Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of marriedinink.com and the inquiry, date-check, booking, and related website features offered by Married In Ink ("Married In Ink," "we," "us," or "our"). By using the website or submitting information through it, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree, do not use the website or submit an inquiry.

2. Website Use Does Not Create a Booking

Checking a date, joining a date-watch list, requesting pricing, submitting an inquiry, receiving an automated confirmation, or seeing a date marked available does not reserve your wedding date and does not create a binding event-services contract.

A wedding date is secured only after Married In Ink expressly accepts the booking and all required booking steps are completed, including any required signed agreement and payment of the applicable retainer. Until then, availability may change without notice.

3. Eligibility and Age Requirement

The website and booking process are intended for adults age 18 and older. You may not submit a booking inquiry on behalf of yourself if you are under 18.

All tattoo recipients must be at least 18 years old and must present valid government-issued identification when requested. No person under 18 will be tattooed, even with parental or guardian consent.

4. Quotes, Packages, and Pricing

Website pricing is intended to provide a current estimate of available packages and upgrades. Final pricing may depend on artist count, event duration, travel, venue location, flash tier, custom requests, taxes, fees, and other booking-specific factors.

Guest-capacity ranges are estimates, not guarantees. Actual tattoo volume depends on design complexity, placement, guest preparedness, paperwork, artist pace, event flow, breaks, safety considerations, and other circumstances.

Unless expressly stated otherwise in a signed booking agreement, website pricing and package descriptions may be changed before a booking is accepted.

5. Retainers and Final Payment

Unless your booking agreement states otherwise, a 50% non-refundable retainer is required to secure the event date. The remaining balance is due 14 days before the event.

A payment does not override any separate written terms included in your booking agreement. If there is a conflict between these Terms and a signed event-services agreement, the signed agreement controls for that booking.

6. Cancellations and Rescheduling

Retainers are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated otherwise in a signed agreement. Rescheduling requests are subject to artist availability and may require additional travel, administrative, or pricing adjustments.

Requests made within 30 days of the event are not guaranteed. Cancellation, postponement, force-majeure, and rescheduling rights may be addressed in greater detail in the event-services agreement for your booking.

7. Tattoo Service Conditions

Tattooing is always subject to artist judgment, applicable law, professional standards, sanitation requirements, and safe working conditions. Artists may refuse, pause, modify, or discontinue a tattoo when reasonably necessary for safety, quality, legal compliance, intoxication concerns, health concerns, time constraints, inappropriate conduct, or other professional reasons.

Guests who are intoxicated, unable to provide valid identification, unable to provide informed consent, or otherwise unsuitable for tattooing will not be tattooed. Pregnant clients will not be tattooed.

Event tattoos are generally selected from pre-approved flash. Custom requests during the event are not guaranteed. Artists may simplify, resize, reposition, or decline designs that do not fit the allotted time, placement, technical requirements, or event format.

8. Queue, Timing, and Guest Capacity

Tattooing is first-come, first-served unless another arrangement is approved in advance. Wedding-party priority may be offered when the wedding party is finalized before the applicable deadline.

Tattooing ends at the scheduled end time unless overtime is approved by Married In Ink. Guests remaining in line at the end of the scheduled tattooing period are not guaranteed service.

When approved, overtime is billed in 30-minute increments at $150 per 30 minutes, per artist, unless a different rate is stated in the booking agreement.

9. Couple and Wedding-Party Benefits

Unless otherwise stated in the booking agreement, the bride and groom may each receive one complimentary tattoo up to a $150 value. Time spent tattooing the couple counts toward the booked tattooing hours.

Any wedding-party flash, priority placement, or special arrangements must be confirmed in advance and may be subject to design, timing, and capacity limits.

10. Venue and Working Conditions

The client is responsible for providing a venue and work area that is reasonably safe, sanitary, accessible, and suitable for professional tattooing. Unless otherwise arranged, the tattoo area should provide reliable electricity, adequate lighting, access to running water or a handwashing station, sufficient workspace, and appropriate tables and chairs.

Outdoor tattooing is subject to artist approval and suitable weather protection. Married In Ink may pause, relocate, delay, or discontinue tattooing if rain, wind, direct sunlight, unsafe temperature, contamination risk, crowding, electrical issues, or other site conditions make continued service unsafe or impractical.

11. Setup, Breakdown, and Delays

Setup and breakdown requirements are part of the event operation. Tattooing time begins and ends according to the scheduled service window unless the booking agreement states otherwise.

Delays caused by venue access, power issues, unsafe conditions, late event readiness, client or guest conduct, or other circumstances outside our reasonable control may reduce the amount of tattooing that can be completed during the scheduled service period.

12. Media and Photography

Any permission for Married In Ink to photograph, record, publish, or otherwise use images or video from your event is governed by the media-consent choices and any separate written permissions associated with your inquiry or booking.

Submitting an inquiry alone does not grant Married In Ink unrestricted rights to use your wedding photographs or likeness for advertising.

13. Intellectual Property

The Married In Ink name, branding, website design, written content, original graphics, flash artwork, and other materials made available through the website are owned by Married In Ink or used with permission and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

You may not reproduce, distribute, sell, publish, scrape, copy, modify, or commercially exploit website content or original flash artwork without prior written permission, except for ordinary personal use in connection with evaluating or booking our services.

14. Prohibited Website Use

You may not use the website to submit false information, impersonate another person, interfere with website security, probe or circumvent access controls, send spam or abusive submissions, attempt unauthorized access, misuse automated tools, introduce malicious code, or use the website for unlawful purposes.

We may restrict or block access where reasonably necessary to protect the website, our business, our clients, or our service providers.

15. Third-Party Services

The website may rely on or link to third-party platforms and service providers. We are not responsible for the independent terms, availability, content, or practices of third-party services that we do not control.

16. Website Availability and Disclaimer

We work to keep the website accurate and available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, real-time availability accuracy, or that all website content will always be complete or current.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot legally be excluded.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Married In Ink will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising solely from use of or inability to use the website.

Any liability relating to actual tattoo services, event performance, deposits, cancellation, injury, aftercare, or other booking-specific matters may be governed by separate waivers, consent forms, and the signed event-services agreement. Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such a limitation is prohibited by law.

18. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Married In Ink from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful misuse of the website, material breach of these Terms, or submission of content or information that you do not have the right to provide.

19. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except to the extent another law must apply. Any mandatory rights available to you under applicable consumer-protection law remain unaffected.

20. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as our website, services, policies, or legal obligations change. The "Last updated" date above identifies the current version. Changes apply prospectively unless otherwise stated or required by law.

21. Severability and Entire Website Terms

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law. These Terms and the Privacy Policy govern use of the website, but they do not replace any separate signed booking agreement, tattoo consent form, liability waiver, or event-specific contract.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to MarriedInInk@gmail.com.