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Websites for venues, built so an enquiry can actually be answered

Most venues lose people twice — once before they enquire, because there's no price anywhere, and again afterwards, because the enquiry arrived without a date or a headcount so nobody could reply with anything useful. Yours will solve both.

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Fixed priceYour domain, your nameDate, headcount and budget on every enquiryNo lock-in
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The problem

The ones you never hear from are the bigger loss

An enquiry you answer slowly is a problem you can see. The couple who looked for a price, didn't find one, and closed the tab is a problem you can't — and industry research suggests it's the larger of the two.

What happens now
  • No pricing anywhere. Industry research suggests around a third of couples won't enquire at all if they can't find a price or a guide range. You never learn they were there.
  • "Send us a message" and a blank box. No date, no headcount, no budget — so the only honest reply is that someone will be in touch, which is what the other four venues also said.
  • They enquired at ten on a Sunday evening. Research puts the median venue response at around eleven hours, so the first reply lands on Monday morning. Most couples book within four weeks of enquiring.
  • Photographs but no capacities. A gallery doesn't answer whether a hundred and forty people fit, and that question ends the conversation either way.
What happens instead
  • A guide price, published. Not a full tariff — a starting point and a range, by season. It's the single thing that stops people leaving before they arrive.
  • Date, headcount and budget on every enquiry, because a reply can't be substantive without all three.
  • A real acknowledgement, instantly. Not "thanks" — confirmation of what they asked for and what happens next. It buys you the hours until someone can reply properly.
  • Capacities and layouts as facts. Seated, standing, ceremony, by room. Answers the question a gallery can't.

How it plays out

A Sunday, ten in the evening

Five venues, one evening. The one that replies with something wins.

Couple on the sofa, five venue sites open, working through them21:48
Sees your guide range for a Saturday in September — still inTwo of the five had no pricing and were closed21:52
Checks 140 seated against the capacities page. It fits.21:55
Enquiry — 12 September, 140 seated, evening reception, budget band selectedAll three things a reply needs21:58
Instant acknowledgement naming the date and the number, and what happens nextNot "thanks, we'll be in touch"21:58
Coordinator opens an enquiry she can actually quote against, and rings before the others have opened theirs.Mon 09:10

What your enquiry form captures

Three fields decide everything

Date, headcount and budget. Without all three a reply is a holding message; with them it's a quote. Everything else on the form is optional.

Date
Checked against your calendar as they type. If it's gone, saying so immediately is better service than a week of hope — and you can offer the nearest available.
How many people
Seated and standing if they differ. Decides which rooms are even possible, and it's the question a gallery can't answer.
Budget band
A range. Sensitive, and worth asking anyway: a band that doesn't fit is better known now than after a show-round.
Type of event
Wedding, corporate, party, wake. Different tone, different coordinator, sometimes a different part of the building.
Anything else
The only open field. Dietary, accessibility, a dog in the ceremony. Where the useful detail arrives.
How they found you
Directory, search, or a recommendation. Tells you within a season which listings are worth their fee.

The pages

What a venue's site actually needs

Eight pages, and two of them exist purely to stop people leaving.

01Home
What kind of venue, where, and roughly what it costs. All three above the fold.
02Pricing
The page that keeps them. A guide range by season, what's included, what isn't. Not a full tariff — enough to self-select.
03Spaces and capacities
The other one. Each room with seated, standing and ceremony numbers. Facts, not adjectives.
04Weddings
Its own page with its own language. A wedding enquiry and a corporate one shouldn't read the same page.
05Corporate and private
The midweek business that fills the gaps. Usually neglected and usually the better margin.
06Gallery
Real events, not styled shoots. Couples can tell, and a styled shoot sets an expectation the day won't meet.
07Check a date
Live availability, or the nearest thing to it. The question everyone arrives with.
08Contact
The three-field enquiry, and a number answered during hours you actually publish.

Connects to

What venues usually wire in

Chosen for this work, not a list of everything we can connect.

SimplyBook.meAcuity SchedulingGoogle CalendarStripeSquareSumUpTwilioGoogle MapsGoogle Business ProfileKlaviyoFeefo

Pricing

Published, so you don't have to ask

Studio

A strong, well-built site without bespoke design work.

£1,295one-off

then £69 per month

  • Up to 8 pages
  • Enquiry form designed around your business
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • One revision round
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Signature

Where the website is a working part of how the job comes in.

£2,500one-off

then £89 per month

  • Up to 12 pages, including area pages
  • The integrations above, wired and tested
  • Automated acknowledgement on every enquiry
  • Migration with search positions kept

Three standard integrations are included. See what counts as one.

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Questions

What venues ask us

We don't publish prices. Everyone in the sector says not to.

The sector has said that for years, and industry research now points the other way — around a third of couples won't enquire at all without a visible price or range. You never see those people, which is why it feels like the policy is working. A guide range by season isn't a tariff and doesn't stop you quoting properly. It stops you being eliminated by someone who never told you they were looking.

Won't showing a price attract the wrong enquiries?

It does the opposite. The wrong enquiries are the ones where the budget was never going to work, and at the moment you find that out after the show-round. A range moves that discovery to before the enquiry, which costs you nothing and saves a Saturday morning.

Can the site check dates?

Usually. If your calendar or venue system offers a feed we'll connect it, so a date that's gone says so immediately and offers the nearest available. Where there's no feed we can show blocked periods manually — less good, but far better than nothing.

How fast do we need to reply?

Faster than you do now, and that's an operational question rather than a website one — we can't fix it for you. What the site can do is make the acknowledgement substantive, so it confirms the date and the number and says what happens next. That holds someone's attention for the hours until a person can reply properly.

What about the corporate side?

It's usually the neglected half and often the better margin — midweek, repeat, less emotional. It needs its own page in its own language. Corporate buyers want capacities, AV, parking and a rate; they aren't reading the wedding copy.

How long does it take?

Three phases — Discovery, Build, Launch. Deciding what to publish about price is usually the slow part, and it's the decision that matters most. We agree the timeline at Discovery.

Do we own it?

Yes. The domain is registered in your business's name, not ours, and transfers free on request. If you leave, the site leaves with you.

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