Alex Mashburn
Alex Mashburn

The Wedding
Venue Guy

@weddingvenueguy

Sell it, have us run it, or keep it and use what we built for our own venues. I own five and I'm buying more.

Book a call with Alex → See the three paths
Alex Mashburn
05 / 100
Wedding venues
Currently5
Goal100

In the market for more. The only way there is by being useful to owners along the way. See the five →

Why this exists

There's no one-size-fits-all answer to what a venue owner needs. So I don't sell one.

I've spent the last several years buying, financing, and running wedding venues — and I've sat across the table from enough owners to know most of them are stuck in the same spot: they love what they built, but running it is eating them alive, or they're ready for what's next and don't know who to trust with it.

So the first conversation isn't a pitch. It's figuring out which of the three paths below actually fits where you are — including the one where you keep everything exactly as it is.

For venue owners

Three paths.

01

Ready to sell?

If your venue fits what we're looking for, we'll buy it directly. If it's not the right fit for us, we'll connect you with the right buyer through our brokerage network. Either way, you get a straight answer and a real sense of what your venue is worth right now — not a runaround.

What we buy →
02

Tired of running it day-to-day?

Keep ownership, hand us operations. Borrowed & Blue manages venues end-to-end — bookings, staffing, marketing — so you keep the upside without the 60-hour weeks.

How management works →
03

Want to run it better yourself?

VenueNest is the software and community I helped build for venue owners — it came out of the difficulties I ran into running my own venues. Tours, ops, and marketing all in one place, built by people who've actually run venues.

Visit VenueNest →
Follow the work

Every venue, every deal, posted as it happens.

Walkthroughs before and after, what a deal actually looked like, and the parts of running a venue nobody posts about. It's also the fastest way to reach me — plenty of owners just send a DM.

Follow @weddingvenueguy Or send me a DM about your venue
Northfield Estate
Haven Hills Estate
The Grand Victorian
The Barn at Cedar Meadows

Whatever situation your venue is in, the first step is the same: a real conversation.

Schedule a 15 min call with Alex →