By: Danielle Ulman

Chicago attorney Lauren Serafin isn’t happy with her former fiance. But she’s not just getting mad, she’s trying to get even with Robert Leighton, also a Chicago attorney.

Serafin is taking their break up to court, asking for more than $62,000 in wedding costs.

The two were set to marry last summer, but Leighton called off their nuptials after a bachelor party in Las Vegas led to his alleged infidelity with another woman.

According to the complaint filed last week, Serafin is suing under an Illinois law that allows claims for breach of a promise to marry, which limits recovery to wedding costs.  She’s also seeking intentional infliction of emotional distress, which could win her compensatory and punitive damages.

Plenty of planned weddings fail to take off following bad behavior at bachelor and bachelorette parties, and they don’t end up with lawsuits.

Lawyers out there, what would you do? After all, as the Chicago Tribune put it, she had the dress purchased, the Ritz-Cartlon reserved, the honeymoon to Bora Bora booked. If you had a law similar to the one in Illinois in your state, would you sue?

* photo from www.budgetplanningwedding.com