My wife and I attended a friend’s wedding a few weeks ago. It was a big do – around 100 people – and at the reception, the hotel car park was packed to overflowing. In fact, the car park was so full that the wedding car couldn’t get through the car park to the marquee when it arrived – it had to let the newly-married couple out at the front of the car park instead!

All of this is a roundabout way of way of emphasising the benefits of travelling to weddings and other major parties/family events in groups. If 8 people are travelling from the same area, why take 2,3 or even 4 cars (for four couples)? This means you will need four drivers, four parking spaces and use four lots of fuel.

A good alternative can be to hire a minibus. Larger minibuses can seat up to 17 people (including the driver) and many people have the necessary entitlement (D1) to drive such vehicles on their car licence, as long as they are not doing it for commercial purposes. Using a minibus means that fewer people need to stay sober to drive – or alternatively, on long journeys, it means that the driving can be shared.

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