It's supposed to be one of the happiest days of your lives but for Stephen Heasley and Andrew Borg their wedding was less than ideal.
The pair had ordered programs for their wedding in September from Vistaprint, a popular U.S. based company, but instead of programs they received anti-LGBT pamphlets with quotes warning, "Satan entices your flesh with evil desires" or "Satan knows our flesh is weak. He preys upon our weakness to tempt us to sin".
"At first we thought it was simply a mistake, and we had accidentally received someone else’s order," Heasley told Yahoo Lifestyle.
"But once we saw the images and actually read a bit of the pamphlet, we quickly realised this wasn’t a simple or innocent error."
The couple, who are American but live in Australia, were married in Pennsylvania, are now suing Vistaprint who they have accused of targeting them by subbing out their wedding programs with "hateful, discriminatory" pamphlets.
In a statement the couple said, "Our goal is to hold Vistaprint accountable for the harm they have caused, to give a voice to others who may have been similarly victimised, to help prevent this from happening to someone else and to send a message that there will be consequences for acts of hate perpetrated against others".
In a public statement , the company's CEOs, Trynka Shineman and Robert Keane, have issued an apology stating they had "never been more disappointed to let a customer down".
"Vistaprint in no way condones – and does not tolerate – discrimination against any of our customers based on their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. We have encouraged members of the LGBTQ community to use our services to help celebrate their life events for many years, and have published thousands of wedding invitations, programs and other content for same sex couples."
The statement also alleged that there was a mix-up with a third party fulfiller of the order promising, "If we determine that any individual played a deliberate role in this mix up, we will take strong action".
