Wedding Invite-Include a map?

[salal]

Often I appreciate it when out of town guests are given a map to the church and/or reception hall. I think that is a great idea! Have you recieved these?


I just recieved a relative's invitation and the reception venue is named, but no address given. This particular wedding ,all of the guests are driving from about 30 miles away, minimum. No one lives in this town. A map would have been helpful-even an address. I looked it up on the Internet, but many older relatives don't even have the Internet.

 

[disneysteve]

I think that thanks to the Internet, the need for sending out maps has greatly diminished. Most people, when they receive maps, still Mapquest it for a "2nd opinion." I've even seen venues that list the specific address to search for on Mapquest.

That said, I still think it is a nice idea to send a map and directions. As you said, not everyone is Internet savvy. For our daughter's Bat Mitzvah next year, we will definitely include a map and directions.

 

[SandraVB79]

Over here, you always put a business card of the reception place with the invitation, and those business cards always have little maps on them.

Sometimes, I just wish they had put a map for the Church in there too...

 

[Beth76]

Well I received an invitation for a wedding in May. The written directions to the church were correct, but the location on the map was incorrect. And the written directions from the church to the reception were from the incorrect place. This was for a wedding where most people were from out of town, like yours. I thought about telling the bride, but didn't since the written directions were correct. I felt bad because I was talking to someone who missed half the wedding because they just followed the map.

 

[ducklite]

ALmost all of our guests were from out of town when we got married, and we included detailed directions from several main highways to the hotel where our room block was, to the church, and to the reception.

The only people who got lost getting to the church were rather hungover from a night on the town the previous night, and it was "operator error."

Anne

 

[monorailsilver]

My sister just got married on Sunday & she did include a map or a few of them in her goodie bags for out of towners at their hotel.

Her maps had direction to/from the hotel that they were staying at to the reception (also where she got married), to my sisters house, to my parents house (they both have pools & some guests went there over the weekend), to the golf course & to various restaurants in the area.

When I got married 7 years ago, I included a directions to the church & reception place.

 

[WDWAurora]

I made up directions cards and put them in the envelopes of the out-of-towners. Unfortunately, some people mapquested anyway. See, the thing about mapping online is that the shortest mileage may not be the easiest drive. The internet version put people on this tiny, hanging off a mountain road, whereas they were always on highway if they followed my directions. For non mountain people, the road is HORRIBLE (I don't even like driving it).

I like having directions included!!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I think it is polite to include a map for out of town guests. Not everyone knows the way and sometimes mapquest is wrong.

In December I attended a wedding where almost all of the guests were from way out of town. The groom gave directions over the phone to the church. The reception hall was about 30 minutes away and no one was given an address or directions. The very few guests that knew the way all left very quickly so no one could follow them. We got lucky that one groomsman had a GPS unit in his car. He called information, got the address of the place, and put it into the unit. Following him to the site was a caravan of about 20 cars. The grooms parents included!

 

[mickeyboat]

My sister just got married on Sunday & she did include a map or a few of them in her goodie bags for out of towners at their hotel.

This is what I did, too.

Denae

 

[Bethy Lou]

We are getting married at Disney World, and although we are comfortable with everything we knew not everyone else is. So when we sent out save the dates we sent out a newsletter with pictures, driving directions and important facts that non Disney folk might not know. Like needing cash for toll roads! Several other people who are getting married after us said they are now going to use some of our ideas because it saved them from having to do research on the internet.