When we were considering Medinah for our venue, one of my primary concerns was transportation. I could swing the costs for the bridal party, but renting buses for the entire wedding would be a stretch. Medinah isn't terribly close to any hotels and none of our friends or family live in the immediate area. I knew that many guests would miss our ceremony or be worrying about getting home if we didn't rent transportation on a grand scale.
This narrowed our choices to downtown options. Although a good portion of our guests don't live in Chicago either, there are far more options for public transportation going into or out of the city compared to between the burbs. We also had it on good information that a few of Mr. Peacock's sisters and our married friends in the suburbs were looking forward to a night in the city and were planning on getting a hotel room. Even with these considerations, we still wanted to help all of our guests to get home safe and sound.
I found these cards in ryanserafin's knot bio and they got me thinking:
I might word it a little differently, but I thought providing a few options for a safe route home was a great idea. For the most part, you can walk a block from Cafe Brauer to Clark street and catch a cab home or to your hotel. However, with everyone leaving around the same time it might be a bit of a challenge. It will hopefully put that little thought in the back of their mind that maybe they should think twice about driving home after that third martini (you know what they say about three martinis, don't you? No? Well, that joke is not safe for Weddingbee. Let's just say the third one is probably one too many).
Are you planning to do anything special to make sure that everyone arrived home safely?
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