lopsided hotel wedding venue contract

I've not dealt with that kind of a contract, but I certainly would take my business elsewhere if that's the case. Hopefully some others can give you better insight.

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I think that's the most ridiculous contract I have ever seen. What venue can say Forget your special day book another event in it's place and take your money without ANY type of sympathy or repercussions?? HORRIBLE. I would definately find someplace else that actually appreciates it's customers and realizes how important a wedding really is.

Um that's very strange, I would not sign that. I'd look for another venue!

That is an entirely unacceptable contract. I think your suggested edits are good though. I guess the hotel is just hoping you didn't read that part of the contract!

I'd drop it and find someplace that cares more about you.

Um yea, I have never seen that before. Sounds super shady- so if something better comes along they can screw you? No thank you. I wouldnt even bother with them, if it is a Hyatt they will have to go through so many levels to change their standard contract. But your edits are reasonable- try that and if they agree, maybe go with them but read it carefully to make sure they didnt add anything elsewhere to make up for it...

I have a contact with a hotel and mine is similar to that but definitely not in that exact wording. Basically my contract does mention liquidated damages but that's if me and FH cancel the wedding and they have a right to cancel the wedding but that's only if we cancel or breach the contract in any way

I wouldn't sign anything like that though - and i'm appalled that they would have something like that as a contract

I don't think it's that abnormal to find that in contracts, people don't often notice though. Here's something we had to add to our band contract:

ARTIST's obligations are subject to prevention by sickness, accident, means of transportation, Acts of God, riots, strikes, epidemics, public emergency, an act of a public authority, or any other cause beyond AGENTS's or ARTIST's control.

I think you'll need to edit it your needs and obviously take out the first few, but otherwise, feel free to use it.

Good thing you read it in detail. My FH thinks I am crazy cause I made notes on contracts and when we meet with the vendors had them change things that I felt weren't right.

We showed the contract to an attorney friend and found out that we did not have a clear understanding of the liquidated damages clause.

Basically liquidated damages is a kind of predetermined schedule of damages.

If either party cancels, they have to (per the terms of the contract) immediately pay the other party liquidated damages according to a tiered scale (listed in the contracted). The closer to the event date a cancellation occurs, the higher the amount of damages, which (per the terms of the contract), can not exceed the total amount of the food and beverages in the contract. If they cancel, they have to refund our prepayments and pay us liquidated damages on top of the refund....

...This still left the problem of the resort being able to cancel our wedding if they got a more profitable booking.

Basically, any wedding that met our totals and exceeded the liquidated damages would be profitable for them (which would not have been far-fetched considering the resort and location).

We were able to add terms to the contract prohibiting the hotel from changing our event with out our written agreement.

Thanks for the advice!