Venue gave our date to someone else

Just venting here. My fiancé and I are trying to get married this year, we just got engaged in April and wanted to be married in November. We looked at basically every venue in our area and found one we loved, that was all inclusive (meaning we had little to get together ourselves in such a short amount of time) and that was in our budget. Due to my fiancé’s work schedule, we weren’t able to book right away, but for the last two weeks we’ve had the date the only date that both us and our photographer can do on hold with email confirmations of such with this venue. Thursday we officially confirmed the date with his schedule and emailed the vendor immediately to let them know. Monday the venue emailed me excited and said they’d send us a contract. The week goes by and I’ve heard nothing so I called them today. They said they “got their wires crossed” and actually booked the venue to someone else for that date on Tuesday this week and had them sign a contract. I am heart broken. They told us they were holding the date and promised to send us a contract for it, only for a day later to book the date with someone else. Now we have less than 5 months to not only find a new venue, but find all the vendors that the all inclusive package was offering. I don’t think it’s possible and with my fiancé’s schedule the next date that would work isn’t until May 2022.


I’m so sad, and I can’t believe the venue did that, when we had a written agreement of the date saying that they’d send us a contract. My fiancé is going to speak to them in person Monday to try and argue we had a verbal contract, but either way a couple is not getting the date they were promised. And I guess they weren’t going to call us to tell us the mistake. I’m sad and now stressed beyond belief.