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A ruling came down she did not have to ruin her life by working this wedding.
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I had to read that twice! For a "ruling" there must have been some appeal to law. Since when did anyone other than the proprietor decide what they sell? Say if someone came to me and said they wanted a hat made out of some fabric I don't stock ready for next Tuesday. Regardless of the lurid pattern they wanted and whether I stocked it or not, what if I couldn't make any hat in time because I was too busy with a backlog of orders from last month? Can they take me to court and insist that I drop everything and make their stupid hat?
Because that's what it amounts to, just as with a photographer: "Can you do a job for us on the 29th?" - "I'll just check .. .. no, sorry, I'm already booked on that day," ought to be the end of it. What if I sold motorcycles or ice-cream cakes and someone came in to look at the range I offered? They might want a European model but I'm a Harley dealership or alternatively my ice-cream shapes could include
Goldfish
Unicorn
Spiderman
Giraffe
Butterfly
Clown
Tiger
Felonius Gru
Christmas tree
Volcano and
Gazelle
them some freak comes in and wants an Eiffel Tower shaped ice-cream cake which isn't in the book and I don't have anything that shape to make it in anyway and even if I did it would probably collapse. Do they sue me to make me sell them something I don't have? Can they force me to open another dealership just to get the motorcycle they want? It's exactly the same as if they went into a pet shop and ordered a dictionary. It's simply not available.
Go to a different dealer. Try Fifi's Gallic Ices, she might have an Eiffel Tower. Book with a different photographer, one who
does have an opening on the 29th. Is that so difficult?
It seems more than insensitive to me, it's deliberate provocation.