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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Life / Hetero Sequel to a Wedding

Posted by Anna Minard on Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM

I read this over coffee this morning, and found it sort of charmingly depressing.

A guy is suing his wedding photographers, because he was disappointed with the pictures and they missed some important moments (last dance, bouquet toss).

Sounds boring, right? A little more interesting: He's suing them for what he paid for the pictures plus $48,000, "to recreate the entire wedding and fly the principals to New York so the celebration can be re-shot by another photographer." How annoying. What an obnoxious, entitled asshole.

But this detail tickled my imagination:

Re-enacting the wedding may pose a particular challenge, the studio pointed out, because the couple divorced and the bride is believed to have moved back to her native Latvia.

Sounds like the poor fella just wants to have his wedding all over again. And it sounds like the most harebrained, drank-too-much-while-watching-cable-and-crying scheme ever. Like he had a lightbulb moment at 3:00 a.m., bathed in the light of some terrible rom-com, and then he actually had the means to carry it out (his dad is a lawyer).

But I kinda hope he sells his story to a producer who turns it into a made-for-TV romantic comedy. Right? It could work!

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he and the ex-wife would re-fall in love while recreating the wedding. direct to lifetime, television for lindy west.

Posted by AmyC on November 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM

Also, dude is long-term unemployed, waited six years to sue, and has probably lied about whether he has any of the photos (as opposed to just the contact prints). And the law firm he's using to sue is the one where his dad is a partner (the dad claims the dude is paying himself, though).

And the firm he's suing was started by a guy who escaped the Nazis as a teenager and later fought in WWII in the US army, which is where he learned to use a camera. The firm has already spent $50,000 defending the lawsuit.

Posted by Warren Terra on November 3, 2011 at 5:15 PM

Why not sue for $1M and have the bride recreated in post?

Posted by Dougsf on November 3, 2011 at 5:20 PM

You have to be a pretty big douche loser to get dumped by a mail-order bride.

Posted by sirkowski

on November 3, 2011 at 5:23 PM

I have a slightly different reaction. I kinda hope a meteor strikes his house.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 3, 2011 at 5:23 PM

This is why god invented Photoshop.

Posted by blip on November 3, 2011 at 5:27 PM

It's stories like this that occasionally make me believe tort reform wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.

Posted by COMTE

on November 3, 2011 at 5:31 PM

Rom Com gold.

Gerard Butler (Plaintiff) will star opposite Katherine Heigl (attorney for the Plaintiff).

Fund it.

Posted by Working Title: Forever Alone on November 3, 2011 at 5:53 PM

Supposedly it was their request that he pay his final bill that set him off.

I'm not trying to blame the studio for this, but I think, with some customers, it's better to just write off whatever they owe you. I dealt with people like this asshole on a very small scale when I was selling stuff on eBay. They find fault with *everything* and will find the most nit-picky excuse to try to get out of paying for what they bought. I always just refunded their money, because there's simply no reasoning with those people.

Posted by keshmeshi on November 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM

@keshmeshi - THOSE are the assholes that bring down the system!!!

Posted by STJA on November 3, 2011 at 6:33 PM

Sounds like a job for Tom Hanks.

Robert Langdon. No.

But this guy. Yes.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on November 3, 2011 at 6:58 PM

I'm just happy for one lucky Latvian lady out there (who I hope is) enjoying being single tonight. What a shit-bullet she dodged.

Posted by Prettybetsy on November 3, 2011 at 7:11 PM

woah, the guy who married Kim Kar-dash-her-face or whatever her name really needs to trade some notes with this asshat.... or perhaps no not really at all:

because if there is one thing humans do far to much, it's fetishize and and just be god awful dumbshits about weddings.

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on November 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM

I immediately pictured Adam Sandler.

Posted by very bad homo on November 3, 2011 at 7:24 PM

@4 just slayed me. I think I need to eat something.

Posted by Irena on November 3, 2011 at 8:04 PM

@4 snerk

Posted by Cory on November 3, 2011 at 9:18 PM

@14 Yeah, don't you just.

Posted by Prettybetsy on November 3, 2011 at 11:48 PM

@7:

Nah. The suit will be dismissed with prejudice. The photographer might even sue for malicious prosecution.

Basically, the system will work.

In American politics, "tort reform" is just code for "legal disenfranchisement notwithstanding the evidence." That and deregulation are two sides of the same coin.

Posted by d.p. on November 4, 2011 at 1:32 AM

As an aside, I wasn't going to have photographs taken at my wedding, just a few snapshots if we got them, but my sister insisted we use this budding photographer who'd do it for free. We would pay for the prints.

The pictures were BAD. Horrible, lousy pistures. For a few years I found myself kinda resentful, even reminding myself that I hadn't wanted pictures in the first place didn't help much. I wonder if it's worse to have bad pictures than none at all...

Oh, and this guy sucks. I hope they make him reimburse the photographer for legal expenses.

Posted by Allyn on November 4, 2011 at 7:21 AM