Wake-up call

I always try to find the best deal (except when buying stuff to wear under wedding dresses--that's so stressful I'll apparently buy whatever).

So I had this brilliant idea to reserve a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn Express in Asheville for my out-of-town wedding guests at the discounted employee rate. I called them today and the guy pretty much laughed at me. He said I'd be lucky to get ONE room in October and the discounted rate would probably be well over $100. BAH!

So now I'm thinking about reserving some rooms at the HIExp here (where I actually work), but then it becomes a question of if it's even worth it since the wedding would be more than an hour away.

I think at the very least we're going to officially send Save-the-Dates now with a little nudge that the wedding is during peak tourist time and hotel space is limited. It hadn't even occurred to me.