Local attorney now helping 61 brides who claim local videographer ripped them off
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The list of a group of brides claiming a local videographer ripped them off has grown to more than five dozen.
It's been 10 days since local attorney Noble McIntyre stepped in to help brides who paid Stephen Austin Films thousands of dollars.
"I only knew of the two on the Channel 4 story, and my daughter. That's when I said I would help everybody for free. We're now up to, on my Excel spreadsheet, 61 brides," said McIntyre. "Of those 61, 28 are brides that have footage that's missing, that the wedding has already been completed and the remaining ones are ones that have paid him already and now they're not hearing from him."
McIntyre has since been able to get ahold of the attorney representing Austin.
"He is being cooperative. I am told that they have looked at his computers and that there is some footage," said McIntyre. "I delivered to his attorney 28 one terabyte disk drives, that's a lot of data."
So far, McIntyre has been successful in retrieving footage for at least one bride.
"One bride has received partial footage from her wedding, and again, she never received any footage. So we're making progress," said McIntyre.
Kaitlin Knight is getting married next February and has already fully paid Stephen Austin Films.
Knight said once she found out about all the other brides, frustration sat in.
"I just, I felt very angry and I was like, 'well, I'm out thousands of dollars right now' and I need to find somebody else because videographers look up very quickly. I was panicked and angry," said Knight.
Knight is one of 61 that turned to McIntyre for help.
"My mom has actually reached out to her bank and filed a claim for fraud. That was noble. McIntyre's advice to us," said Knight.
McIntyre said he's given Austin's attorney a deadline of February 17 to gather all of the wedding footage going back to November 2023.
"I'm hopeful that by February 17th I can hand over to 28 brides, all of the raw footage from their weddings that they thought they would never see again," said McIntyre.