Legal Question in Business Law in Massachusetts

The only thing that can be said with certainty is that you can be held liable if you breach your contract. You should take your wedding contract to an attorney and have it reviewed to determine your rights and potential liability. Best wishes for your big day!

That depends upon what the contract says. Certainly it is bad business for the coordinator to sue you, but you never know what a person might do. I hate to lamely say "have an attorney review your contract with the wedding planner" but it's pretty hard to answer your question without looking at the contract.

Contact an attorney.

It depends on the terms of your specific contract. If the coordinator provided the form of contract you signed, it likely favors him/her in these situations. However, if the vendor expressly represented s/he had an entirely favorable track record, you might be able to avoid the contract on the basis you entered into it based on misrepresentations you later discovered were untrue. But I would not recommend this approach absent very strong supporting facts, as it probably will not work.

Maybe think about approaching the planner with your discoveries and seeing if you can get out of the contract (s/he agrees to let you out) or modify its terms. But this may drive a wedge and affect the relationship going forward. Maybe you should just breach the contract and eat what you have put down (or less if s/he agrees to modify the amount due upon breach). The money lost might be insignificant compared to a badly coordinated wedding, for which you no doubt will pay more.

**PLEASE NOTE***

THE INFORMATION HEREIN IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, NOR SHALL IT BE CONSTRUED TO BE LEGAL ADVICE.

Nothing herein (or otherwise) gives rise to an attorney-client relationship, nor shall an attorney-client relationship exist, or be deemed to exist, except through a prior, written agreement, signed by the parties and expressly creating an attorney-client relationship.

A contract can be sometimes ended when the party of the contract creates insecurity about their ability to meet the terms of the contract.

This is grounds for making a demand on the otherside for assurance that the terms of the contracts can be amicably met.

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