AD. Planning your wedding can be one of life’s rare delights. You get to plan the perfect party for all your loved ones, choosing everything from your favourite food to the perfect music and dress code. One of the most important things you’ll have to choose is the wedding venue, and it can be easy to get a bit overwhelmed. If you’re set on having your wedding in the beautiful county of Cheshire, then you’ve already made life much easier for yourself. From choosing somewhere that’s the right size to going with your gut instinct, here’s what to look for in your perfect Cheshire wedding venue.
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Size
One of the most important things to look for in any wedding venue is the size. You need to make sure that you’re able to comfortably accommodate everyone you want to have present on your special day, as well as enough space for any activities you have planned like dancing or big meals.
As a result, it’s important to finalise a lot of other wedding details before you start looking at venues like Heaton House Farm. Of course, you can bend your plans a little if you find the perfect venue that you fall in love with straight away, but you don’t want to have to compromise too much.
Accessibility
You also need to make sure that the wedding venue you choose is accessible to your guests. For example, if you have older family members who need to use crutches or wheelchairs, you obviously don’t want to have spaces that are only accessible up long, steep flights of stairs.
Likewise, you want to make sure that there are taxi services that can shuttle people from the nearest train station. If not, you may have to arrange for some kind of special shuttle service, to make sure that everyone can make it there ok.
Additional services
While it’s normal to book a lot of wedding services separately from the venue itself, there are also some venues that come with certain services. Whether that’s catering or waiting staff, if you want to combine any of these services and save yourself a bit of time and effort, it’s important to consider this during your search.
The right vibe
Lastly, even if the wedding venue in question is technically perfect, if it feels wrong, you should trust your gut and go somewhere else. These kinds of things have to be done based on feel - you’re not holding a conference, you’re trying to create just the right vibe for a special and memorable day.
If that means going with the dilapidated old chapel over the brand-new hotel, just because it feels like the right thing to do, then so be it. Love isn’t a logical puzzle that can be solved, so why would you approach your wedding in the same way?
Once you stumble across the right venue, trust us - you’ll know. Until that happens, keep on looking at the criteria listed above, and you should be able to direct your search to the right kinds of venues.
