Venue Withholds Wedding Deposit After Groom’s Death

(Dreamstime)

A Durham events venue is refusing to return most of an $18,380 deposit for a wedding canceled after the groom died earlier this year.

Chris Perry, 32, was scheduled to marry Kristen Seidel at the Cotton Room at Golden Belt on Oct. 11, the New York Daily News reported. Perry died unexpectedly in May, just one day before his 33rd birthday, according to his obituary.

Vendors hired for the event, including a DJ, a photographer, and a wedding planner, refunded payments to the couple’s family. The venue has not done the same…

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