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Wedding deposit lose
Olliaura
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Hi can anyone help me ? I paid £1000 deposit on my Visa card for my wedding venue. We was supposed to pay £1280 , we could no longer afford to get married due to boiler breaking, school club going bust & taking 300 of our childcare money, tv breaking , work dying down basically no money . I phoned up today to cancel and the wedding venue has said we will lose our £1000 deposit and we owe them another £280 . I feel sick to the stomach with worry . The wedding was supposed to be on the 24th may we signed a contract please anyone got any advice ????
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Other then appealing to their better nature then not much you can do. A deposit is just that.. if you don't pay the rest of the deposit then they may take legal action to recover it. Ask if they will accept it in instalments?0
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That's what a deposit is! Have you checked your contract to see what it says about cancellation?0
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Surely there's something i can do £ 1280 that's so much money and the situation that I am in was not my fault ?0
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Yeah it says the longer you leave it the more you have to pay, I feel sick to the stomach. Not only am I not getting married I am losing the will0
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While I might feel sympathetic to your situation, the venue is running a business. With just three weeks to go they are very unlikely to fill that slot so stand potentially to lose a lot more money than the deposit. That's their insurance to help compensate them for cancellations at very short notice such as yours.
I think asking for time to pay is probably the best advice.0 -
You must have a receipt ....as already asked - what does your contract/receipt say??0
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Please someone send me some positivity ! There must be a light at the end of the tunnel ?0
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why not get married anyway?0
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We didn't get a receipt, we paid it over the phone0
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