Years Later, Lawsuit Seeks to Recreate a Wedding (even though the couple is now divorced)

[LynneSin]

Years Later, Lawsuit Seeks to Recreate a Wedding

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/nyregion/suit-against-photographer-seeks-re-creation-of-wedding-after-divorce.html?src=me&ref=general

Long after the last of the cake has grown stale and the tossed bouquet has wilted, the photos endure, stirring memories and providing vivid proof that the day of one’s dreams took place.

So it is not particularly surprising that one groom, disappointed with his wedding photos, decided to sue. The photographers had missed the last dance and the bouquet toss, the groom, Todd J. Remis of Manhattan, said.

But what is striking, said the studio that took the pictures, is that Mr. Remis’s wedding took place in 2003 and he waited six years to sue. And not only has Mr. Remis demanded to be repaid the $4,100 cost of the photography, he also wants $48,000 to recreate the entire wedding and fly the principals to New York so the celebration can be re-shot by another photographer.

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.


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Mr. Fried (the photographer), now 87, chuckles at this idea: “He wants to fly his ex-wife back and he doesn’t even know where she lives.”

[HughBeaumont]

1. This guy sounds like a laughable unlikeable loser.

How, exactly, is he getting the money for all of this when he hasn't been employed since 2008? And why would one care about something so astoundingly trivial? The goddamned marriage didn't even last 6 years, and from the looks of the photos, the whole thing seemed like a green card sham (to say nothing of the light-year separation in looks).

This is the sort of thing SNL skits are made out of, and yes, it seems like a genuine abuse of the legal system.

[LynneSin]

2. Here's what I see - the guy wants an excuse to find the woman and return from Latvia

and by doing so she'll somehow fall in love with him again.

But since the groom has no money he decided the only way to make this happen is to sue someone to pay for it - hence the lawsuit