The 'wrong type of people': Bride and groom 'humiliated' after wedding email blunder The couple had attempted to book the five-star country hotel for their wedding in June, agreeing to spend £10,000 to feed and entertain 30 guests. Miss Bailey and fiancé Mr Carty, a 51-year-old Ministry of Defence engineer, claim they did not "quibble" about prices, and even agreed to spend a further £1,000 on a fireworks display. But, ten days after inquiring about the booking, they claim they had not heard back from wedding coordinator Michele Connelly. "We finally spoke to Michele, who apologised, explaining that she had been away on holiday," said Miss Bailey, from Luton, Beds. She said she needed to discuss dates as provisional bookings had been made on around the date we'd chosen. The next morning I was mortified reading her email, which she had sent to her boss but had also forwarded to me by mistake. The email, addressed to sales manager Carlo Zoccali, was signed off with the word: "Help!!!" It read: "I need your advice on this wedding. I know this probably doesn't sound very nice, but I am trying to put this wedding off as I don't think they are the type of people that we would want to have at Stoke Park. Explaining she had already attempted to put the couple off by telling them the date they requested was unavailable, she concluded by asking for advice on what to do next. Hi Carlo I need your advice on this wedding, I know this probably doesn't sound very nice, but I am trying to put this wedding off as I don't think they are the type of people that we would want to have at Stoke Park. I spoke to the Bride {sic) yesterday as she was enquiring about availability, and I have put her off for now by telling her the dates that she is looking at are not available, but she has asked me if I can get back to her with available dates around end of June beginning of July 2013. Help!!! Michele. "I was horrified," said Miss Bailey today. Effectively she was asking her boss how she could get rid of us? The suggestion was that we were undesirables, which we definitely are not. We're a respectable, middle-class, hard working, well educated couple, who both speak well and were certainly not dragged-up, so to speak. It's clear to me that this hotel operates a policy of discrimination which is terribly wrong, unfair and deeply, deeply hurtful. Paul and I can hold our own anywhere and in anyone's company. We are thoroughly decent people and didn't deserve this humiliation. She claims she burst into tear after reading the message, and added she has hired a solicitor to discuss the possibility of bringing legal action against the hotel for defamation. Mr Carty added: "We are normal people, our money is good, no better or worse than anyone else's. If we can afford it why can't we have it? We were devastated. The Stoke Park hotel's website boasts it is "the perfect place to enjoy life in a friendly atmosphere," and describes their wedding coordinator as the "warm and friendly face couples see right from their first visit to Stoke Park." A member of staff at the hotel has emailed Miss Bailey directly to "humbly apologise for the email which was sent to you by accident." "At Stoke Park, we welcome all who wish to have their wedding with us," he said. We pride ourselves on the highest quality of service and hospitality and if you would still consider us as a venue for your special day, I would be delighted to meet with you to discuss this further. A spokesman for the hotel said they were unable to comment any further because the incident was the subject of ongoing legal dispute.