Destination Wedding Contract

Destination Wedding Contract
Protecting your photography business and outlining expectations to photography clients is a critical aspect to success.
As a wedding photographer, you need legal protection whether you’re starting out, shooting for free or have been in business for years. Weddings are a once-in-a-life-time event (for most) and you should treat it with the utmost legal care.
TheLawTog®’s contracts are lawyer-drafted, photographer-approved, and used by many industry leaders for legal protection.
This destination wedding photography contract covers pertinent areas a photography business owner should have to cover themselves legally for a destination wedding.
Includes provisions such as:
- services
- retainer with liquidated damages
- payment schedule
- late fees for late or missed payments
- pre-wedding consultation & requests
- cancellation
- rescheduling
- failure to perform
- substitute photographer
- exclusive photographer & photographer team
- intellectual property & creative license
- artistic discretion
- copyright ownership
- permission to sell photos to third parties
- client usage of images
- safe working environment
- cooperation of clients and guests
- styling
- meals & breaks for photography team
- completion schedule
- album design & production
- travel and overage fees
- travel requirements (reservations, limitations, etc.)
- communication requirements during travel
- incorporation of standard price list
- venue guidelines and responsibility of client
- limit of liability
- indemnification
- construction & severability
- legal miscellany (attorneys fees, jurisdiction, venue, waiver, etc.)
- notice
The wedding and destination wedding contracts are similar and many provisions overlap as needed for legal protection. The destination wedding contract provides extra hands on information for communication requirements, permits, scheduling travel and more. See complete list above. The destination wedding contract does NOT include a model release.
Average cost for lawyer drafting: $1,200
This contract saves you an average of $851