Terms of Service

The short version

No wall of lawyer-speak to scroll past. Here’s the deal, straight up. The full terms are below and those are the binding ones.

This site is a portfolio, not a contract. Prices, packages, and dates change. Nothing here is a binding offer. Your date isn’t held until you’ve signed and paid.

Your agreement beats this page. Retainer, payment schedule, coverage hours, delivery timeline, what happens if you move the date. All of that lives in your signed agreement. If this website says something different, the agreement is the real answer.

We own the photos. You get to use them. We keep the copyright, always. You get full personal print and sharing rights for life. We keep the right to show select work in our portfolio and marketing, unless you tell us otherwise in writing. Some couples want their wedding kept private. Say the word and it stays private.

Don’t take our images off this site. Everything here is somebody’s actual wedding. Don’t download it, repost it as your own, edit it, or feed it to an AI model.

Galleries are yours. Don’t hand the password to the whole internet.

If we screw up. We shoot with backup bodies, dual card slots, redundant drives, and full insurance. But there’s a cap on liability and it’s in Section 15.

Fights. Email us first, we’ll almost certainly work it out. After that, Texas law, Kerr County.

1. Who we are

1.1 GR Weddings is a division and assumed name of Gabe Rene LLC, a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Kerrville, Texas (“GR Weddings,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). GR Weddings is not a separate legal entity.

1.2 These Terms of Service and Use (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of grweddings.com and any related subdomain, landing page, client portal, gallery, or online offering that links to them (the “Site”).

1.3 By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

2. Changes to these terms

We may revise these Terms at any time. We will update the “Last updated” date and, for material changes, give additional notice. Continued use after that constitutes acceptance. Revised Terms do not retroactively change an agreement you have already signed.

3. Eligibility

3.1 The Site is intended for users 18 and older. By using it you represent that you are 18 or older.

3.2 The Site is directed to users in the United States. We photograph weddings elsewhere, but we make no representation that the Site is appropriate or available in other locations.

4. The site is marketing, not an offer

4.1 Portfolio galleries, collection descriptions, sample pricing, availability language, blog posts, sample timelines, and city and venue pages are provided for informational and promotional purposes. They are an invitation to inquire. They are not an offer and they do not create a contract.

4.2 Pricing on the Site is illustrative and subject to change. Pricing becomes fixed only in a written proposal issued to you, and only for the period stated in that proposal.

4.3 Portfolio work is not a promise. Every wedding shown on the Site was photographed under conditions specific to that day: that venue, that light, that timeline, that weather, those people. It is a fair representation of our style and our standard. It is not a guarantee of any particular image, result, or outcome at your wedding.

4.4 Sample timelines, planning guides, vendor suggestions, and blog content are general information, not professional advice about your specific wedding.

5. Your agreement controls

5.1 If you book us, your wedding is governed by the written service agreement you sign (your “Agreement”), together with any proposal, invoice, and questionnaire referenced in it.

5.2 If these Terms and your Agreement conflict, your Agreement controls.

5.3 The following are governed exclusively by your Agreement and are not stated on this Site: retainer and deposit amounts, payment schedule, coverage hours, number of photographers or crew, rescheduling terms, cancellation terms, delivery timelines, album and print credits, engagement session terms, travel and lodging, overtime rates, and licensing scope.

5.4 A date is not reserved until we have both a signed Agreement and the required retainer. Dates are offered first come, first served, and we cannot hold a date on a verbal or an email alone.

6. Copyright in our work

6.1 We retain copyright in every photograph and every frame of film we produce, at all times. This includes work produced for you. Payment of your invoice does not transfer copyright to you. Copyright transfers only by a separate signed writing, which we rarely do.

6.2 What you receive. Your Agreement grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use your images and film for personal, non-commercial purposes, including printing them at any lab you choose, sharing them on your personal social media, sending them to family, and putting them on your wall. That license is for life and we do not charge you to use your own wedding photos.

6.3 What that license does not include. You may not sell your images, license them to a third party, or use them for a commercial purpose without our written permission. If a vendor, venue, publication, magazine, or blog wants to use your photos, they need permission from us. It is almost always yes, and it is almost always free, but they have to ask. Send them our way.

6.4 Please do not edit our edits. Do not crop, recolor, apply filters to, or otherwise alter delivered images or film. The color is the work. Instagram filters on top of a finished grade is like putting ketchup on a steak somebody spent six weeks cooking.

6.5 Credit. Not required, always appreciated.

6.6 Our portfolio use. We may use selected images and film from your wedding in our portfolio, on our websites, on social media, in printed samples and albums, in proposals, in advertising, and in submissions to publications and competitions, unless your Agreement says otherwise.

6.7 Privacy is available. If you would rather your wedding never appear anywhere publicly, tell us. We will note it in your Agreement and we will honor it completely. This is not a fight and it does not cost extra. Some people are private, and some people have real reasons.

7. Site content, no AI training, no scraping

7.1 The Site and its content, including all photographs, video, text, graphics, layouts, and designs, are owned by Gabe Rene LLC or our licensors and protected by United States and international intellectual property law.

7.2 You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to view the Site for personal, non-commercial use. All other rights are reserved.

7.3 You may not download, copy, republish, redistribute, screenshot for reuse, crop, edit, retouch, remove a watermark or credit from, or make commercial use of any image or video on the Site.

7.4 No AI training. You may not use any content on the Site, including any photograph or frame of film, to train, fine tune, ground, retrieve against, evaluate, or otherwise develop or improve any artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative, or large language model system. This applies whether or not the resulting model reproduces our work. We expressly reserve our rights under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and every equivalent reservation available under other applicable law. Machine-readable reservations also appear in our robots.txt file and in file metadata.

7.5 No scraping. You may not use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, headless browser, or other automated means to access, extract, index, or collect content from the Site, except a public search engine crawler complying with our robots.txt file.

7.6 You may not bypass or circumvent any technical measure restricting access to the Site or to any gallery or portal.

7.7 Linking to a page on the Site is welcome.

8. Client galleries and portals

8.1 We deliver finished work through an online gallery.

8.2 Your gallery may be password protected. Keep the password reasonably private. Share it with family and friends. Do not post it publicly on a website, a forum, or a public social media post.

8.3 Galleries remain online for the period stated in your Agreement. Download your files and back them up in at least two places. An online gallery is a delivery mechanism, not an archive, and it is not your backup.

8.4 We maintain our own archive of your files, but we do not guarantee perpetual archival storage or re-delivery after the period stated in your Agreement. Recovery of expired files, where possible, may be subject to a fee.

8.5 You may not use a gallery to distribute content unrelated to your wedding.

9. Trademarks

GR Weddings, Gabe Rene LLC, Gabe Rene, our logos and marks, our slogans and taglines, and the look and feel of the Site are trademarks and trade dress of Gabe Rene LLC and may not be copied, imitated, or used without our prior written permission. Other marks referenced on the Site belong to their owners, and reference does not imply endorsement.

10. Your content

10.1 You may submit content through inquiry forms, questionnaires, planning worksheets, and email, including names, wedding details, vendor lists, reference images, and timelines (“Your Content”).

10.2 You retain ownership of Your Content.

10.3 You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, and use Your Content as necessary to respond to you and to plan and deliver your wedding coverage.

10.4 We will not publish Your Content as marketing without your separate permission.

10.5 You represent that you have all rights necessary to submit Your Content, including for reference images from other photographers, which we treat as inspiration only and do not copy.

10.6 Reviews and testimonials. If you leave us a public review or send us kind words, we may quote it in our marketing along with your first names and wedding date, unless you tell us not to.

11. Prohibited conduct

You will not: violate any law in connection with the Site; harass or threaten any person; impersonate anyone; access a gallery or portal without authorization; share credentials with an unauthorized person; probe or breach any security measure; upload malware; interfere with or overburden the Site; send spam through the Site; harvest information about other users; ignore our robots.txt file; or post unlawful, defamatory, obscene, infringing, or privacy-violating content. Enforcement is at our discretion, and non-enforcement in one case is not a waiver in another.

12. Feedback

Questions, comments, suggestions, and ideas you send us may be used for any purpose without acknowledgment, compensation, or obligation, and we may treat them as non-confidential.

13. Copyright complaints

13.1 We terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances under 17 U.S.C. § 512.

13.2 Send infringement notices meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to:

DMCA Designated Agent Gabe Rene LLC PO Box 1131, Ingram, TX 78025 gabe@gaberene.com

13.3 Knowing material misrepresentation that material is infringing may make you liable for damages and attorneys’ fees under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). Counter-notifications under § 512(g)(3) go to the same address.

14. Third-party services and vendors

14.1 The Site links to and integrates with third-party services, including our booking and CRM platform, our gallery host, our email platform, our scheduler, payment processors, a Google reviews feed, and social media platforms. Your use of those services is governed by their terms and privacy policies, not ours.

14.2 We may mention or link to venues, planners, florists, DJs, and other wedding vendors. We do not warrant or endorse any vendor, and your dealings with a vendor are solely between you and that vendor. We are not liable for anything a vendor does or fails to do, including at your wedding.

14.3 Outbound links open at your own risk.

15. Disclaimers

15.1 YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN A SIGNED WRITING, THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

15.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

15.3 We do not warrant that the Site is accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, or error free.

15.4 Nothing on the Site is legal, financial, or professional planning advice.

15.5 Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, and in those places some of the above may not apply to you.

16. Limitation of liability

16.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GABE RENE LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, SECOND SHOOTERS, EDITORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND AGENTS (THE “GABE RENE PARTIES”) WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

16.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE GABE RENE PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).

16.3 Liability relating to wedding coverage is governed by your Agreement, not this Section. Your Agreement contains the limitation that applies to your wedding.

16.4 These limitations apply regardless of the form of action and survive any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy.

17. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Gabe Rene Parties from any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to (a) Your Content or Feedback; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation or infringement of any rights of another, including intellectual property and privacy rights; or (d) your misconduct in connection with the Site. We may assume exclusive control of the defense and settlement of any indemnified matter at your expense.

18. Electronic communications, email, and text

18.1 By using the Site or giving us your contact information, you consent to receive communications from us electronically, and agree they satisfy any legal writing requirement.

18.2 Text messages. Booked couples may receive texts from us about their wedding, including scheduling, timeline, and day-of logistics. We send marketing texts only to people who separately opt in, and consent to marketing texts is never a condition of booking. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help, or contact gabe@gaberene.com or 210.802.6055. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You must be the authorized user of the number you give us.

18.3 Email. Transactional email about your inquiry or wedding is necessary to provide the service. Marketing email is opt in and every marketing email has a working unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing from marketing does not stop transactional email about your wedding. We comply with the CAN-SPAM Act.

19. Accessibility

19.1 We work toward conformance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

19.2 Some content, including third-party embeds and older portfolio galleries, may not yet fully conform.

19.3 Hit a barrier? Email gabe@gaberene.com or call 210.802.6055 with the page and the problem and we will get you what you need.

20. Termination

20.1 We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site at any time, with or without notice, including for breach of these Terms.

20.2 Sections 6, 7, 9, 10.3, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 22 survive termination.

21. Governing law, venue, and disputes

21.1 Talk to us first. Before filing any claim, contact us at gabe@gaberene.com with a written description of the dispute and work with us in good faith for at least thirty (30) days.

21.2 Governing law. Texas law governs, without regard to conflict of law rules, except as preempted by federal law.

21.3 Venue. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts sitting in Kerr County, Texas. You consent to jurisdiction and venue there and waive any inconvenient forum objection.

21.4 Limitations period. Any claim must be filed within one (1) year after it arose, to the extent permitted by law.

21.5 Either party may seek injunctive relief in any court to protect intellectual property rights.

22. General

22.1 Severability. An unenforceable provision is severed and the rest survives.

22.2 No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

22.3 Assignment. You may not assign without our written consent. We may assign freely.

22.4 Entire agreement. These Terms, our Privacy Policy, and any signed Agreement are the entire agreement on this subject.

22.5 No third-party beneficiaries except the Gabe Rene Parties in Sections 16 and 17.

22.6 Force majeure. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Rescheduling in those circumstances is handled under your Agreement.

22.7 Headings have no legal effect.

23. Contact

GR Weddings A division of Gabe Rene LLC PO Box 1131 Ingram, TX 78025 info@gaberene.com 210.802.6055 grweddings.com

that’s the whole deal.

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