Jamie Wolfer explains why wedding planner contracts include a clause prohibiting planners from using personal vehicles to transport guests or event items. The rule protects planners from liability and prevents clients from expecting ad-hoc favors like moving a breast pump for the bride. Clients should always ask vendors to clarify confusing contract language.
When you see something like wedding planner is not a taxi service and will not be using personal vehicle to transport wedding guests, wedding couple, wedding party, or anyone associated with the event itself because that planner probably found themselves in a position where they had to drive someone and maybe move their breast pump out of the way to make room for the bride to sit in the front seat. You could see some interesting language in this specific General region where you go, hmm, that's weird. And at any point in time, if you come across something in your contract with a vendor and you're like, I don't know what this means, I don't know what's going on, you have every right to go talk to them about it. If someone saw a clause like that in a contract from me, I would probably laugh and be like, there have been multiple times where people assume because they're hiring us, they have free access to our vehicle to transport a bunch of goods for them, to transport guests for them, to transport the wedding party for them, or even the wedding couple. And that's just not something that we do. That's not a liability that we want to incur. So our vehicle is off limits.
