How many hours are typically included when you rent a venue?

Are you trying to figure out how many hours are typically included when you rent a venue? Are you not able to find any answers though Google or other resources? As the best Dallas venue, we have these answers for you!

The average wedding venue is rental is 8 hours long, give or take a few hours. Many venues also make you rent by the hour, with hourly minimums and little help figuring out the proper amount of times for set-up and tear-down.

Eight hours is barely long enough to account for everything that needs done within a day! You have to think about giving your florist ample time, any other decor vendors enough time, and everyone else, too. You want to make sure no one is rushing to set up for your perfect day. On the flip-side, you also want to make sure that you don’t end up paying extra fees for being out of the venue late!

That’s why, at The Empire Room, we give you a full 13 hours in our venue. This allows you plenty of time for full set-up, to have your event, and for tear down for you and the vendors. Not only will your vendors have plenty of time, but you will be able to get fully ready in our bridal suite with your girls without having to worry about transport to the venue.

Contact us today to find out what dates we have available at our venue for your upcoming wedding. We would love to be able to host you in our space for the full 13 hours because no one should be rushed on their wedding day. If you want to find out more about what we offer in our venue price, take a look here.

The Empire Room Venue

Are you trying to figure out how to display your seating chart at The Empire Room venue? There are so many options, some DIY, some you have to buy. We have compiled and wanted to share our favorite seating chart ideas with you for inspiration!

• Use twine and a clothespin to hang each name up. Guests find their name and take their card that will guide them where to sit. You could even add a small, dried flower to the clothespins for guests to take home with them and use as a wedding keepsake.
• Use engraved lucite to show your guests where to sit. This is a great option for the minimalist couple or even a formal wedding. It will be unique and see-through, so no matter where you put it, it won’t really be in the way.
• Find an old window at an antique store and prop it up on a painting easel! Write everyone’s names and tables on it and you have the perfect rustic seating chart for your wedding. If you need to use more than one, it is so easy to do, as well!
• If you’re a sports fan, do a bracket style seating arrangement, with each “winner” just being the next table up. Organize this into tables on the bracket and it will work out perfectly. This is a unique and fun option for you to do if you are having a more casual wedding.
• Are you and your fiancé music lovers? Have a showcase of albums, with each album being a table. A fun thing that you can do with this is have the artist’s most popular song play for each table when it is their turn to get their food! Everyone will love this idea and have so much fun with it.

Downtown Dallas Venue

Neon signs are a fun and unique way to light up an decorate your space at our downtown Dallas venue! Another great part about them is that once your wedding is done, depending on the signs you choose to use, you can use them in your home!

• One place that you can add a neon sign at is at your photo booth. This will make it so that it is behind guests photos and it will light up their photos in a unique way. This is a fun touch that everyone will love. Have it say a phrase or your name and it will be a keepsake for everyone to remember your wedding by.
• Do you just want a decorative neon sign behind the couple and family table? Get a sign with a phrase that means a lot to you on it! Whether it is a favorite song lyric, a favorite quote, or just a word that you think describes your relationship, it will add a fun touch that everyone will love. You could even just have it be simple and say your last name in a script font! Neon signs are so customizable, you can get it to say anything. On top of that, with any of these ideas, you could keep them all for your house! Have it in your living room above the couch or in your bedroom above the head – it makes a great home accent piece.
• Lastly, instead of having boring guiding signs, have neon arrows pointing guests where to go for food, drinks, the photobooth, or the bathroom! It is a unique way to show everyone where things are located.

Once you use neon at your wedding, you’ll probably see neon at your friends’ weddings after yours! We’re excited to see how you use neon signage at your wedding with us.

Unique Downtown Dallas Venue

Whether you’re having a small affair on a tight budget or a large party at our unique downtown Dallas venue, there’s always at least a little bit of room to splurge in your wedding budget (at least there should be!). We’ve lined up a list of our favorite things that we’ve seen couples splurge on in the past. Take a look!

• Leading up to the big day, splurge on some much needed self-care! It will calm you down and help get tension out of your body. Get a couples massage together, get facials, or even just get a pedicure or two! If you want to go all out, have a full on spa day at the fancy spa that you have always wanted to go to. It will calm your nerves and let you have fun in the process.
• Even if you’re going small of florals, be sure to splurge on the bridal bouquet! Get the bouquet that you have always dreamed of yourself holding as you walk down the aisle. Not only will it be special for your big day, but you can dry it out and hang it up in your home.
• Splurge on alter arrangements! All of your guests and most of your photos will be focused on the alter, so don’t feel like you have to cut corners on this. There are so many beautiful alter ideas that you can find to make your own.
• Lastly, make sure to splurge on your wedding photographer! Photography isn’t cheap, but what’s a little bit more to hire the wedding photographer that you’ve been following on Instagram for six years now? These will be pictures  that you will look back on for years to come together. You will want the best you could have gotten.