Wedding Car Hire
Advice on hiring a wedding car for your wedding day
Picture the scene, the drive of your life awaits. Months or even years of planning your wedding day have led to this point. Then ten minutes before your arranged collection, you get a call that your hired bridal car is stuck in traffic or even worse broken down!
This nightmare scenario is not common within the wedding car hire industry, but it can and does happen. So what to do? How do you make sure that when you hire your wedding car, you get exactly what you imagined?
Careful Planning
Even the best made plans can go wrong, but with a little bit of thought, you can help take away any wedding car hire blues.
- Use a reputable wedding car hire company. Do not go for the cheapest option. Do they install confidence when you call?
- Create a contingency plan with your bridal car service, if the car broke down or had an accident, would they be able to provide a swift alternative?
- Make sure you give the car hire service accurate address and time details - double check those postcodes!
- See if it was possible to view the car at another wedding, so you can see the presentation of the bride’s car and of the chauffeur - are they both clean and smart and is the driver amicable?
Vintage Wedding Car Hire
Classic and vintage wedding cars are a popular choice for weddings but they do have an Achilles heel - reliability. Vintage Bentley and Rolls Royce wedding car hire brings an air of glamour to any wedding day, but unless they are properly maintained they can’t compete with the reliability of a modern wedding car.
The lovely 1964 vintage Bentley Silver Cloud as pictured above, is lovingly maintained and even kept in a protective “bubble” within a garage to make sure that it is kept at the correct humidity! Not all vintage wedding cars are cared for in this way, so ask your wedding car hire provider how often the car is serviced before you part with your money.
Wedding Car Hire Summary
Whatever car you choose, do the company install confidence? Do they have any contingency plans? Are they helpful on the telephone and answer your e-mails promptly and efficiently?
Get it in writing and you can then be assured that you have done all you can to make your wedding day wonderful and one you will always care to remember.
There are no guarantees in life and you have no control over the weather but using a little common sense and some careful, detailed planning, you can be assured that you will get to the church on time.
