The right location for your wedding

There are a few things to con­sider when choos­ing the right loca­tion for your wed­ding, and dif­fer­ent loca­tions to dis­cuss before you book your wed­ding venue.

Wed­ding venue near your par­ents’ house

If you have moved away from the fam­ily home, it can still be a won­der­ful place to go back to for your wed­ding. Our child­hood haunts can hold very fond memories.

If your par­ents are host­ing the wed­ding they’ll prob­a­bly be delighted you’re com­ing back home to get mar­ried. It’s eas­ier for them to be involved, and all those reg­u­lar vis­its back home while you plan and meet with local sup­pli­ers will be great news for your mum and dad.

Wed­ding venue near your partner’s par­ents’ house

For the same rea­sons your part­ner might want to get mar­ried near his or her fam­ily home. This does make par­tic­u­lar sense if your part­ner has a lot of friends or fam­ily in the area, and per­haps yours are more spread out.

The only thing to watch is that who­ever is host­ing the wed­ding can still be as involved as they’d like to be.

Wed­ding venue near where you grew up

Even if your par­ents aren’t in the same place, there’s such a roman­ti­cism to get­ting mar­ried near where you grew up. It’s bound to be a place full of mem­o­ries you’ll share with your fam­ily and close friends — and how won­der­ful to be able to share things with your hus­band– or wife-to-be.

We’ve all play-acted a wed­ding as kids, and twenty or so years on, it’s still nat­ural to imag­ine your wed­ding at the same church / stately home you dreamed of flounc­ing up the aisle at when you were seven. So why not live the dream?

Wed­ding venue cen­tral to guests

On a more prac­ti­cal note, con­sider where all your guests are com­ing from. If you live in Lon­don but most of your wed­ding guests are from York­shire and Scot­land, and if the venue isn’t the most impor­tant thing to you, then con­sider find­ing a wed­ding loca­tion that’s more con­ve­nient for your guests.

Plan­ning your wed­ding will be fun as you can visit your guests and spend time at their houses while you meet with sup­pli­ers and make your wed­ding plans.

Dream wed­ding venue anywhere

If none of the above are a major con­cern, then the world is your oys­ter. Start brows­ing the web and find the grand­est / funki­est / most unusual wed­ding venue you can, regard­less of location.

How about Dun­ge­ness Light­house? Or per­haps Paign­ton Zoo? Look­ing for a con­verted choco­late fac­tory to get mar­ried in? There’s always The Del­fina…