Things To Think About #3

Planning on moving your guests from church to reception in a coach? In the light of our experience at two weddings in the last two years, the way to avoid the risk of a lot of people getting cold and fed up outside a church whilst waiting for a coach to turn up is to:-

Assume that if the coach is also taking people to the church, it will drop them off then disappear to park somewhere else. Before it does, get somebody to find out where the driver's going and that he knows what time he has to be back.

Get written confirmation from the coach company of the time when the coach will be outside the church ready to load for the journey to the reception.

Get a mobile number for the driver and a backup number for the duty manager at the company's base,

Assume that mobile phones won't work at the church and find out where the nearest landline phone is.

Remember that the service you're paying the coach firm to provide is not what they spend most of their time doing, so you need to spell out exactly what they have to do for you on the day.