Are your wedding venues refunding you ?

View quoted message Hi Courtney,
I am still going through the process but all I could tell you right now is go see a lawyer because they will tell you if its worth it. Definitely work it!

Alessia

Our venue offered a few options:
1. Continue ahead with restrictions and they would cut our cost down (as they couldn’t honour the min head count)
2. Move the date with no increase in price 3. Cancel the wedding but hold the money for a “future event”
We approached about a full out cancellation- as our contract states that “Force Majeure” was a reason to get refunded....but as soon as we approached that, they were not happy and gave us some bull about having to go through their head office and they aren’t authorized to deal with that. To me, that was a load of BS- they just want their money. And if we agree to any option they’re getting paid. I personally do not feel they have been supportive at all. To me, they just tried very hard to get us to go ahead with a micro wedding. And as soon as I brought up possible cancellation the air got very thick. They changed the date no problem- but were paying for a June Saturday wedding and getting a Friday in August....which is not what we wanted and not what we’re paying for. So I’m a bit bitter about the whole thing to be honest.
We decided (twice) to postpone as we were already so close to the original date when the pandemic came and we cannot afford to be out so much money...they split up our final payment into 4 instalments that we will continue to pay until the new (third) date of Aug 6. It is certainly not ideal, but it’s better (for us) than losing all the money. As I said, they weren’t very supportive- just more trying to sell us on something we didn’t want- and then kinda just left us out in the lurch.... haven’t heard from them in months....
None of our other vendors required any extra money- but my contract for the makeup artist does say I will be charged for cancellation- but not if we have to move the date again. Everyone else has been extremely supportive, flexible and fantastic.

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Hi Alessia,

Did you have any luck with the lawyer? I'm in the same boat and I do believe the venue is in breach of the law, but I'm wondering if the lawyer will get my anywhere without taking them to court?

Thanks!

Hi
I am in the same boat with my venue.
I have asked him to hold my deposit for a future event baby shower baptism etc.As I am looking to elope this year.My venue refuses to help me in any sort of way stating that I signed a contract that said I would have 250 people.I would love to have 250 people but according to the government I cannot have more than 50People inside.I asked him to host an intimate wedding instead.He refused.I am concerned that next year we won’t be able to do celebrate with 250 people after.

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Hi Anna,

I'm in the same boat we were originally suppose to get married on April 18 2020 and we postponed to July 25 and then postponed again to March 6 2021 but after hearing all of this we now want to cancel and let this pass. We are obligated to cover 200 plates and if the government puts a law in effect with numbers then that kind voids the contract. On the other hand now, mask will be mandated everywhere and i am not having a wedding were everyone has to wear mask. My I ask, what venue are you with ?

i'm going to hire a lawyer to help with this

Just to clarify, are they charging you a $1000 fee just to move the wedding from August 15? Or are you looking to cancel period if August 15 is a no go?

Hi!


I would recommend you speak to a lawyer. Or even ask why they are keeping your monies when they cannot fulfill their portion of the contract (ie 200 guests, dinner, dancing etc)
I did for a few of my contracts and there is a lot happening with venues that really shouldn’t be!

Not sure about cancelling .... most of our vendors have postponed our date no problem... one vendor wants an additional $1000...

We are going to try and cancel ours. We had the option to reschedule with no additional charges. To cancel, we are going to lose about $1,500 of our deposit which they say is for services they've already provided us (which apparently amounts to meetings, and emails, i guess). Our total deposit was $14,000, so we really aren't going to fight over $1,500 since they could technically keep the entire thing.

We postponed to next year so our deposits transfered. Had we cancelled we would lose our deposits, but there was no mention of a cancellation fee for us.


Would you want to have a reception at a later date and still get married this year?

My venue and vendors have allowed us to switch to another date but not cancel. If we were to cancel we would have to forfeit all the deposits that we already put down. It's a clause with every venue and vendors.