Holly Christina Photography homeowners face legal fees as NC bride seeks justice for lacking wedding ceremony images

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — An ABC11 Troubleshooter investigation right into a Raleigh wedding ceremony images firm accused of taking practically $1 million from {couples} with out offering promised companies has taken a brand new flip.

The homeowners of Holly Christina Photography, Christopher Owen Ayscue and Holly Scott Ayscue, at the moment are going through legal fees along with an ongoing civil lawsuit filed by North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson.

Newlywed Morgan Bales says she pushed for legal fees as a result of she felt it was the one approach to search justice.

“I felt as if justice wasn’t being served to me or every other bride,” Bales mentioned.

According to arrest warrants, Bales signed a contract with Holly Christina Photography final summer time and paid $5,691 for images companies for her March wedding ceremony.

The warrants allege the enterprise closed earlier than her wedding ceremony, failed to offer the contracted companies, and by no means refunded her cash.

Both Christopher Owen Ayscue and Holly Scott Ayscue are every charged with one felony rely of acquiring property by false pretense in reference to Bales’ case.

“Having close to $6,000 taken from you and no sign of getting it back, I needed to see some kind of justice served just so I could leave it alone,” Bales mentioned.

She says dropping hundreds of {dollars} simply weeks earlier than her wedding ceremony created added monetary stress as a result of she needed to shortly discover one other photographer.

“Having that money taken and then having to come up with more money to hire a new photographer six weeks before the wedding, when all final payments are already due, was a bit stressful,” she mentioned.

Fortunately, Bales was capable of finding one other photographer in time and says her wedding ceremony day was superbly captured.

The legal fees come because the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office continues its civil lawsuit towards Holly Christina Photography and its homeowners.

The lawsuit adopted an ABC11 Troubleshooter investigation that started in January. A decide has already granted a preliminary injunction towards the corporate and its homeowners after the Attorney General’s Office acquired greater than 217 shopper complaints alleging roughly $1 million in monetary losses.

That investigation continues to be ongoing. Throughout the Troubleshooter investigation, ABC11 has helped a number of {couples} receive refunds, and others get well their wedding ceremony images. However, many purchasers say they’re nonetheless ready for both their cash or their photos.

Christopher Owen Ayscue and Holly Scott Ayscue are scheduled to look in court docket in August. ABC11 has reached out to each for remark a number of occasions however has not acquired a response.