Legal Question in Consumer Law in California

We rented a location for a wedding, the wedding coordinator told us on the Friday before the wedding that she would call us the morning of the wedding to determine if we would be using the tent(that was permanently set up at the location) .no one called and the event was set up outside,before we had a chance to choose the tent. The operations manager told us we could not move into the tent,It rained and after calling the owner we were told it would be 1200$ to move into the tent. When the original contract was signed,the venue did not have a permanent tent, the contract stated that a tent would need to be rented from another source. Since the coordinator offered the tent and did not tell us of a charge I think we should not be charged. The venue does not charge for the use of the tent to anyone who has signed a contract since the tent was installed. Please advise, thank you

Asked on 5/07/15, 8:55 am

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Carl Starrett Law Offices of Carl H. Starrett II

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Your question isn't clear regarding who hired the wedding coordinator. If you hired the wedding coordinator, he or she would have no authority to bind the owner of the wedding site to alter the contract. If the wedding coordinator was an employee of the wedding sight, offering the idea of using the new permanent tent doesn't necessarily mean you didn't have to pay for it. You also could have picked up the phone instead of waiting for the coordinator's phone call.

You signed a contractor that said you would have to rent a tent if you wanted it. The operations manages had not legal duty to offer you the use of the tent for free. So far, I have not heard any legal reasons why they should have been required to offer you the free use of the tent. That might have been good customer service to do so, but that contract doesn't seem to require it.

Answered on 5/07/15, 9:04 am

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