Can't get my head around the plan to go to Portugal for a wedding but stay a 2 hour taxi drive away. It's so far in fact that they don't bother staying for the night of the wedding. Even if you're saving money by staying in a cheap hotel, you must be killing your saving by getting in a taxi for 4 hours. And surely if they wanted a cheap hotel, there must be one available closer to where the wedding took place.
Knowing they're both thick, I can only assume they didn't bother to look at a map and just booked whatever they fancied.