Wedding Industry Editing and Proofreading Services

Wedding suppliers contract eighteen months ahead with couples who have never planned an event and are emotionally invested in every detail. Between the deposit and the day, things change: the guest count, the date, the venue, the couple's circumstances, occasionally the couple. What happens then is governed by a contract signed at the happiest possible moment, frequently unread, and the conversation about it happens at the worst.

We edit what wedding venues, planners, photographers and suppliers produce — booking contracts and terms and conditions, deposit and payment schedules, postponement and date change provisions, cancellation terms and their sliding scale, force majeure and event cancellation wording, guest number minimums and final numbers deadlines, package descriptions and inclusions, supplier and external vendor policies, timeline and running order documentation for the day, photography and copyright terms, delivery timescales for images and film, wet weather and contingency arrangements, complaint and dispute correspondence, and enquiry and proposal material. Our editors work on the terms a couple will actually meet.

The change provision is the clause that matters and it is written for one scenario. Contracts address cancellation and say nothing useful about postponement, which is what actually happens — a date moves for a pregnancy, a bereavement, a visa, a venue's building work — and the couple discovers that moving the date is treated as cancelling and rebooking at current prices with the deposit lost. We write these so postponement is provided for as its own thing, with what it costs, how many times, what notice, and whether the price is held; so the sliding scale of cancellation charges states what the supplier is actually recovering rather than reading as a penalty, since a couple accepts paying for a date that cannot be resold and resents an unexplained percentage; so force majeure names the situations both parties can now foresee and says what happens to money in each; so anything the supplier will do to help — moving to an off-peak date at the same price, transferring to another couple — is written in rather than offered case by case; and so the language throughout is human, because this contract is read by two people planning the best day of their lives.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including contracts, client information and commercial terms. We are editors rather than legal advisers, and we offer no view on contract enforceability, consumer law or any dispute — a supplier contract should be reviewed by a qualified adviser. What we can do is make the terms clear, fair-sounding and specific about what happens when plans change.