Photo Wrath
Todd J. Remis says the photographers he hired failed to document the last dance and the bouquet toss at his wedding eight years ago, so he wants the studio to pay $48,000 so that he can reenact the entire event with another photographer. Among those he’d have to bring back to New York: the bride, now his ex-wife, who, the defense says, may have gone home to Latvia. “It appears that the ‘misty watercolor memories’ and the ‘scattered pictures of the smiles ... left behind’ at the wedding were more important than the real thing,” noted state trial court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, quoting Barbra Streisand. She dismissed Remis’s claim for infliction of emotional distress, but allowed the breach of contract claim to proceed. (AC/New York Times) ...If he had the chance to do it all again, would he keep the pictures — or the bride?Original Publication Date: 27 November 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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