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Not riding with my dad… riding with my mom or my sister (MOH) or possibly both. Renting a car and either MOH/sis or mom will drive me. After the ceremony, my hubby will be driving just me. MOH/sis & mom will go with my BIL and niece to the reception.

My church is only a few short blocks from my house. However, my fiance and I decided that the Limo expense was one thing that we really wanted to do. To me, the time in the Limo with the bridal party going from the church to the reception is the only time we can all get together, turn up the dance music, and have fun before the reception. There are a total of 15 people in our wedding party so we rented a 25 passenger Limo bus. Seriously, it looks like a dance club inside! I don’t know why I’m so excited about this.

I’m actually staying at our ceremony/reception location the night before the wedding, BUT our wedding party is pretty good, and my groom is renting a van that day. We got one through priceline for some ridiculous amount of money (I $15), and the men are all driving up together! not glamorous, per se, but fun, and plenty of room!

Girls are going to brunch in my car. Then on the way back, grabbing my MOH/sister’s car and dropping my car at my FIL’s house. Taking my sister’s car back to the hotel for hair and makeup, then to the venue, which is all in one. At the end of the night when we make our exit, we are borrowing FH’s grandpas green Mustang to drive off in, and will head to FIL’s house to leave the Mustang there and take my car to the hotel. Since we have to get up really early to leave for the honeymoon, we booked a hotel two hours closer to where we leave from, so we can have time for a nice breakfast at the hotel the next morning.

I suppose my dad will just meet us at the venue. FH and the boys are on their own!

My MOH and I rode to the ceremony venue together in our comfy clothes, and we got dressed there. My dad just met us there.

I rented a town car for a short window of time as it was 1/3 the cost of a limo. (In the end they sent the limo anyway, but that was their decision and I paid the same.) My plan with the town car was to take my dad and I over to the church (as it was imperative that we arrived at the same time as the plan was to get out of the car and walk down the aisle immediately). After the ceremony the car was to take the groom and I back. The wedding party was responsible for getting themselves over, and they arrange carpools ahead of time. I made sure the best man knew to get the groom to the church, and my mom brought my dad back. It worked out very well.

I should add: Instead of renting a limo, we rented a big luxury SUV for the entire weekend (wedding was OOT for us), which we used to get all our stuff to the wedding town, drive around tons of people, run to the airport and store, wedding day vehicle, store things safely & where we were, and haul home gifts and all our other wedding stuff. It was great knowing all the little things that could go wrong (the miles, scratches, dirt, cleaning before & after) were in a car we wouldn’t have to worry about. Made for good pictures, too.

I had 1 MOH and 3 bridesmaids. We all stayed together the night before at MOH’s apartment (and my temporary home before the wedding) and were together all day, starting with our hair appointments. One of my BM’s had an SUV, so she drove that to town (she lives a few hours away) and we used that as our vehicle all day. It had a ton of room for us and all of our stuff, so it was perfect. My husband and I rented a stretch Hummer for us and the wedding party to take from the church to the reception.