Websites for Venues, Weddings & Events
Researched almost entirely on a phone, in the evening, with four or five venues open in different tabs at once. Load speed and photography decide who gets the enquiry, and the venue that answered "is my date free" fastest usually gets the viewing.
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The four problems I find most in this trade.
Not generic web-design advice. These are the specific failures that turn up over and over when running real Google audits on businesses like yours — each one with what it's actually costing you and how it gets fixed.
The photography is enormous and slow
Capacity and packages aren't clear
No way to check a date
No supplier or logistics information
Want to know which of these apply to you? Test your site free on the home page for the speed number in thirty seconds, or ask for the written audit and get all four checked properly by hand, back within 24 hours.
Designed around your business, not a template.
A wedding venue, a corporate events space and a village hall are chosen against completely different criteria. A wedding venue is an emotional purchase made months out by people comparing photographs, so imagery, capacity, packages and supplier lists carry it. A corporate space is a logistics decision — room sizes, AV, catering, parking, day rates — and reads more like a spec sheet. A community venue is bought on price and availability alone, so a calendar and a rate card are worth more than photography. Which one you are decides everything about the build.
- Home led by the venue at its best
- Galleries by event type — weddings, corporate, parties
- Capacities and room layouts
- A page per package with what's included
- Suppliers, logistics and accessibility
- Check availability and enquire
- Compressed galleries — superb and genuinely fast
- Capacity tables per room and per layout
- Package pages with real from-prices
- Date-aware enquiry form
- Virtual tour or floor plans
- Live availability calendar (Platform tier)
- EventVenue and LocalBusiness schema
- A rankable page per event type
- Capacity and location in real page copy
- Google Business Profile with venue photography
- Review schema for stars in search results
- Fast on mobile, which is where every comparison happens
What it would cost you.
Guide prices based on the typical scope for this trade, one-off, with £0 a month on every tier. The free audit turns this into a real number — often a lower tier than people expect. And don't feel boxed in by the recommendation: pick by what you need the site to do.
- Home, The Venue, Packages, Gallery, Contact
- Capacity, facilities and packages laid out clearly
- Photo gallery, compressed to load fast
- Enquiry form with date and event type
- Location, parking and access details
- Everything in Starter, up to 8 pages
- Galleries by event type — weddings, corporate, parties
- A page per package with exactly what's included
- Real testimonials and preferred supplier list
- Virtual tour or floor plans
- Everything in Business, up to 12 pages
- Live availability calendar — the one that matters here
- Upload new event photography yourself
- Brochure download that captures enquiries
- Enquiry routing by event type
- Free audit with real Google data first
- A working demo before you pay anything
- £0 per month — hosting is genuinely free, forever
- Your existing booking or payment system kept exactly as is
- Built mobile-first and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA
- You own the code, the domain and every login
- 14-day fix guarantee from launch
- No deposit at any point before you've seen the work
Want to edit it yourself? You don't need the top tier for that. Add the £150 self-edit content panel to any build and change prices, photos and text yourself with no monthly fee — it's on the add-ons list with everything else.
Worth adding for venues & events
Fixed one-off prices, addable to any tier, and addable later rather than up front. These four are the ones that actually earn their money in this trade — the full list of fifteen is on the pricing page.
Don't buy any of these speculatively. After the free audit you'll be told which one or two would genuinely move your numbers, and which of the rest would just be me taking your money.
The searches that actually bring you work.
Getting found isn't one thing called “SEO” — it's whether your pages answer the exact questions being typed. Here are the ones that matter in this trade, and what your site has to say to win them.
| What they type | What your site has to answer |
|---|---|
| “wedding venue [county]” | Photography, capacity and a from-price, fast |
| “[venue name] availability 2027” | A way to check a date without ringing |
| “wedding venue near me 100 guests” | Capacity stated per room and per layout |
| “corporate venue hire [town]” | Day rates, AV, catering and parking, as a spec |
| “barn wedding venue [county]” | Venue-type language in the actual page copy |
Every one of these is winnable locally, because most of your competitors have never written a page that answers them. That's the whole job: one properly written page per real question, marked up so Google can read it, on a site fast enough to keep the person who clicked.
The ones that come up every time.
Should we publish package prices?
From-prices, yes. Couples set a budget before they ever enquire and eliminate venues silently — which means "enquire for our brochure" loses you people you never knew you were in the running for. A from-price with a clear statement of what's included means the enquiries you get are already in budget.
Can the site show live availability?
On the £1,495 tier, yes, where your booking or diary system has an API. It's the single highest-value feature for a venue, because "is my date free" is the question that ends the comparison. On lower tiers a date-aware enquiry form gets most of the benefit for none of the cost.
Our photography is our whole pitch. Will it still look good?
Yes — and it'll actually get seen, which is the part currently failing. Modern compression holds visual quality at a fraction of the file size, and the site serves a phone-sized image to a phone. Same photographs, roughly ten times faster, on the device where five venues are being compared at once.
Two ways to start, both free.
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