But no big deal, the wedding is still three months away, right? Plenty of time to book a few rooms, I mean Greenville is a nice place to visit but it's not like there's a huge demand for tourism in early May. We're not having a huge wedding plus a lot of people know friends in town to stay with so we'll only need 10-15 rooms maximum.
Duh, Laura. Not only is it my graduation that weekend—oh right, meaning people are coming to see their children walk across the stage—it's also Furman University's graduation.
Which didn't hit me until I clicked on the website of the hotel I planned to reserve rooms in from the beginning and saw that they had zero rooms available the weekend of the wedding. Zero rooms? In a tiny town like Traveler's Rest? Except... it's five minutes away from Furman. Right.
That's ok, I'll just reserve rooms in Greenville. It will be an extra 15 minutes of travel time for my guests, but they'll get to experience Greenville—which on the plus side is a pretty neat city. I've grown quite attached in my five years here!
Downtown hotels are really pricey, I mean I never expected my guests to pay $319 a night, even if it means a hotel that looks like this:
Image via Uptake
Go outside of the downtown area though and you get to the hotels that are too close to Bob Jones. And even if they have rooms available (there are plenty, although you're limited in some ways), the prices have been jacked by at least $20 because of the higher demand.
Fortunately I found a hotel with availability that's near downtown—close, but not so close that it's wicked expensive. Rates are reasonable and the hotel looks nice without being overly ritzy. It's a longer drive to the wedding venue, but I'm really hoping people take advantage of these kinds of sights just a mile away.
Image via City Data / Our cute Main Street
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