A Connecticut appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that awarded a bride $15,000 for emotional distress following a “Shakespearean drama of confusion and lost opportunities” that resulted in her having to move her wedding location two years after booking it.
At the heart of the case was a dispute between an engaged couple, Maureen Murphy and Jason Martin, and the location the bride-to-be picked for her wedding: Lord Thompson Manor in Thompson, Conn.
The Manor claimed it never received a deposit, nor affirmation that the couple had reserved the location, and subsequently booked another wedding on the date. That information was contradicted by the contract, the court found.
In the end, Murphy and Martin were required after two years of planning to find a new location for their wedding reception. According to the ruling, that replacement wedding “was a far cry from the weekend celebration the plaintiff originally had planned.”
The couple sued the Manor, and in 2006, a lower court awarded the couple $2,000 in economic damages for breach of contract and $15,000 in compensatory damages for emotional distress.
The Manor appealed the $15,000 sum, but the appeals court sided with the young couple and upheld the award.
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