Venue Tour Scheduling

My fiance and I both work Monday thru Friday and we were looking for venues in our home town which was an hour and a half away from where we reside. We did do some Sunday tours, and what i would suggest is possible reaching out to the venues and seeing if they could work you guys in on a Sunday. Explain to them your situation. Thank God when we were venue shopping there were a lot of understanding people. Just at least reach out and explain the situation, I'm sure someone will work with you. Good luck!

I had this issue as well. I just started contacting the venues I was interested in and asking if they could give us a tour on the weekend. Most of them were totally fine with it. In fact, the only one that wasn't was a winery we were interested in. The only reason we couldn't make an appointment to tour it on the weekend was because the coordinator was on vacation at that time. So, we could have had a weekend tour later on that month. But we ended up picking a different venue before that happened.

So, call and ask. Explain that your FH works a lot of hours, and ask if they give tours on Sundays. I bet most would do it, by appointment only, of course. But their job is to bring in business, so they'd be stupid not to try to accommodate you. A good business won't turn away interested customers.

I was the same way when we were first started, but I had to tell myself, you could at least ask and go from there and majority were understanding. Thanks, same to you.

If you are entertaining a lot of venues you can tour solo and then take your FH for a tour of your top options. I did this with my FH because he works 5pm to 7am and this isn't in the right frame of mind during the typical day people want to schedule tours. We researched venues together online then I went alone or with my aunt or mom to about ten different places and then made a second appointment to show him the two I really liked. He made the final decision.

You're very welcome!! Always here to help! Good luck with those tours!!

I agree with Candice's suggestion that if you have several venues you're considering, perhaps you do initial visits, and then just take FH with you to your narrowed down list. I visited 10 venues with daughter when she was looking, and there were easily 6-7 that she could quickly eliminate (even after studying them closely online/doing her homework) as it became clear they weren't what she was looking for. Once she had it narrowed down to her top three, she and SIL talked about each, and ultimately, he only wanted to see the one that was her clear #1. They scheduled the appointment and had it wrapped up that day.

I emailed each venue and asked what time they gave tours, and asked what day would work best for a tour. Some may be willing to stay open later on weeknights as well!

My FH works 9-7 Monday-Saturday so this was difficult for us too. We looked at venues online together and narrowed it down that way first so he was involved in that. I scheduled a couple of venues to tour and asked one of my bridesmaids to go with me. He was ok with this and would go check it out if I found one I loved. The venue we ended up going with was super helpful and worked with our schedules so he was able to come too.