Tips For Locating Your Perfect Wedding Venue

Finding the perfect wedding venue should be a central part of your planning and budgeting process. Not only that, but if you are not getting married in the same place as you are holding your reception, you will need two wedding venues – so double the headache! There are many advantages to having only one location for your wedding in terms of budget as you will nearly halve your decoration spend but you will also save on transport costs between the two locations. You will probably already have a feel for whether or not you want two locations, but if you are wavering, stick with one.

Once you have decided on how many wedding venues you are looking for you can get on with looking at the type and location choices available. Within reason you can have your wedding wherever you like – there is the obvious church choice or a hotel and then you can branch out into the slightly more unusual wedding venues such as local halls, restaurants, museums and parks or even consider the truly unique mountain top or beach wedding location. Be creative but remember that the more unusual the location, the more work you are going to have to put in to organise everything. When you are going through your wacky list of venues, just make sure to consider how accessible they all are and whether they can cope with the number of guests you plan on inviting.

Once you have a shortlist of venues, get out there and visit them. Confirm dates, guest numbers, food choices and all of the other intricacies you want the venue to feature, as well of course as the cost. Keep detailed notes and even photos of each venue as they will all merge into one after a while. Try to write down what you like and dislike about each one as you go round, so you can pull all of this information together when you get home to find the wedding reception venue that is going to be perfect for your big day.