getting maried in Seattle, which is where we both live. I grew up about 30 miles away and Seattle is the closest major city, so it's very close to a hometown wedding. My fiance is from all over the place, so there's no where we could have had the wedding where large numbers of his family wouldn't have to travel.
FI and I live in Seattle and both of our parents live in CA. Our siblings live all over the US as do our friends....We wanted to have our wedding where we have built our home - Seattle it will be. Its pretty much a destination wedding considering 95% of our guests are from out of town 
I voted other because we are having a semi-destination wedding, as I like to call it. We had a really hard time deciding where to get married because a lot of people were going to have to travel no matter where it was. We finally decided to get married within easy driving distance so we can plan, but far away enough so it'll be a destination for all. We live in LA, wedding in Palm Springs.
I am from Southern California, my FH is from Massachusetts and we are getting married in Jamaica! My grandparent's own a villa in Jamaica and I have been vacationing there since I was a kid, I have taken my FH and his family there and they love it. When we got engaged, we started talking about where we should get married- I said LA and he said Boston! So we compromised and went with our favorite place- Jamaica!
Bonus- its so much cheaper than getting married in LA!
double post...sorry!
We are a same sex couple in Texas... so no. We can't get married here if we want a legal ceremony, which we do.
So, we are traveling to Iowa, where we can be legally wed, and it was especially fitting as it's FIs home state. She moved to Texas when she was a teenager. It's fine with us and heck, we are always eager to get out of Texas, even for a week... but our budget is 50% travel costs and lodging, and that kinda sucks. We could have a much bigger wedding on the same budget here if we didn't have to travel.
I voted other - we got married in my hometown in Connecticut but we both live in Ireland...
We will get married where we live, which is also our hometown... But my parents moved away from there just after I graduated high school, and I don't have any other family in the state, so my entire family will be coming in from all over the country. BF's family is all in the area, though, and most of our friends are there, so it just makes sense.
We're getting married in our hometown. We just moved (two weeks ago!), and we have 5 months left to go. Most of the planning is done already - so we're just sticking to it. It's a PITA to have to do the rest long distance, but what can be done? Thankfully we're only 4 hours away.
We are getting in my hometown but where Fi now lives with me, for us it was choosing one country over another and for a myriad of reasons we choose the country I am from. I am glad though because I am so happy to be planning with my family and not his!!!
We're getting married close to where we live, but since we moved it's no longer in the same county. I've been debating on changing the location to our current town (it's a private outdoor event, so really nothing changes) but I think we're gonna stick to the original plan and have it in Fi's hometown. The place we're marrying is close to where he used to play as a kid and just thinking of it makes me feel all warm.
Getting married in my hometown was the original plan, but it proved to be way too tricky trying to organize everything while having to wait for a Visa (that we don't really need) anyway. The easiest and most convenient is to get married here in Sweden, where we both reside.
We're getting married in the city where we live, which also happens to be his hometown since he was 6 :) My hometown is about 9 hours away and planning a wedding from that far way just seemed way too stressful to me.
Yes! I was hoping you would post this poll! :)
We're getting married in our (mutual) hometown, even though we haven't lived there for 3 and 8 years, respectively. Our families are still there, plus it's about half the cost of getting married where we now live (DC)!
We are getting married near where we both live now - but it is not either of our hometowns. So both sides of our families will travel to our wedding. I suppose to them it is like a destnation wedding then! haha.
ditto @zippylef: we're getting married where we live, which is also our hometown. Made it easy to pick a location!
We got married near my hometown, about an hour from where we live in NYC. DH mentioned Chicago, his hometown, once and I just smiled politely. Realistically, I knew that I would be doing the bulk of the planning and no WAY was I going to plan from a distance unless it was going to be at a resort or something.
We are getting married over an hour outside of where FI is from. I said other because it's not really close to FIs hometown but I wouldnt consider it a destination wedding because it's at a place that we go to several times a year!!
We have family all over the country so we knew regardless of where we had it people would have to travel. We went through every locatoin in our minds before coming to this one - but I'm so happy we did!
We're getting married in my hometown, which is about an hour and 15 minutes away from where we live now. The majority of our guests will be coming from that area. The only individuals coming from the city in which we live now are The Guy's immediate family and a few of their friends.
I have no connection with the city we live in now, so it was really important to me to get married closer to my roots and some place that has meaning for me.
We live in DC (well... I live in DC, he lives in Saudi Arabia right now), but we're getting married close to my hometown in California, which is about two hours from his hometown. Goin' back to our roots!
We explored both options of having it somewhere where we live or nearer to where i grew up, and ultimately booked a place where we live. It was mostly for ease of planning-- i didn't want to have to be driving home all the time to do meetings and such. Although if we found a place there we loved we would've booked it.
30 minutes from our current apartment, 5 minutes from my parent's house. 4 hours from FI's parents.
i am choice 1 and 2! :)
we actually live 20 mins away from the town we both grew up in (didn't meet until we were both working an hour away from our hometowns, ironic LOL)
our ceremony is in our hometown at the church i grew up in and reception is in the town that borders our current home.
we're both from the same town, so we're having it there. it's maybe an hour from where we currently live, but life is a hell of a lot cheaper there than where we currently are (chicago), so back home we go....(and mom and dad still live there--both mine and his)
Like a PP said, I'm having a "semi-destination wedding". FH and I met in college in Charleston, SC. His family lives 3 hours away, mine live 14 hours. We had a long talk about where to have it and Charleston just seemed the right fit, especially since we hope to move back one day.
I voted close to FI's hometown but really it's not that far from where we live now. Maybe 15 minutes from our house; but we picked it (as opposed to something in the city) because it's where Fi's from. . . and it doesn't have citified prices.
We are getting married where we live. FI grew up in NE Ohio and Cleveland really is my hometown too although I was not raised here.
We're getting married 2 hours from where we live, so I chose destination.
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