Wedding Cars

Get Me To The Church On Time, remember the song from "My Fair Lady", well it still applies and the best way is to make sure you have good transport.

Your options for wedding cars are a few, you can hire limousines, friends and family may offer you the use of theirs to save you with your wedding budget.

Whatever you choose you need to get in and organize this early.

When booking your wedding cars with a car hire firm, use one that specializes in weddings.

You need to have your list of questions to ask. Some of these will include

Do they have special wedding packages?
Do they have a minimum hire time?
Do they charge by the mile or by the hour?
Are the wedding cars owned by the company or by the driver?
What insurance do they carry?
Do you need to carry insurance for anything at all?
What do the drivers wear?
Do they decorate the cars in your colors and theme?
What happens if there is a mechanical problem during the hire? Do they have back up cars?
Do they have a limit on the number of weddings they drive for on a weekend?
What do they include in the price? What are the extras they offer?
Do they have a refund and cancellation policy?
Ask for references?
Ask about their written quote

Make sure you actually see the wedding cars you will be hiring.

There will be a contract when you decide on which wedding car hire firm you will be using. What should be in the contract is all the information regarding the hire, things like costs, the exact cars you will be hiring, what the driver will be responsible for. Everything should be listed including any extras you may require.

You need to decide how many cars you will be needing:-

Getting to the wedding ceremony, will you need hire wedding cars for all the attendants or just the bride and the father of the bride?
Will you need a car to get the mother of the bride to the church?
Do you need cars for all the wedding attendants to get to the church?
How many cars will you need to get from the ceremony to the wedding reception?
Will you need cars for the whole wedding party, bride and groom and all the attendants?
How about the parents of the newly wed couple, will they need transporting to the wedding reception too?

Then again you may decide on something other than wedding cars but as a rule, this will be for the bride and groom only. You may want to keep your theme running to the transportation.

You could choose a horse drawn carriage, if you do, remember to include in the wedding flowers order, your theme flowers for the horse and driver. It's not usual to provide buttonholes for the car drivers, if you wish you can, but it is nice to see the driver of the carriage dressed with the wedding theme.

Whatever you choose, remember "Get Me To The Church On Time, My Fair Lady" and have a wonderful day.

Carmel Baird is a freelance writer and publisher of wedding information and resources at Creative-Wedding-Planning.com

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