Village Hotel Club

Where the band plays Village Hotel Club sits about ten minutes from Blackpool's centre, close enough to the beach, the pier and the zoo for guests to make a proper day of it without being caught up in the busiest part of the seafront. The function spaces here are modern and flexible, designed to be reconfigured for anything from a small, intimate ceremony to a larger celebration, so the room you get is genuinely shaped around your numbers rather than a fixed layout you have to fit into. Outside suppliers, your band included, are welcome, with the usual requirement that electrical equipment carries current PAT testing - worth checking off the list before the day so there's no hold-up at load-in. With bedrooms on site, getting-ready rooms available on request, and its own gym and pool for the morning after, it's a venue built to handle the whole wedding weekend rather than just the reception itself. How the day flows Village's wedding packages run from smaller, simpler day packages up to fuller "all you need" options that bundle in extras like gym access for the couple, so the shape of the day can flex a good deal depending on what you've booked. The catering covers pretty much every dietary requirement as standard, including dairy-free, gluten-free and halal options alongside children's menus, and the venue is set up to run multicultural weddings and celebrations as a matter of course rather than a special request. Once the meal and speeches are done, the room turns over for the evening party, and because guests are often staying on site, the night tends to run later and looser than a venue where everyone has to think about getting home - good news for a band building toward a big finish.