Ryan and I headed up to the Russian River Valley this weekend to meet with our caterer to set our wedding menu.
Before we could embark on this very delicious chore, we first had to solve the no-car-problem.
This ended up being an easy fix. I'm a member of Zipcar and Ryan is a member of City Car Share. We priced out both of these options, and it was expensive. To zip a car from Saturday morning until Sunday night was going to coast us about $200 on Zipcar. We dragged our feet for so long, that all the cars ended up renting out.
We started looking into other options. There are a plethora of car sharing options in San Francisco. In addition to Zipcar and City Car Share, there is also Zim Ride, Relay Rides, and Get Around.
We ended up going with Relay Rides. This company rents out private cars. Since most people in San Francisco hardly use their cars, they end up just sitting there taking up parking spaces. The solution: rent out your car while your not using it. We ended up with a Prius from Bernal Heights. Since gas is not included in the cost of the rental, like it is when you rent from Zipcar, we wanted to make sure we had an efficient ride. We ended up only using three gallons of gas!
To rent from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon was $50. Our plan was to return around 2:00pm, however, like most carefully thought out plans, this did not happen. We ended up having to extend our return time until 7:00pm.
Lesson learned, if we had rented for two full days, we would have paid $100 (way more affordable than Zipcar), but because we kept extending our return time by one hour increments and paying the hourly cost, as a result we ended up exceeding the daily rate.
If you are planning on using Relay Rides, just be realistic about your return time.
Once we had the car sorted out, we were on our way. As it turns out, one of the best parts about getting married, other than making a lifetime commitment to your best friend, is going to a food tasting. So much yummy food and so much good wine. If only we had been able to sample some desserts. I guess I have that to look forward to.
Before we could embark on this very delicious chore, we first had to solve the no-car-problem.
This ended up being an easy fix. I'm a member of Zipcar and Ryan is a member of City Car Share. We priced out both of these options, and it was expensive. To zip a car from Saturday morning until Sunday night was going to coast us about $200 on Zipcar. We dragged our feet for so long, that all the cars ended up renting out.
We started looking into other options. There are a plethora of car sharing options in San Francisco. In addition to Zipcar and City Car Share, there is also Zim Ride, Relay Rides, and Get Around.
We ended up going with Relay Rides. This company rents out private cars. Since most people in San Francisco hardly use their cars, they end up just sitting there taking up parking spaces. The solution: rent out your car while your not using it. We ended up with a Prius from Bernal Heights. Since gas is not included in the cost of the rental, like it is when you rent from Zipcar, we wanted to make sure we had an efficient ride. We ended up only using three gallons of gas!
To rent from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon was $50. Our plan was to return around 2:00pm, however, like most carefully thought out plans, this did not happen. We ended up having to extend our return time until 7:00pm.
Lesson learned, if we had rented for two full days, we would have paid $100 (way more affordable than Zipcar), but because we kept extending our return time by one hour increments and paying the hourly cost, as a result we ended up exceeding the daily rate.
If you are planning on using Relay Rides, just be realistic about your return time.
Once we had the car sorted out, we were on our way. As it turns out, one of the best parts about getting married, other than making a lifetime commitment to your best friend, is going to a food tasting. So much yummy food and so much good wine. If only we had been able to sample some desserts. I guess I have that to look forward to.
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