Harold Milby of Cardinal Architectural aka NewPatioCover.com shares tons of valuable insight with us on the pergolas they offer and how wedding venue owners can improve guest experience, increase their selling season, increase capacity and more with a beautiful pergola. When you visit NewPatioCover.com you will see these are not the pergolas of the past. These are beautifully designed, solid structures that can help our wedding venue owners provide more practical, functional wedding venue spaces. Book More Weddings, Improve Outdoor Wedding Spaces – YouTube interview below. Keep scrolling for images & additional information.
Engaged couples love outdoor weddings but often they forget this creates risk brought on by mother nature. These things are out of the control of the wedding venue, but couples still expect the venue to provide back up plans. The go to standard in the wedding industry is to add tents to your outdoor spaces to ensure that there will be covered, dry space for guest comfort during hot summer months, unexpected rain or a drop in temperature. Adding a covered structure like a pergola with open sides (PS they offer retractable walls!!) allows guests to enjoy views while being protected. In the summer a pergola could be as much as 10 degrees cooler, add ceiling fans for even more comfort. In the colder months you can add heat elements and retractable walls, to keep heat in. A structure like this could help you increase your booking season, booking more weddings or charging more for your venue rental is the goal for many venue owners.
Offering protected space is essential and tents may be the best option for some, but they do require a lot of maintenance. The cost for used tents can be a hefty investment and a new tent may be completely out of most wedding venue owners’ budgets. I have toured over 850 wedding venues in the past 10 years. I have seen stunning wedding venues choose a used, practical but unattractive tent for their outdoor solutions. If the tent is dirty, worn, patched or just dated looking, it can reduce lead conversion and damage your brand. Some venues invest in gorgeous new tents, these can be absolutely stunning! I love a gorgeous tent. But a tent may not be the right fit for everyone and when you consider the cost, the upkeep, guest comfort and long-term investment…a structure like a pergola from NewPatioCover.com is a smart alternative.
If you would like more information on the options provided by Cardinal Architectural, contact Harold Milby: Direct Extension 888-550-5491, Ext. 247 or visit NewPatioCover.com to view the options and fill out the contact us form on their website. They have worked with wedding venue owners and can offer some images of the spaces they have designed for wedding venues. Thank you all so much for stopping by, please subscribe to my Youtube channel for more wedding venue owner content! If you have not joined the Wedding Venue Owners & Management Community on Facebook, please use this link to join: (click here) Visit WeddingVenueOwners.com for more information and resources designed to help wedding venue owners & managers. If you need wedding venue education resources, please consider attending a Wedding Venue Owners Working Vacation or contact didi@weddingvenueowners.com for wedding venue consulting resources and social media marketing management support!
