It’s every creative designer’s nightmare and every bride and groom’s unwanted nuisance. You and your designers have spent days and nights coming up with a bespoke wedding design, be it for your invitations or your ceremony programmes and boom, you see it in a shop window that you’ve never dealt with before. In the English dictionary, bespoke means ‘custom-made’, which easily translates to one-of-a-kind and when it comes down to your wedding, you want to keep it that way especially when your image is being used. You don’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry to have the same wedding invitation as you, otherwise what’s the use of commissioning a bespoke designer? The point of all this ranting is that as a couple, you need to beware of certain wedding vendors (printers in this case) and in order to protect yourselves, draft up an agreement listing out all the terms and conditions of both parties, including the vendor’s obligation not to share your designs with third parties (unless you want them to). It may sound like a lot of extra work but trust me, it’ll save you any trouble in the long run.

p.s. I will be asking a lawyer to draft up a simple Wedding Vendor Terms & Conditions to share with you so keep a lookout!