Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham went through three wedding planners, new ... trends now
It was a fairytale day fit for the pages of Vogue, with a side of Hollywood family drama.
But in addition to her wedding dress spat with mother-in-law Victoria Beckham, there was all sorts of trouble brewing behind the scenes of Nicola Peltz's Palm Beach wedding to Brooklyn Beckham.
Nicola, the 28-year-old daughter of billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, went through three different sets of wedding planners, two of whom failed to meet the 'scale' of her plans.
There was a last-minute scramble to book musicians, and a 'day of reckoning' with one event designer who was reduced to tears and driven to tequila by the stress of the project.
Those new details emerged yesterday - along with terse texts written by Nicola to one of the planners - in a lawsuit filed by her father.
He is suing Nicole Braghin, the tearful party planner, and her partner, Arianna Grijalba, claiming they are refusing to refund him the $159,000 deposit he gave them.
Nicola Peltz with Brooklyn Beckham during their wedding weekend in Palm Beach in April. The family went through two wedding planners before finally settling on Michelle Ragos at the 11th hour. Now, Nicola's father Nelson Peltz is suing some of the professionals who didn't make the cut
Peltz and his wife Claudia made contact with Braghin and Grijalba through their firm, Plan Design Events, in March 2022, after getting rid of their first planner, celebrity-adored Preston Bailey.
It's unclear why exactly Bailey wasn't fit for the job. In his legal filing, Peltz, 80, says Bailey encountered 'challenges' while planning the enormous event.
Bailey, who planned Ivanka Trump's wedding to Jared Kushner, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's inquiries about why he stood down.
On March 1, 2022 - six weeks before the wedding - the Peltz family had hoped Braghin and Grijalba would be able to pick up where he left off.
Nine days later, after forking over a $159,000 deposit, they however decided not to move forward with the pair, who they deduced couldn't handle the VIP guestlist.
'Nicola is a world-famous actress who has starred in blockbuster movies and television shows, including, among others, Transformers: Age of Extension, Bates Motel and The Last Airbender.
'The celebrity of the wedding couple combined with the anticipated attendance of many high-profile guests required that the wedding planner have the expertise and staffing to plan, coordinate and execute a wedding event of the expected caliber and complexity,' Nelson's lawyers say in the lawsuit.
The issue now at hand is the deposit, which Peltz sued for in Miami this week.
In the process of trying to get his money back, he has revealed some of the intimate details of the star-studded event.
He included screenshots of a group text between him, the planners and Nicola.
Wedding planner #1: Preston Bailey, the designer to the stars who planned Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's wedding, stepped down in March 2022, six weeks before the wedding, in a 'mutual agreement' with Nelson and Nicola Peltz, according to the new court filings
Wedding planners #2: Arianna Grijalba and Nicole Braghin were contacted by the Peltz family in March 2022, six weeks before the wedding. They worked for the Peltz family for nine days before being told they weren't up to scratch
Wedding planner #3: Michelle Ragos got the job done in the end - but charged the Peltz family an escalated fee because of the tight turn around
In some, Nicola told the planners she was 'tired of catching' their repeated mistakes.
'We spoke to him. He can't come so explain why you said he rsvpd yes,' she demanded in one text.
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