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In my view, everything is negotiable! I would research other similar venues to see what they provide in their packages so that you have benchmarks in mind - but even then, if you want a price reduction, or more thrown in the the price, then ask ?. Good luck x

WSS - my pices came on a leaflet but i spoke to them abut my budget and they were able to make some reductions for me but will still the same level of service. Plus they added the bridal suit and honeymoon suit in free of charge.

Most venue's will be trying to get your business, so should be open for a spot of negotiation. As already mentioned, do look around at similar venues to see what they offer for a similar price and see if you can use that as a bargaining tool. "We really want to get married here, but our budget is a bit limited, I did also look at xxx and they offer a,b,c included in their package, we just love your venue, could you offer similar for the price?" or words similar to that perhaps when speaking to them?

I think they expect people to try to knock them down a bit. We knocked almost £3000 off ours and got a few freebies thrown in ?

I would definitely get prices from similar venues to try to help you get a discount. If its not a Saturday wedding in the height of summer then you've got lots of room to bargain!

Go for it there is always room to negociate! Let us know how you get on.

If you dont ask you dont get. worse thing they can do is say no.

just be charming and nice not cocky & demanding...this isnt dont tell the bride x

The way I saw it when looking at the venue was that the venue fee would be non-negotiable, especially as our venue is a popular one, and they can pretty much afford to tell you that if you don't want to pay there will certainly be someone else who will.

So, we did not try to negotiate on that; however, we did manage to negotiate an addition of a certain amount of beer to the wedding breakfast at no extra cost (though I'm sure this was because those drinking beer will likely not have the wine allotted per person, though there wasn't any stipulation that less wine would be available!), and we also negotiated a lower rate per child as we are having the maximum number of guests all adults, and then to accomodate the children we're hiring a creche service to take care of the children in an adjoining room, so as there are basically 15 children on top of the maximum number of guests expected, we're paying slightly less per child than we would have. Also, we've agreed that we will provide our own ale for the evening bar, but will still have an account bar for wine and lager, so they won't charge us a corkage fee for the ale. And finally, the venue has on-site accommodation of 21 bedroom, with a minimum of 10 booked you get the bridal suite free, but we've negotiated another free room as we're booking the whole lot of them!

So, long-winded, I know, but I see most point as negotiable, except for the base line in venue fee and catering charges-- unless you plan to not have a course out of the menu, like dessert, in which case, I think negotiating a lower price on menu would be fine.

We didn't negotiate, however we wanted that venue (& they knew that) and we got pretty much the last Saturday in Summer for this year so was more concerned about snapping up that date, we do however have canapes and a champagne toast thrown in, plus lots of extras that we didn't know were included such as a top table arrangement and bridal suite.

I guess if you don't want a prime date such as a Saturday in Summer then you would have more room for negotiation.

Hi, I believe all prices you can try to negotiate, we are getting married on a Saturday in August and I did do some very delicate negotiating with our venue.

We booked our venue in 2010 for our 2012 wedding, It was on a wedding fair day so they were looking for business anyway, I think this is why we were lucky with our freebies/compromises.

For example there were certain set in stone packages with you having X amount of guests for the evening & provide food for, I was able to reduce the amount of food, because we wanted a chocolate fountain from a different company to come, so we knew we wouldn't need any pudding dishes for the evening buffet. (also having wedding cake)

We have got free coffees after our 3 course wedding breakfast, free chair covers/sashes and free bridal suite for the night.

Company's do want your business and it is a tough market at the moment just get every thing in writing.

Good Luck