VENYU

In 2015 the unthinkable happened. My beautiful little sister and her fiancé were told three weeks before their big day that they had been double booked. They no longer had a wedding venue for their special day which was to be shared with more than a hundred of their closest family and friends. As anyone who has ever planned a big event or even a wedding would know this is a catastrophic discovery at any stage of the planning let alone so close to the day. My immediate reaction – jump into over protective sister mode and try to ‘solve this’. It was at that time of need that I realised there was no easy way to find an alternative, no comprehensive list of venues let alone any way of narrowing the search by their size requirements. In the end we cold called 90 different venues with no suitable alternative. Just as we were about to cancel the wedding we expanded the search looking up to 60 minutes drive away from their original booking location and eventually 115 venues later we found something that was large enough and available for their day.