Booking Transport for the Big Day
Even if you never manage to accrue enough wealth to own a luxury car, there’s nothing to say you can’t experience a spin in one for life’s biggest occasions and few, if any, occasions are as big as your wedding day. This is your perfect chance to experience something different and travel in a magnificent Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Cadillac or whatever takes your fancy.
The selection of wedding transport is among the core tasks for whichever person (or people) in the wedding party with this responsibility. Traditionally, it’s not just the bride and groom who require specialist transport. The bride’s parents, along with the bridesmaids and groomsmen, would usually be treated to the luxury travel treatment also.
There’s much more to wedding transport hire than just picking a fancy car, though. You’ll need to think about how many vehicles are needed, the routes that will be travelled, the time required to get to the ceremony without panic erupting and the budget allocated for transport hire. The importance of booking early and overestimating journey times cannot be downplayed.
Establishing a good rapport with the car hire company is highly recommended. If you can get onside with your chauffeur, he/she could throw in a few optional extras to make the journey all the more luxurious. More importantly, they might seek out some handy shortcuts to give you an even better chance of getting to the ceremony in good time.
This infographic from L.A. Stretch Limos offers a well-informed overall guide to the wedding transport booking process. It recommends some ideal cars to hire and dispenses some important advice which is well worth heeding. If you’re part of a wedding party and you’ve been designated the duty of hiring transport, this infographic is essential reading.
Many thanks to Carl Westwood of L.A. Stretch Limos in London for this article
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