Don't they check for matching names?
This is from TPG regarding weddings:
Do Weddings Qualify?A lot of people want to know whether or not weddings qualify as meetings, and like many things in the world of meetings, the answer is: it depends. If you are planning on getting married at a hotel, the answer is almost always yes. In fact, many chains and individual properties run special wedding promotions, sometimes involving 100,000 points or more for the happy couple. However, if you are trying to reserve a block of rooms in connection with a wedding elsewhere, the equation changes. Hotel sales managers are very wise to the fact that weddings often cancel for a variety of reasons. So wise, actually, that a lot of properties will outright refuse to sign a contract with you because the risks are too high, and instead will offer you a “courtesy hold” on a block of rooms. In this case, whether or not the block qualifies as a meeting will be at the discretion of the sales manager.
Who Gets the Points?You have probably heard horror stories from people who attended conferences or events and reported back that they were not allowed to keep their points, and that is often the case. When it comes to earning points for room blocks, the relationship between meeting planners and the people staying in the rooms is almost always: whoever pays gets the points.
If the rooms all go on a single bill, called a “master account,” the meeting planner gets the points. If the people staying in the rooms pay for them individually, they get the points. In future posts, I’ll talk about splitting points between people, and what to do if you work for a company that prohibits you from collecting points. But for now you should assume that whoever pays gets them. This is obviously important to keep in mind when booking your event, and sales managers will always ask whether the rooms are to be billed to a master account or paid for individually. I am aware of only one exception to this rule and it’s Marriott. They allow meeting planners to earn points on the total cost of the room block, even when people pay for their rooms individually.
