16 February, 2022

New York Hotel noise restriction leaves bride “hysterical and crying”

Closeup of groom placing a wedding ring on the brides hand. Couple exchanging wedding rings during a wedding ceremony outdoors.

The parents of the bride at a New York wedding are suing the venue for $5 million claiming “severe” noise restrictions “destroyed” their daughter’s wedding.

Marjorie and Russell Newman threw their daughter, Jessica Alovis, and son-in-law, Matt Alovis, a wedding at Brooklyn Pier 1 Hotel on 18 September 2021, according to Insider.

The event was planned by “Real Housewives of Miami” star, Guerdy Abraira, and cost the Newmans “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

The New York Post reported that they spent $150,000 on flowers alone.

The Newmans claimed that the hotel failed to inform them that there would be a “severe limitation on the sound level of the music” at the reception.

According to the complaint filed in the Kings County Supreme Court late last month, the hotel did not allow the DJ to use any bass tones, making the volume so low the guests could barely hear it.

The Post reported that the restrictions existed to be mindful of the residential condos in the building.

The complaint said the music the Newmans hoped to play was approved by a hotel staff member named Bethanne Laterni before a contract was signed with the venue.

The complaint said Marjorie received an email a few days before the wedding that indicated there might be problems with the music, but it did not make it clear that the music could not be played “in any meaningful way.”

“The elimination of the bass and the restriction of the decibel level during the reception was woefully low, inadequate and inappropriate for this wedding, or any wedding, and undenounced to the Newmans,” the complaint said.

The noise restriction disrupted the couples first dance and “forced” the 200 guests to move the reception to a room in another building, according to the complaint.

However, the Newmans claimed the new space was “much smaller” and “dingy” and did not have room for tables and chairs for guests.

Many of the guests did not get to the new building, as the hotel staff did not help them get to the new building, and the location change meant the wedding was not “properly or fully” served, according to the complaint.

Russell Newman told the Post his daughter was very upset due to the changes.

“After about a half-hour into this, she was hysterical and crying,” he told the Post.

“This is not how she envisioned her dream wedding.”

Marjorie told the Post that her daughter could not do her bouquet toss.

The Newmans are suing the hotel, Abraira, and Laterni, for breach of contract, fraud, tortious breach of the duty of care, negligent misrepresentation, deceptive business practices, and emotional distress.

The Newmans’ lawyers and cocounsel told Insider in a statement: “To turn a beautiful dream into a nightmare and spoil one of the most important days in a girl’s life — her wedding day — in our opinion is an example of corporate greed at its worst.”

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