Sometimes it happens that vendors are resistant to the concept of transferring a canceled event to a new couple, because they don't have any experience with it, they don't know how to handle it and they're afraid of losing money. It is tough living to be a wedding vendor, but it's no reason for not being cooperative when there is a solution.

The latest case of a couple in need to sell their canceled wedding while their wedding vendor holds them hostage and strictly prohibits a transfer of the contract to a new couple clearly shows what brides and grooms should be careful about when selecting their wedding vendor.

When the couple in our latest case asked their vendor first time over the phone about the possibility of transferring their wedding to a new couple that they would find, the vendor didn’t have any objections. However later on, the wedding vendor wrote to the couple that cancelations are not allowed and they will not allow them to "sell" or "transfer" their contract to anyone else.

This would actually mean a huge loss for the couple and an unfair profit of $7,300 for the wedding vendor on undelivered services, even though the couple had new buyers for their contract from our cancelled wedding brokerage and the situation could have been easily solved.

The couple asked the vendor, if they would at least allow them to donate their already paid event to charity. The wedding vendor rejected it!

Always check your vendor’s contract and its terms & conditions for any clause that would prohibit you from transferring your rights and responsibilities to a different couple. You never know when you might need it.

If it’s too late and you’re already in similar situation than we suggest that you stick to your rights and send a copy of your contract to our canceled wedding brokerage and we'll review it to see what the options are.

Our CanceledWeddings.com brokerage is a wedding vendor friendly environment where wedding vendors don't have to be afraid to allow a contract transfer, they don’t lose a penny and they can only gain by being helpful when their client is in need.

The way our brokerage works is that when a selling couple reaches an agreement with the buying couple, we prepare a binding agreement that has to be signed by the seller (the original couple), the buyer (the new couple) and also by the respective wedding vendor that has to agree with the transfer in written.

Our experience is that even when a contract has a clause prohibiting its transfer, the vendors are usually open to allow such a transfer and help the former couple out, since they care about their reputation and they would be losing money themselves with the unpaid balance if they didn’t allow the transfer. Sometimes vendors charge the new buyer a small and reasonable fee of $20-$50 for the administration trouble, but all these conditions are agreed in written during the negotiation phase that we mediate. The vendor doesn’t lose a penny in the transfer and may even make more money on change requests above the agreed scope of service by the new couple later on.

There are a lot of honest wedding vendors out there that try hard to help their clients in need and who even contact our canceled wedding brokerage themselves for help on behalf of their clients when such situation occurs.

At CanceledWeddings.com we fight for our clients and our mission is to clean the market from the handful of spoiled wedding vendors that learned how take advantage of their clients in stress and make easy money on their misfortune. Until now there hadn’t been a way for couples to easily find a new buyer for their canceled event and solve their situation, but our CanceledWedding.com brokerage is changing that for good! 

We’re happy that our project CanceledWeddings.com has made it into BusinessNewsDaily’s list of The 10 Best Businesses of the Year 2013.

Thank you!

Canceled Weddings (www.CanceledWeddings.com) is an international wedding brokerage firm specializing in the secondary market for canceled wedding plans, events and honeymoons. The company helps couples reduce the financial burden of their wedding cancellation by re-selling it as a pre-packaged wedding at a discount to flexible couples or to those looking for a good deal. 

The CanceledWeddings.com portal is a global online brokerage service with regional arms in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and India backed by a cosmopolitan team of wedding and event management professionals helping couples worldwide to save money. It’s a win-win for everyone!

In Canceled Weddings brokerage, we have great news to share. The overall budget of our registered brides has just exceeded $ 50,000.000 that our brides plan to spend on wedding services in next 6 months.

This is a great success only after seven months of our pilot operation of the CanceledWeddings.com online marketplace.

Canceled Weddings is an innovative members-only wedding brokerage where brides register their detailed wedding plan profiles and budgets to be matched against suitable canceled wedding plans or vendor late availabilities on discount. 

Planning a wedding is a costly endeavor with the size of average wedding bill reaching as high as the cost of a new mid-size car ($25,656 in the US, £36,000 in United Kingdom or $ 36,200 in Australia).

This rapid growth of bride registrations and their corresponding overall budget also proofs that brides-to-be are nowadays very cautious about their spending and search for good deals to cut their wedding costs and still have the nuptials of their dreams.

This might sound like a big pressure for wedding vendors, but there’s silver lining in it. 

Wedding vendors can now effectively advertise their discounted late availabilities to Canceled Weddings’ brides and actually make money instead of losing them.

Late availability means that a vendor hasn’t been able to sell her service at full price for a given date, which is less than six months ahead of time. Instead of letting it go to waste, this wedding vendor is now able to make targeted offer for this date on discount to budget-savvy brides registered at CanceledWeddings.com marketplace.

It’s a win-win for everyone because vendors can make money that they would otherwise lose and our registered brides can decide between purchasing a whole canceled wedding plan or cherry-pick individual vendors’ late availability deals and throw a wonderful wedding of their dreams for much less.

Miami, New York, USA – Weddings are for many one of the most emotional and most costly day of their lives. More often than not, large sums of money are paid out to various vendors in advance deposits. Usually as early as six months prior to the big day, over half the total balance must be paid to the venue, caterer, DJ, photographer etc. And let's not forget to mention the other necessary items purchased like the engagement ring, wedding dress and wedding bands.

Unfortunately though, for one reason or another, sometimes the couple decides they are unable to go through with the wedding and it needs to be called off. In such situations most couples lose their deposits and have to not only deal with a severe emotional loss, but also a significant financial one which is often hidden in lost deposits and strict vendor cancellation policies.

American weddings are a $51 billion dollar industry. According to a recent study by The Wedding Report Inc, 270.000 or 13% of couples each year cancel their wedding. Keep in mind that the average wedding cost is around $25,656, so for those couples who decided to not take the walk down the aisle, this can be a huge loss.

It turns out the biggest expense, 38% of the overall wedding budget is connected to the wedding venue rental and catering services, where also the strongest cancellation policies are enforced. Wedding rings make 10.2 % of the overall budget.

To better address the needs of these couples, two pioneers and leaders in the secondary wedding market, CanceledWeddings.com (www.canceledweddings.com) and I Do Now I Don't (www.idonowidont.com), teamed up to provide a hassle free one-stop shop concept to help couples in US with their canceled engagements and wedding plans.

“We try hard to help couples solve their problem with deposits and their vendors’ cancellation polices by re-selling their cancelled event as a prepackaged wedding at a discount to another couple. A key component in a wedding is not only the event itself that our service specializes in, but also the rings and dresses - when canceled, the couple must deal with all of it at once.” – says Peter K. Ulrich, CEO of the Canceled Weddings.

"As wedding and event management industry insiders, we know how to move vendor contracts and protect our clients, which gives us a chance to provide great deals to brides and grooms world-wide. However, this is a very different task, infrastructure and skill set than that which is necessary to be able to successfully resell wedding jewelry and dresses. We’re excited to partner with wedding jewelry experts I Do Now I Don't and be thus able to provide our US clients greater value with a one-stop shop solution.” – says Michaela Durinova, Canceled Weddings USA Country Manager.

“I created I Do Now I Don't as a result of my own broken engagement and it's truly become my goal to help others turn their misfortune into another person's fortune, as well as a cathartic experience for themselves. At I Do Now I Dont, we guarantee both our buyers and sellers a safe and secure environment, as well as incredible deals and savings.  We're thrilled about this new partnership with Canceled Weddings as we see a real need to provide couples with resources to help them salvage financial loss due to their canceled wedding-- whatever the reason may be." – says Joshua Opperman, CEO of I Do Now I Don't

Canceled Weddings

Canceled Weddings (www.CanceledWeddings.com) is an international wedding brokerage firm specializing in the secondary market for canceled wedding plans and honeymoons. The company helps couples reduce the financial burden of their wedding cancellation by re-selling it as a pre-packaged wedding at a discount to flexible couples or to those looking for a good deal. The CanceledWeddings.com portal is a global online brokerage service with regional arms in USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and India backed by a cosmopolitan team of wedding and event management professionals helping couples worldwide to save money. It’s a win-win for everyone!

ABOUT I DO NOW I DON'T (www.idonowidont.com)

I Do Now I Don’t (IDNID) is unlike any online site you’ve ever seen.  It all starts with a simple premise  - put buyers and sellers together where both end up with a great price for their jewelry and other collectables. The site offers an outlet for people ready to unload their leftover “assets” from a failed relationship, divorce or a diamond ring they have not worn in years.  Items for sale at any time range from diamonds, engagement rings, vintage and antique engagement rings, wedding rings to wedding dresses and collectible watches. Many items come with great stories that transform a generic gem into unique shopping experience. Buyers, in turn, get a great discount and the opportunity to own higher quality jewelry than they thought they could afford.  

I Do Now I Don’t is all about providing buyers and sellers with security, simplicity and superior service. Each diamond sold on the site is inspected by our GIA trained and accredited gemologist to assure its authenticity. The buyer's money is released to the seller only when the diamond certification process by our expert is complete.  In a world where so much is uncertain, our process allows everyone to buy and sell jewelry in 100% safe, secure and trusting environment.

We just released a new version of our core system - The MatchMaker.

Being an international cancelled wedding brokerage with all of our regional arms across three continents in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and India, we have to have the power to securely transact all of our buyer and seller requests in order to find a proper match and thats what The MatchMaker is for.

The MatchMaker is our core back-office information system which powers all of Canceled Weddings operations. It's helping us to match our cancelled weddings, honeymoons and other cancelled events including late availabilities on discounts for sale to registered buyers and yet emphasis our clients' privacy protection.

The MatchMaker is our back-end system so you get to see only its forms that you have to fill out when you want to sell or buy with us, but we believe that soon we move its power right onto your fingertips. This system is under constant development and we still have a long list of features that we want to implement to server you better.