The most effective way is to customize a regular schedule, so is finding and determining the wedding venue. Never fish for three days and dry the net for two days without a clue, and miss the golden wedding day and beloved venue!
Although the matchmaker's words are no longer emphasized in the wedding, the parents' opinions are still very important in finalizing the wedding date. Judging from the fact that the popular wedding venue in Shanghai usually takes one year to one and a half years, the most important thing in choosing a venue should be determined by tripartite talks between the couple and their parents as soon as possible. Choose a good day and start the game!
When the wedding date is set, the action will be carried out. In a metropolis like Shanghai, there must be rich sources of information-magazines, newspapers and websites-when looking for a wedding venue, but we must pay attention to choosing a well-known and reputable one. In addition, the new things in the wedding market in recent years, wedding exhibitions should also move around more. Large-scale wedding exhibitions can learn about many venues at one time, and small-scale ones can go to a single venue to familiarize themselves with the style and specific wedding process, and they can all try.
After a month or so of comprehensive information collection, we can conduct centralized field visits. You can choose about four hotels that you are most interested in, make an appointment with the sales staff of the other side, and have a comprehensive PK war. It's best to make a detailed table of the investigation content and communicate with the object so that you can make a comprehensive comparison.
After determining the final wedding venue, before signing the contract, you must carefully study all the details: date, time, banquet hall, general dishes, drinks, free hardware facilities, including some restrictions and foreign handling regulations, which need to be clearly written in the contract. If the other party is too vague, you must not agree, because there are indeed many cases of failure because of missing the signing terms.
About half a month before the wedding, be sure to confirm with the venue: the final number of tables (number of people), menus, drinks, details of the day's layout, on-site hardware monitoring, safety, etc. If it is different from the previous negotiations, it is necessary to communicate and replace it in time, and the wedding has not been repeated, so the details are worth repeating.
The type of venue is inextricably linked with the type of wedding, so newlyweds must have a comprehensive understanding, especially newlyweds with different ideal wedding forms. Some weddings really only have exclusive venues, so don't ignore them!
Star hotels: If you pay attention to service and decency, star hotels, especially four-star and five-star hotels, should be given priority. Moreover, the banquet hall of the hotel has a variety of choices, which can be flexibly changed in size and is more practical.
Characteristic restaurant: If a restaurant is excellent enough, it must have its own characteristics, and the style of food or environment must be one of them. This quality just meets the demands of two new people: first, the dishes should be affordable and delicious; First, the wedding style should be unique.
Suburban villas: Some villas in the suburbs of Shanghai are also recommended for new unemployed people. The wedding here is very beautiful and private. However, the outsourcing service of catering and the pick-up and drop-off of guests still need to be used by newcomers.
Special venues: yachts, bars, beaches and other special wedding venues. Because of seasonality and operability, although the proportion of newcomers is not high, we still recommend that you choose these venues to hold the "second meeting" after the wedding.
One-stop wedding venue: the wedding venue that recommends wedding photography, wedding ceremony, wedding banquet and other services to the couple in the form of package or menu selection is the largest among all kinds of wedding venues. At present, the disadvantage is that there are few choices and high prices.
Once the venue is determined, your wedding style will be generally clear. It is difficult to force a wedding planner to help you design a Chinese wedding in a pure white western-style space, and it is also difficult to create a beautiful and pure wedding impression in a heavily colored venue. The general venue styles are: pure Chinese classical style, western retro style, exotic style, modern simple style and so on. The wedding styles suitable for the first three are relatively simple, and the last one can be changed flexibly.
The shape of the venue has the greatest influence on the placement of the dining table and the control of the atmosphere at the wedding scene.
Rectangular venue: the most common hotel banquet hall shape, tables are placed at free height, and guests' priority is not obvious.
Long strip venue: ignoring guests in the second half is easy to cause dissatisfaction. The solution is to insert a big screen in the midfield.
Round venue: it feels luxurious and retro, but the seating arrangement space is not practical.
Irregular venue: guests can be carefully classified according to their types, thus forming an intimate atmosphere between them.
If a venue has a ceremony hall, a lush garden, a beautiful fountain and a bar wedding, there are several feasible schemes to facilitate the couple to temporarily change their plans and play more gimmicks in the wedding, so you should consider these venues with extra potential, which are likely to bring fresh fun to the wedding.
In addition to data search and field trip, you have other preparations to confirm whether it is complete. The cost, the wedding form and the number of guests all have an important influence on the choice and reservation of the venue. Please check it again!
Plus the wedding preparation expenses for two people, plus the parents' autonomy and possible gift money, it is generally the price that your wedding reception may bear. You can leave a floating space of 10%. By estimating the number of tables to be hosted, you can get the possible unit price of each table. According to this price, visiting the right venue is the first step to control the whole wedding cost. Don't be greedy to decide the venue that can't meet the demand, and don't lose face. Your budget has been overspent, and other preparations in the back are stretched.
Chinese or western wedding, garden wedding or auditorium ceremony, round table banquet or buffet dinner, even if you can't think clearly when booking the venue, please outline it first to avoid improper changes in the future, which will lead to more energy waste. This will not only help you choose the venue with a clear aim, but also help you save time and money and prepare for other projects.
At present, the general wedding banquet seats are below 20-30 tables. If you have no idea about the number of wedding receptions, you can use this figure as a reference first, but you should decide who to invite as soon as possible, such as relatives, friends, classmates and colleagues, and especially remind you to communicate with your parents early. Sometimes their banquet will be far beyond your imagination, but after all, getting married is a happy thing, and it is not good for many guests to have no place to arrange for the time being.
Nowadays, newlyweds often hire wedding companies to plan and arrange wedding venues for themselves. Therefore, when communicating with venues, we should know which venues are free, which venues are compact and practical, and what rules should be paid attention to when arranging, so as to avoid unhappiness in money and power responsibility.
Professional wedding venues will help the couple make some substitutions, such as the cancellation of the garden ceremony due to rainy days and providing a spare hall or tent for the couple; Fold high-priced wedding rooms into standard rooms for foreign guests to rest, etc. There are not enough parking spaces to help the couple rent a house nearby. Learn more about this information, nip in the bud, and relax your wedding mood.
Try to explain in detail the details of the contract you signed with the hotel, including whether you can set off cold fireworks, parking spaces in the parking lot, layout and safety guidance and restrictions, etc. After formal confirmation, once there is any new situation or plan, we should communicate with the hotel in time and add it to the original contract as an annex if necessary. Don't be afraid of trouble.
In this section, we specially selected 15 the details that you need to pay attention to when choosing the venue. If all the venues are up to standard, congratulations, this must be the place where you realize your ideal wedding!
Unless you invite fewer guests, or the wedding form is special, the venue with regular shape and broad vision must be your first choice. Considering the interaction between the couple and the guests in the wedding, it is best not to have thick columns, screens and curtains that hinder the line of sight. If it is really unavoidable, we can consider asking the venue to add more audio-visual equipment that can play the wedding process to make up for the shortage.
Although the wedding is not a show, since guests are invited to witness a series of sacred links, they should be decent and generous. The cramped stage is not only unsightly, but also not enough to present the wonderful wedding. A stage with a height of 30 square meters is the basic requirement. If it is not satisfied, the effect of wedding programs will be affected, especially for weddings with a large number of guests, the stage will definitely be big.
In modern weddings, people pay more and more attention to photoelectric media that can bring wonderful sensory effects. Sound, projection and spotlight are essential for a wedding, so you need to make an all-round confirmation when choosing a venue, otherwise your carefully selected wedding music and expensive short films are likely to be in vain.
Too low zenith will bring people a feeling of depression, and too high zenith will have a luxurious and deserted taste. Unless your wedding is grand, the ceiling that is too high can only be equipped with ultra-luxurious layout, otherwise your wedding will look shabby. Generally, moderate site height is the best choice.
In the past, newcomers would rely on past experience, word-of-mouth from relatives and friends or media introduction to understand the taste of dishes, but now more and more venues are holding small wedding exhibitions regularly, including tasting dishes, which also provides newcomers with a good opportunity to understand the taste of specific dishes at the venue.
If the wedding is held in a venue with inconvenient transportation, guests will complain afterwards, so when choosing the venue, we must consider clearly: there must be many public transportation facilities in the downtown venue. If you are in a slightly central area, you should consider the living area of most guests. Don't take your own convenient transportation as the only starting point. You are the only one who has a wedding car.
In our readers' interviews, there are many examples of dissatisfaction with the service conditions of the venue on that day, and most of them focus on the busy golden holiday of the wedding. Newcomers may wish to measure it from the perspectives of brand reputation, complaint rate and standardization of wedding exhibitions. If possible, the number of waiters who must be provided at the venue on that day will be determined and written into the contract.
Some venues are designed without considering the requirements of weddings, so the area available for welcoming guests is relatively small or not at all. Therefore, newcomers must confirm with the venue in advance, which area can be used for welcoming guests, what decorative arrangements can be made, and how to assist the venue. Don't be too crowded, the arrangement is not good.
Some guests are from other places, some have not been decorated yet, and some elderly guests need comfortable places. If there are not enough guest rest areas, these guests will be ignored. It is feasible to ask the venue to arrange a rest area that guests can use for free, or to ask someone to lead the way to other rest areas.
The guest's coat hangs behind the chair? Not only is it unsightly, but it also destroys the unique layout of the chair back. It is also impolite for guests from other places to put their luggage under their feet. Therefore, it is very important for the venue to provide professional storage services. Sometimes the high-grade and meticulous wedding is reflected in these small details.
The fitting room is not only as simple as the wedding room, but also has many special requirements and a lot of space, because the couple has multiple sets of clothes to put; In good light, it is difficult for makeup artists to draw beautiful makeup in the dark; Be close to the banquet hall, otherwise it will be time-consuming and laborious for the couple to "travel long distances". Some venues will open a small hall next to the banquet hall as a dressing room for newcomers, which is really considerate.
Relatively speaking, the sanitation of the banquet hall in the venue can be guaranteed, but the sanitation of the aisle, bathroom and stairs must also be guaranteed. When choosing a venue, newcomers may wish to turn their attention to these easily overlooked links and make a detailed inspection of the sanitation of the venue, especially the social restaurant, which needs to be improved.
How many parking spaces are available for guests to park on that day is also the content that needs to be negotiated with the venue. If the parking space of the venue itself is limited, it must be prepared in advance. Please find a venue or book some other parking spaces nearby for your guests. If you can book in advance, you will be very careful.
For newcomers, the temperature of the venue may not matter, because they always wear wedding dresses, but they may not adapt to the guests quickly. It's freezing in dog days and sweating in cold weather. These scenes have been seen by Bian Xiao. It is important to discuss with the venue. The best solution is actually very simple. Please indicate on the invitation: Dress up.
Yacht weddings need a special car to take guests to the dock, villa weddings need a special car to take guests to the venue, beach weddings are mostly held during the day, and guests need to get up early to catch the car. Therefore, it is very important for venues to provide convenient services to pick up and drop off guests. Otherwise, it seems that you will spend a lot of money to hire a team and make contact, which is not worth the candle.