WEDDING ADVICE - POTENTIAL POSTPONEMENT

daston5

Hi there

We are due to be married in September 2020, hopefully you may be able to provide guidance on the below.

We have recently enquired with the venue what their current plans are and they have advised they are NOT CANCELLING any event but are postponing them instead. There wording was:

Just to explain to you for financial plans – no wedding will be cancelled – we will always postpone however in order to do this we do have to charge a £500 fee for moving later this year or £1,000 to move to next year but fingers crossed it doesn’t come to that. The force Majeure clause is in the final paragraph of the contract however we are choosing not to enforce this clause and offer a solution.

 

My question is:

 – can they charge an extra fee to postpone our wedding?

-          Is there any way we can get our money back if worst comes to worse or are we tied in and be forced to pay the extra?

It all just seems to be extortion!.

Thanks

DAN