Do vendors take advantage of people who cancel weddings by requiring contracts and deposits?

Do vendors take advantage of people who cancel weddings by requiring contracts and deposits?

Unfortunately weddings nowadays are so commercialized. You know I was actually talking to someone the other day who said "You know when I got married it wasn't this big thing or ordeal where you pick a site and you spend a year planning it. It was something where, you know, you get engaged and your wedding happens in three months max." And you don't spend $100,000, $200,000 or half a million dollars to have these amazing blowout weddings." You spend what you need and that's a great celebration. And so nowadays a lot more people are canceling their weddings because it is more of something where people will say I want the party. So with my clients I always say "Look are you getting married and you happen to be having a party or are you having a party and you happen to be getting married?" Because if it's the latter then you definitely don't want to be getting married.