Planning a wedding can be so hard when you are trying to make it unique.  You don’t want your wedding to be too cookie cutter but coming up with new ideas that no one you know has done before is a lot of work.  And there are so many different types of blank venues. When you do find that perfect place, make sure that it’s beautiful scenery and amazingly high ceilings don’t cloud your reason.

Blank Venues

With a lot of couples finding new and eclectic venues for their weddings, it can be easy to overlook practicality in favor of aesthetics.  Since most unique venues weren’t made with weddings in mind, like barns for instance, they are a blank canvas. This means they might not have existing elements that are essential to a good wedding.  So, while that beautifully rustic barn might be great for pictures, think practically.  Will it work for your staff, entertainment and guests? And if not, can you budget for the extra expense of compensating for what the existing venue lacks?

What To Consider When Picking Unique Venues

Your Guests

They all love you and want your day to be as special as possible! However, you also want to make their experience as fun and easy as possible, right?  That might not happen if your guests have an aversion to using porta-potties because your beautiful barn venue doesn’t have the proper restroom facilities.  

Your Staff and Entertainment 

To make your day run smoothly, your catering staff and entertainment must be able to do their jobs in a clean and easy to use environment.  In your venue, will you have access to a food prep location like a kitchen? Will you have a work station for the catering staff? Can the venue’s power supply handle a band or Dj equipment? 

Blank canvas venues can be great and luxurious and wonderful places to let your creativity run wild.  However, for a lot of them, you have to bring everything in yourself to make that beautiful space functional for your guests and staff. And that is where the costs begin to skyrocket.

If you and your partner are able to budget out the extra expenses then go for it! However, other beautiful, existing venues already have amenities. If that makes the most sense for your budget, try consider one of them.  Your guests and staff will thank you for it!

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We, at Wenning Entertainment, have seen our fair share of weddings.  You have so many things to worry about when it comes to wedding planning. From food to flowers to table arrangements, there’s a lot to handle. This week, we’re covering something that might not even be on your radar yet: your wedding layout. More specifically, where you put your entertainment. Even though it might seem like a little thing, where you put your band or DJ has a huge impact on your guests.

Where do you place your entertainment in your layout? 

If you don’t know much about event planning you might want to shove the DJ in a corner so that they don’t take up too much of your event space.  However, this is a HUGE mistake.  Once you put your DJ in a corner, you isolate the unlucky guests sitting between them and the dance floor.  

It’s always best to put your Dj in the front or your space right in front of the dance floor with no tables in between them. That way, no table is getting blasted with music from a speaker.

Who are you putting where, and why?

Probably the worst mistakes you can make in your guest layout are direct results of where you place your entertainment.  Always take into account accessibility. For Example, DOn’t sit your oldest guests by the entertainment.  They’re here for you and want to be able to have fun and talk to people. That will not be possible for them if you place them right next to booming speakers.

If you have to put your entertainment in a corner due to your event space layout, think hard about your seating chart. Your younger guests will enjoy the loud music more 

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