Ben and Iris already possess most of the items a younger couple might request upon starting out. However, both of their first weddings were backyard affairs. Those weddings were lovely, but the couple would like more pomp and circumstance, more flair this time around. The gift that Ben and Iris most want is the wedding itself. They have set up a cash fund in the registry section of this site and request that any potential gifts their guests may have considered giving be instead applied directly to the cost of the wedding. Additionally, if guests provide funding sooner than later, Ben and Iris can apply that directly to improving the wedding's accommodations beforehand.

Sorry, no. Most of those invited are local or near-local and most of the hotels in the area don't provide much, if any, discount for a block of rooms unless the couple can guarantee a certain number of them will definitely be booked. Because they can't make that guarantee, the rooms would not be discounted, at which point it makes more sense to allow people to choose their accommodations.

Yup!