Hello!!!
I have been searching high and low on Long Beach Island for wedding venues. We definitely have a budget (15-20K) considering we're paying for the wedding ourselves and we'd of course like be able to put down a large down payment on a house down the road. Our current guest count is 65 people, maximum 75 guests after all is said and done.
Almost every venue or restaurant I've spoken to has either a large site fee (8K and above...just for the site, catering not included) or has a MINIMUM guest requirement of 100 and above for a Saturday evening (we are in North Jersey and will take approx. 2 hours to come down).
I feel as if I'm being penalized considering we have such a "small" wedding count and it's honestly sucking the fun out of it for us.
Any suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.