A jilted bride is suing her ex-beau who dumped her days before the wedding, leaving her standing at the altar holding a bill for nearly $100,000 in wedding expenses.
The woman, who is an attorney, claims she pent $30,000 to reserve the banquet hall, $10,000 for the orchestra, $11,000 on flowers and lighting, $5,000 on a wedding gown and $600 on wedding shoes. There was also $70.40 to send wedding cancellation notices.
The suit claims two counts, one of “breach of promise to marry” and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.” The former bride seeks over $95,000 in damages.
Bride sues runaway groom [Chicago Sun-Times] (Thanks to David!)
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Typo: “claims she pent $30,000″
Wow. Do Consumerist readers hate brides and weddings? If someone has $100,000 to blow on a wedding and chooses to do so, it’s no one else’s business. Yeah, if we had that kind of cash, we’d probably consider our choices for spending it much more reasonable, but it’s not our money.
At the linked article, it’s noted that the groom-to-be was informing everyone BUT his fiancée that the wedding was off. Nice. Guaranteed method of making sure your soon-to-be-ex-fiancée is truly, deeply, madly angry and hurt… and, in this case, vengeful.
I’m no fan of bridezillas, either, but sheesh, peeps. This mess took at least two to make.
In late, but I want to point out a few things.
a) He told a lot of people, but not her, that the wedding was off. She learned from other people, confronted him, and he backed off. Then he finally cancelled days before. She was probably on the hook for a lot more money as a result. By the way – this happened to a friend of mine (the BRIDE was the heel in this case and called it off within days). My friend lost more than half his money. Remember also that she may have had to pay for family to come in, to reserve a block in a hotel, etc.
b) Stereotype alert! Many Italian-Americans have big families, and tradition is very important to them. It is possible that the cost of the wedding had to do with a large number of people being invited. Again, she may have had to pay to reserve a block of rooms, possibly for family members’ air flights, etc.
The number of sexist comments in thread are *amazing*. The brides’ parents are supposed to pay for the wedding? That is a tradition, not, a rule, and an old one that – and generally, if the bride and groom are established and making more then the parents, that ain’t gonna happen.
Looks like groom dodged a bullet? Because the bride shelled out money and wanted some back? What if the groom put the money up? I bet you would all be screaming!
It was probably all the brides’ idea anyway? I have been the MOH in 5 wedding and for all of them, it was the groom’s families that were pushing for the big wedding, and NO the groom didn’t say word one to them. The brides would have all been happy with something small.
Man, did we fall into a 1960s timewarp?
Just imagine if he went through with it and they got divorced a few years later. She’d really be taking him to the cleaners.
About 6 months after my cousin got married, she found out that he was cheating on her with her best friend. He made the stupid mistake of leaving his e-mail account opened on his computer with an incriminating e-mail showing for all the world to see.
As part of the divorce settlement, he agreed to pay her parents back the money they spent on the wedding.
That seems fair.