What percentage of guests will actually travel to a destination wedding? (approximately 3 hours of drive time)

Question

for some hotel accommodations will be given, and I am trying to make people feel as if they have received instead of just given...because I know that weddings for everyone is a big task.

so If I invited 100 people.........how many people do you think would come?

I live in Fresno, Calif

and I want the wedding to be held in Santa Barbara.

I still have lots of time, Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

My wedding was in my hometown 4 hours away and I had more than half the people drive there was more out of towners.

Answer 2

I live in Santa Barbara and we got married here too.  Most of our friends and family came from out of town (LA, San Diego or the Bay area).  We had no problem getting people to come.  We had several events over the weekend and everyone had a good time.  Hotel rooms can get expensive here, especially in the summer.  We booked blocks of rooms well in advance at reasonable rates, then our guests paid the cost of accomodations.  

Answer 3

I'd travel to any wedding that I didn't have to fly to. If it involved air flights, I'm not going. 3 hours is nothing for me. That's just Los Angeles traffic where I live (20 miles LOL)

Answer 4

i don't know how many will come to ur wedding but i can guess that the people u really want there will go, like ur best friends and family and really when u think about it who else would u want there.

Answer 5

I wouldn't really call 3 hours of travel time much of a destination wedding. I would say most guests would be able to make it, just as if it were in Fresno. It's not like the wedding is in Hawaii or anything. Another idea would be to have a smaller, more intimate wedding abroad, then the reception more closer to Fresno, were more people would show up.

Answer 6

I think 3 hours is perfectly reasonable, and i should imagine that the majority of guests will have no problem with that.

Answer 7

I don't consider three hours to be a destination wedding.  Most of my friends who attended my wedding had to drive at least 2 hours to get to it and they all came.