Well, then they may have deserved it at least in part. If I agree to do someone’s wedding invitation (I’ve done at most six in a 20 year design career), their invitation is going to be totally kick-ass. I don’t mess around with someone’s wedding.

per the NBC story “Jurors found the Moldovans liable for defamation, disparagement, and civil conspiracy, and awarded punitive damages.”

Oh, yeah, the people who ask for design “favors” are almost always the most annoying and demanding clients. I always just claim I’m way too swamped to take on their project. It stops the conversation pretty quickly. Because, naturally, the folks looking to get stuff for free have also sat on the project for two months…

In the original story she says the fee that they refused to pay was well-explained and that the passage was in bold. Then the couple freaked out and her people had a back-and-forth of many emails explaining what was in the contract (again). All that was left to do was, I don’t know, draw a picture for these two…

I do occasionally do it AS MY GIFT for people I know very well and love very much. But it’s a very small, select group of people that I know for sure will not make me want to stab them. That’s worked out so far.

They literally destroyed her successful business; it’s not completely unbelievable that a previously in demand wedding photog could have pulled in that amount in the couple of years since the wedding, not to mention emotional damages.

The amount could include not just lost wages, but damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress, attorneys fees because of bad faith, or punitive damages (meant to punish).

The amount of people asking me for design “favors” is ridiculous. I’ve finally learned the beauty of just saying “nope” when asked or just ignoring their emails all together.

Nah I’d take a photo of every cheque they send to pay off the $1 million and then when the book is filled with those images send it off as a personal reminder.

Fuck these people.

GOOD.

“We are hoping that our story makes the news and completely ruins her business,” Neely Moldovan wrote to someone the same day, according to court records.

At least the photographer managed to create memories that’ll last forever for the couple.

Getting dumped in public is the worst. Do it in private. No one wants to stain the parking garage with their tears. Or get into a car in a rage. Break up with her at her place so you can LEAVE and she can do whatever the hell she wants. Likely, dial her next booty-in-line.

are you pontificating from Park Slope or some shit

These are the hindrances to letting our white men truly achieve.

Also, there was something about how unqualified black women are taking the high earning jobs.

My college’s SGA was run better than this admin.

Ha! Very true.

This administration is a disaster. It’s a disaster for a whole host of reasons, of course, but just operationally, it’s a disaster because no one knows how to run a government.