"Why am I being fined just because they booked a room for my party? " Because you agreed to those terms? Just because you agreed to a crappy deal for you doesn

"Why am I being fined just because they booked a room for my party? " Because you agreed to those terms? Just because you agreed to a crappy deal for you doesn't get you out of it. If you don't like it, don't take the deal? We are talking about wedding receptions, it's not like random hotel guests. These have real contracts, deposits, etc (and they said they take it out of your deposit). "It seems unenforceable to a lay-person because it puts the burden of controlling third parties we can't control on us. " This is incredibly common. For example, almost every contract you would ever sign for selling software, etc will say something like "you agree to indemnify us if a third party sues us over intellectual property issues in your software". This is clearly enforceable in almost all cases. You have literally no control over who chooses to sue them. As for not making sense, the law makes perfect sense in this sort of case - you may freely contract for almost anything.