PLEASANT HILL — A dream wedding morphed into an embarrassing nightmare for a Pleasant Hill family when police officers handcuffed and arrested the mother of the bride during the reception, according to a civil lawsuit.

Lisa Notter, a 63-year-old registered nurse, sued Pleasant Hill, the police department and Det. Chelsea Wright in U.S. District Court last month. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants violated Notter’s constitutional rights, used excessive force, invaded her privacy, trespassed and falsely arrested and imprisoned her in August 2015.

The suit also claims that police damaged Notter’s professional reputation by reporting her arrest to the state Board of Registered Nursing. She seeks general and special damages, including $43,000 in restitution for the cost of the wedding reception.

“Ms. Notter suffered intense emotional distress and embarrassment, as well as physical injury, as a result of the false search, seizure and arrest of her person and home, and the complete destruction of a wedding party and memory that was to have lasted positively forever, but which was now replaced with a nightmare,” the lawsuit states.

City Attorney Janet Coleson declined to comment on pending litigation.

“The complaint tells the story,” said Matthew Witteman, Notter’s attorney.

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The tale begins about a week before the wedding when Notter phoned the Pleasant Hill Police Department in late July 2015 to ask about noise abatement rules because she had hired a DJ for her daughter’s wedding reception, which was taking place at her home on Aug. 8. An unidentified police officer told Notter she should turn down the music by midnight and advised her to distribute fliers to neighbors about the upcoming nuptial celebration, according to the lawsuit. Notter delivered the notice to nearby homes and provided a copy to police, the suit says.

While the reception was in full swing, Wright and at least one other officer responding to a noise complaint “barged” into Notter’s home just before 11 p.m., the lawsuit says. The DJ quickly lowered the volume of the music and then turned it off at the homeowners’ direction, according to the lawsuit.

Notter tried to tell Wright what the police officer had said about turning the music down and chastised Wright for interrupting the party; but Notter’s explanation did not mollify Wright, whom the lawsuit describes as “highly agitated.”

When an exasperated Notter threw her hands up in the air, water from the glass she was holding reportedly splashed onto Wright’s uniform, the suit says. Although Wright allegedly said Notter had thrown water on her deliberately, the lawsuit contends that it was an accident.

“At that point, Wright and another officer physically seized Ms. Notter, painfully pinned her arms behind her back and lifted her off the floor and out of the house, to the intense embarrassment, humiliation and shock of Ms. Notter, her husband, the Notter family and the entire wedding party,” the lawsuit states.

The officers handcuffed Notter, dragged her across the backyard to the street and put her in the back of a police cruiser in front of the incredulous wedding guests, according to the lawsuit. Police snapped the handcuffs over bracelets Notter was wearing, causing the jewelry to dig painfully into her wrists and she was injured further when she fell over in the backseat as Wright pulled away, the suit says.

Notter remained in custody overnight on suspicion of battery or assault, according to the lawsuit, although it appears she was not charged.