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FUNCTION VENUES FRECKLE PHOTOGRAPHY CASE STUDY Lower Grenofen An elopement wedding offering in Dartmoor National Park PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLARE KINCHIN PHOTOGRAPHY Leaving big events behind in favour of more intimate packages, we talk to Nicola Evans about making the switch to becoming an often imitated but never equalled specialist in the niche of elopement weddings. When did you start your venue business, and what is its history? We first thought about opening a wedding venue on our wedding day in 2012 – not the best time to discuss a new business venture. We had looked for venues for our wedding, but couldn't find what we wanted, so we did some building work at home and fashioned a space we could use. On the day, our caterers said, 'Wow, this place is amazing; you should hire it out,' and so the idea began. From May to September 2014, we started with big weddings for up to 120 people, as we're primarily an outdoor venue. In 2016 we launched elopement weddings in our closed season. In 2018 we extended these to the summer months (just one a month), and in 2019 we launched our midi mid-week package for up to 20 guests - one a week. So that year, we did big weddings plus midi mid-week weddings from May to September and elopement weddings all year except for January and February. When we started the business, I had a maximum timeline of 10 years. Like other venues, Covid was a game changer for us. We re-arranged over 150 weddings, concertinaing all the postponed weddings into a truncated period in the summer of 2020 and 2021. Both those years were full-on in between lockdowns. In 2021 we held over 60 elopements, a record for us. During lockdown, we decided to downscale early when our existing bookings for big weddings wound down at the end of 2022. Our first wedding here was a family wedding – our own. Our final big wedding was last August for my middle stepdaughter – it felt very appropriate to end on another family WWW.OPENAIRBUSINESS.COM 17
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