Venue Terms and Conditions

Mmm seems a bit too early and like they possibly need to use your cash to prop the business up. My wedding is this Saturday 23rd and our venue is doing our food as well. We paid the final bill on Friday 15th! We booked in Jan 2021 and paid a £500 deposit. We didn’t pay anything else for months, I think it was this May 2022 we paid the next instalment so I think it’s a bit cheeky personally but this is just my experience. Good luck

This is most definitely an “unfair” contract. Tell them that under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 this is not reasonable and they should amend their terms

I am a contract manager and this is a huge red flag! Normally you would bay 20% ish deposit in booking and then final balance 3 months before. The fact they want payment in full so far I'm advance to me indicates financial difficulty and I would be running a mile. I would agree this fall's in unfair conttact terms and would challenge and ask them to review the terms as in honesty, your numbers may change prior to wedding so are there minimum requirements that you are currently over, but could r euce if needed so potentially you will over pay if up front now. I would offer 20% now, 30% a year before and then final 50% followimg your final planning meeting which is where the firmd numbers and costs are agreed.

We were asked for 50% a year in advance which we felt was too much too soon, we approached the venue with a staggered payment plan of this 50% which brought the payments closer to the wedding date and they agreed - always worth asking I'd say!

We booked our wedding in December 2020 for June 2023. We paid a £500 deposit at the time of booking and then we paid £2000 a year before the wedding which was June this year. We then pay 50% of what is left 6 months before the wedding and the remaining balance 6 weeks before the wedding.

I would agree that the venue you are looking at have an unfair contract and it is a big red flag that they need payment so early. You wouldn't normally settle the balance until your final numbers, menu choices etc are confirmed, which is around 6 weeks before in most cases. 13 months before is just ridiculous.

Yeh that's a lot to ask for.... We paid 500gbp deposit when I booked it a year ahead of time and then the remainder 14 days before the wedding