India, Jan. 30 -- Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are once again under public scrutiny as their 2012 plantation wedding controversy resurfaces amid their ongoing legal battle with It Ends With Us star Justin Baldoni. The Hollywood power couple is facing renewed criticism for choosing Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina as the backdrop for their nuptial.

In September 2012, Lively and Reynolds tied the knot at Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens in South Carolina, a historic venue with a painful past. While the wedding was an intimate celebration attended by their celebrity friends, the plantation's dark history of slavery quickly overshadowed their celebration.

Critics argued that the couple's choice to marry at a plantation rom...