A little help!

How cool is the Internet? As cool as you make it.

If you click on the link Wedding Geography, right, you'll see a Google map with locations of the wedding, reception, rehearsal dinner, and Sunday brunch.

You'll also see hotel locations, including the Hampton Inn, where we blocked discounted rooms (because we couldn't block rooms in any other hotel. I mean really. We'd have done better if we could have.).

If you click here, you'll see the cause of the run on hotel rooms. But at the bottom of the page, you'll see the hotels in which the DCA is housing the band geeks, which should tell you where not to stay unless drum line is the different drummer to which you march.

One way to use the map, if you're Priceline savvy, is to make sure that you're bidding on hotels on the wedding side of town. In general though, when you're West of Albany, you're in the greater Midwest and distance means nothing there. Expect to drive a bit.

Also, a friend had hopes of using hotel program or American Express points at one of the hotels.

If your experience yields good advice for others, please leave a comment below. Click on the Comment link at the bottom of this post and follow the simple instructions (Type your comment, identify yourself, click Publish, and then type the verification letter/number string. Sounds complex, but it's easy.)

Yes, that's TWIL, working her creativity to the bone vis a vis invitations.