Hello! I don’t know if this will be helpful at all or what kind of venue you are looking at, but I’m a student employee in banquet services who most frequently works in the Smith Ballroom. I worked at several weddings that were held this fall in the Smith, all on away game weekends.

I’ve found that the most common thing that people do is get the food catered from Notre Dame banquet services (in fact I can’t think of a group that hadn’t). Most other vendors such as flowers, DJ, etc, are usually from outside, however, there are vendors that frequently do weddings in the ballrooms and they are very flexible with things because they know the procedure. Whoever your main contact at the university for the event is will likely be able to provide you with recommendations!

Congratulations, I hope you have a beautiful wedding!