TV Wedding Planner Calls Client Fame-Seeking Bridezilla

Melissa Chin and David Tutera

Celebrity wedding planner/reality television star, David Tutera was just delivered a $200K lawsuit in Manhattan from one of his clients after they claimed he stood them up on their big day. Melissa Chin and now-husband Steve Choi say he failed to show up to their wedding in Singapore, even after they doled out money for airfare and lodging; they also claim he failed to meet certain contractual obligations.

To all that, Tutera has said the couple missed payments, and upon trying to collect them he talked to Chin's father, who allegedly told him, "Don't get on the plane. There is no more money. We can't afford this wedding." According to the Daily News, Tutera is now calling Chin a fame-hungry Bridezilla—in a statement he said, "Melissa Chin was looking to turn her wedding into a PR opportunity and... is simply a Bridezilla looking for her 15 minutes of fame. Chin herself asked for publicity but requested that the dollar amount her family spent was not made public in respect to her father's political position."

Alas, when things fell through because of the missed payments, "Chin didn't get the wedding media coverage she thought she deserved and turned her focus to the next possible spotlight opportunity, this lawsuit." Maybe she should have picked a different WEtv show to go on.