How we use your details, how the site works, and the conditions that apply if you book an Algarve wedding with Lovebirds Wedding Planning. Last updated 13 November 2026.
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We decide how your details are used. We are Shark Life Media Inc., a company registered in Florida, USA (Florida document number P25000019599), trading as Lovebirds Wedding Planning. Our address is 7901 4th St N, Ste 300, St Petersburg, FL 33702, USA, and our company is based in the USA.
Email [email protected]. This notice covers www.lovebirdsweddings.com and lovebirdsweddingplanning.com.
When you send an enquiry or a request to book: your names, email, phone number, wedding date, guest numbers, package and message. We also record your IP address and browser details with your request, to spot spam.
When you book: your billing address; for the civil ceremony, your passports, birth certificates and proof you are free to marry; your supplier choices; and any allergies or access needs you tell us about.
When you visit the site: your IP address, server logs, your cookie choice, and analytics only if you accept.
Nothing is paid on this site, so we do not collect card details here. If you give us your partner's or your guests' details, please tell them.
Replying to you, planning, invoicing, and working with the suppliers you approve: this is the contract between us, and the steps you ask for before it.
Accounts and tax records: a legal duty.
Allergy or access details, used only for catering and access: your explicit consent.
The price guide and planning emails: your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Measuring visits and ads with cookies: your consent.
Keeping the site safe, stopping spam and handling disputes: our legitimate interest.
We cannot plan your wedding without your contact and wedding details. No computer alone decides anything about you.
These providers handle your details for us.
Cloudflare: website protection and email routing (USA).
Hetzner: our server (Germany).
GoHighLevel: our records, and the emails we send you (USA).
Google: analytics and ad measurement, only if you accept cookies (Ireland, USA).
Meta: Facebook and Instagram ad measurement, only if you accept cookies (Ireland, USA).
WhatsApp Business: chat, if you message us there (Ireland, USA).
Each one handles your details under its own data processing terms. We do not sell your details.
Cloudflare, GoHighLevel, Google, Meta, WhatsApp and our own company, which is American, are in or use servers in the USA. The safeguard is the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Commission Decision 2021/914), or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified under it. For couples in the UK, the UK safeguards apply (the UK Addendum or the UK-US data bridge). Ask us if you would like a copy.
Enquiries that do not become bookings: 12 months after our last message.
Bookings and invoices: for as long as the tax and accounting law that applies to us requires.
ID documents: deleted once they are filed and the wedding is over, unless the law says otherwise.
Marketing emails: until you unsubscribe.
Your cookie choice: 12 months.
You can ask to see, correct, delete, limit or move your details, object to how we use them, or take back a consent. Email [email protected]. We answer within one month, free of charge. A complex request may take up to two more months, and we tell you why within the first month.
You can complain to the CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, www.cnpd.pt) or to the data protection authority where you live. In the UK, that is the ICO. You do not have to ask us first.
We use a few essential cookies to keep the site working. With your OK, Google and Meta tools also show us which pages and ads help couples plan. Nothing else loads until you press Accept, and Cookie settings lets you change your mind any time.
Essential cookies remember your choice and need no consent. Anything that measures visits or ads loads only after you press Accept: Google Analytics, Google Ads, the Meta Pixel and our GoHighLevel tracking code. Press Reject and none of them load. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings in the footer of every page.
Shark Life Media Inc., trading as Lovebirds Wedding Planning, the company named under Who we are, provides these services. Email [email protected].
We plan weddings in the Algarve, Portugal. Your package page and our written confirmation list what is included. Anything not listed is not included.
Prices are in euros. The price on your package page is the full price for the guest count shown, with tax included. We add nothing later unless you ask us in writing for something extra. Our written confirmation repeats the price, the cancellation terms and your right to withdraw.
Each extra guest costs the price on your package page, tax included: €120 for The Elopement, €95 for The Dream and The Fairytale, and €110 for The Luxury Dream and The Luxury Fantasy. Give us your final guest number by the date in your confirmation. The weekend premium is optional, is shown on the package page, and applies only if you choose a date it covers.
Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility for death or injury, fraud, harm caused deliberately or through gross negligence, or any right you cannot lose by law.
Apart from that, our total liability for a booking is limited to the price you have paid for the package. We are not liable for indirect losses, such as your guests' travel costs.
You keep the mandatory consumer rights of the country where you live, and you may take us to court there where the law allows. Otherwise, Portuguese law governs the contract and the courts of Faro hear disputes.
Write to [email protected] first. If we cannot settle it, you can take it to a consumer dispute resolution body. The courts mentioned above stay open to you.
When you send a request, you see a Request received page straight away. Mia then confirms by email that she has it, without delay and always within one working day. Nothing is paid on the site.
A request to book is not a contract. It becomes one when Mia confirms your date, package and price in writing. Until then, either of us can walk away at no cost.
After Mia confirms your date, we invoice a deposit of 20% of the package price. The deposit is part of the price, not extra, and your date is held once it is paid. The other payment dates are agreed with you, written in your confirmation, and invoiced. Nothing is paid on this website.
You can withdraw within 14 days of the day we confirm in writing, for any reason. Tell us by email, or use the EU model withdrawal form we send with your confirmation. We refund you within 14 days of hearing from you, the same way you paid.
We start work in those 14 days only if you ask us in writing. If you do, you pay for the work done up to the day you withdraw. You have the full 14 days for everything we plan, including the venue, catering and music for your date.
After the 14 days you can cancel by email.
More than 90 days before the wedding: you lose the deposit.
90 to 31 days before the wedding: you owe 50% of the package price.
30 days or fewer before the wedding: you owe 100% of the package price.
What you have paid counts towards what you owe. If a supplier refunds us any cost, we take it off.
If we cancel for any reason except force majeure, we refund everything you have paid within 14 days.
Force majeure means events beyond reasonable control, such as a venue closed by the authorities, a strike, a natural disaster, travel bans, or weather that makes a venue unsafe. Ordinary rain is not force majeure. If that happens, we first try to move your wedding. If we cannot, we refund what you have paid minus supplier costs we cannot recover, and we show you the invoices.
A civil ceremony in Portugal needs documents, and the registry office (Conservatória do Registo Civil) decides which. For couples from abroad that usually means passports, birth certificates and proof you are free to marry, often with sworn translations and an apostille. We give you the list and file the Portuguese paperwork with you. You make sure your documents are correct and reach us on time, because late or wrong documents can delay the legal marriage. We do not give legal advice.
Mia Wernick