by Lori Voth

Created on: April 26, 2008   Last Updated: April 27, 2008

You are engaged to be married and as the traditional bride to be often does, you have accepted and welcomed the role of primary wedding planner. Chances are you've already delved into the creative and exciting planning process and have your hands pleasantly full with various to do tasks. Catering companies, wedding cake tasting events, bridal dress shopping, music selection brainstorming, it can get overwhelming.

Before you get carried away in your fantastically wild imaginary dream world of lavish ideal wedding ideas, though, there is a particular wedding component that you might want to take care of well ahead of time, a particular constituent that is often overlooked until a more last minute occasion renders it necessary to address.

I am referring to the portion of the wedding plans that deal with your out of town guests. And more specifically, the measures you will take to assist them with their travel plans and lodging arrangements.

It should be noted here that orchestrating travel arrangements for out of state friends and family is not necessarily a given responsibility of the bride as wedding planner. Certainly, your guests can do it themselves.

Often times, though, and especially true for the out of town wedding guests who have never visited your chosen wedding city location before, they are waiting on you to give them information or suggestions about where to stay once they get into town.

Again, it is not something you have to do, but it is the more considerate option. If you must, ask your mom or sister to do it for you. Just so that those flying or driving in from another state have some direction in their planning.

It is really nice of your guests to pay for the expense of travel and time off of work to attend your wedding. Helping them plan their arrangements (minus the flight-as obviously that would be their responsibility alone) is a proper way to further demonstrate
how honored you are to have them at your wedding,

What information should you provide these out of town guests for their travel plans and options will vary depending upon where you've chosen the wedding to take place, but just think about it practically. Will your out of town wedding guests be visiting for a weekend? Do they plan to make this a vacation and stay longer? How close will the wedding festivities be to the airport and will you provide them transportation or must they rent their own car? Maybe your town has an easy public transportation service they
can use.

What hotel should they

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