Million-dollar wedding leads to million-dollar lawsuit

Guys the wedding planner is suing the family for nonpayment not the other way around. They're not suing her because of lighting over brownies, they just using that as example of how she didn't live up to their expectations after she sued them. And if the budget wasn't specified in a contract and she doesn't have it in writing that she can spend their money then she probably shouldn't have spent her own money up front and wanted them to reimburse her. Reading this honestly makes me think the wedding planner is in the wrong, but maybe that's because we only got the family's side of the story.

Second what S&P said -it's super important on this one to realize that the wedding planner is the one suing the parents.

So while the poorly lit brownie bar complaint is totally a top 0.01% problem, they are using it as a defense for not paying her exorbitant bills, NOT as a the reasoning for suing her. They just want their daughter's wedding video and to move on.

I would be hesitant to sue a lawyer but that's just me. It sounds like they got taken advantage of and are smart enough to realize it - $38,000 in travel fees to plan a wedding? $1000 hangover kits? I can't even imagine spending that kind of money on things!

I agree with Melissa here. The planner was in the wrong. The clients should have insisted on a budget in writing, but the planner took advantage. This is an unfortunate situation. I wasn't even thinking of it as rich vs. not rich problems; while reading, I was thinking how crappy the planner was to mislead them.

Sorry to resurrect a sleeping thread but the Brides.com writeup of this wedding came up in my "recommended reading" pop-up on the site and couldn't help posting it here: http://www.brides.com/story/multi-day-hamptons-new-york-loire-valley-france-wedding-ideas-gia-canali-photography