Wilkes-Barre, PA!

While I was brainstorming some upcoming blog topics, I realized something. NEPA Bride is a pretty far reaching term. Northeast Pennsylvania covers pretty much everything from Scranton to Clarks Summit to Berwick and Hazelton.

I’m a Wilkes-Barre bride planning a Wilkes-Barre wedding.

Ok, ok, I know this isn’t any kind of amazing revelation but it kind of struck me. So many people are looking to get as far away from NEPA as possible, and here I am trying to figure out how I could actually have done this any closer to home without it actually being IN my home.

There are a lot of benefits to being a local bride. We don’t need hotel rooms to get ready in (though it would make for some swanky getting ready photos. Most of our guests don’t need a hotel for their stay either. I don’t mind traveling for weddings myself, but I know it can be a hardship for some people. I have a pretty good idea of all the places we should go for pictures on the big day, and I have the convenience of meeting all my vendors face to face before the big event. In fact, I have an open invite to pop in at the reception venue should I need to discuss something.

I really would like to craft up some Out Of Town (OOT) gift bags for traveling guests, but there’s probably not going to be a need. I’m planning to do bathroom baskets, but in all reality most guests could easily drive home between the ceremony and reception to freshen up.

Maybe we’re not going to need all the snazzy crafts from some weddings (though I still might do them ) and maybe we won’t have the exotic locales that some people choose, but my Wilkes-Barre wedding suits me just fine.

What do you see as the pros and cons to having a very local wedding?