Bride from New York escaped with $ 287 000 and gifts, leaving the groom at the altar
'16.03.2018'
Source: New York Post
An enterprising bride took 287 thousand dollars in cash and expensive jewelry from her fiance, and then disappeared from the wedding, leaving him at the altar.
The rejected failed husband Jin Dong sued his former bride Yu Qing Weng and her parents in New York, hoping to return the money spent, says New York Post.
Dong and Wang, who emigrated to New York from one of the Chinese provinces, got engaged in 2016. They planned to have a wedding at the Queens Banquet Hall on January 2017. According to tradition, in exchange for a promise to marry him, the groom took over all the expenses and paid a six-figure sum for the cost of the wedding and gifts. The money was collected by the groom's family and friends.
A Manhattan resident spent $ 55 on the hall, $ 833 for photography, $ 3 for the host of the ceremony, $ 300 for organizing the wedding itself, and $ 1 for the cake. In addition, he paid the future matchmakers $ 800 in cash as a traditional dowry. And another $ 4 as a “thank you gift” went to his future mother-in-law. The bride's brother and grandmother received $ 000 each “in anticipation of the alleged legal marriage,” the lawsuit says. The bride was awarded $ 1 in cash and “exquisite gold jewelry worth about $ 000,” according to court documents.
The couple enjoyed the sumptuous feast, but after that, Wang suddenly ran away when it came time to register the marriage with the bridegroom. She also left the house where she lived with Dong, taking all the money and jewelry that she received as a pledge of a marriage proposal.
Her mother returned Dong only $ 1. He asked the ex and her family for the rest, but he was refused. Now the groom suspects that the engagement was fictitious and that his ex-fiance is a fraud, and never actually intended to marry him. He filed a lawsuit for $ 500 thousand. Weng and her family did not respond to requests from journalists for comment.
