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Wedding Registry vs. Honeymoon Fund

There’s so many things that you plan for when you’re planning a wedding. Most of them having to do with vendors, décor, and timelines, but you also are planning for your life after the big day as well! Creating your registry is one of the biggest tasks of planning for you and your fiancé to make sure you’re all set in your home once you get back from the honeymoon. Another trend that we’ve seen…

Feature Guest: Astro Entertainment

As you know, we love to bring other vendors on to our blog to share their side of the industry with you! We reached out to the amazing Astro Entertainment to see what they have to say about the event industry. We hope you enjoy their take on all things entertainment!

We know you do more than just DJ, so let us know all of your services!

Astro offers a wide variety of services! We have Event…

The Best Time To Book Your Wedding Venue

Booking your wedding venue can be one of the most fun things in the process because that’s where all of the planning starts, BUT, we also know it can be one of the most stressful. You’re not only trying to find the perfect venue, you’re also trying to set a budget while making sure you are able to book a date that works for both you and your fiancé. Lesner Inn couples book at totally different…

10 Tips for Your Wedding Day

You’ve probably read almost every book, signed up for every newsletter, and downloaded a calendar for wedding day prep and tips, but you can always use more insight – right?! Well Lesner Inn has done the research from previous brides and thought of some ourselves to share with you, so be sure to keep these in the forefront of your mind as you awake on the best day of your life!

Get plenty of…

8 Things We’ve Learned Since Becoming a Wedding Venue

Lesner Inn has been in business for quite some time now and we thought it would be helpful to share with you some insights that we’ve learned throughout the years of being a wedding venue! From things specific to the venue side of weddings or just some generic tips, we hope you can take at least one or two of these and use them during wedding planning!

Hiring Help for your Wedding is Important

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Guest List

You’re now engaged and before you can start really planning the wedding, you and your fiance have to create the dreaded guest list so you can visit venues that will accommodate everyone and their grandma, right?! The girls at Lesner Inn know just how stressful that can be so we’re here to help you sift through exactly who to invite and how to do it!

Make your dream list

Write down everyone you…

Behind the Scenes of Wedding Coordination

One of the many services that we highly recommend for your wedding day is a day-of wedding coordinator. It will take a tremendous amount of stress off your shoulders the weeks leading up in the little details and keep you from worrying when your big day arrives! Luckily for our couples, Lesner Innoffers day-of coordination and we want to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of what we do to…

2019 is here and we want to let you know about 7 of the biggest trends you’ll see this year! We’ve all had dreams about what our weddings would look like and have thoughts on how we want to make it come true, but let us give you even more inspiration! The best part is the girls at Lesner Inncan help make all of these dreams come true! Just ask us about our wedding design services and we’d be more…

It’s that time of year again where we sit down and reminisce on all of wonderful 2018 Lesner Inn weddings! We tend to think that we have the best job in the world because we get to be a part of some of the most touching and fun moments of peoples’ lives and this past year has been no different. We have laughed, loved, and even cried with some of our couples, and we wish you all nothing but…

Couple Spotlight: Kerry & Josh 10.13.2018

Kerry and Josh tied the knot at Lesner Inn on a breezy, October Saturday afternoon while their guests gazed upon the Lynnhaven River. The whole day, from décor to their first kiss and dance to an endearing streamer exit, it was a dream! We could not ask for two more genuine and loving people to work with throughout the planning process and the day of their wedding. We just adore couples like…

Finding the Perfect Match

Ring shopping should be a joyful time for both the bride and groom, but oftentimes it can cause some anxiety. Once you’ve gotten through choosing the perfect engagement ring for your now fiancé, it seems that it should be easier to choose a weddingring to match. We hope it does, but it can be just as stressful. You wonder which one matches the best or try to get the perfect mix between drop dead…

You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers!

We know there are a million questions that come up when planning a wedding. No matter where you’re at in the process, there will always be more questions that pop up when you meet with a new vendor, a relative gives advice, or sometimes even your guests will have a question. Here at Lesner Inn, we try to answer them throughout the planning process, but we’ve also come up with a list of our most…

Feature Guest: Stage Right Lighting

As we’ve mentioned before, we love talking all things weddings with our couples and giving our best insight, but sometimes we love to have a guest on our blog to share other insight on their specialty in the wedding industry as well. Stage Right Lighting has been to Lesner Innmore times than we can count, and the way they can bring a room to life is beyond us, so we wanted to give you a chance to…

Couple Spotlight: Meagan & Nicholas 10.7.2018

  Meagan and Nicholas sealed the deal with a kiss on October 7, 2018 at their home church in Virginia Beach surrounded by their most loved family and friends. They then came to Lesner Inn to celebrate and dance the night away.  Although they had to reschedule their wedding from September due to Hurricane Florence, their day was nothing short of a fairy tale! We are SO grateful to have been a part…

10 Quotes to Get You Through Wedding Planning

When you start wedding planning, you’re really not quite sure what to expect unless you’ve done it before or work in the industry. You begin with making your guest list and looking at wedding venuesand then, once you get full-fledge into the planning after meeting with your first venue, you may be overwhelmed. So many details you didn’t think about, things you didn’t think you had to do until…

The ladies at Lesner Inn stepped away from our desks and picked up a tool belt for a day with this fun DIY donut wall! With one crafty manager and another mathlete, we proved that two heads are better than one. This adorable donut display wall is for rent now at Lesner Inn! Stay tuned to watch the progression of this project.

We started by sanding the plywood & wooden dowels that were cut to…