How to Personalize Your Wedding Venue & Make it Unique

Spending hours trying to make everything in your wedding perfect is well worth the effort. You found the right dress, the right band, the right ring. Now, you just need to lock down the venue. Finding a perfect venue is difficult; you should try personalizing it instead. Most wedding venues are open to a few customizations that can bring the venue more in line with your wedding plans. Just be sure to ask what’s allowed before you order anything to know that you’ll be able to use it first. Some venues may have restrictions on what you can put on the walls and how you can display things.

There are many ways that you can customize your wedding to better reflect your style as a couple and your preferences. You just have to know what to ask for. Let’s take a look at how to personalize your wedding venue and make it unique.

Drape The Walls and High Ceilings

Every wedding venue is built with a theme in mind. Some are built specifically for elegant weddings, while others go for a rustic theme. The trick to personalizing your wedding venue is to figure out what you can add to the room to make it more in line with your theme.

This is much easier in a multipurpose room, like a ballroom or event room, that is used for weddings. The decor tends to be simpler and streamlined, making it easy to change the overall look of the room with simple additions.

Start by draping the walls, windows, and high ceilings with things that match your theme. For example, an elegant wedding venue will have flowy drapery hanging from the ceilings, doorways, and walls. You can match this with help from your venue by discussing your theme and any changes that they can make that will help with this.

Some venues offer draping as a service. You may not even need to find a separate vendor or take care of this yourself. It’s a very popular way to customize your wedding.

Decorate With Flowers

One of the easiest changes that you can make to a venue is flower arrangements, and they go a long way toward creating the atmosphere that you want. You probably already have a flower arrangement for the tables and the bouquet in mind, but consider adding more for the rest of the space.

A good example of this is draping walls with flowers and vines. Adding more foliage to the room gives it a more natural appearance, making it feel more romantic. If you need to wall off spaces or guide guests through the space in a particular way, use walls of vines and green foliage to create barriers. It adds to the ambiance of the room while also achieving your goal. Flowers and foliage are a very personal choice, so work with your florist to find the right setup.

Add Highlights That Are Distinctly You

The best way to personalize your wedding venue is to add highlights that represent you from your past, present, and future. Nothing does this better than your name, both maiden and married. Find little ways of including names on elements of your design that people will remember.

For example, a custom tablecloth with the couple’s initials on it can be a great addition to the gift table. Likewise, a custom cover or letterhead in the guestbook can work just as well. If you can, adding an element to each of the guest tables or an item for each guest can be effective. Many weddings have cupcakes or individual cake slices. Add your name to each piece so that every guest who enjoys the cake will remember how delicious it was and remember that it was your cake because it had your name on it.

Choose the Music

One of the best ways to customize any venue is to choose the music. More than just choosing a band or DJ, choose specific songs to add to the playlist. The music is a big part of how people perceive your wedding, and you can spark significant changes in the flow of the event by changing the music.

To do this, you will need to work with a band or DJ to build the set list. Make sure that you give them extra time before the wedding to make this happen. Bands need time to learn songs and put arrangements together, while DJs need to get licensed copies of the songs to use. In most cases, they should be able to accommodate your requests without a problem.

Make a Memorable First Impression

While you are looking for ways to customize a venue, remember that the first impression is often the strongest. Build your customizations starting from the door to set the tone early. A custom entryway makes it look like the venue is built for your event rather than you are renting the venue for your event.

One of the easiest ways to do this is to include some of the decorations that you use to customize the room on the door. Flowers, for example, add a small but interesting detail to the entryway.

You can also use banners, signs, wreaths, and other decorations to announce that guests are in the right place. However you choose to do it, just make sure that it is a tasteful and subtle change for guests to notice. Save the truly mindblowing customizations for the inside of the venue.

It’s Your Day, Make It What You Want

This is your big day, so work with the venue to make it what you want. You would be surprised how willing and helpful venues can be at customizing weddings, especially if they host weddings regularly.

At Galuppi’s, that is exactly what we strive for. Let Galuppi’s be the venue for your wedding reception, and let us help you customize the space to fit your theme.

With wedding packages for every theme, we know our team can offer the venue of your dreams. Call us at (954) 785-0226 to discuss your wedding plans with our friendly event planning staff.