Two newlyweds are suing a hotel after noise restrictions ruined their dream wedding.
The bride's parents, Marjorie and Russell Newman, claim that the Brooklyn Pier 1 Hotel failed to mention a severe sound limit when their daughter tied the knot there in September.
As reported by the New York Post, the Newmans paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the venue, where their social worker daughter Jessica married groom Matt Alovis in front of 200 guests.
However, the festivities were spoiled when unforeseen noise restrictions meant they were all forced to move off-site to a cramped room next door so that they could listen to music and dance.
Now the parents of the bride are suing the hotel for millions in damages, claiming that their daughter's dream day was utterly ruined.
In the lawsuit, the Newman's allege that the first they heard of the sound limit was when the wedding reception was already underway. Music was so low guests could barely hear it, and the DJ refused to turn up the volume.
After the happy couple's first dance was spoilt by the quiet music, all of the guests were forced to move to a room in the building next door, which had a capacity of 60 people and less than a dozen seats, per the court documents.
Speaking to The Sun, the bride's lawyer Sanford Rubenstein reiterated that neither the bride nor their parents were informed that there would be noise restrictions, which had been put in place due to residential condos in the building, and which the hotel had allegedly known about for three weeks prior to the event.
"To turn a beautiful dream into a nightmare and spoil one of the most important days in a girl's life - her wedding day - is an example of corporate greed at its worse," Rubenstein said.
"This family is entitled to monetary damages for what happened, and we look forward to a jury deciding what those damages should be," he added.
Meanwhile, father-of-the-bride Russel Newman told New York Post that his daughter had been left heartbroken by her disastrous wedding day.
"[She] has a problem looking at her wedding album and she gets upset every time she sees the pictures. It was a horrific situation that was avoidable," said Newman, who is the president and founder of real-estate giant Newman Properties.
"They never brought us in to say, 'This is what it is going to sound like or not sound like,' they never gave us the opportunity to move the venue," he continued, adding: "They pulled the rug out from under us."