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Published pricing

The venue puts a per-head number on its own website before you make contact.

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The Bar Has a Clock on It
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

The Bar Has a Clock on It

The food is priced per head. The drinks are priced per head and by the hour, and the second number is the one nobody reads out.

All-inclusive
Ask What Happens If You Have to Move the Date
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

Ask What Happens If You Have to Move the Date

Everyone tells you to ask. The businesses that answer in public answer with a ladder of dates, and the ladder is what you are signing.

Access friction
The Menu With the Letters On It
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

The Menu With the Letters On It

It is easy to get a venue to say it caters for every dietary requirement. It is much harder to get it in writing, against a dish.

Access friction
Nobody Will Tell You What It Costs
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

Nobody Will Tell You What It Costs

A room quoted before anybody knows your date is a number that will be wrong. That is a good reason to publish a range. It has never been a reason to publish nothing.

Access friction
The Blank Canvas Is a Trap
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

The Blank Canvas Is a Trap

The empty warehouse is cheaper than the all-inclusive venue right up until you price the chairs.

Access friction
The Guest List Is the Budget
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

The Guest List Is the Budget

Cut the flowers, argue about the bar, hunt a cheaper photographer. None of it moves the number the way twenty names do.

Access friction
Twenty Guests Is a Hard Wedding to Buy
The Little Wedding Planner Editors ·

Twenty Guests Is a Hard Wedding to Buy

Twenty guests is easy to host. It is hard to buy, because most of the rooms you will look at were built and priced for a crowd.

Access friction

Go and look at wedding venues