BRONZE BUDGET BRIDE

There are three primary venues that you must secure for your wedding weekend – a ceremony location, a reception location, and a block of guest rooms. When chosen separately, this will require 4 separate points of contact for 4 separate arrangements. Why 4? Because now you need transportation to move your guests from their hotel to the ceremony, from the ceremony to the reception and, most importantly, a sober ride to get them safely from the reception back to their hotel. In choosing a hotel, you can book all three with one agreement, through one point of contact and thereby eliminate the cost and added effort involved in contracting for transportation between the three.

In addition to securing a venue, you must also arrange for catering, staffing, decorations and equipment rental to ensure a beautiful and tasty event. For most venues, these will be 2 – 4 additional contracts with 2 – 4 additional managers or specialists and sometimes it still leaves the work of calculating how much you need of each entirely up to you. However, hotels not only offer the food and beverage, tables, chairs, dance floor, linens, china, centerpieces, lattices, arches, candles, etc., but they also offer one point of contact who can supervise the experienced coordination between departments and staff so that you are assured in having a beautiful and well rehearsed event that doesn’t run out of food or drinks. As a bonus, since everything is located on-site, you don’t have to worry that the caterer or rental company may have forgotten to pack the soup spoons or silver platters.

When you start planning your wedding, you suddenly find yourself in a position to hire vendors that you’ve never had to hire before. There is a wealth of information available to you, and each option looks as beautiful and elegant as the next. How do you know if they will really deliver on their promises? Here again, with a hotel, you get not only a great venue and catering manager to guide you through the planning process, but also the assurance of a strong industry name such as Hilton. With the support, training and experience of an international company behind your planning, you know that it’s going to be a fabulous event. As an added bonus, you can get frequent traveler points on your wedding that you can later apply to a vacation or other rewards.

While as a bride, you have many venue options available to you, you must also consider your own time and budget constraints. Hotels offer inclusive packages that are not only a great value for your budget, but also offer many services and amenities that can relieve you of additional tasks such as negotiating with additional vendors, arranging for transportation and doing research on every separate caterer, equipment rental, and linen company in town.

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