Wedding venue search tips from wedding ninjas
Newly engaged folks: have you started your wedding venue search yet? Are you ready to pull your hair out or just the beginnings of a breakdown? Either you’re in a town with so few offbeat options or you’re in a big city with WAY too many options and no way to narrow it all down or find the perfect weird and wonderful venue for you between all the banquet halls. I decided to reach out to some of our favorite wedding coordinators to see what sage venue search wisdom they could impart on us to make the arduous search easier.
43 castle wedding venues that will transport you to Camelot
We’ve featured a fair few castle wedding venues in our real weddings, and we wanted to bask in all their regal AF glory. Are you lucky enough to be having a wedding in the vicinity of one of these castle venues? Please invite me so I can relish in your royalness for a mere moment. Your fairy tale, Medieval, Renaissance, Game of Thrones, and fantasy weddings need to be held in one of these bad boys…
Planning tools 101: wedding venue comparison chart
You may be following along with this series on our new totally customizable document of wedding planning spreadsheets. They’ll help you build out the best wedding planning binder for super organization in spreadsheet form (my fave kind!). We’re showing you the wedding venue comparison chart, which is a chart we haven’t seen elsewhere before in this form. We’re talking a total venue chart to fill in with your venue option totals, specific amenities, parking information, notes, and photos to help you make your wedding venue decision.
Offbeat New York wedding venues from real offbeat weddings
Between Offbeat Bride readers, our archive of real weddings, and our Vendor Guide, we’ve seen a LOT of vendor recommendations. So we decided to start rounding up these nuggets of info sourced directly from our readers for a series of reader recommended vendor list posts. We’re continuing on to another one of our largest markets: venues in New York City and the greater New York area.