I have been married now for 5 and a half years. I can still remember back to the day that I got married, it was a beautiful summer day, an awesome ceremony, and a wonderful reception. Of everything that went on that day, of everything that we did to prepare for one of the biggest days of our lives, there is only one thing that I remember vividly that made the day the best ever. That was the flower arrangement, I mean, without those flowers, the day would have been ruined.
I hope that you could sense the flowing sarcasm in that statement above. Honestly, of all the weddings that I have been at and been apart of, I can say with certainty that the flowers are the last thing that I notice and remember, heck, I don't even remember what flowers we had at my own wedding or even what color they were.
However, for Elana Glatt, the flowers are apparently the only thing that she can remember. She spent over $27K on the floral arrangement at her wedding. So, you can imagine that she was upset when the flowers were not the correct color, and apparently somewhat wilted. She has decided to sue the florist for ruining her wedding. Now, at this point I can see her point. If I paid that much for flowers, I would expect them to be correct. I get upset when I read the next fact of the case.
She isn't sueing to get her money back, instead she is sueing for more than $400K. Yes, that's right, more than $400K. Now, I understand wanting your money back, but come on do you really need 14 times what you paid, especially for something as insignificant as flowers. This is what I dislike about our justice system, someone can sue for any reason and any amount and the courts will hear it and sometimes side for stupidity because of some loophole or other retarded reason.
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I wonder what the lawyer fees are for such a suit in New York. I assume the fees will come out of the 400k since that's the usually way thing work. I also assume she will have to pay some kind of tax on her winnings. This also assumes she wins and the jury awards her the full amount. Now that is a lot of assumptions, but if they are all true she'll only get something like half of the asking amount.
$400k is still a crazy amount, but continuing with the above assumptions it means that she would need to ask for about $100k to have a chance to break even.
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