Wedding ruined, what are our rights

JPS29

hcb42 wrote: »

I think it is perfectly fair for the OP to have some sort of compensation for the aspects of their wedding that went wrong. That can only incorporate the cost of the wedding package itself however, so it might only be a few hundred pounds, as the actual wedding packages are not (normally) that expensive.

Wedding package was £1400, extra flowers £200, Vidoegrapher and photos £1400. Also you're right the wedding packages arent that expensive but thats as you have to book at least a week stay at the hotels, and when booking in advance that doesnt come cheap. You couldnt just pay them to get married there, we tried.

JPS29

Exactly! That was the monopoly they had. If you didnt go with the insitu hotel photgrapher/videographer then you had to pay a £200 "vendors fee" for EACH additional service, 1 for the vidoegrapher, 1 for the photos

hcb42

OP, if I were you, i would take those elements, and for the areas that went wrong you base any claim for compensation around that.

you would have had to stay in the hotel of course, so that isnt so relevant.

You cannot just have another marriage - of course they may discount a future stay..

Loanranger

Annulling the marriage is a total overreaction to some minor hiccups.
A major problem would have been the registrar/minister/officiating person failed to show or a hurricane and people died.

Crying all night is ridiculous. What kind of baby is she?

Good grief, get over yourselves.

It's the marriage that's important not the wedding. Spending the rest of your lives together happily and in companionship and love, making a family together, planning your futures together, being kind to each other.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I dread to think how you both will react if you ever meet real problems, if you get hysterical over the wrong tune being played or someone hearing what you said at what is probably the most commercial and public events you could ever be part of. Had the wedding been crashed by a drunken stag party led my her ex boyfriend, or the hotel was struck by lightening and caught fire, I could understand you saying the wedding was ruined. Had all the relatives you didn't want to invite suddenly turn up to surprise you as they had discovered where you were going, I could understand your wedding being ruined. As it was, by booking a conveyor belt wedding, you found out that tiny hitches have knock on effects. As you were just another couple on the list of jobs for the day, you can't be treated any different to anyone else, much though it would have been nice for you if the photographer hadn't turned up for the next couple's wedding because he was giving you more time, or the last couple of the day had their wedding cancelled because they ran out of time, it wouldn't have been fair on them at all.

It isn't anyone's fault that your wedding photos have the two of you with faces like smacked bums. and your wife should carry a paper bag around with her if she tends to hyperventilate when things don't go her way.

The important thing is that, whilst no wedding is ever perfect, it was still the day you exchanged vows and you became husband and wife. This is the special, wonderful thing - you have each other and you will be together for the rest of your lives. Nothing else matters.

baza52

LOL. you got married, you cant have another go at it cos you didnt like the way it went on the day.
Otherwise, lets start a queue......

Mupette

Sorry i have to agree with others on here, your being a bit of a [STRIKE]bridezilla[/STRIKE] Groomzilla on this.

You got married, in a beautiful location, had a lovely holiday, no one was hurt or injured (which is far more important don't you think)

Wedding have a habit of not being perfect, and in a few months you will laugh at all this.

Annoying they didn't play the music you wanted, but again see it in a 3rd party view, sympathise it wasn't 100% the way you wanted but you got the right end result, you married the woman you love. Cherish that.

Equaliser123

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Ahem..."Here comes the bride," is Mendelssohn.

Ahem....No it isn't. Wagner as I said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridal_Chorus

Equaliser123

Flyboy152 wrote: »

But then, it is also played at ninety per cent of all civil ceremonies as well.

Just sayin'.

Yes, and in civil ceremonies you CANNOT have any religious music. So therefore, it isn't religious in the slightest.

Flyboy152

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Ahem....No it isn't. Wagner as I said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridal_Chorus

:doh: D'oh, I was referring to the Wedding March. Oops!