Venue Consultancy

Helping venues and other businesses in the industry to showcase their talents

Marketing and Business Development Advice

Our wedding industry and venue consultancy is a bespoke service 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 venue or wedding business. She has helped businesses and venues at different stages of their journey to review their ideas and plans and can assist with PR, marketing and general promotion as well as support the development of your business. Find out more about her business and success coaching here.

Photography by Dan Hughes Photography

"The consultancy support from Val has helped our business take an important step forward. It has defined how to work better and more efficiently in our business, achieving in a much easier way our targets and our daily jobs, improving also our personal lives as a pleasant side effect.

Do your future self a big favour, get in touch now!"

Thomas, Mambo Mobile Bars

Venues

We provide a bespoke venue or event management service 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.

We have now registered Bawdon Lodge Events Ltd and Val is not only is our Associated Wedding Planner, but she also manages a large part of our social media and guides our PR activity. Val understands our business and offers advice and guidance as we develop our brand. We are certain to work with Val for many years to come and look forward to building our relationship together. Val is in'val'uable to Bawdon Lodge Events Ltd. Thank you".

Lynn, Bawdon Lodge Farm

Whether you're a new or existing venue looking to make your name in the wedding industry or a fabulous stationery designer wondering how best to get your talents noticed, please get in touch to find out how our wedding industry and venue consultancy services could help you.