how long before your wedding did you book the venue?

[lynne192]

hey all working when everyone booked their venue?

we're getting married 16th oct 2012 and wondering how far in advance should book reg office and venue hall.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

depends where you want and waiting lists? xx

 

[booflebump]

We booked as soon as we were engaged. Venues are taking bookings for 2012 now, so you should start looking asap to make sure you get the venue you want on the date you want x

 

[lynne192]

was thinking about asking for a tour of the place and see how we feel?

 

[booflebump]

Yeah, you should always visit the venue and ask lots of questions to make sure they provide everything you need. There are good lists on Confetti and Hitched of questions to ask x

 

[tmr1234]

We booked ares last month so 11months befor. Allways go look around befor you book as pics could of been took when the place looked its best and could of gone down hill

 

[aly888]

My sister had to wait three years before she could get into her venue. They were all booked up!!

 

[lynne192]

oh my, our wedding is on a tuesday sooo i think that might be in our favour.... hoping anyways going to try and phone the reg office and see what they charge to marry us, i thought would be about £300 but some people saying more like £30-£40?

 

[missy123]

we booked ours a year and a half before

 

[lynne192]

okay thanks will see what thier list is like maybe

 

[Missy89]

oh my, our wedding is on a tuesday sooo i think that might be in our favour.... hoping anyways going to try and phone the reg office and see what they charge to marry us, i thought would be about £300 but some people saying more like £30-£40?

Yeah most reg offices just charge the fee of getting married which is about that, if you go on your local council website it will tell you how much, some places will charge a little bit more for different rooms so its best checking but I checked a few different reg offices and even for the biggest room it came no where near a £100

 

[chelseaharvey]

We are getting married 9th June 2012 & we booked & paid the deposit for the venue yesterday

Places seem to get booked well in advance & if you have a spercific date you want to get married best to book it when you can so you wont be dissapointed.

 

[lynne192]

yeah think might do so asap too hoping though because its a week day that it would be so popular. what is the latest you can marry in a reg office does anyone know?

 

[honeybee2]

we booked ours about 1 yr and 5 months before hand. x

 

[honeybee2]

you have to inform the registrar no more than a year in advance, so you have a while to go yet unfortunately. And its either 4 or 6pm is the latest cant remember which??

 

[lynne192]

was worried they might be booked up for 2012.... but gonna phone and see what they say

 

[honeybee2]

a registry office wont be booked up that far in advance as you can only book them no earlier than a year, so they'll have no bookings yet. Esp if its on a weekday!!! x

 

[xxleannexx]

weve had our venue booked for 25th aug 2012 for quite a while now, meant we got the date we wanted etc, we looked round and fell in love so booked it straight away. we had looked round a couple tho which i would recomend, as soon as you are sure its the right place i would get it booked good luck xx

 

[lynne192]

very true thanks for will see about booking and putting deposit on it might even see if can haggle with them because its a weekday

 

[honeybee2]

you wont be able to haggle a registry office!!!!! Its a govermental run building. You might be able to haggle your reception hall though!!