Need help deciding where to get married !

If you do it in the city, most of your guests will be able to come. Much of the planning can be done by email these days so you may only have to make a couple of trips to get everything finalized. Also, having more choices of venues and vendors could be beneficial.

Hi Alanah,

It's a pretty difficult decision to make but I can see that you have (almost) already made up your mind for the big city where all of your guests will attend the venue easily and where you'll find more vendors/locations.

Although it may seem harder to organize your ceremony for the distance, you'll find all you need here :

Wedding Venues British Columbia

Wedding Vendors British Columbia

And the help/support from the community !

So what do you think ?

We had a similar dilemma, and we chose to get married in Calgary which is about an hour and a half away from where we live. Some of the good things/pros that contributed to the decision included; more diverse choices in venders and locations; we have no family in our hometown but both have family in the city and surrounding communities; I didn't want to host family at my house and during the wedding; we can hop on a plane for the honeymoon without driving into the city first which leave more time for visiting with family and friends. Some of the things that are a downside include; Calgary is much more expensive; we have the added cost of hotels for the day before the wedding, day of the wedding and day following the wedding; we are doing a lot of travelling into the city to meet with vendors to finalize details and signing contracts over fax/email.

For us the decision to get married in Calgary over our hometown was relatively easy and to date I don't regret it! Good luck on your decision!

My Fiance and I live in Toronto now (where our wedding will be), but we're actually moving to Saskatoon in a month so 95% of our planning will be done from VERY afar haha. I'm a bit nervous about this, because I'm a bit of a control freak and love to be involved in even the minor details, but I'm definitely happier doing it where the majority of our guests are. I think it will be a lot less stressful coordinating the two of us getting there then it would be to coordinate our 80+ guests getting to Saskatoon.

Good luck and happy planning

A few things to think of that might help in the decision making ...

If you have your wedding in your small city and all of your 95% of guests show up, is there enough hotel/motel/etc rooms in your small city for all those people AND on the dates around when your wedding will be?

Will those 95% of guests want to (or can they) travel the 8hrs to your small town? I know they are all pretty much family, but there may be some of them that spending that much time traveling would not be an option for whatever reason (medical, cost, etc).
If some, or many, of those 95% of guests can't, or don't want to, travel the distance to your small town, will you be upset if they aren't at your wedding? Again, even if family, sometimes there are conditions that make it impossible for even family to make that trek.

We are getting married 3 hours away from where we live in a relatively small city. We haven't found it so difficult to plan from afar. WE are getting married on a family member's property so we have had to handle everything ourselves. If you can find a vendor in the city you like that has everything included it could work easily. I think you should definitely look into both options and list the pros and cons before making a decision. Also be sure to have your budget firmly in place before making that decision.