Thursday, November 5, 2009

Where would you get married...

...if, between you and your fiance, you had 11 siblings with 27 nieces and nephews who live in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, Montana, Arizona, Colorado, and California? (just remember, this does not mention parents, aunts and uncles, cousins, etc.)

This is the first question we sought to answer when we began planning our wedding.

Being nerdy engineers, our first strategy for making a decision was to minimize travel costs for our large families. So we made an excel spreadsheet and looked up flight costs from all the places our families live to all the potential wedding locations. At this time, our potential wedding locations included Denver and Phoenix (fiance's family), Delaware and Philadelphia (my family), and vacation destinations such as Hawaii, Nassau, and Orlando. All we knew for sure was that we didn't want to get married in our current city of Boston. Tooo expensive!!!!

Our flight cost analysis led to us narrowing our choices to Philadelphia, Denver, and Orlando. And that is where I began my venue searches.

How did you decide on your wedding locale?

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