A wedding reception hall offers an abundance of opportunities for a lucrative business. With the popularity and profitability of the wedding industry, you'll never run out of clients. Plus, you can also offer your place as a venue for other occasions such as debuts and corporate events. Find a good location, plan wisely, network well and do business with your client's welfare as top priority, and you'll surely go far.
Get Ordained to Officiate a Wedding
If you want to officiate at a wedding ceremony for friends or if you want to begin a career as a wedding officiant, there are several ways to become ordained for this purpose. You can take a traditional path through a church seminary program, or participate in a faster ordination process in order to begin officiating weddings more quickly.
Make Mexican Wedding Cookies
These popular Christmas cookies got their name from being served at traditional Mexican weddings. Hence the name, Mexican Wedding Cookies. But in some regions of the country they're better known as Snowball Cookies, named for their snowball like appearance. Easy to make, the dough is a variation on traditional butter cookies. This recipe makes about two dozen cookies. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Be a Wedding Crasher
Wedding crashers as a rule get a bad rap, but they are not the mountebanks that most people think they are. The wedding crasher can add life and vigor to an otherwise dull wedding. Most weddings are staid and stuffy affairs that should welcome the wedding crasher with open arms. To be a wedding crasher, a person must follow some basic rules to not sully the reputations of reputable wedding crashers everywhere.
Sell Wedding Cakes
Making wedding cakes can be artistically and financially rewarding. A wedding-cake business offers you the chance to exercise your baking and cake-decorating skills at a variety of levels. Many wedding cakes command a high price, so if you enjoy decorating cakes and want to do it full time, consider turning your skills into a wedding-cake business.