Wedding transportation

Usually a window of hours and a driver, not the whole day. Ask from when to when it is yours, how many kilometres are included, and what happens if the schedule runs long — at a wedding it almost always does. Get the overtime rate written into the contract, so it is not being discussed at night in the restaurant car park.

This question comes up late and costs a lot when it does. If the restaurant is outside town, some guests have no way of getting there, and towards morning almost nobody should be driving. A minibus or a coach between the church, the restaurant and the city solves both directions. Fix the departure times before you print the invitations, so you can put them on there.

This is the one people forget. A wedding ends in the morning, and a coach booked until midnight helps nobody. Ask whether it can run in two waves — one for the guests who leave early, one at the end — and what each costs. Then post the times somewhere visible in the room, or you will be repeating them all night.

It can be the florist or the transport company, and very often each assumes the other is doing it. Ask explicitly who brings the arrangement, who fixes it on, and whether the company allows anything to be attached to the bonnet — some have firm rules. Agree the time as well: the car has to be decorated before it leaves to collect the bride, not after.

Do not assume so. A wedding day has three or four stops, with fixed times at the register office and the church, and one wrong turn is felt across the rest of the programme. Send the exact addresses, the order and the times in advance, not just the names of the places. Ask where they can stop at the church — in a city centre, that is usually the real problem.

The date, every address in order and the time window, plus how many guests would need transport. Say up front whether you want several cars or a convoy, because it is priced differently. And ask what happens if a car breaks down that day: who keeps a spare is a fair question, not a rude one.