The mansion's owner said they couldn't get married at his $5.6 million estate. The couple tried...

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The mansion’s owner said they couldn’t get married at his $5.6 million estate. The couple tried anyway.

The mansion’s owner said they couldn’t get married at his $5.6 million estate. The couple tried...
Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones planned their wedding at a mansion on a sprawling South Florida estate, but the owner never gave them permission to get married there.
washingtonpost.com
6:03 AM · Apr 24, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/23/florida-wedding-mansion-wilson-finkel/

Nathan Finkel was on the grounds of his lavish, 16,313-square-foot South Florida mansion Saturday morning when strangers arrived at his gate, demanding to come inside to set up for their wedding.

But Finkel was not aware of any nuptials.

“I have people trespassing on my property,” Finkel told a 911 dispatcher, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, who first reported the incident. “They say they’re having a wedding here and it’s God’s message. I don’t know what’s going on.”

Among those loitering outside the home in Southwest Ranches, Fla., was the groom, Courtney Wilson, the town’s mayor, Steve Breitkreuz, told The Washington Post.

Wilson had invited guests to celebrate his union with Shenita Jones at “our dream home and estate,” their wedding website said. Problem was, he didn’t actually own the mansion.

The home belongs to Finkel, whose late father made his fortune as an early franchisee of IHOP restaurants. It has nine bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a movie theater, grand ballroom and a two-lane bowling alley on the western edges of Southwest Ranches, a town of 9,000 in Broward County that attracts professional athletes and wealthy entrepreneurs, Breitkreuz said. The grounds include lush foliage, ponds, gardens, a tennis court and a resort-style pool.

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[tanyev]

1. How on earth did they think that was going to work?

Once everybody showed up the owner would say “Oh, what the hell!” and let them all in?

[Nevilledog]

2. They had God as their wedding planner

[LisaL]

7. Mansion was for sale.

Presumably they assumed owner wasn't living there (which he was).
So apparently they decided to just show up expecting no one there.

[tanyev]

8. Gate? Locked doors? Security system?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Who wants to bet that these idiots voted for trump

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[genxlib]

6. Possibly

But the couple is African American so it would be relatively rare.

[gratuitous]

4. Oh that God! What a prankster

Did he ever tell you that one about Abraham and Isaac? Hilarious!

[malaise]

5. Well they thought they could invade Capitol Hill with impunity so why not

They don't even understand that they are committing crimes.