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How to choose a venue that does half the design for you.

Architecture, light and setting: why the right place needs very little decoration.

How to choose a venue that does half the design for you.

Architecture, light and setting: why the right place needs very little decoration.

Every story in Destinations begins with a feeling — a place, a palette, a way of gathering — and follows it through to the decisions that make a celebration unmistakably personal. This one sits in our Venue Guides notebook.

Where to begin

The details people remember are rarely the ones that took the longest to plan. They are the light at a particular hour, the table that ran long, the moment the music changed and nobody wanted to leave.

Start with what you already love, edit with intention, and let venue guides serve the atmosphere rather than compete with it. Then carry it into your own First Look inside the Planning Studio.