A Bride Is Suing "Say Yes to the Dress" for Ruining Her Wedding Before It Even Happens
On a typical episode of Say Yes to the Dress, you see the bride pick a gown, then flash-forward to their beautiful wedding, usually on a beach or in a blinged-out banquet hall. But for one bride about to be featured on the show, the big day hasn't happened yet - and she's suing to keep the episode from airing on TLC until she says "I do."
The New York Post reports that Alexandra Godino, 27, is suing the show for premiering her episode earlier than the airdate they had apparently agreed upon. Her wedding isn't until May, but the network is airing her episode this Friday, March 25. That means that her fiancé, and all the guests at her wedding, have a chance to see her in her dress before the big day.
Godino hadn't initially planned on going on the show but agreed to appear while she was shopping at Kleinfeld Bridal with her mom and her fiancé, professional hockey player Jeff May. A scheduled bride canceled at the last minute, so she agreed to be on the show - apparently as long as TLC didn't air the episode until after her wedding. According to TMZ, when she found out the show was going to air in March, she begged the producers to move the show back, but they declined, and that's when she got a lawyer involved.
Her attorney is asking a Manhattan judge to block the show from airing until after her wedding. The $40,000 dress will be "one of the most important aspects of [her] entire wedding," her complaint argues. She has put a lot of planning into her Palm Springs, California wedding, which will have 300 guests and a 16-piece orchestra, and wants everything to be perfect, according to the New York Daily News. "She's mortified. To her, it's huge," her lawyer told the newspaper.
A representative for Half Yard Productions, the producers of Say Yes to the Dress, could not comment because of the nature of the lawsuit.
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