Canceling Venue Advice

Okay if I’m understanding your post correctly your old venue it’s already paid for and y’all sign a contract with them already. So are you trying to get out of that contact and get the reminding of the money from then so can pay for the new venue correct?

Little confusing... why would they chargr you 12,000 if youre cancelling? i would think whatever u paid you should get back or at least a percentage depending on what the contract says about cancellations

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Not quite but close.

I'm concerned that when I cancel the old venue they're going to try to make us pay more money even though our new date costs less than the original. They're Saturday rate is thousands more than their Friday rates. We've already paid the new venue, but it would come back to bite us if the old venue says we owe them the remaining amount for the Original Saturday ($12K) contract we had....even though we have now, a new, postponed date on a Friday date, which is cheaper ($7K)

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You would think so, but no. If you cancel then you pay everything.

Which is my dilemma. I don't know if they're going to come back and say I originally signed a contract for a Saturday and I need to pay at that day's rate. That would mean I still owe them $4k. Orrrrr....If we owe them nothing more because we had to postpone on a cheaper rated day....

View Quoted Comment I think i get it now.. id assume your postponement date is what theyre going off of

View Quoted Comment Okay I gotcha so when you sign your contract was there anything about a cancellation policy as far as money wise. If anything I would get a lawyer of y’all can figure it out because they already cross y’all once who else knows what they have under there sleeve. And

I would assume you would lose all of the money you have already paid to the old venue. But I don’t think they can make you pay the 12k. More than likely you will walk away from all the money you’ve already paid them.

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That’s how mine was written but only if you cancelled within 30/60 days etc. did you owe the full contracted rate. Outside of that time you only were out what you’d paid down this far. So if your new contracted date is later I’d probably think you could bail and just lose your deposit. I’ve seen a lot of Brides on here saying that the venues are still making them pay the full contracted Saturday rates even if the postponed date is off-peak or would have been cheaper. I think the issue is very contract specific so you’d need to read yours word for word to really understand. I don’t think there’s a universal standard and it’s probably best to try and work with your venue and contact an attorney to see about getting them to lower the rate if they won’t give you a Saturday that works for you.

Since they forces you into a new date (which came out to be cheaper) I would think they can't force you to pay the Saturday rate of 12k because rescheduled for a Friday which means they shouldn't charge you an extra 4k. Good luck!

Did you sign a new contract when you secured the new date?? Whatever contract you signed last is what sets the stoke rules for these things.

I think you need to look at the contract amendments through all of the changes and see if any of them affected the cancellation policy. If not, they'll default to the cancellation policy in your original contract with them. It'll all depend on that cancellation clause with respect to your new date / price because those parts of the contract have been amended. So I'd read that and if that suggests you're owed a refund, then contact them directly asking for the refund as stated in the contract. It sounds like they're "fun" people to deal with, so the easiest way will just be to go back to their original contract that's in writing. Good luck!!

Unless they have something unusual in your contract, everything should be based on the current plan. They should not be able to pretend the 1st change didn't happen. You should not expect to get anything back, but I doubt very much you would be asked to pay anything more. Good luck!❤