In April 2022, Beckham's eldest son Brooklyn and wealthy Kim Nicola hosted a century wedding worth £3 million.
It was supposed to be a moment to witness happiness, but there was always negative news after the wedding.
It was again the bride family who was solely responsible for the preparation, not allowing the Beckham family to participate, and Nicola did not wear the wedding dress designed by her mother-in-law Victoria, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were repeatedly rumored to be incompatible...
Now, a staggering 188-page lawsuit filed in Florida has exposed even more of the mess and chaos behind the wedding.
The lawsuit was originally filed by Nicola's father, Nelson Peltz.
He demanded that his daughter's wedding planners, Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba, refund the £132,000 deposit, claiming they had been fired weeks before the wedding began due to some alleged "mistakes".
Last week, however, the two planners hit back.
They described Nelson as a "bully billionaire" and filed a counterclaim in a Miami court, accusing Nelson of breaking contracts and "interfering" with business transactions.
The two then sued Nicola, Nicola's mother Claudia and wedding designer Rishi Patel, demanding at least £41,000 in damages.
This counterclaim then exposed a lot of unknown insiders behind this glamorous wedding.
(Two planners)
In fact, the Brooklyn couple's wedding planners initially invited Preston Bailey, an industry benchmark who had planned weddings for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas.
But a year later, Preston resigned and quit because the itinerary was "too full", and after obtaining the consent of both parties to the wedding.
In this case, in February 2022, just a few weeks before the wedding, planners Nicole and Arianna were ordered to come to the "rescue" to take over the follow-up planning.
The wedding parties agreed to pay them £264,000, with Nelson paying a deposit of £132,000 in advance.
But the two planners soon discovered that it wasn't a beauty job, it was a hot potato, and everything about the wedding was too messy.
Based on hundreds of messages and emails released in court documents, it's not hard to see that the conflict between the Brooklyn couple and the marriage partner is escalating every day.
The bride is irritable and eccentric, and the guest list is difficult to confirm
First of all, when discussing the guest list, the planners were repeatedly frustrated.
It was revealed that Nicola often had spelling and grammar errors in typing, resulting in poor communication between the two parties.
And she was "too busy" to make a phone call, and refused to use the mastermind's app to confirm the list... So the two sides can only send messages to exchange. But after dozens of back and forth conversations, Nicola quickly lost patience again.
For various reasons, there are frequent errors in a guest list alone.
For example, Nicola needs to know who will receive invitations, but the other party sends her a list of people who have responded to the invitation and confirmed their participation in the wedding.
In addition, there are errors on the list.
F1 driver Lewis Hamilton was not confirmed to attend the wedding, but appeared on the guest list, much to Nicola's annoyance: "Honestly, I'm tired of finding mistakes on this attendance list, when will I get a straight answer." ”
However, the wedding planner felt that the guest list was too long, and the bride did not have time to communicate with them in depth. This invisibly makes the program extremely confusing
Even when they asked Nicola "Did Megan get an invitation", Nicola asked in confusion: "Who is Megan".
The bride is elusive, and the highlights are repeatedly rejected
When designing the wedding highlights, there was also a lot of friction.
Originally, the design of the dining car at the wedding site was a highlight of the link.
The meals served by the hamburger chain are packaged in a Beckham theme, which also includes "Nicola and the Brooklyn Set", which is very interesting.
Even Brooklyn, who has been silent in group chats, becomes active when it comes to this topic.
But when discussing the composition of the menu, Nicola rejected multiple proposals from the marriage planner.
For example, they proposed naming the burger "Bag It Like Beckham." But Nicola immediately vetoed it, saying that she was embarrassed: "I don't like this." Although I like personalization, it's not like this [vomiting]. ”
In addition, there were disagreements about another highlight of the wedding, the live band.
The wedding planners recommended a band that performed live, but Nicola only took a fancy to one member of the band, thinking that one person could sing it, and the others were too many and looked cheesy.
Eventually, the band manager had to agree to form a gig band around the member she liked.
Nicola also required the performers to wear plain and chic evening gowns, and the music played should be hip-hop from the early 00s, and other suggestions were rejected.
The bride stared closely at the arrangement, diverging with flower colors
The arrangement of the wedding scene is also difficult to escape Nicola's "eyes". She and the marriage planner once again disagreed on the "color of flowers".
Nicola felt that the bouquet on the scene should be a little whiter, and some flowers were cream-colored, showing color difference.
However, the people responsible for designing the decoration suggested that there were slight color variations that would make it easier to identify individual roses.
Nicola was puzzled by this, and asked unceremoniously: "What do you mean?" ”
Similar disagreements have led Nicola to often go crazy, not only complaining about the inefficiency of the staff, but also bluntly saying in group chats "I hate them" and "can we fire them".
But the marriage planner felt very aggrieved: the current situation is certainly not what we want, we work up to 17 hours a day, just to meet the needs of customers.
Not to mention the guest list, photography, makeup, and cakes and flowers when they took over... Almost nothing was finalized. The time is tight and the task is urgent, communication is still difficult, and the resistance is already very large.
In addition to the contradictions in planning, court documents also revealed some gossip about the wedding.
For example, despite all kinds of problems in wedding planning, Nicola's family has never wanted to be discovered by her in-laws Victoria. Therefore, Xiaobei's family may have been kept in the dark.
But now that the litigation documents have been exposed, it is estimated that the whole world knows about it...
For example, at a meeting on March 1 last year, Nelson said he wanted to "cancel the wedding" and said it was a "-like show." But Claudia begged him not to do so because it would "destroy Nicola's career."
What's more, court documents also show Nicola spent £85,000 on makeup. But Claudia asks the mastermind not to tell her husband because he will "kill her and lose his mind".
But with the beginning of this lawsuit, everything has been hidden.
Now, it's only ten months since the Brooklyn couple's wedding.
But the once enviable wedding of the century has become the object of everyone's complaint. Even the bride's family has to fight a lawsuit for this wedding, which is embarrassing.