Broken Wedding Engagements
February 15, 2006 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Getting Engaged
What do you do when a wedding engagement is called off? Is the woman ‘required’ to return the ring? Well, if you’re in Philadelphia, If the wedding is off, Pennsylvania state law says, the engagement ring must be returned.
However, this law is being challenged by an ongoing legal battle over a $35,000 engagement ring.
CBS reports that
Sixty-four-year-old Mario Mele, a former Montgomery County commissioner who owns a dental insurance agency, met 46-year-old Janet Grace of Philadelphia, a construction manager, in December 2004.
Last spring, he gave her a two and a-half princess cut diamond set in hand-crafted platinum.
Grace said Mele made an interesting request, that the ring be the only diamond she owned, so she donated five diamond rings, worth 20-thousand dollars, to charity.
Less than two months later, he asked for it back.
Grace, who had designed the ring, refused. She sold the diamond and replaced it in the setting with a cubic zirconia. Mele sued her.
Mele’s attorney, Joel Trigiani, said, “Mario is saddened that Miss Grace thought to make this public. He has no intention of trying this case in the media, other than to challenge her recollection of the facts.”
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