Well, if we're wanting to hire a ballroom in a hotel, that will still come down to choosing the ballroom as the venue, and pricing it around that. No point in saying let's all head to this one hotel and then finding out the ballroom hire is outside of what we can afford to scrape together. And re heading to a nearby pub - we won't be able to waltz into a pub with 30 or so people and expect them to have enough space for us.

Honestly, I think the best course of action is to find a reasonably priced function suite, book that for the Saturday night and have everyone gather there. It is just incredibly difficult to do that when you don't actually live anywhere near the city you're planning the event in.

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Either way, if I don't see a place picked out come September, I will be booking my own place wherever I want and will meet you guys on the nights you have events.
I think that's what most people are going to do.