A whole new experience!
I am a total newbie to owning a wedding venue, and like everyone starting a small business, it’s important to know what I’m doing! Enter the Nashville WVO working vacation! My friend and mentor Didi Russell, who runs the website www.weddingvenueowners.com, brings a select number of wedding venue owners to different cities around the country to tour venues, meet and greet other venue owners, let us learn from each other, and offers up seminars in the afternoons so we can learn more about owning a venue, running a venue, navigating the world of liability insurance, property insurance, pricing, different pricing structures, and a whole host of other things that you don’t necessarily think about until it’s sometimes too late. She is really really big on teaching us marketing strategies that will save us a ton of money outsourcing things that we could very easily do ourselves.
New Orleans, Saint Augustine, Charleston, and Houston are just a few of the cities where Didi has done these seminars. I experienced the one in Nashville. I had never been to Nashville, what a great city! Everyone was so friendly, and I don’t think I met any strangers. People on the street smile and say hello.
all the great venues that attended Nashville:
- Nashville Wedding Videographers & Photographers (withthisringvideo.com)
- Nashville, TN All Inclusive Weddings | Drakewood Farm
- www.barninthebend.com
- Modern Event Space in Nashville | 14TENN (828venues.com)
- Belmont Mansion | Nashville Historic House Museum |
- Barn Wedding Venue in Kentucky | Beautiful Venue (barnatcedargrove.com)
- Home | Carie’s Creek (cariescreek.com)
- Rosie Creek Farms~ Barn Wedding & Reception Venue – Panama City, Florida – Bay County
- Washington DC Event Spaces | Friends Meeting of Washington (quakersdc.org)
- Best Wedding Venue in Town (brickandbeamdayton.com)
- Willow Creek Venue – Wedding + Event Venue – HOME
- Rustic Grace Barn LLC
- Amarillo Wedding Venue | Cornerstone Ranch Events Center |
- The Finery l Elopements and Micro Weddings (thefineryoncamano.com)
- Home | Event Venue Springfield Illinois (polebarnchic.com)
- Home | The Gathering Place (thegatheringplaceil.com)
- Hanover Reserve
- Luxurious Hotel Rooms at The Woods Event Center & Suites (thewoodswellston.com)
- Home | The Lake at Christenberry Farms
- Wedding Venue Owners ⋆ Wedding Venue Owners
- The Venue at Ballenger Bridge – Weddings & What’s Included (ballingerbridge.com)
- The Gage | Milwaukee Wisconsin Event Venue (thegagemke.com)
- Black Bird Farm | Experience Timeless Sophistication (blackbirdfarmohio.com)
- Hidden Springs Venue
- Beach, chapel or outdoor wedding – we provide it for you. – Gulf Shores Wedding Chapel (en-US)
- The Gathering Place at Darlington Lake – From our home to your dream wedding venue! (tgpdarlington.com)
- The Colonnade | all inclusive wedding | 11001 Milan Road, Milan, OH, USA (thecolonnadeohio.com)
- Midtown Events Center – A place to create memories (midtowneventsbg.com)
