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  3 0 Great question. I think that the success of camping wedding lies in your expectations.   Here are some tips: 1. If you have people flying in. Help them get to the site. Make sure a three hour drive from the airport to the campsite in Yosemite or wherever is doable for guests. If not, re-imagine your site. 2. In the campground. Make a crazily exaggerated way for people to know where you are. If you have to hire your baby cousin to stand at the gate of the campground all day and night -- do it. Nothing is more frustrating for road-weary guests then driving around INSIDE the campground after having made a trek to get there. 3. Have some scheduled activities but leave most of the time for people to just chill. They will definitely get to know each other. An optional morning rafting trip is radical but activities every hour on the hour will wear guests out and they have to go the extra mile just to go to the toilet at a camping wedding. 4. Recognize that camping doesn't necessarily equal cheap. 5. I love the idea of a "bar" tent or picnic table where people can congregate for toasts. 6. Help out-of-towners understand the climate. It's only fun to party in the rain if you have some GoreTex action. 7. Elect captains to organize the cooking area and serve as grillmaster so that the meat is never left smoldering. Rotate the job or give it to your kindly Uncle. No one should feel like they have to step up to the tough jobs because it seems unorganized. 8. Make sure somebody brings the guitar. A wedding camp song book would be AWESOME. There is nothing more fun than people who never sing sitting around and singing something like Neutral Milk Hotel around the fire. All that being said, camping weddings rule!!! Totally a fun way to bring people together, very beautiful and in Washington, an awesome way to show off our state's total radness. Let me know if you want to talk more about this topic. I could go on and on! Cori Ready answered in Weddings about 1 year ago | Report 6 comments by Sacrelicious, Tom, and MyrnaMinkoff… 2 0 Can I add one thing? Some of your wedding guests (like grandma and her wheelchair) may have no interest in camping. Might want to choose a location where they can stay at a relatively close motel and then drive up for the festivities. Sacrelicious commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Check out the group camp sites at Deception Pass state Park. Awesome! It's where my wedding was. Tom commented about 1 year ago | Report 3 0 I went to a wedding this summer (in Germany!) where they rented a retreat center along a lake where there was optional camping. There were about 60 of us, and food and drinks were covered for the weekend. The wedding ceremony itself was secular, at the town hall; my friends were married by the magistrate (in German; he read the entire history of the city before proceeding to the marriage part). And then we went back to the retreat center and partied until 6am the next morning. My friends who were getting married both live in different parts of the world, and their friends are a truly international bunch (whom they don't get to see very often). So, we were all invited on the honeymoon. We rented a big van, and eight of us camped (and ate) our way across southern France for two weeks. It was seriously one of the best trips ever. MyrnaMinkoff commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Wait, this Germany trip sounds like the best idea of all times. Also, one of The Adventure School's amazing wedding couples did invite the buddies for the honeymoon. I think they went to Israel, and I think they all had a total blast. This could be a fun trend. FriendlyMoons! Cori Ready commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 you guys are so helpful. I was thinking the secret to success is a nearby hotel. Jen Gay commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Thanks everyone! I love all of these suggestions! cole2000 commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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