You’ve put your blood, sweat, and tears into making your wedding venue perfect. Now it’s time to market it to the masses and fill up your calendar with weddings! Here are 5 tips for marketing a wedding venue to get you started.

1. a good real estate photoshoot is key
2. create a website that showcases your venue’s unique features
3. automate your marketing and sales processes
4. grow wedding vendor relationships
5. hire the right marketing partner

A good real estate photo shoot is key

Having great photography is critical for marketing a wedding venue successfully. Start by hiring a professional real estate photographer to photograph all the spaces at your venue. You’ll want to capture all the interior areas and amenities, as well as exterior and aerial shots of the building. These photos are essential for your website, social media posts, and in any other marketing materials.

Don’t worry about making this a styled shoot. You can always collect photo albums from real weddings throughout the year.

Create a website that showcases your venue’s unique features

Your venue’s website is often the first stop for potential couples. It needs to be visually appealing, informative, and transactional.

Some key features to include are: professional photos, a virtual tour, an overview of your amenities, pricing information and inclusions, and testimonials.

Automate your marketing and sales processes

There are a lot of moving parts when it comes to marketing and selling a wedding venue. To save yourself time and to speed up the sales process, consider using marketing automation.

You can automate tasks like sending out brochures, follow-up emails, consultation appointments, and even social media posts.

Not sure how to get started with marketing automation? Schedule a free, no-obligation consultation and let Say I Do Marketing help.

Grow wedding vendor relationships

Cultivating relationships with local wedding vendors is a great way to spread word-of-mouth and get in front of more potential clients. Invite local vendors such as planners, designers, florists, and photographers to participate or attend your venue’s open house. Collaborate on styled shoots, and engage with their social media content.

The goal is to get your venue top-of-mind when they are talking to potential clients.

Hire the right marketing partner

There’s a lot that goes into marketing a wedding venue successfully. If you don’t have the time or expertise to handle everything in-house, consider hiring a full-service marketing agency like Say I Do Marketing.

We’ll take care of everything from website design and development, and marketing automation to social media marketing. Plus, we have a proven track record of generating hundreds of venue tours for our clients through marketing strategies that work.

Schedule a free, no-obligation consultation to learn more about how we can help your wedding venue book more weddings.