Venue deposit

Well my venue cost was £2000 and the deposit was £300.

The only problem with paying that much up front, is that wedding insurance is only available two years prior to your wedding date.

Try negotiating, say as it's so far in advance can you not pay a smaller "save the date" deposit now and the balance of the full deposit next year when you have your insurance?

It depends on how important the venue actually is to you as to what you do. If you must have that venue, they have you over a barrel

Thank you for your reply.

I know we need wedding insurance, but haven't looked at the actual terms of it yet I.e. How far in advance we can get it so that's a really interesting point.

We've made a list of others to go and view as I said it's just the overall paying more for something that we want less.

I think I'll try to present the whole wedding insurance situation to them in support of our argument, because if anything did happen to the venue without the insurance we'd have more hassle trying to get the money back. x

10k for a venue for 2020 is a good deal. But I would say to them that because you can't get insurance for your payment until 2 years prior only want to put a hold payment down.

It's reasonable to ask this. A lot of people don't book so far in advance so it's likely an unusual situation for them (unusual but not unheard of and the person you're dealing with is likely treating it as any nomal booking).

That far in advance make sure you keep everything in writing too in case they change their terms in the time between now and them. Wedding co-ordinators come and go. The promises / word of mouth can get lost as a result causing frustrations for you.