Who pays for places to stay for out of province guest?

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This first paragraph is exactly on the nose.

Just find suitable hotels and arrange room blocks, but you and FH are by no means responsible for the cost of accommodations for OOT guests.

Generally, the bride and groom are not responsible for lodging guests, whether a destination wedding or a local one. You reserve (but don't pay for) hotel room blocks, but your guests are responsible for the bill.

My groom and I are renting a gorgeous AirBnB for the night before and night of our wedding - it's a huge house, and our out of town wedding party members will be splitting the bill with us. None of them expect us to pay for the entire thing.

Any weddings attended and in hotels, we have or my family has booked for all of us based on how many is needed. Room rates and sizes haves been included to know what to expect.

For the cabin share of the cost, your sisters and some other family should pitch in to be equal as your paying. Your day is your day. Besides that for the week rental, you shouldn't be responsible foe the whole amount.

Guests are responsible for their own accommodation. We offered to cover for our officiant who was coming from out of town, but other than that, we booked some hotel rooms and our guests reserved and paid for the room themselves.

If your family is travelling and booking their own accommodations then they should pay for it. However, you can’t expect them to pay for part of your venue just because they can stay there as well. I think it would be really inappropriate to ask and in a way you are asking your siblings to pay for part of your wedding.

You are never responsible for lodging any guests. Unfortunately travel, lodging, and additional expenses may mean that some guests can't go, but that's the nature of "destination" weddings...

My fiance and I were very interested in doing a destination wedding to Arizona, where we would rent a large house, which would double as the wedding venue, and then immediate family could stay with us. However, there wouldn't be room for my step sisters, and the expense of them flying/getting a hotel, even for a long weekend vacation, was just too much. So we decided to stay local.

Having the wedding you want is 100% fine, and you definitely should do what you want, however you are not expected to pay lodging for guests, and if people are staying at shared lodging, they should pay their share.

My thoughts: I would love the idea of a week long vacay and wedding! At the same time, family or not, I would never expect you to foot the entire bill!!!

You could make a group chat on facebook and call those who don't have FB - and mention the idea and a rough cost (of course mention that the cost would change according to how many people participate in the weeklong booking).

BUT! no matter who joins I mean it - somewhere to stay is not put on the bride and groom. You book hotel blocks but not the rooms after all.