This deserves an FML

Koopa17

Well, today fucking sucked.  My venue is basically a whole floor in a high rise building downtown (dallas).  My contact at the venue called us today and let us know that the owners of the building haven't been making their payments, that the building is now going into foreclosure and all tenants have to be out by Jan 31.  Which means I now have no venue for my March 6th wedding. 

Insert big fucking sad face here.

shellydiane820

That sucks.  That happen about 2 years ago where I'm from.  Luckily, I didn't book there.  However, not everyone got their deposits back.

ggmae

Sucrets is right. It all worked out for us in the end!

The thing that stressed me the most was that we lost our venue a week AFTER I had sent out invites. I had spent hours and hours typing/printing them out, + the money for postage, so I was really upset about that.

EDIT - And we only got 1/2 of our $800 deposit back. The deal at this venue is that if you cancel the event, you get 1/2 back if (and only if) the venue is able to rebook your date. They keep the other 1/2. Well, we didn't exactly cancel (they double-booked us), but because they offered us another date and we said no, it counted as a "cancel" to them. We fought it for a while, but backed down in the end. I was losing sleep and getting sick over it.

SarahPLiz

I figured this would start happenning with commerical real estate soon enough. But it could have been worse:
My sister got back to CA from visiting me for X-Mas and had 3 legal notices taped to her door. Apparently, her landlord hasn't been paying the mortgage, so they house they rent is going on the auction block on Jan 12.

SO you have to reprint your invites and find a new venue, but at least you don't have to move...

Koopa17

Oh wow, ggmae, that sounds awful.  I think y'all are right, it will work itself out and everything will be fine, it sounds like I actually got lucky in that I could have gotten screwed a lot worse.  Thanks for the insight!

MissIntentional

oh no! i'm sorry to hear that. i hope it works out.
my mom told me recently my #2 choice closed unexpectedly and nobody got a deposit back.

thesuninherhead

That really does suck, however as others have said, you will find somewhere. Make sure you take a week or so to look around and don't rush into anything that's just 'ok' simply because of the time urgency- pick somewhere that you do actually like. 

Can you put a hold on the invitations until you've picked a new venue? If not, don't stress too much- if the date is remaining the same, you can always send an updated information card to your guests to let them know of the new venue.