After agreeing to arrangements before event, father of the bride demands cost price, claims exposure in media made him ‘lose face’

A company boss in China set up 252 tables for his daughter’s grand wedding, then refused to pay the 520,000-yuan (US$72,000) bill.

A pork vendor, surnamed Wang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province said the boss of a local company, surnamed Qian, commissioned him to prepare food for his daughter’s wedding banquet in April.

Wang said he dedicated himself to the task as he had known Qian for more than a decade.

He provided the pork, contacted seafood vendors in another city in Zhejiang and bought premium ingredients such as king crab, Australian lobster and leopard coral trout.