Venue Consultancy

Helping owners of new and existing wedding venues to flourish in the industry

Photography by Pete Henderson Photography

Our venue consultancy is led by our Creative Director Val Mattinson. Having worked within the industry for a number of years, Val can provide expert advice and support to help you develop your wedding venue.

This bespoke service is tailored and can help you with marketing and developing your venue in a number of ways:

• Plan and manage promotional showcase events - Designed to provide visitors with a real idea of what a wedding or event at your venue would actually be like. Working with handpicked quality suppliers within the industry to style your venue and to create an ideal environment for your prospective clients to experience your venue at its best. These showcase events are not like traditional wedding fairs or trade shows that are typically crammed full of stall holders.
• Introduce you to quality industry contacts to help you build sound supplier relationships and develop your preferred supplier list based on knowledge of their work and credibility within the industry.
• Provide PR and marketing support. This can include social media management.
• Co-ordinate styled shoots to support marketing and promotional materials
• Venue management - support can include anything from handling initial enquiries and the management of the event on the day
• Mystery shopper service - to help you gain a true picture of your client experience.

Our clients have included farm and other land owners looking at feasibility, owners of country and manor houses and owners of existing venues looking for help to raise the profile of their venue and to improve on what they offer. We can work with you on a project by project basis or you can book a number of consultancy days or a monthly retainer, whichever best suits your requirements.

"Val has been absolutely instrumental in helping Richard & I turn our dream into a reality. Right from when Val first visited Bawdon Lodge Farm back in September 2012, she could see what potential the farm had and was as excited about the prospects it offers as we were. Val has since helped us to create a venue with versatility and shape our business to ensure we capture our target market and turn opportunities into business. She has provided us with the management of a large part of our social media and guidance on our PR activity. Val understands our business and offers advice and guidance as we develop our brand. Val is in'val'uable to Bawdon Lodge Events Ltd. Thank you".

Lynn, Bawdon Lodge Farm

We can work with both existing and new venue owners and managers who want to raise the profile of their venue or to improve the service they provide to their clients. Please get in touch to find out how our venue consultancy services could help you.

"Val was most helpful offering advice as to how to move forward and increase our bookings. In addition, she organised a wonderful photo shoot for us which produced some stunning new images for our website. Val also introduced us to new suppliers in the wedding industry which has proved to be very useful."

Charlotte and Robert Brackenbury - Holme Pierrepont Hall