{"id":4092,"date":"2011-01-05T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2011-01-05T01:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:42:45","slug":"cancelled-wedding-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/01\/05\/cancelled-wedding-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedded Bliss Interruptus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a “recovering lawyer.” But I haven’t “recovered” quite enough to resist writing this lawsuit<\/a> limerick. It’s a cautionary tale about jilted brides, grooms who get cold feet, and litigation to recover wedding expenses.<\/p>\n

The former bride-to-be Dominique Buttitta (who just happens to be a lawyer) is seeking over $95,000 in damages from her ex-fianc\u00e9. She claims defendant Vito Salerno jilted her just four days before the wedding, after she’d spent $56,000 for the banquet hall, flowers, orchestra, and gown, plus other non-refundable expenses. <\/p>\n

Ms. Buttitta has a decent chance of recovering her out-of-pocket expenses, according to lawyers Gloria Allred and Lydia Sartain.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Wedded Bliss Interruptus
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

If you’re planning a wedding, be warned:
\nChange your mind and your bride-to-be scorned
\nCould sue you and win
\nMajor bucks for your sin.
\nAnd your assets? They’re bound to be mourned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a “recovering lawyer.” But I haven’t “recovered” quite enough to resist writing this lawsuit limerick. It’s a cautionary tale about jilted brides, grooms who get cold feet, and litigation to recover wedding expenses. The former bride-to-be Dominique Buttitta (who just happens to be a lawyer) is seeking over $95,000 in damages from her ex-fianc\u00e9. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,42,2,8,16],"tags":[4909,1692,997,1355,635,383,1693,1697,912],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-legal-humor","category-limericks","category-marriage-humor","category-money-humor","category-relationship-humor","tag-battle-of-the-sexes","tag-cautionary-tales","tag-lawsuit-humor","tag-lawyer-limerick","tag-litigation-poem","tag-marriage-limerick","tag-money-poetry","tag-nuptials","tag-wedding-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4124,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}