Wendylee Perez and Hector Santana are suing celebrity wedding planner David Tutera for, among other things, neglecting to provide invitations, flowers and a wedding cake.
A New York couple sued its celebrity wedding planner for saying, “I don’t” to his duties on their big day.
Reality show star David Tutera, after breaking his vows to Hector Santana and Wendylee Perez, also tripled the cost of their reception, the pair charged in a Manhattan lawsuit.
The star of “My Fair Wedding” was more party pooper than planner in November 2010 when Brooklyn-born Perez and her beloved tied the knot in the Dominican Republic, the suit charged.
“Due to the defendant’s arrogant and heartless actions, plaintiffs have been harmed personally and financially,” the now happily-married couple said in their lawsuit.
After bumping the Punta Cana wedding bill from $10,000 to more than $30,000, the toothy Tutera — whose client roster includes Elton John and Jennifer Lopez — didn’t even provide the invitations, the flowers or a DJ.
His biggest whiff on their prenuptial agreement: Tutera never delivered the wedding cake, leaving the jilted couple waiting at the altar with no dessert, the lawsuit charged.
The egotistical planner even two-timed the bride, jetting cross-country for a taping of his reality show when he was supposed to be working on the wedding, the couple claimed.
It was hardly the affair promised on Tutera’s website: “Turning every bride’s fantasy into a reality. . . . We believe every bride deserves to be treated like a celebrity.”
Tutera claimed he had to tend to a sick relative when he blew off the nervous couple shortly before their Nov. 6, 2010, wedding.
Tutera’s publicist Eda Kalkay, in an email, said the planner was “not interested in commenting at this time” on the marital discord.
But the newlyweds’ relatives expressed distress: “The wedding was not what we expected,” said the bride’s mom, Ercilla Perez. “He didn’t appear. We trusted him so much.”
“He noted the day before he was not coming,” she said. “He said someone was in the hospital but we don’t know.”
Earlier this year, a bitter legal brawl between Tutera and a Boston “Bridezilla” over her $300,000 Singapore wedding was quietly resolved.
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