Our Story

For venue owners, by venue owners.

We're not the agency that learned weddings from a textbook. We started as venue owners, hit the same walls you're hitting now, and built our way out.

200+ Weddings hosted yearly
18 Industry awards
5,000+ Enquiries handled
70+ Partner venues today
How It Started

It began in 2015 with a wedding venue, zero marketing experience, and 20 bookings a year.

Our founder Kai stepped into the family wedding venue with nothing but enthusiasm and a worrying P&L. Tour bookings were inconsistent, slow seasons stretched longer every year, and the marketing playbooks built for restaurants or e-commerce simply didn't translate to a venue selling £15,000 weddings.

So we did what every owner eventually has to: we tested. We tested ad angles, brochure layouts, follow-up sequences, brand redesigns, social formats. We threw out what didn't work and doubled down on what did.

By 2018 we'd quietly built our own CRM, VenueFlow, because no off-the-shelf system understood wedding sales cycles. By 2022 our own venue had grown 10x. And by then, other venue owners were knocking on the door asking how we did it.

That's how The Wedding Marketers was born. We never planned to be an agency. We just had a system that worked, and venue owners who needed it.

Kai, founder
Timeline

Ten years of testing, scaling, and helping venues do the same.

2015

The Beginning

Kai takes over the family wedding venue. 20 weddings a year. No real brand. No marketing system. No plan beyond hoping enquiries arrive.

2016

First Real Campaigns

Targeted Facebook ads paired with a rebuilt brochure double the venue's bookings in 12 months. Proof that the playbook needed to be venue-specific.

2018

VenueFlow Is Born

Fed up with generic CRMs, we build our own. Every lead, every tour, every follow-up, designed around how wedding venues actually sell.

2020

Past 100 Weddings

The system scales the family venue past 100 weddings per year, through a pandemic, while most venues struggled to stay open.

2022

The Wedding Marketers Launches

What was an internal system becomes an agency. The first 10 partner venues come on board within months.

Today

70+ Venues, Multiple Countries

We work with venues across the UK, Europe and beyond, and our own venue still hosts 200+ weddings a year as our live testing ground.

What We Believe

Three principles we won't budge on.

1

Test before we recommend

If we won't run it in our own venue, we won't run it in yours. Every tactic earns its place on the balance sheet first.

2

Show the numbers

Cost per lead, cost per tour, cost per wedding. No vanity metrics, no smoke. Every fortnight, in plain language.

3

Partner, don't outsource

We work with a small number of venues so each one has a real strategist on speed-dial, not a ticket in a queue.

The Team

Real humans. Real venue experience.

Behind every account is a small, dedicated team of strategists who've been in your shoes.

Kai

Marketing Director of family owned venue, The Barn Yard. Spent years building the venue's brand and helping them scale from 20 weddings a year to over 200.

Kai

Founder & Marketing Director
Trey

With a strong background in systems design and customer experience, Trey is the strategic mind behind the advanced automations and high-converting workflows that power our clients' success. Having managed and optimised over £1 million in paid advertising across multiple brands and industries, he brings a rare blend of technical precision and marketing insight that consistently delivers results.

Trey

Operations Director
Zelca

Specialist in hospitality with years of online marketing experience crafting impactful strategies to successfully empower over 50 businesses to enhance their online presence. Her experience makes her the perfect Venue Account Manager at The Wedding Marketers.

Zelca

Venue Account Manager
Gabby

Gabby is a Venue Account Manager at The Wedding Marketers, bringing over 5 years of social media marketing experience across multiple industries. With a passion for helping venues succeed and secure more bookings, she uses her strategic insight and creative approach to deliver results that make a real difference.

Gabby

Venue Account Manager
Charlotte

Charlotte is a Venue Account Manager at The Wedding Marketers, helping wedding venues shine online. With a sharp eye for content and a genuine passion for the wedding industry, she brings both creativity and strategy to every venue she manages.

Charlotte

Venue Account Manager
Kieran

Our Acquisition Manager at The Wedding Marketers. Kieran works closely with venues from the very start of their journey, guiding them through the Venue Maximiser Programme and beyond. With a personal approach and a deep understanding of venue growth, Kieran ensures every client gets the support and strategy they need to scale successfully.

Kieran

Acquisition Manager
Nicola

Nicola is the Creative Strategist at The Wedding Marketers, shaping content frameworks and digital positioning across the agency's wedding venue portfolio. With years of experience in wedding venue marketing and a background in digital marketing and website development, she blends strategic thinking with creative insight.

Nicola

Creative Strategist
Mervin

With a passion for connecting the dots between platforms, Mervin is the systems architect behind the automations that keep everything running smoothly. Whether it's a simple workflow or a complex API integration, he designs solutions that eliminate manual work and let teams focus on what matters. If there's a faster, smarter way to do it, he'll find it.

Mervin

VenueFlow Specialist
Perrine

Perrine is a dedicated VenueFlow Specialist at The Wedding Marketers, responsible for onboarding VenueFlow clients and bringing their systems to life. She sets up and manages creatives across VenueFlow (including forms, websites and landing pages) while troubleshooting issues and handling all VenueFlow-specific requests to ensure a smooth experience for every venue.

Perrine

VenueFlow Specialist
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