The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Wedding Venue Denies Bride Refund After Fiancé’s Sudden Death

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to a wedding venue that denied a bride a refund after her fiancé’s sudden death. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Damn, Salome, who got the donkey of the day today? Well, Jessel Larry, it's donkey today for Tuesday, January 20th. Has me very conflicted. Okay, every now and then I get a suggestion for donkey today, and I'm like, I can see why you would want them to get donkey today, but honestly, I can see where they shouldn't, okay? We are going to have to take this one to Breakfast Club court. because I really don't know if these folks you get the biggest he haul,

but today's potential donkey of today is going to Lukas Rokowski. He's the owner of the Crystal Ballroom in Lake Mary, Florida. Now, according to News 6, Orlando, Ty Hinson and William Coney was set to marry in May of this year at the Crystal Ballroom, and then sadly, tragedy struck. Let's go to News 6 Orlando for the report, please. Crystal Ballroom here in Lake Mary is where Ty Hinson thought she'd be marrying her best friend this coming spring.

When her fiance, William Coney, suddenly died just before Thanksgiving. Hinson says her wedding vendors voided all their contracts and gave back her money. All she says, except this one. This wasn't like a cancellation. This was a person died. Hinson acknowledges she signed a non-refundable contract with the Crystal Ballroom of Lake Mary. Still, she assumed the company would give back at least some of the $7,600 she paid for the wedding venue. Her suggestion was maybe you can do a memorial here on the wedding day.

And that, even now, sorry. The owner of the wedding venue encourages clients to purchase third-party cancellation insurance. In a statement, the company says Crystal Ballroom has served thousands of couples over many years, while also encountering a small number of illnesses, accidents, deaths, military deployments, and other life events. These experiences shaped our policies and procedures not to avoid responsibility, but to protect clients, vendors, and the venue in a fair, transparent, and legally sound way. Ooh, first thing first. Rest in peace to William Coney died unexpectedly at the age of 42 from a heart attack. This is why I encourage y'all to take your cardiovascular health serious.

This is why I encourage you all to go see Dr. Puma and go get a soaring heart scan. Please, please, please, brothers, take your cardiovascular health serious because I don't know if it's the first. food, COVID, the vaccine, stress, something has younger people having heart attacks and strokes, so please take care of yourself, but this is why I get conflicted, because business is business, and there is a reason venues

take deposits, okay? I don't know the details of the contract, I don't know the stipulations in the contract, most contracts have a clause for unforeseen uncontrollable events. I think it's called the force major clause, major clause, commonly known as the act of God clause, and I would think

death would fall under that. It's not like she just canceled for no reason. And I would think a venue would refund the deposit just out of the kindness of their heart, even if they legally didn't have to. And that is where the situation gets perplexing for me because I'm expecting me from other people. Okay, I'm not saying

I think Crystal Ballroom is wrong because legally I don't believe they are. From a business perspective, they aren't at all, but from a human perspective. From a kindness perspective, they could give Tyre break and give her the deposit back. Now, I thought it was very cold to suggest to her to do the memorial there, but sadly,

then you was thinking about their bottom line. Okay, they don't want to miss out on that 7600. That's a lot of money. I get it. But damn, do you not have a heart? Or does a heart matter when a contract was signed and business was done? By the way, News 6 Orlando confirmed that the contract states all payments are non-refundable. Okay, but I agree with Ty Henson.

She said she understands the legal side, but there should be space for compassion. Okay. Ty said, and I agree with her wholeheartedly, my compassion as a human being. carries over into my business. But then I understand where the venue owner, Lou Cox Rockowski, is coming from because he said they are a full service venue that coordinates space, staffing, inventory, and third party services months in advance and incurs cost on a different timeline than individual vendors.

And they said that complex and unfortunate situations like deaf have shaped their policies to be fair, transparent, and legally sound. He noted that these rules are revealed. viewed before signing to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making later. So where are we with this? I really see both

sides of this situation. I understand but people want this owner Lukash Rikowsky and this venue to get donkey of the day. So let's open up the phone lines. 1-800-585 101. Play the music. We got to go to Breakfast Club Court. We got to go to Breakfast Club Court. Now people are saying that

this owner and this establishment should have a heart. But also, this business. They had to pay other people. They had to pay maybe the florist, maybe the DJ, maybe the sound, maybe balloons, whatever they had to pay. A lot of it had to go out. And not only that, they booked out years and advance. They said they booked these things out years and advance. So if you don't take this date, somebody else would have, so they gave it to you. So it is what it is. But what he did say was, that person should have got insurance. If you would have got insurance, nothing would have happened. But I didn't hear that book.

That's what you said. You said they should have got insurance. That's what you said. I said that? Yes. I don't know. I don't remember that. I didn't make that up. Yeah, I think you did.

You just made that. You didn't put words all in my mouth. I thought you said that. You're getting ready for sitting there. They should have got insurance just in case something happens. No, he said that. He said the owner noted that these rules are reviewed before signing to avoid emotional or inconsistent decision making later. I thought I heard that.

But anyway, that's the question. 800-585-105-1. Who's at fault? Who should get the donkey? Should it be the owner of the establishment? or not. Let's discuss. Yeah. 800585105.101 is the breakfast love. Good morning.

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