What should a Wedding Planning Agreement include under Thai law?

1. Definitions and Interpretation
2. Services
3. Planning Timeline and Decisions
4. Vendors
5. Planning Fee and Payment
6. Taxes
7. Weather
8. Postponement and Cancellation by the Client
9. Cancellation by the Planner
10. Force Majeure
11. Guests and Venue Rules
12. Personal Data, Photographs and Artificial Intelligence
13. Liability
14. Termination
15. Notices
16. Governing Law and Disputes
17. General

• A wedding planning agreement is generally treated as a hire of work (Instrument 4 of the Stamp Duty Schedule). Duty is 1 THB for every 1,000 THB or part of 1,000 THB of the Planning Fee. On the Planning Fee you entered, the duty on the original is the amount the system calculates from the figures entered, and each counterpart carries the amount the system calculates from the figures entered.Because the Planning Fee is in …, convert it to Thai Baht at the exchange rate on the date of signing and calculate the duty on the Baht amount.
• The Planner pays the duty (Clause 6.3). For electronic signing, use the Revenue Department's e-Stamp Duty system within 15 days after signing. An unstamped agreement cannot be used as evidence in a Thai civil court until the duty and a surcharge are paid.

• The ceremony does not register the marriage (Clause 2.4). To register in Thailand, foreign nationals usually need a document from their embassy confirming that they are free to marry, translated into Thai and legalised, and must attend a district office together. Check the rules of your home country as well, because some countries recognise a marriage only if it is registered in a particular way.

• You pay each Vendor directly under its own contract (Clause 4.1). Read each Vendor's cancellation terms before paying a deposit, and keep the receipts.- You pay the Vendor Costs to the Planner, who pays the Vendors (Clause 4.1). Ask for each Vendor's invoice and receipt within 14 days after the Planner pays it.
• The booking payment of … … reserves the Wedding Date (Clause 5.1). Pay only to the account in Clause 5.2, and call the Planner before paying if you receive new bank details by email.
• Card and international transfer charges are borne as agreed in Clause 5.2. Exchange-rate differences are the payer's risk.

• You may postpone once with notice of at least … days (Clause 8.1).
• Cancellation charges on the Planning Fee: …% if the Planner receives your notice at least … days before the Wedding, …% if at least … days before, and …% after that (Clause 8.2). Send the notice by email, not by chat message (Clause 15.1).
• If force majeure, such as a flood warning or a travel ban, stops the Wedding, the payments move to a new date within 18 months, or you receive a refund less the work done, capped at …% of the Planning Fee (Clause 10.3).
• Consider travel and wedding insurance for Guests who fly in. It covers losses that this Agreement leaves with you.

• Send Guests the RSVP form that collects dietary needs with their own consent (Clause 12.2). Do not forward allergy lists by chat.
• Tell Guests whether the Wedding will be photographed and shared online. You consented to the Planner's portfolio use (Clause 12.4); you may withdraw that consent later by email.
• Fireworks, sky lanterns and drones need permits and the Venue's consent (Clause 11.2).

• Raise it in writing with the Planner first (Clause 16.2). Thai courts hear the dispute under Thai law; a court works in Thai, so English documents need a certified Thai translation.
• Keep the signed PDF, Schedule 2, payment slips, Vendor receipts and the emails that approved changes.

Compiled from the notes that accompany the English contract templates on this site, published by Phuwara Krobtaku (ภูวรา ครอบตะคุ), Thai attorney-at-law, licence no. 477/2558. The short answer and summary at the top of this page are put together by the site from the template's clause headings and notes. Statutes are quoted only in the official Thai text: Thai is the only official language of Thai legislation, and an unofficial translation can mislead. Article registry OKC-2F43A9. If you reuse this content, please credit the author and link to the original.