To be honest, I haven't known anybody who has been cast aside during the planning of her wedding, but last year it happened to Kyle Paxman, six weeks before her wedding was due to take place.
I take my hat to Kyle for the way she coped with being jilted. Instead of cancelling the entire wedding, and losing all that money that had already been spent, she turned the reception into a charity benefit, in aid of children. How gutsy was that!
Another jilted bride was Rachel Safier. Even though she had been having some doubts about her impending marriage, it was her fiance who suddenly called things off. This amazing woman turned her heartbreak into triumph by writing a book about it. There Goes the Bride deals with legal issues (can you keep the ring?), coping with the emotional devastation, resources for brides with cold feet and recounts other tales of Almost Brides.
Or you do as Emma Knight did. Go on the honeymoon with a friend, (and your dog, as she did) hold a party for your friends, and still have that chocolate fountain, and then sell all your wedding garments and try to recoup some of the cost.
But here's hoping that you're never in that horrible position and your wedding does actually happen, and you live happily ever after.
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