[Kchickenpie31]

I'm just wondering if I can sue my wedding venue for emotional stress I booked my venue last year and asked the wedding planner at the time if there would be any other events being held on that day? Which she replied no if anything it would be a rugby match on this field which is fine... Cut to yesterday and I find out through a fluke that a "friend of a friend" is wanting to have her wedding at the same place same day but in a markee outside! I am not at all happy as I was never told even though I asked that there maybe any other wedding on the same day I was under the impression private function means private. It's not a very big place and I will be able to see this other wedding though the window and to top it all off we have mutual friends so I can see them mingling. Any ideas? Thank you.

[joypulv]

1. Does the planner work for the venue, or on her own?
2. Maybe at the time you asked, there were no other events. You didn't ask 'does this venue book multiple weddings on the same day' - in general.
3. Do you have brochures, and a written contract, with the venue, spelling out such questions?
I think you'll have a very tough time winning a lawsuit.

I'm not quite seeing what's so bad about it. I have been to many functions that were right next to other ones. Nothing got in the way of another one. They generally know all this, and it's their reputation on the line.
'Private function' doesn't mean you get the entire place at all. It means you get a defined space, and uninvited people are kept out.

[ScottGem]

ANY question on law needs to include your general locale as laws vary by area.

A wedding venue that also hosts rugby matches??

In any case, from what you have said, you have heard that someone else wants to use the venue, do you know for a fact that they have booked the venue? Did you contact the venue and explain to them that you were under the impression yours would be the only wedding party on that day?

But what is really key is what your contract with the venue says. Unless the contract states that yours will be the sole wedding, then you have no grounds for a suit.

[Fr_Chuck]

You needed to have talked to the owners of the venue, not the planner,
You needed to have booked or rented the entire complex.

There is nothing that would prevent multiple weedings or other events, could have been a music concert, with noise.

But I do weddings all the times and often there are several weddings at the same time, or even many though the day.

I see nothing wrong with this happening, this is just how it works in real life.

I think you are getting upset over nothing and need to worry about real important things and not silly things that don't matter

[JudyKayTee]

Unless your contract states "exclusive use" of the facility I don't think you have a case.

That's the legal answer.

[ballengerb1]

I agree, it appears you did not pay for exclusiove use of all of the grounds. You even knew when you signed that the owner was open to booking other events like the rigby match