Choosing the perfect venue for your event!

1. Weddings

When searching for a venue in Leicester for a wedding there are a few things to bear in mind. First of all, will your Leicester venue allow for good photograph opportunities and is there going to be enough room for all your guests to sit.

Another consideration for your Leicester venue is whether or not the wedding reception will also be taking place in the same venue as the wedding. If this is the case then there needs to be enough room for the guests whilst the reception is being set up.

2. Conferences

Searching for a conference venue in Leicester should be relatively easy as Leicester boasts a number of suitable venues for this purpose. You would need to consider how long your conference was going to last for and how many delegates would be expected to attend.

Another concern you would need to bear in mind is the car parking availability. As you will probably be having attendees from all over the region, if not the country, coming to your Leicester venue, adequate car parking is essential.

3. Wakes

Choosing a Leicester venue for a wake is very different from choosing a venue for any other type of occasion. The main necessity it that you are able to hire out a completely isolated room from the rest of the venue so that the attendees will be left in piece and not interrupted.

Another consideration is how close the Leicester venue is to the crematorium or church. Although it is not an immediate concern, ideally it should not be an extremely long drive in-between each.

4. Surprise parties

People often hire venues in Leicester for surprise parties to prevent the certain individual guessing they’re having a party.

A must for this venue in Leicester is to have a good size room that will hold quite a few guests, a buffet table and a bar.



5. Mother and Toddle groups

Choosing a Leicester venue for a mother and toddle group is harder than is sounds. Not only do you need a venue that provides parking, is located fairly centrally to all who attend and has storage room for all the toys needed, you must also have a big enough room for the group.

The venue also needs to available at the same time every day or week, depending upon how frequent it is. Finding a Leicester venue that is able to commit to this availability will be fairly hard as they will not want to miss out on larger money making bookings.

Theme your Wedding!

In order to make your wedding stand out from the rest some people theme their weddings. This also enables them to tie all the decorations, flowers and invites together so as everything matches. Here is how to plan a themed wedding in Leicester without it ending up looking trashy or cheap.

1. Pick a theme

If you are going to organise a themed wedding in Leicester, before doing anything you need to decide on the theme. Make sure that you give a great deal of thought to whatever theme you decide on and try and prevent any rash idea take you down a very difficult or hard to maintain road.

Many people stay quite simple with their theme and simply choose a colour scheme, often including cream or white as the base colour and something a little more daring with the accent colour such as pink or turquoise.

However, try something a little more daring and include a motif such as butterflies, lilies or perhaps even a genre like the 1950’s or 70’s.
But whatever you decide on remember that this will be evident throughout the whole of your Leicester wedding.


2. Decide on a colour scheme

Once you have chosen what theme will spice up your Leicester wedding, you need a colour scheme that will help add to the overall look of your wedding. For example, if your theme is sunflowers opt for a cream and yellow colour scheme for the ribbon around the chairs, bouquets and invites.

3. Ways to incorporate the theme

The theme that you have chosen can be brought into your Leicester wedding in numerous ways.

For example an image of a sun flower, for example, could go on your invites, it can appear on your food menu, name cards and even the table plan board. This can also be the case if you are having a wedding plan given to your guests.

Obviously if the theme of your wedding in Leicester revolves around a flower you can incorporate these flowers into your bouquets, hair flowers and the men’s button holes.

4. Getting your guests involved

If you have decided upon a 1950’s theme or something similar then there is no excuse to not get your guests involved. On your invites specify the theme and state that it is fancy dress. Not only will this produce some amazing wedding photographs but also help produce a fun and energetic mood at your Leicester wedding.

How to plan an event menu!

1. Think about your guests

Despite what type of event you are having, whether it is a wedding, party or wake, you will be having a mixture of people coming to the venue in Leicester. Therefore, you need to consider your guests ages, if anyone suffers from any allergies and cultures. As Leicester is a city full of different ethnicities and cultures you may wish to bring these differing elements into your menu.

If you are going to have small children running around your Leicester venue, it is advisable to have food that they will be able to eat without making a massive mess.
Next you need to take into consideration the size of your Leicester venue and how many people are expected to arrive. This will help you to determine how much food will need to be prepared and thus have an influence over which food you choose.

2. Sit down meal or buffet?

After you have an idea of numbers you’ll need to decide whether you are going to provide a sit down meal or a buffet? Either of these choices still allows for good food to be provided, the only difference is that they tend to create a different atmosphere.

3. Sit down meal

Organising a sit down meal will make the mood in your Leicester venue somewhat formal. It also prevents people from talking so easily to a mixture of other guests as they are more relegated to the table they are sat on. However, by creating a more serious air it also encourages attendees to take the event more seriously.

Also opting for a sit down meal enables you to serve different courses. But, do take into consideration the size of your Leicester venue. A sit down meal obviously requires tables and enough seats for every guest and there needs to be enough room. The venue facilities will also need to be checked as a meal of this kind will require onsite preparation.

4. Buffet meal

This is often a cheaper and so more favoured option. It also allows for a wider variety in choices and thus appeals to more attendees.

Also with this option you do not necessarily have to provide table space for everyone and therefore is the room in your Leicester venue is not sufficient for a sit down meal this a viable alternative. Also, as buffet food is generally cold, your venue does not require kitchen facilities and can be prepared offsite and brought to the venue afterwards.