recently changed the venue for finding another one and we have a comfortable budget, around 30k total but only 25 to 30 guests. I thought the small guest list would make venue shopping easy.

half the places are enormous and the other half have food and beverage minimums written for 100 people, so we would basically it would be a waste.

Is there a better way to do an intimate wedding venue search or do you just manually dig through every listing?

Used sola wood flowers

Our total budget is around 9k and a weirdly large chunk of our guest list is gluten intolerant or celiac. Family genetics said surprise I guess lol.

We need actual gluten free catering, not a normal menu where someone removes bread at the end. At the same time we cannot spend half the wedding budget on a luxury specialty caterer.Anyone pull this off affordably? More importantly, how did you figure out who takes cross contamination seriously before paying a deposit?