A Raleigh-area wedding photography company will be required to pay nearly $1.7 million after consumers reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for services that they said were never delivered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A judge on Monday sided with North Carolina’s Attorney General’s
\nOffice in its motion for default judgment against the company Holly Christina
\nPhotography.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company failed, according to court filings, to comply fully
\nwith a judge’s order to turn over all undelivered photos and videos within 30
\ndays to the couples who paid for them. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office initially sued the
\ncompany’s husband and wife owners, Holly Christina Scott Ayscue and Christopher
\nAyscue, in February after receiving more than 220 consumer complaints about the
\ncompany.<\/p>\n
142 consumers had not received refunds of any kind, Assistant Attorney General\u00a0Mercedes Restucha said during Monday’s hearing. 82 were able to get refunded through their financial institution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
5 On Your Side\u00a0first reported on the issue in January<\/a>; the company announced it would close in February.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The state’s motion sought $600,000 for customer refunds and more than $1 million in civil Holly and Christopher Ayscue did not appear during Monday’s Monday’s ruling comes weeks after the\u00a0co-owners of Holly Christina Photography spoke with reporters<\/a> outside a Winston-Salem courthouse and said they were doing everything in their power to fulfill what they could. Holly Ayscue said an illness contributed to the failure of the business.<\/p>\n
\npenalties.<\/p>\n
\nhearing and did not immediately return WRAL’s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n