The "jilted" bride. There is no picture of the lucky groom.
Dominique Buttitta
Posted on 01/08/2011 5:36:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The jilted bride who sued her ex for almost $100,000 in wedding expenses may not have been jilted at all.
So says the groom, who has filed his own lawsuit, claiming that the decision to cancel the wedding was mutual. He’s seeking the return of a $45,500, 3-carat engagement ring.
Both lawsuits do agree on one matter: There was a bachelor party — featuring strippers and lap dances — at a South Loop gentlemen’s club called the Pink Monkey.
Dominique Buttitta, the former bride, an attorney who works in Hoffman Estates, filed a breach of promise suit Dec. 11 in Cook County.
She claimed Vito Salerno, of Barrington, left her holding the bag for a $30,000 banquet hall, $10,000 in live music, a $5,000 wedding gown and $11,000 for flowers, lighting and other expenses.
Salerno’s suit, filed Thursday, claims he kicked in $15,000 for the wedding.
Salerno also paid toward pre-Cana Catholic wedding counseling, flower girls’ dresses, the honeymoon and other expenses, his suit says.
Salerno’s filing claims he was “intentionally” kept in the dark about other wedding expenses and that interference from the bride’s family contributed to the breakup.
Buttitta’s father allegedly turned thumbs down on his request that the couple’s first dance be to “Never Gonna Be Alone” by Nickelback. “You don’t want that song . . . that is a song played at a VFW hall,” her father said, according to the suit. The bride’s aunt also allegedly chimed in that the song was not “classy” enough.
Buttitta’s family pressured Salerno to sign a prenuptial agreement and repeatedly brought up the matter even after he refused, according to the suit. After one refusal, the suit claims his bride-to-be hit him and stated, “You are f------ me over right now.”.......
Another blow to the relationship....
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
You can't make this stuff up.
The next reality show?
This should be a movie
My wedding cost $400 and $350 of that was the dinner afterwards.
I can’t think of single large, expensive wedding that resulted in a marriage that lasted.
The "jilted" bride. There is no picture of the lucky groom.
Dominique Buttitta
Wow, that is one lucky man. Looks like he narrowly escaped a life that would have been a living hell.
They posted her pic in the Sun Times. She’s a Bow Wow....
The cost of weddings has become insane-—like the cost of everything else today
Everyone trying to impress people who have known them all their lives .
$143,000 tossed away here for a ring and a wedding. That would make a nice downpayment on a home.
I guess I think too much like a man who had to earn his money.
I can’t think of single large, expensive wedding that resulted in a marriage that lasted.
Downpayment???
In 75 % of the country that will buy you a nice home in a nice neighborhood ...................and in some areas also the house next door
From this picture would vote
NOT GUILTY!
To hell with a picture of the bizotch! I wanna see a picture of the ring! LOL!
But no, my wife's family insisted on the traditional "more-than-we-can-afford" extravaganza and invited so many extended family members that even a quarter century later, there were many there that I never ran into again.
If it were up to me, my wife and I would have eloped and honeymooned in Vegas or something instead of that luxury Carribean cruise that took us five years to pay off.
Makes me glad we had sons and not daughters. These weddings are expensive.
Beauty is skin deep.............ugly soul goes to the bone
This is one ugly bitch
Now the bride is still stuck with that last name.
He could pay her the $100K and be WAY AHEAD but I’m glad he’s not rolling over. The jeweler did and their lawyers will, make out like bandits.
I don’t think Ms Dominique Buttitta will be getting any marriage offers in the near future.
I've been through this sort of thing and I agree that the solidity of marriage is correlates negatively with the cost of the nuptials.
“In 75 % of the country that will buy you a nice home in a nice neighborhood ...................and in some areas also the house next door “
And in Detroit it would have bought the whole block and all the blocks around it for a mile.
I can’t think of single large, expensive wedding that resulted in a marriage that lasted.
My wedding cost around $200. We got married at our farm under a blooming dogwood tree with only the preacher, her husband and her brother as witnesses and our basset hounds as the best men. After the ceremony, I slipped on my workboots, got on the tractor and bush hogged a field. Our wedding bands came from Walmart as Pookie gave me a week to plan the wedding and no one stocks wedding bands. So:
Wedding dress- $30
Wedding bands- $20
Preacher- $150
Happily ever after- Priceless
But it sounds like this guy dodged a nuclear weapon, not just a measley bullet. My ex-boyfriend had a family from hell and he was a codependent jackass who always deferred to his mother and sister. If the planning of this guy’s wedding is going the way it was, I can’t even imagine the hell the marriage would be.
And remember, behind every beautiful woman is some man who is sick of putting up with her.
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