Kelly Recommends The Private Venue Edit
A warm welcome.
If you’re here then you’re one of my venue circle. I’m excited to unveil this new complimentary resource that I hope will be a useful addition to your (wedding) venue management toolkit.
A hand-picked, vetted resource full of high quality product and service providers that I’m proud to recommend, especially suited to venues.
Do take a look below now for inspiration and keep to hand for when you have need. Most businesses featured have kindly offered exclusive offers for ‘Kelly Recommends’ venue teams so it’s a valuable portal and one only available to venues who are current or past customers of mine as a thank you for being in my world.
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Accountancy & Finance
New hand-picked service providers are being added when thoroughly vetted.
Branding
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- Brand Strategy
- Logo & Identity Design
- Print & Stationery
Creative ID (and Ananya Cards)
Creative ID is an international award-winning branding, marketing and visual storytelling consultancy with over 25 years of experience. We work with hospitality and lifestyle businesses to build brands their customers believe in, connecting how you look, how you communicate and how you grow. We have an in-depth knowledge of the wedding industry through years of working with wedding brands and as the founder of Ananya Cards, a premium bespoke wedding stationery studio.
Next-Level Brand
Brand strategy expert with 20+ years experience, helping multi 6 and 7 figure companies and business owners create and build their multi-million legacies. This is all done through brand strategy, graphic design and coaching.
Design & Build
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- Interior Design
- Landscaping & Grounds
- Modular Buildings
Bond Venue Design Ltd
Bond Venue Design Ltd
Based in: Melbourne, Derbyshire | Founded: 20+ years of industry experience | Website: bondvenuedesign.co.uk
BVD is a design-led, turnkey structures company operating across two distinct markets:
1. Event Spaces & Venue Structures
BVD designs, manufactures, and installs bespoke semi-permanent structures for weddings, events, and hospitality venues – a premium alternative to traditional marquees. We work with landowners, estate managers, and venue operators to transform their spaces, handling everything from initial concept and design through to construction, groundworks, landscaping, and project management. Notable projects include Stanley House Hotel & Spa, Dunglass Estate, Pylewell Park, and the ongoing Combermere Abbey pavilion.
2. Industrial Welfare Solutions
BVD supplies turnkey welfare villages for industrial shutdowns, turnarounds, and construction projects – providing an organised, all-in-one alternative to scattered portacabin setups. Services cover design, logistics, HVAC, catering, hygiene, and full demobilisation. Key clients include Holcim (Cauldon), Breedon Cement (Hope Works), and Heidelberg Materials.
Iron & Pine Ltd
Iron & Pine is a manufacturer of luxury modular accommodation, creating stunning, architecturally designed spaces for guests to enjoy. We work with venues to add additional rooms with relative ease and with a brilliant return on investments. We also offer structures for diversification such as groom rooms, food outlets, outside bars, farm shops etc.
Health & Safety
Hlin Safety
We help businesses put in place practical, useful and compliant health, safety and safeguarding arrangements designed to keep your staff, guests and reputation protected.
Legal
- All
- Contracts & Terms
- Other
Allsop Durn LLP
Allsop Durn LLP is a friendly firm of solicitors based in Ruislip, Middlesex and Hugglescote, Leicestershire. We are proud of our strong local connections and reputation having built up relationships with the local community over a number of years.
We offer a highly personal legal service to clients and are dedicated to giving you straight forward honest advice whilst protecting your interests at all time. We try to listen and achieve everything we reasonably can for you. We are pleased that most of our work comes from repeat clients which hopefully means we are doing something right.
We are members of the Law Society, the Conveyancing Quality Scheme and Resolution. A dedicated lawyer will personally look after your matter at all times as we pride ourselves on our commitment to you.
Marketing
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- Copywriting
- Other
- SEO
- Videography/Film
Digital Bloom
Digital Bloom is a brand strategy, messaging and copywriting studio founded by Caitlin Hoare, a former wedding venue manager with more than a decade of experience in the industry.
Working with wedding venues and creative suppliers, Digital Bloom helps brands ready for their next chapter define what makes them different, then translate that into words for websites, brochures, marketing and beyond. Combining industry insight with strategic thinking and sharp, human copy, Digital Bloom creates verbal identities that help businesses become more recognisable, more memorable, and more compelling to the right clients.
Front Page Advantage
We’re an award winning search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) agency, based in Basingstoke Hampshire. We aim to keep things simple with no technical jargon or long term contracts. We are real experts helping to make your business grow, through SEO and PPC campaigns whether it is on Google, Bing, ChatGPT or Google Gemini.
pulse8 media ltd
Pulse8 creates premium cinematic video for venues, luxury spaces and high-end brands that want to be seen, felt and remembered. From sweeping drone movement to elegant ground-level storytelling, we capture the atmosphere, detail and emotion that make your space truly stand out. Based near Southampton and filming across the UK, we produce polished, high-impact films that help venues showcase their experience, elevate their brand and attract the right audience.
Planning & Development
New hand-picked service providers are being added when thoroughly vetted.
Technology
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- CRM & Booking Systems
- Other
- Venue Management Software
- Website Development
BriteBiz
BriteBiz is purpose-built CRM and Business Management Software for venues and event professionals — streamline operations, automate the repetitive, master the remarkable!
Hostology
Hostology brings together smart sales journeys, seamless event planning and guest management in one elegant, connected system – built for wedding and event venues, planners and suppliers.
“How good is the Hostology Platform! It’s made everything so easy for us.” Llantilio House
Powering venues and event professionals worldwide, Hostology marries the best in event sales, in collaborative event planning and modern venue and accommodation management.
KABB Solutions
KABB Solutions is a small family run website growth agency that offers website builds, hosting and tech support. We also provide technology training. We can assist with Google Workspace set up and support.
WeddingDates
Since 2008, WeddingDates has been helping wedding venues grow their business through industry-leading insight, education and technology. From publishing The UK Wedding Industry Report to hosting webinars, conferences and speaking at industry events; our mission is to empower venues with data-driven insights and innovative technology, to improve their sales and marketing performance, make better decisions and book more weddings.
WedPro The Wedding CRM is a dedicated wedding enquiry management system that centralises enquiries from every source into one easy-to-manage pipeline. Automated follow-up journeys, built-in email templates and powerful reporting ensures venues respond faster, improve conversion rates and gain complete visibility over their wedding business.
Training & Education
- All
- Leadership & Management
- Other
- Sales Training
The Art of South Asian Weddings
The Art of South Asian Weddings is a training course for venues and suppliers to learn more about working within the South Asian wedding market. The Art of South Asian Weddings is a training programme that takes you through the various traditions, culture, sales and marketing techniques to help you sell, plan and host South Asian weddings. Delivered by events consultant Milan Thakrar and wedding planner LaToya Patel who have formalised this training into a solid collaboration.
The Inclusive Wedding Co.
The Inclusive Wedding Company helps wedding professionals and venues confidently welcome disabled and neurodivergent couples through training, audits, and strategy rooted in lived experience and the F’AIRE™ framework.
Other
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- Commercial Growth
- Founder & Leadership Advisory
- Fractional Commercial Leadership
- Hospitality Consultancy
- Sustainability
Hospitality Heroes
Hospitality Heroes is a specialist hospitality consultancy focused on venue and operational development across restaurants, hotels, event spaces, and retail hospitality concepts. Led by Anthony and Jo Robinson, the business combines culinary expertise, commercial strategy, and brand innovation to help venues improve guest experience, profitability, food and drink concepts, and operational performance. Their consultancy services span concept creation, product development, venue hospitality strategy, and operational support for both established operators and new-to-market hospitality businesses.
Jonny Bann Consultancy
Unlocking Commercial Growth for your business.
With over a decade of senior leadership experience, Jonny has held Commercial Director and Managing Director positions across some of the UK’s best-known hospitality businesses, leading commercial strategies for organisations with revenues exceeding £20 million. His experience spans luxury members’ clubs, hotels, restaurants, visitor attractions, destination venues and award-winning wedding businesses.
If you’re looking for an experienced commercial partner who combines strategic thinking with hands-on hospitality expertise, Jonny brings the experience, energy and accountability to help move your business forward.
Sustainable Wedding Alliance
The Sustainable Wedding Alliance is the UK’s leading membership and accreditation body for sustainability in the wedding industry. We support wedding businesses to embed sustainable practices into the way they operate, providing the framework, training and independent verification to prove it. Our accredited members are listed in our couple-facing directory and recognised as leaders in responsible, future-focused business.
Important Note
Whilst a great deal of effort has been made to check, vet and thoroughly screen all companies featured as part of this curated platform, it’s important to do your own due diligence as well before entering any contractual arrangements with any company listed here.
Kelly Chandler Consulting Ltd does not accept any liability for arrangements and transactions made between yourself and listed businesses nor promise any particular results.
Full disclosure (as I very much stand for transparency) - I will benefit with small referral fees for any business through the platform. I am confident that since we have worked together before, that you know that nobody gets on the platform for pure financial gain; my hard earned reputation as a consultant comes first. In over 23 years in business I have always put service first and referring great people to great people; that’s why the edit is consciously small and will remain so.