A Remarkable Wedding Story

“We have each lived a nightmare…Now it’s time to live our fairy tale.” 

I don’t usually post wedding stories on this blog, but this story that appeared this weekend in the Vows section of The New York Times is just incredible.

Sonia Jacobs, 64, and Peter Pringle, 73, married in New York last week…Their common ground was the decade and a half each had served on death row before their convictions were overturned for the murders that they steadfastly maintained they did not commit.

Definitely not a story you read every day.

Wedding Lawsuit of the Decade

This one takes the cake, folks. Todd J. Remis of Manhattan married in 2003, but he didn’t like the services of his photography studio. He claimed that H & H Photographers, a 65-year-old studio “known fondly among thousands of former and current Bronx residents,” missed photographing the last dance and the bouquet toss.

Forget that the wedding took place more than seven years ago. And that Mr. Remis has demanded to be repaid the $4,100 cost of the photography and and additional $48,000 (!) to recreate the entire wedding and fly the principals to New York so the celebration can be re-shot by another photographer. So what’s the kicker? He is now divorced from his wife, and he doesn’t even know where she lives (supposedly she is back in her native Latvia).

What a totally wild story.

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And a personal call to action: if you hire me to shoot your wedding, I promise to be there from beginning to end. I don’t charge by the hour.