An outdoor ceremony venue in Berlin, on the terrace

People who come for the rite arrive earlier than those who come only for dinner. The invitation separates the two times, or the terrace is full before the couple reaches the spot.

The address stays Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, building 17, on the ground floor. The locality is Gesundbrunnen and the borough is Mitte. S Humboldthain is about a ten-minute walk. U8 Voltastraße and Gesundbrunnen station are nearby. From Hauptbahnhof the journey is about 30 minutes. Wedding is the former borough name and a wayfinding cue, not the address.

The entrance is step-free and the house is accessible. A wheelchair route comes off a pure chair count. Parking on the grounds carries the build and does not replace the footpath when many people arrive in the same minute.

On the walk-through we measure the path from the gate into building 17 to the spot where the real moment sits. A photograph of the courtyard does not replace that walk.

Parking on the grounds belongs to the build. People walk from Humboldthain, about ten minutes. We do not promise a lift on the railway.

The walk-through ends with one sentence: which floor carries the event, and which figure we do not add. That sentence belongs on the invitation, not only in the conversation.

Date and headcount are checked on the Wedding venue.

The terrace carries the rite as a standing gathering, about 500, when the layout allows it. A seated table for the rite is unusual and blocks the view. The main hall keeps about 400 seated ready for dinner and is not added to the terrace.

The main hall, more than 600 square metres, holds about 400 seated and about 600 standing. Philosophia, about 180 square metres, holds about 100 at banquet tables and about 200 in a row. The terrace, about 400 square metres, holds about 500 for a standing reception and about 300 at banquet tables. Open air on the AEG grounds runs to about 5,000 people on up to 5,000 square metres. These figures are not added. Row and parliament layouts in the main hall are drawn on request. Every figure is a guide, not a blanket clearance.

The cloakroom sits so coats do not block the first view into the main hall. In winter that is the pinch point, not the decoration on the wall.

One producer holds the kitchen, the sound and the clock. Nobody deals with three companies at three gates. That is the production for this event.

Filling the main hall to the wall blocks the path to the bar and the toilets. For this event we keep the aisle open, even when that removes places.

The day has one line. Arrival in the courtyard, the rite, the good wishes, then the walk into the main hall for the meal. Sliding the dinner speeches into the rite makes both parts too long.

Chairs for the closest family sit so the aisle stays open. Everyone else stands, or sits only when the plan says so. A second build on the AEG grounds is another format.

The change between parts of the evening sits on the clock, not as a surprise after the last course. Tables that move need a path that does not send anyone into the kitchen.

The kitchen cooks in the same house. A course leaves the kitchen without crossing a courtyard where a van is still parked.

Open air for about 5,000 people on up to 5,000 square metres is another format. The figure is here so it does not wander into the room.

Wind and a shower belong on the walk-through, even when the date is in June. What moves inside is the rite itself, not only the photograph. The main hall is already set for that, with sightlines and sound.

The courtyard is planted and sheltered, but it is not a roof. The main hall on the same grounds is the rain plan. A second address in another borough is not one.

Sound and light stay on one drawing. The arrival needs a different volume from the later part. Two kits without a plan make two evenings.

A second format on the same day is another booking. Anyone stacking them checks first whether the main hall can be reset between the two pictures.

The microphone has to reach the last row on the terrace and be checked again in the main hall. Two places, one rehearsal. An outside sound company in the courtyard crosses the couple's path.

Kitchen, bar and sound run through Cantinerie. A second trade in the courtyard crosses the path between the gate and the room. Ground-level delivery keeps the build short. One producer holds the clock.

The terrace, about 400 square metres, can hold the arrival, about 500 standing. It is not a roof. What moves into the main hall in the rain is fixed before the invitation.

The first reply names the floor that carries the plan, and the floor we do not add together. Every figure stays a guide, not a blanket clearance.

The terrace is not a roof and not a room for about 400 place settings. More than about 500 standing do not fit there. The 5,000 people outdoors are not a wedding rite. We do not promise a civil registration in the house.

Logos on the homepage are references. They are not headcounts and not a named job in this text. A fixed row count is not published for the main hall.

Philosophia, about 180 square metres, stays its own measure: about 100 at banquet tables, about 200 in a row. It is not added to the main hall just because both rooms are in the house.

The public lunch counter, Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 16:00, is a different offer. This event runs by arrangement, not from the lunch card.

The couple needs minutes at the gate before everyone else, or the rite starts inside a queue. S Humboldthain stays the plan. A taxi queue on Gustav-Meyer-Allee is not one.

Minutes pass between the gate and the cloakroom. S Humboldthain stays the plan. A taxi queue on Gustav-Meyer-Allee is not one. About 5,000 people on the AEG grounds are mentioned here only so nobody adds them to the indoor floor.

Chairs against the wall close the wheelchair route. We take that width off the chair count before anyone reads about 400 as a fixed promise.

Ground-level delivery keeps the build short. Vans are gone before the first train from Humboldthain arrives.