She's a bride and she's an attorney and the honeymoon must be over. Elena Glatt, a Manhattan lawyer, is suing Posy Florists on East 72nd Street in New York for $400,000 for substituting pastel pink and green hydrangeas for the rust and green ones she'd requested for her 22 wedding reception centerpieces.
Is this a bit over the top? Glatt told the New York Times that they had reluctantly paid for the flowers in advance, with a cashier's check for $27,435.14. She accused the florist of a "bait and switch" scheme, and asked for more than $400,000 in restitution and damages for, among other things, "unjust enrichment" by the florist.
The paper notes that not only was the color wrong, Ms. Glatt said in the lawsuit, filed on Friday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, but the hydrangeas were wilted and brown, and arranged in dusty vases without enough water.
The florist, Stamos Arakas, owns Posy Floral Design. He said that before filing the lawsuit, Ms. Glatt sent him a series of e-mail messages demanding a $4,000 refund. He said he and his wife ignored the e-mail messages because "we thought they were so insulting they didn't dignify a response" and because it "felt like extortion."