Bride Sues Florist for More than $400,000

I just read an article over at MSNCB.com about a bride who decided to sue her florist.

Why?

Because the hydrangeas in her 22 centerpieces were rust-colored instead of pastel pink.

Elana Glatt (the bride) wants more than $400k from Posy Floral Design of Manhattan for both getting her color scheme wrong. (The flowers originally cost $27,435.)

The florist says he explained to Glatt that the color might not be exact, but I guess Glatt thought they were too inexact to let it slide.

What do you think about this predicament?

Personally, I have a hard time getting past the fact that the flowers for the centerpieces cost as much as they did. According to a CNN/Money survey conducted in 2005, the average cost of getting married is $26,327. That’s less than this bride spend on centerpiece flowers. Yikes.

Once I look beyond the money thing, though, I think that a contract is a contract, and a florist ought to be able to deliver flowers that are reasonably close to the desired color. In my mind, “rust” and “pink” are not close, so I can understand why this bride might be upset.

I do wish the article had included photos, though — both of the expected color and of the actual color. That would make it easier to tell if Glatt really has a case or if this is just some sort of residual bridezilla-ness…