Sudden venue change!

WOW! I feel so sorry for you and your FH!! It's actually totally relieving they were able to somewhat rectify the situation by giving you another property... but still two months away, this should not be happening. This hasn't happened to anyone I know but I am sure from time to time, it does take place. They may have known about this before you signed the contract! That's worse so why would they not disclose that to you? Not an open and honest business. I hope everything works out for you. Have you seen the other venue? Do you like it better or less than your original place?

Phew! Glad it worked out for you - hopefully the service you receive at the new venue will be better than the old.

My FH and I had to replan our whole wedding 6 months out. We were using an all inclusive vendor that was going to take care of the ceremony/reception/photography/cake etc. and in July we asked for a few minor changes and they came back to us saying that "they thought our personalities didn't match and they had to decide whether or not they wanted to continue to do business with us". Long story short - they "fired" us as clients, gave us all of our money back and now we have a brand new plan that is 100x better and vendors that are 100x better. It turned out to be a blessing! I wish I was on wedding wire prior to hiring them because I had a bad gut feeling about them from the first place and shouldn't have hired them but it all works out in the end. Everything happens for a reason!

I would think to save money, maybe update everyone on your wedding website, if you have one. And then let word of mouth spread or when you have time, make some calls to your guests and let them know that the venue has changed! That would save you some money!

Wow!! I haven't had to deal with this but, I'd be stoked about the free extras! LOL

Wow! they fired you as clients!?!? what the heck!!! and sounds like they did you a huge favor!!!

My venue flooded six days before my wedding. Luckily, the owners of the venue (a restaurant) also owned another restaurant in town and moved the reception to the restaurant across the street. I panicked for about 12 hours while my venue coordinator worked this out for us, and my mom and I called every place in town we could think of for a new venue. In reality, our new venue was much nicer and so much more beautiful. Stuff happens, you figure it out, and the wedding happens anyways.

Oh wow! I'm glad you are at least getting some deals out of it!

It was great for guests. The new venue was across the street in a very small town, so very easy to find and navigate. I told everyone about the change either in person, text or phone. We also only had 75 guests.

Not 60 days before but we did have a venue change at 3 1/2 months before the wedding. It was pretty scary and I spent about a month going non-stop to get things in order and now I am just about 60 days away and everything is finally falling into place. Good luck! I hope that some of the stress starts to relieve soon!

Wow, that's horrible! Gotta wonder when they planned on letting you in on the "surprise."

One thing I’ve learned working in the corporate world is that nothing is a done deal until it’s done. Until then, it’s business as usual. So unfortunately the venue had to keep booking business in case the deal fell through. However, once it was finalized they absolutely should have contacted you immediately! I can’t even imagine how you must of felt pulling up and seeing a pile of rubble!! So happy you were able to switch easily. Just think, this will be funny some day. Like, “hey remember that time we pulled up to our wedding venue to go over final details and it was demolished? Yeah, good times.” Best wishes to you, can’t wait to see your beautiful BAM 😀