{"id":1608,"date":"2015-02-09T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:40:36","slug":"15-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-wedding-venues-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/15-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-wedding-venues-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Ways to Make the Most of Your Wedding Venue\u2019s Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1609\" alt=\"15 Ways to Make the Most of Your Wedding Venue\u2019s Grounds\" src=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds-133x200.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds-256x384.jpg 256w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1610\" alt=\"15 Ways to Make the Most of Your Wedding Venue\u2019s Grounds\" src=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds1-133x200.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds1-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds1-256x384.jpg 256w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/15-Ways-to-Make-the-Most-of-Your-Wedding-Venue\u2019s-Grounds1.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>The best wedding venues in New Jersey feature beautiful outdoor spaces like wedding gardens in full bloom and stately fountains, as well as an elegant ballroom and refined gathering spaces. You\u2019ll surely want to make the most of everything your wedding venue has to offer, so we suggest planning to experience and capture your wedding venue\u2019s grounds in the following ways for your New Jersey wedding:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Videotape your first arrival at your wedding venue. Recording your drive up the wedding venue\u2019s driveway creates a beautiful memory of what you saw when arriving at your wedding venue, especially fun if you\u2019ll dress for your wedding day in the venue\u2019s bridal suite, and this arrival video has you in your pre-wedding casual attire, as your own \u2018Before\u2019 look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Take group pre-wedding photos on the doorstep or on the grounds of your wedding venue ,with everyone dressed casually in a group \u2018Before\u2019 photo. Later, once everyone is dressed for the wedding, take an \u2018After\u2019 group photo in the same location in front of or on the grounds of your wedding venue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan a champagne toast in your bridal suite, once everyone has gotten changed into their wedding finery and as a celebratory start to your pre-wedding photos. Your wedding venue\u2019s bridal suite has been designed as an ideal, stunning site for photos, so make the most of this environment for its privacy and beauty, namely oversized windows with marvelous sunlight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan your First Looks photos in a beautiful room, or out on your wedding venue\u2019s grounds, to add extra magic to this important moment when you both first see each other. An excellent new trend is planning a version of First Looks when your <i>parents<\/i> are led into the room where they will see you in your wedding style for the first time, with their (and your) reactions captured by your wedding photographer. This First Looks opportunity can be set in your wedding venue\u2019s bridal suite or in a well-appointed private room or out in the gardens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gather with your bridal party prior to the ceremony, after your First Looks photos, in a private room to enjoy a pre-wedding toast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your arriving wedding guests can mingle in a designated area on your wedding grounds, enjoying hand-passed cocktails or champagne, before they are led to your wedding ceremony location. This creates a multi-location start as the guests\u2019 earliest experience of your wedding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A top trend for outdoor wedding spaces, enjoyed prior to the ceremony and as the site of your outdoor cocktail party, is lawn games \u2013 easy ones like bocce that guests of all ages can play, and that parents can teach their kids for family fun.<\/li>\n<li>Your ceremony may take place in your wedding ballroom, or outside in your wedding venue\u2019s gardens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your wedding reception itself will of course take place indoors or as an outdoor wedding on your wedding venue\u2019s grounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Create outdoor seating areas for guests to enjoy throughout your wedding reception hours, including couch, ottoman and table set gathering areas affording excellent views of your wedding venue\u2019s grounds and letting guests mingle in the fresh air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Take post-wedding photos with your wedding venue\u2019s greatest architectural details and landscaping as your photo backdrops. Included in outdoor settings are photos taken by your venue\u2019s most dramatic staircases, doorways, windows, fireplace, pool, fountains, and as a top trend in wedding photo backdrops: your venue\u2019s bar, which has been elegantly decorated for your wedding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a tree on your wedding venue\u2019s grounds by which to pose for a photo, and then each time you come back to this wedding venue for friends\u2019 or relatives\u2019 weddings or celebrations, you\u2019ll take a new photo by \u2018your tree.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Have your parents select their perfect wedding venue location for their own couple and group photos. In the past, parents\u2019 pictures took place where the photographer positioned them; now, they get to help style their own photos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the new wedding trend of open-air photo \u2018booths:\u2019 an open space with a beautiful backdrop, and a photo attendant in place to snap group photos, posting them to a photo sharing app for your review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of trekking out on the town for your after-party, plan to entertain your VIP wedding guests at your wedding venue, making it safer for all guests and letting you get right to the celebration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best wedding venues in New Jersey feature beautiful outdoor spaces like wedding gardens in full bloom and stately fountains, as well as an elegant ballroom and refined gathering spaces. 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