Fixing the right wedding venue is the first task that you should have in your wedding plan. Most of the wedding venues would be already booked on the auspicious days earlier. So you should always have a list of wedding venues of your choice and make calls to the venue to confirm whether it is open to book for your wedding. Once you come to know that is open for booking that next step is to make a personal visit to that wedding venue to see how it looks and what facilities are available for you during your wedding. The number of seating that can be arranged in the wedding venue is important. You might not need a very big hall if you are planning for a simple wedding with minimum number of invitees.
Most of the wedding venue will have certain time from which you have access it on your wedding day. It is better to know that earlier so that you are not waiting outside the wedding venue. Rooms for the bride and the groom are usually available in the wedding venue itself. Make sure such facilities are available so that the bride and the groom can get ready for the wedding there itself. Facilities to play the music of your choice on your wedding should be available there. If there is a bar attached to the wedding venue, make sure that the prices of the drinks are affordable to you. Or if they allow you to bring your own drinks that would be fine. Most of the wedding venues will have the right contacts for wedding reception decorations, wedding cake, caterers, DJs and wedding dresses etc. You can make use of them.