Florida couple invite family and friends to wedding at stranger's mansion, promptly get evicted by police
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A Florida couple named Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones, determined to have the wedding of their dreams, recently decided they would host it at a sprawling Fort Lauderdale mansion owned by a stranger who they thought wouldn’t be home.
NBC Miami reports that the mansion’s owner, Nathan Finkel, called 911 on Saturday morning when he saw the groom on the property, getting ready for his big day. “They keep harassing me, calling me,” Finkel told a dispatcher. “They say they’re having a wedding here and it’s God’s message. I don’t know what’s going on. All I want is [for] it to stop.” When police arrived, Wilson left “and no charges were filed.”
When it came to deciding a wedding location, Wilson was divinely inspired. He’s “said it was God’s plan that [he and Jones] marry” at the mansion—a while back. Wilson had pretended to be an interested buyer “several months ago” during a property tour before asking if he could host his wedding in its yard. He was turned down, but went for it anyway because, as an attorney puts it, “the guy figured it was a vacant house and didn’t realize [Finkel] lived on the property in a different home.”
A copy of the wedding invitation shown in a Boing Boing post provides information on where to find Wilson and Jones’ “dream home and Estate,” and that guests were in for “a wonderful evening of celebration, exquisite feast and dancing At our Royal Extravaganza!!” (And also an unusually worded note that “Seating is open for your convenience. Please sit where you feel comfortable.”)
Finkel has been trying to sell the property for two years now, and it’s currently listed for $5,695,000, which is several million more dollars than it would cost to, we guess, just show up with moving trucks one day and try to live their without anyone knowing.
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The headline could have been “Couple invites family etc” and I could have figured out the Florida part.
On the one hand, I don’t really have sympathy for people who live in 6 million dollar mansions, but I also don’t have sympathy for people who host superspreader events, so I will just log off.
They put the first line of the address on the invitation twice – once with “Rd” and then with “Road”. And sent out paper invitations with an “Add to calendar” button (it’s possible I’m not up on the latest wedding-invitation trends). Plus the whole criminal-trespass thing.I guess now, we’ll never know what a wedding party would be like that’s composed entirely of the guest who ruins the wedding party.
one of the many filings for the Trump election debacle had a live blue link in a citation. I’m sure when the judge touched it with their finger it opened up a whole dimension with actual proof of any of their claims (maybe they rubbed it with hallucinogenic)
When I read a physical book and encounter an unfamiliar word, I have the impulse to touch the page for a pop-up definition.I then suppress that impulse because I am a functioning adult.
then I assume you will hear this in tune: “POP UP VIDEO”
Paperless Post is an e-vite service that makes emailed invites look like traditional paper invitations so it looks nicer than just sending out an email, but not as expensive as ordering/mailing real invites. It comes in an email, then you click on it and it opens the card, then they could click add to calendar to put it in their google/apple/whatever calendar.
Are G/O Media sites just copying and pasting each other’s stories now?
https://www.theroot.com/florida-couple-planned-whole-ass-wedding-at-mansion-the-1846739045
AV Club, Gizmodo, and Kotaku are the three heads of Cerberus all chewing on the same bone sometimes.
Ha, nice way of putting it!
psst, they’re all the same media group
Eh, they just glommed onto the same story. I thought they literally were copy and pasting the text back and forth.
I couldn’t find anything shared between those articles other than they cover the same thing, and obvious the quotes. The articles themselves are different.The verticals are different websites. They *frequently* will write about the same news, because … it’s in the news. It’s not that much different than two newspapers owned by the same company writing about the same story which is so normal as to not even be worth noting.
You think they read each other’s sites?
I’d challenge you to find an article that begins with “Florida Couple” that DOESN’T involve some kind of deviant or criminal behavior.
Looks like a really nice area. Within two miles of the place, you’ve got a bunch of other mansions, plenty of horse stables, Lamborghini/Bugatti/Porsche dealerships, a Waffle House, a Ross, and a Super Wal-Mart.
you’ve got a bunch of other mansions, plenty of horse stables, Lamborghini/Bugatti/Porsche dealerships, a Waffle House, a Ross, and a Super Wal-Mart I like to drive my Lamborghini when I go a Waffle House, my Bugatti when I go to Ross. I drive my Porsche right IN to the Wal-Mart and they don’t seem to notice.
So, anywhere with money in the South.
Yeah, the irony of low rent places bringing the tone down, like a Ross and Wal-Mart.
He shoulda just got Jane Fonda to come over and show her tits and scream until they left.
Does that only work on bears? Does Jane Fonda live in Florida?
I believe that’s also how she broke up with Donald Sutherland in ‘77….
Reminds me of when I used to take dates to Costco. Free food samples, latest DVD/Blu-Ray movie playing on a loop, display couches to sit on and oh, did I mention… Free Parking!
Yeah, but I don’t go on enough dates to make a Costco membership worth it.
IKEA dates are more versatile. You can go there for dates……and for breaking up.
Try to live their what?
Kee-rist almighty…I just didn’t have the energy. But in my head, when I saw that I did sigh “Kee-rist almighty”…
The only thing I’m surprised about in this story is there wasn’t a ‘gator involved. At least that we know of.
Time for a remake!
While I also laugh at Florida couple, I can’t pretend me and my idiot suburban teenage wannabe-punk friends didn’t party at abandoned houses or houses under construction. I guess the difference is we were raging against the something instead of getting permission from God.
Another difference is that even drunk teenagers know to check that the place was actually unoccupied before showing up.
Didn’t we all do that ?
BUT, and it’s a big one, we checked it was empty, AND we didn’t invite grandma Lois to share in our criminal activities.
I’m starting to think that Carl Hiaasen books are meticulously researched factual case studies.
Florida, am I right?
For some reason, I thought the punchline would be that the mansion owner was Trump.
“Its God’s plan” please arrest these people now before the inevitable mass killing they will perform.
Typical AV Club Chicago liberal bias. When a Southern couple -who just want to declare their love for each other- engage in a little light trespass using the excuse that it’s part of God’s plan, they become targets of ridicule but when it’s a pair of musicians from the AV Club’s own hometown who cause millions of dollars worth of automotive damage and destruction under their own ‘mission from God’ they are lauded as cultural heroes!The hypocrisy is disgusting.
Could not wrap my head around a man named Courtney which made this article absolute nonsense to read