Venue Room Hire Charge?

Tbh £500 sounds really low - mine is £1700 and the bulk of places I saw charged £4000-£5000 for venue hire (which was sometimes a suite of rooms but still.

After hearing so much on this I feel I have been very lucky in getting my venue for the whole day including 2 rooms and a private bar for only £200 for the day. Obviously we have the food and stuff to pay for but the venue was very reasonable.

Yup, London/SE makes a big old difference.....Eltham Palace is £6500 Although, I know it is a lot less for hotels because normally the food/drink is a bit more pricey.

The charge for our room was £300 so its seems as though thats nothing compared to what some of you guys are paying.

Anyway try to negotiate with them, I told my venue how the room charge was taking me slightly over budget and that they'd make their money back at the bar as my family are a bunch of big drinkers lol. So as long as I have a minimum of 40 day and 60 evening guests they are waiving the room fee.

My venue is nothing flash and only quite small and more popular venues might be less flexible about this but if you don't ask you don't get!

We aren't paying any room hire charge. We are using two rooms at the hotel, one for the sit down and the other for the party and as we are having both the wedding breakfast and the evening do there they don't charge a room hire fee. We would only have had to pay a hire fee if we were having a civil ceremony there or if we were only having an evening reception. We found that at pretty much every venue we looked at although some had an exclusive use charge (again ours has waived this too).

Our venue hire is £300 but this is only because we are getting married in the hotel - if we were just having the evening reception there I don't think there was a charge.

One of the other places we looked at was £900 which we thought was a bit much.

Personally I dont think there should be a hire charge at all - if you are having your wedding there you will be spending plenty of money without them trying to get more out of you but hey, thats just me!!!!

Pretty much the same scenario with ours too, as we are doing it all in the one place from the ceremony to the evening party!

I think its just greedy on their part and its quite annoyed me.

I know what you mean. My room charge is £750. I think Im paying quite enough with, staying the night before (room charge £230) having the whole day and reception there paying for all food and drinks, with exclusive use of the hotel and filling all the accomodation for the wedding night. May have to have a word with them................

Normal. we paid 500 for the room which was the deposit.....

Our venue was 1500 but that includes all 'rooms' per say. so the reception and ceremony are in the same room and there's another 2 we can use if it rains - otherwise people will be outside (fingers crossed!). will probably have to think of decorations for the 2 extra rooms just in case which seems like a bit of a waste - actually I forgot all about allocating for them until now - oops!

That's what happens when you mention the "W" word! It bugs me so much! I can't believe how much they charge for anything relating to weddings!!

We've not booked anything yet so I'm going to have a look round other local venues. Plus it's the weekend after new years eve which I would have thought was going to be probably the quietest weekend in the whole bloomin year!!!!

It is widely done yeah

Im lucky due to having more than their minimum numbers for ceremony i get my ballroom for free. So with 500 paid for deposit i have only 300 to put to it to cover ceremony and venue hire

Yep very normal to me, all venues i have looked at charge £500-£00,000s!