What To Look For In Auckland Wedding Venues
Your Auckland based wedding is just 10 months away, and you have yet to find the perfect venue. Time is slipping away, and you don’t know who or where to turn to find answers. You know what you want, but can you find it? Does your perfect wedding venue even exist?
A wedding is one of the most important, and possibly, stressful events to plan in a person’s life. As a result, when you are planning a wedding you must do so while considering a multitude of aspects. Failure to do so may endanger the happiness of all involved at the event.
Physical Attributes of Your Wedding Venue
Physical facilities at the venue may be taken for granted, but they are just as important as anything else. Items of consideration include the maximum occupancy of the venue, handicap accessibility, bathroom and kitchen facilities, sound system and dance floor. Whether for fun or function, these characteristics are crucial for all weddings.
The mere existence is not the only thing that you need to account for; the quality of the facilities is important, too (size of dance floor, frequency of handicap-accessible features, condition of bathrooms, etc.) because the physical facilities contribute to the overall enjoyment your guests get from your wedding function.
Entertaining and Feeding Your Guests
Food and entertainment are many guests’ favourite parts of the wedding; consequently, examining what a venue has to offer culinarily and festively is key. Different venues may or may not provide wedding catering, and of those that do, some may or may not provide gluten-free, vegetarian, or allergy-accommodating options. Additionally, if the venue does not possess a liquor license, you may have to obtain one instead. Just as with catering, some venues provide a DJ or a live band and others do not.
Decorations and Surroundings
Several visual characteristics of a venue impact the look and feel of any wedding hosted there. The decoration policy (pre-done, done exclusively by planner, etc.) is vital to know as a planner. The ability of the event to be held outdoors or indoors provides versatility; however, if the wedding is held outdoors, a backup plan, such as moving indoors in case of poor weather is absolutely essential.
The surroundings of the venue can affect the ambience, too. Making certain the venue is is in a superb location or scenic area can effectively eliminate any unwanted distractions and provide guests with fantastic long term memories of your wedding.
How Much Should Your Wedding Venue Cost?
The looming aspect of any wedding… and any event at all, for that matter… is cost-effectiveness. While weddings do not occur too frequently in the average person’s life, they typically manage to pack a significant financial punch. One way to avoid overpaying is to determine which services are offered by the venue for free and which carry an extra charge, and of the latter, which are worth the expense.
Reading the fine print in a wedding contract can determine whether wedding insurance is required and help to expose hidden costs in planning the event. Everything from dinner to a DJ, from cake to clean-up, and from tents to tables can cause an unexpected increase in price. Furthermore, comparison between services provided by the venue and those from another company yields cost-effectiveness and quality assurance.
Take A Tour Of The Short-list
You would never want to hire a wedding venue without taking a guided tour and you can tell much about the venue by looking at the facilities, the catering options and the way the people you meet interact with you at the time and subsequent to your visit.
Weddings are never cakewalks to plan, and can bring as much stress as joy. However, if you are looking for quality in physical facilities, food and entertainment, visual appeal, location and cost-effectiveness in your wedding, the Floating Pavilion in Auckland, is the ideal Auckland wedding venue.
