What if my friends and family can't get refunds for their plane tickets and hotel rooms?

What if my friends and family can't get refunds for their plane tickets and hotel rooms?

If friends and family can't get refunds for their plane tickets and hotels, it's completely appropriate, if it is in your financial means, to offer some form of compensation to them. Also, if they can't, I've found in my experience that during that weekend that was supposed to be your wedding, you may want them in town anyway. So maybe you're not having a wedding, but maybe you're having a nice little reunion, and you don't have it at the same place the wedding would have been, but maybe you open your home to those guests. You have the people surrounding you so that on that weekend, you're not crying yourself into a tub of ice cream.