Wedding Week Schedule

Carlyle/Will Wedding Events

Wednesday

Free day – get out and enjoy D.C.!

5:00 p.m. Happy hour/Dinner at Mandu, 1805 18^th St. NW (from hotel, go left, cross New Hampshire to Riggs Pl., take a right on 18^th St., Mandu is just past S St.) [No host]

Thursday

9:00 – 2:00 p.m. Men’s Golf/Ladies’ spa day

5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Happy hour/Dinner at Tonic (1/2 price beer and burgers ends at 7:00; the fun does not), 3155 Mt. Pleasant St. NW (a group led by at least one or both of us will leave the hotel at 5:00 p.m. on one of the 16^th St. bus lines, S1, S2, or S4; otherwise, we advise taking a cab, which will be about $10) [No host]

Friday

2:30 p.m. Rehearsal Participants meet in lobby

3:00 p.m. Rehearsal at Tudor Place

6:00 p.m. Rehearsal Dinner at Buca di Beppo

Drinks to follow at the Carlyle Suites bar

Saturday

4:00 p.m. First Shuttle to Tudor Place

4:20 p.m. Second Shuttle to Tudor Place

5:00 p.m. Wedding Ceremony starts

7:00 p.m. Reception begins

Sunday

10:00 a.m. Brunch at Carlyle Suites [no host]

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Get your room by this Wednesday, June 10th to guarantee our lower rate. Click here to reserve online!

We are getting excited!!!

Cory and Misty

Friday night

Our rehearsal dinner will be at Buca di Beppo, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW. Everyone traveling in from out of town is invited. We will start at 6 pm. Buca di Beppo is a quick, 6-block walk from the hotel (or a $5 cab ride, including tip).

If you aren't going to be in town yet or if you live here and just can't get enough of us, don't you worry; we will be out and about after dinner as well. Give us (or, preferably, someone else you know is there) a call.

M&C

Do you want to rent a car?

Several people have raised the issue of renting a car for the week during the wedding. If you know you have a parking option, feel free to get yourself a car. If you think you might have a spot or think you may be able to find one, you are likely going to find yourself more frequently frustrated than not. The Dupont neighborhood, where the Carlyle Suites is located, is an area where the street parking is always at an absolute premium. For that reason, the closest parking spots you should expect to find will be an average of 2-4 blocks away. I will say we have literally never taken our car down there - parking is that scarce.

Also, I know the Carlyle Suites website mentions having parking. They have about 5 spots for the entire hotel and we have one of them reserved already. Subtraction is easy so you know there are only 4 left. For the entire hotel. They do not offer a valet option so you are back to square one if you don't happen to be one of the lucky parkers.

On the positive side, the hotel is quite close to some very good bus lines and, as mentioned, the Dupont Circle metro station (on the Red line). Bus rides are $1.35 and Metro rides are about the same, though they can be more, depending on your destination. For more information about both, please read up on www.wmata.com. Your bus lines are the S1, S2, S4 (16th Street line), 42 (the best bus ever), L1, L2, and L4 (Connecticut Ave Line). I promise, normal people ride the buses.

If you have questions, shoot us an email and we can talk through how to get where you want to go -

Misty and Cory

Reserving Your Hotel Room

The Carlyle Suites Hotel was nice enough to provide us with a unique web page for you, our guests, to use for reserving your rooms. Click here to reserve your room from our room block.

- M&C

Wedding Info 101

Your hotel is the Carlyle Suites, and is located at 1731 New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C. 20007, in the heart of the vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood.

The Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is served by three major airports, Reagan National (DCA), Baltimore-Washington (BWI), and Dulles (IAD). DCA is the closest and easiest airport to access for our wedding. BWI is less convenient, but flights in and out of BWI are sometimes cheaper; also, Southwest Airlines generally only serves BWI. If you choose IAD, you are on your own. We avoid it at most all costs, though flights from certain areas of the country are directed through IAD, so it may be the most convenient option for some of you flying from the West Coast.

Taxi service from DCA to the hotel should cost roughly $22. Taxi service from either BWI or IAD is about $70. There are taxi lines outside, and you should be prepared to tell the Taxi Stand Coordinator that you are bound for D.C. (or “the District” if you want to sound cool). Taxis do not generally accept credit cards, so be sure to have cash handy. Super Shuttles are available from all airports at roughly $30 per person.

DCA is Metro-accessible, and your trip is $1.35 each way normally and $2.25 during rush hour. Fare cards are easy to buy in the Reagan National Metro station, which is accessible from inside the airport. Follow the signs. Also, Metro rail trains are identified both by the color of the train line and by the station at the end of that line. For more detail, see this map.

To get to the hotel from the airport by Metro, take a Yellow Line train bound for Fort Totten.* Take your Fort Totten-bound train to Gallery Place/Chinatown, where you will change trains by going upstairs to transfer to a Red Line train bound for Shady Grove.** Then, get off at the Dupont Circle stop, take the North exit, and the hotel is a short, eight-minute walk away. As you come up the escalator, take a right on Q St., then a left on New Hampshire Ave. The hotel is three blocks up to 1731 New Hampshire. Door-to-door, this trip should be about 30-45 minutes.


*If you are arriving during weekday rush hour, every other Yellow Line train in the northbound direction terminates at the Mt. Vernon/Convention Center stop. You may take these trains, as your commute will not be affected by their shortened routes.

**Also during weekday rush hour, every other Red Line train terminates at the Grosvenor-Strathmore stop. You may take these trains, as your commute will not be affected by their shortened routes.