Who would have thought, right? I’ve been so busy thinking about where to hold the wedding, where I’ll stay the night before, where I’ll get ready, where we’ll go on our honeymoon—that I completely forgot about reserving blocks of rooms for our awesome guests.
But no big deal, the wedding is still three months away, right? Plenty of time to book a few rooms, since even though it’s a nice area to visit there’s not a huge demand for tourism in early May. We’re not having a huge wedding, plus a lot of people know friends in town to stay with, so we’ll only need 10–15 rooms maximum.
Well. There are two private universities in the Greenville area, and both of them have graduations that weekend. They’re not huge schools, but it definitely causes an influx of people.
Which didn’t hit me until I clicked on the website of the hotel I planned to reserve rooms in from the beginning and saw that they had zero rooms available the weekend of the wedding. Zero rooms? In a tiny town like Traveler’s Rest? Except…it’s five minutes away from Furman University. Duh.
That would have been the best option since it’s just 15 minutes from the venue, but I immediately rebounded and told myself “That’s OK, I’ll just reserve rooms in Greenville. It will be an extra 15 minutes of travel time for my guests, but they’ll get to experience the area.” On the plus side it is a pretty neat city. I’ve grown quite attached in my five years here!
Downtown hotels are really pricey. I mean, I never would expect my guests to pay $319 a night, even if it’s for a hotel that looks like this:
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