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What to Look for in a Wedding Venue to Ensure It Aligns with Your Vision

What to Look for in a Wedding Venue to Ensure It Aligns with Your Vision

Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life. It is when you make a vow to your partner to stay with them forever, for better or for worse, and to find solutions and work together when troubles inevitably emerge. Because of your wedding day’s immense importance, you must plan it carefully. Careful planning can help you to ensure that your wedding goes exactly as you have always dreamed it would. However, actually planning a wedding can be difficult, and often starts with finding the perfect venue. Here are some tips you can use to find one: 

Positive Reviews

The first quality to look for in a wedding venue is good reviews. If a venue possesses positive reviews, this is a clear sign you can trust its management to properly prepare it for your wedding. One of the most popular wedding venues in Georgia was voted Atlanta’s best wedding venue in 2024. You need to find a venue like that, so you can be confident your wedding is going to go smoothly. As well as awards and ratings, find a venue with testimonials from past customers. Testimonials give you insight into the experience of hosting a wedding at a specific venue. 

Think About Location

Location is important. If you do not want to travel far from your house, you need to find a venue that is close by. If you are going to pick a venue based in a nearby city, you need to think about transportation. How will you get to your wedding venue on the day? Also, think about traffic. Venues located in large cities can be difficult to get into on certain days of the week, or at certain times. Try to time your wedding so it coincides with a weekend when no large events are taking place, if you want to have one in a city location. 

Consider the Cost

Cost is also a consideration you need to make. Some wedding venues are, unfortunately, more expensive than others. It is usually the case that the best venues are the most expensive ones. Work out a budget before you begin your search, so you know exactly how much you can afford to spend. This will stop you from getting your hopes and dreams shattered when venues you have been enquiring about turn out to be unaffordable. Most wedding venues advertise their costs on their websites, which simplifies the process of finding the right one.

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Venue Capacity

Venue capacity is worth thinking about if you plan on inviting a lot of people. You need to be sure that the venue you book is big enough to accommodate your guests. Until you have established venue capacity, it is a bad idea to start inviting people. If you don’t find out what a venue’s capacity is before you send invitations, you could end up inviting more people than it can accommodate. You could, also, invite too few people. A venue’s capacity, like its price, will usually be advertised on its website. Assuming it isn’t, you can find out what it is by sending an email to the venue’s management. 

Aesthetic and Appearance

Some people attach unique aesthetics to their weddings. For example, some people host weddings where everybody dresses in black, adhering to the ‘goth’ aesthetic. Others prefer traditional weddings, where the bride wears a big white dress, and the groom a black tuxedo. If the venue you book doesn’t match your wedding’s aesthetic, the photographs taken won’t look as good as they could. Because of this, you need to make sure your chosen venue suits your wedding’s aesthetic. Sit down with your partner and talk about aesthetics early on in the planning stages. 

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Availability

Availability is,  without a doubt, one of the most important things you need to check before you get your heart set on a specific venue. If the venue you want to visit is unavailable on the date you plan to get married, you obviously won’t be able to hold your wedding there. You can check a venue’s availability by using the calendar available on its website, or by getting in touch with the venue’s management and asking them. The former is the simplest way to determine availability, but it’s important to make this one of the first things you do to avoid disappointment. 

Inclusive Catering

Do you plan on providing your own food? If so, you need to get in touch with the wedding venue’s management to ask them if that is possible. Some venues only allow food provided by them to be offered to guests. Some wedding venues have award-winning catering, however, so that isn’t really a problem. If the venue you want your wedding held at does offer inclusive catering, you may be able to save a lot of money. Paying for external catering can be very expensive and isn’t always the best option for people who are on small budgets. 



Local Restrictions

Local restrictions deserve some consideration, too. By ‘local restrictions,’ this post is referring to curfews and noise restrictions. In some places, you are not allowed to hold parties or events past a certain time, and you are not allowed to make lots of noise during the hours you are allowed to hold them. Make sure that when you are planning your wedding, you pay very close attention to restrictions. If you disregard local restrictions, the venue’s management could come and ask you to either keep it down or leave the premises at a certain time, which could ruin it for everybody. 

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Bad Weather

Bad weather is, of course, not something you can always predict. Weather forecasts often do not extend beyond a few weeks, which means that even if you pick a day in summer, there is no guarantee that the weather is going to be good, and you really have no way of checking. It is, for this reason, very important that you find a venue that offers both indoor and outdoor areas. If the weather is no good on your wedding day, you can then go indoors instead, which allows you and your guests to still have a good time, regardless of the weather. 

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Parking

Parking deserves serious thought. It is something that a lot of people completely overlook when they are planning their weddings, mainly because they are too focused on other things. However, if your guests have nowhere to park, your wedding day will be very stressful for them. Make sure that you find a venue with adequate parking, especially if you plan on inviting lots of people. The worst thing you can do is invite hundreds of people to a venue without its own parking lot because your guests’ cars will end up blocking traffic and causing chaos in the local area. 

Preferred Entertainers

Some venues, much in the same way they have their own caterers, have their own entertainers. While no wedding venue is going to force you to book an entertainer they work with, they might be able to offer you discounted rates, or even include their services as part of the package you buy. Speak to your chosen venue and find out if they have any preferred entertainers. However, if you have an entertainer you want to hire, don’t let the venue talk you into booking one of theirs. Your wedding is your day, and it needs to be perfect. 

Wedding Coordination

Wedding coordination is always an important consideration. Even if all of your guests are close friends and family members, if there is nobody there to organize them, they will descend into uncertainty and chaos. Many venues offer their own coordination services. They have staff members with signs walking around the venue, directing guests into the rooms or halls they need to be in. Coordinators also notify guests when the ceremony is about to start, and let them know when it is time to eat. You can hire your own coordinators if the venue you book does not offer them. 

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Alcohol Policy

Find out what your venue’s alcohol policy is before you book. Some venues have their own in-house bars, where alcohol has to be bought by guests. Others allow you to bring your own. When you buy alcohol from a venue, it is typically sold at a premium price, which means it can be too expensive for guests to enjoy. This often results in the people hosting weddings buying out the in-house bar and giving it to guests for free. If you are able to bring your own alcohol, you should. 

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Post-Wedding Cleanup

The post-wedding cleanup is one last consideration you should make before booking. Immediately after your wedding, you are probably going to go on your honeymoon. This means you will not be around to tidy up the mess your guests have left. Some venues require clients to clean up, however. Try to find a venue that offers inclusive post-wedding cleanup services, so you don’t have to worry about doing it yourself. 

Your wedding venue will have a massive influence on the day itself. Because of this, you need to find the right venue for you. Use the guidance given above to do that. Find a venue that offers all of the things mentioned here, or the ones you consider to be most important. 

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