Also, I have zero experience with weddings I’m not even married myself (just got engaged) to show that we have experience on our resume do you recommend we do anything?

I felt the same.. I don;t know Blake but already thinking he has a good soul.

We are only about 25min away from you! Let us know if you wanna stop by and tour before you go! I would LOVE to meet you!

@@thehaveneventspace well darn, I am just seeing this now. Thank you for the invite. Your space is GORGEOUS.

Next time you are in town 😘

We purchased under our LLC! This will be necessary if you want to use land as equity towards your loan. After you setup your LLC, the title company can use that to close on the land no issues!

Thank you so much!! I actually did it myself on Wix! It was my first time doing it, and it’s been a constant work in progress!!! -Blake

@@thehaveneventspace You did a fantastic job! It looks so professional!! 😊 Keep up the videos, I’m excited to see your progress! - Greta

Hey there!! We should setup a zoom call and chat. Email us at info@thehaveneventspace.com and we can get something scheduled!

In my opinion every banker is going to gauge this differently, but overall I thinking highlighting and accentuating any experience in running a business, hospitality, events, or wedding experience will be enough.

Hi Joanna - our venue will hold 250-300!

@@thehaveneventspace You rock!!! Thank you so much for getting back with me. I'm thinking/praying about starting up one of my own someday and was wondering what others have theirs set to hold. ^_^ is there a reason you picked 250-300? ^_^ or is that just what sounded like the best idea for you guys?

We picked the size that worked best based on the average wedding size in our area but also still wanted to attract Corperate clients for meeting and dinners etc!

@@thehaveneventspace I hadn't thought about that. Thank you so much! I really appreciate you sharing the things you've learned! I'm really enjoying it!

That might be tricky unless you can find one willing to go on faith with you. Funding will require 10-20% down on commercial projects and things like land purchase and architectural fees can be used towards that equity injection!

Thanks for commenting!! We did offer a 10% discount off of our first 10 weddings booked as an incentive for clients who were booking before the building was up. We started taking bookings the month we started construction (March) and within 4 weeks had booked 15 events. We opted to keep our pricing lower than the market around us for our first full year (2022) and then raise our prices for 2023. This is reflected transparently on the pricing page of our website (www.thehaveneventspace.com/pricing) so our clients know in advance what to expect. I have been in the event industry for over a decade, so I am certainly not concerned about hiccups with the events themselves, but in regards to learning the business, most events are booked 12-18 months out, so you will have time to learn, adjust, make mistakes, grow, learn some more, and perfect! We are being very flexible this first year with our clients (payment plans, optional cleaning fees, more custom bar offerings, etc) but once we are established after a year, we intend to harden up to a rigid set of offerings and not really customize much, mainly to provide a consistent and duplicatable experience to all of our clients! PS - Don't be worried about a "bridezilla"... That is a cliche term that people who provide poor services use to justify their underwhelming performance when the clients get mad at them. Offer a quality product, work hard for your clients, and be honest, and you have NOTHING to worry about :)

@@thehaveneventspace I found a video where fire sprinklers are becoming an issue. Did you need to include those on your build?

@@wagil90 Fortunately, we did not have to include those! Our county was fairly flexible with us since we dug a 6 acre pond, and that will be there for the fire truck to pump from should they need to in the event of a fire.

No! Just a vision board. I ended up using the renderings from the architect in the business plan. So it was several months later that was created.

Yes! We are outside city limits here. You will want to call your local zoning and planning department to ask for details!

Mine was about 30K for the total project.

Hi there! My architect was about $60k. As with any loan (especially commercial loans), you are going to have to have an equity injection (down payment) to get any bank to fund you. We used personal funds to purchase the 40 acre land for cash as well as pay our architect. This showed the bank we had skin in the game and we’re serious, allowing us to be funded for the remaining 1.8M for our construction loan. Commercial construction is not a cheap endeavor, but we knew that by going all in on the front end, there would be reward and profit on the backend! Be sure to watch my next video, I’ll be posting in the next day or two and will talk more about this! - Thanks, Blake

Omg 🤫!!!!

Email us and I’m happy to connect!

Hey Niccole! Send me an email and let’s chat!!! thehavenkc@gmail.com