When it comes to planning your wedding day, choosing the venue is one of the most important decisions you will make.
Your choice of wedding venue can mean the difference between a fantastic day for everybody or muttered complaints from your wedding guests. Whilst you’ll have to accept early on that you probably won’t be able to please everybody on the guest list, there are a few things you can do to try to ensure that the majority of your guests enjoy your wedding day.
What to think about when choosing your wedding venue
When the time comes to choose your wedding venue, you need to consider a few important things.
Guest numbers
If you’re planning a small and intricate wedding, then you won’t want to choose a large venue capable of holding hundreds of people. Likewise, if you’re planning on inviting a couple of hundred guests to your evening reception, you’ll need to make sure that the venue can cater for them all comfortably.
Venue location
Of course, it’s entirely up to you where you want to get married, but it’s important that you think about the accessibility of your venue for any family and friends that you’d really like to attend. Not everyone will be able to travel long distances to attend your special day, so you need to think carefully if you’re hoping for a destination wedding.
Outside space
Think about your wedding photos. Many photographers take their best photos outside in the natural light. If this is important to you, then make sure you choose a venue with adequate outside space that will allow for beautiful wedding photos.
Cost
One of the biggest considerations when it comes to choosing your wedding venue is the cost. You need to know your wedding budget right from the very beginning before you even start to consider where you’ll hold your wedding ceremony and reception.
How Square Meal can help
Square Meal is a really useful website dedicated to finding people the perfect venue for their event. They even have a special section dedicated to wedding venues.
Square Meal make it really easy to search for party venues in your chosen area, and of course, your wedding reception should be one big party! You can be as specific as you like in your enquiry, and you’ll be shown a list of suitable venue suggestions to browse through. This really helps you to narrow down the available options when you’re planning your special day.
Once you’ve found a venue that meets your requirement, you can fill in a really simple form that will then get sent directly to the venue, making it really easy to find out exactly what they have to offer and if they have availability on the date you’re looking for.
Wedding planning can be incredibly stressful if you’re not careful, but using Square Meal really does take a lot of that stress away. It only takes a few minutes to put your enquiry through to the venue, and then you’re free to carry on with your day.
*This is a collaborative post.