Task 3 continued - Reception venue ideas

I just wanted to take some time to share with you some affordable venues around the Beds and Herts area.
When your looking at venues you should view them as a blank canvas. Most wedding venues are a big empty room and its the decoration that gives them the WOW factor.
You can make an empty space beautiful with just a little imagination. If you put Village Hall wedding into google you will see exactly what I mean.
A lot of the venues below are in lovely grounds and even if you wanted to extend a venue you could always enquire to see if the grounds are suitable for a Marquee, or you could use party tents and gazebos to host the welcome drinks and give people and extra space to use.

This image is from google images. 



Venue: Woburn Village Hall 
Capacity:120 
Cost: £300 
http://www.woburnvillagehall.org.uk/Hire%20the%20Hall.html


Venue: Unity Hall 
Capacity: 80
Cost: £15 per hour 

We Went to view Unity Hall and I instantly fell in love with it.
It had such a welcoming feel and it was all nicely enclosed with grounds outside. It has a Kitchen, cloakroom and lots of parking.
As soon as I walked into the main hall I instantly decorated it in my mind.  

http://bartonunityhall.wix.com/home



Venue: Stanbridge and  Tilsworth community hall
Capacity: 150 
Cost: on application 

http://www.iloveleightonbuzzard.com/community/venues-for-functions/function-venues/756-stanbridge-and-tilsworth-community-hall.html



Venue: Millbrook Village Hall 
Capacity: 80 
Cost: price on application

http://www.millbrookvillagehall.co.uk/Millbrook_Village_Hall/Welcome.html



Venue Pirton Village Hall
Capacity 120 
Cost on application 

http://www.pirton.org.uk/VH%20Brochure%20aug07%20zigzag.pdf

We wanted to have an empty space from the start. Somewhere that we could make ours and the freedom aspect was really important.
We have hired our hall for 3 days so that we had a full day to set up, a day for the wedding, then the next morning to clear up.

I hope this gives you a bit of inspiration.

The Wedding Assistant 

Activity - Save the dates <3 Glue and sewing thread at the ready!!

There are so many exciting ways to ask people to save the date. 
you can gather lots of inspiration from Pinterest and Google Images. Try searching for unique save the dates, DIY save the dates, hand made save the dates, spring wedding, Summer Wedding, Easter Wedding and so on.

When we had finalised the guest list and set the date, we ummed and ahhh'd on if we should spend money on save the dates or just not have them.

But with all the Excitement of the date being set and all of our friends and family wanting to know the date and have a tangible item to show that they were invited, we thought that save the dates where the way to go :)

I wanted Save the Dates that would fit in with our rustic / vintage theme but also be affordable. 
After a brainstorming session and a good browse through Ebay I decided on creating these.

Luggage tags £3.99 for 100 tags ebay 

Rubber Ink Stamp £16.50 ebay

We wrote all the information on the back to inform our guests of times and locations and saved money by sending them to our day guests. To post them we gave them out gradually as and when we visited people and we popped the rest into our family Christmas cards.

I love the little luggage tags and they are ideal for people to hang on notice boards and are a cheap and effective way of spreading the word.

You Don't even need to buy a rubber stamp. Just use your finger tips to create a heart that is unique to the two of you.

I discovered a few other ideas that I fell in love with whilst searching for ideas;

If your having a music themed wedding then how about getting some small badges personalised 

There are so many different creations you can try when you come away from the norm.

I also saw (which swooshed my creativity into a whirlwind) 

100 small fridge magnets for £3.49... you could sew, stick or make things to create unique save the date fridge magnets.

Over the next few days I am going to create a range of save the dates with templates and directions on how to create them.

Tomorrow I will be baking some save the dates and will post my results on Sunday

And over the next week or so I will be sewing some!!

keep a look out on Monday.

Let me know how you get on with your save the date creations and share your pictures!!

Have fun with your creativity.
The Wedding Assistant.