In this article, I’m sharing the best ways to legally protect your wedding business.
If you own or if you’re starting a wedding business, you will need to ensure that you have a legally binding wedding contract.
I recommend using a wedding contract template created by a lawyer with a good understanding of the wedding industry.
How to Legally Protect Your Wedding Business Without Hiring a Lawyer
If you’re looking for ways to legally protect your wedding business without hiring a lawyer, I recommend purchasing a pre-made wedding business contract from a reliable platform like The Contract Shop or Standford Gould Online.
Both of these platforms offer wedding-industry specific wedding contract templates. You can get a contract for your wedding planner business, your wedding photography business or any other wedding-related sector.
All templates are legally robust and covers every possible issue that may arise for your wedding business.
You will not have to worry about cancellations or any other issues if you have a solid contract in place.
Other Ways to Legally Protect Your Wedding Business
There are other parts of your business that you will need to have legal settings in place to ensure legal protection for your wedding business.
Your Wedding Website
Every Wedding business website needs to ensure they have a privacy policy, their terms and conditions, and any relevant consumer protection notices and pages displayed on their website if you want to legally protect your wedding business online.
Your Invoices
To use an invoice legally, it needs to contain specific attributes, including your business name, the date, tax details, an address, terms of sale, banking details, refund or cancelation details, and all the relevant figures.
Every wedding company should ensure their invoices have the correct details and information on them before sending to a client.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Your invoice is not a contract.
Do not add your terms and conditions to your wedding business invoice and expect it to be legally binding in the court of law.
You can add terms and conditions to your invoice but you will also need a wedding business contract.
Your Social Media Platforms
If you use images from your weddings on your social media platforms, you need to understand how to legally protect your wedding business from any copyright laws and issues surrounding images.
Legally Protect Your Wedding Business Conclusion
It is vitally important to legally protect your wedding business with a solid contract.
I love using Honeybook for my contracts.
Everything is structured in an easy-to-use way that makes it a lot simpler to sign contracts and pay for services.
If you’re going to use Honeybook to manage your wedding bookings, I recommend downloading a professional wedding business contract from a reliable source first.
Dive deeper into why you need a wedding business contract to legally protect your wedding business – check out this training video from Heather Stanford – The Legal Fairy Godmother
I have more articles about wedding contracts on my wedding business blog – here’s one that you might find useful:
Wedding Contract Templates for Wedding Vendors and Venues
Until the next time,
