I'm tired of this missing bride story...

[Rex_Goodheart]

Please remove it from the air.

[aeolian]

1. Done. She's alive, in New Mexico. She just had cold feet after all.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/index.html

Move along now.

[CatholicEdHead]

5. If she had not shown up

this would be 24/7 news as a replacement for the Peterson/Shivio cases.

It just tells us that the media wants to do these types of stores above all others.

When something similar happens again, there will be the same over the top coverage.

[havocmom]

2. Havocdad said they just said she turned up in New Mexico

Guess I was right. She got tired of having to ALWAYS smile the same way. Maybe she wised up and decided to lose the control freaks in her life?

[misanthrope]

15. Not really...

...Princess just ran out of money and started feeling all "icky."

[smoogatz]

3. Well, our fair and balanced media aren't tired of it.

It's a fascinating human interest story about, well, nothing much.

[SoCalDem]

4. Great Expectations... and too many of them

The massive "production" that wedings have become is a gigantic stress for lots of people.. From "Will you marry me"...a simple question..it quickly can snowball to a $50K extravaganza, and fun for NO ONE but the caterers and bridal consultants, and their bank accounts..

Our son and his wife spent 30K on their wedding, and my friend could have done it better for them , with 10% of the hassle and 10% of the cost, but my daughter-in-law got swept up in "The Dream Wedding"..

They paid for it themselves so, we kept mum.. But with all the "experts" they had running things, they did not get their money's worth...

Maybe this bride, just got overwhelmed by it all

[smoogatz]

6. My wife and I ran away to New Orleans to get married

It pissed off some of her (large) extended family, but it saved us a pot of money and everyone ate well and had a great time.

[SoCalDem]

8. Our wedding 35 years ago, cost less than $100

We used the flowers from the church service before our wedding, had a small sheet cake and coffee in the lobby.. changed at the church, and left about 1/2 hr after the wedding.. I even bought my wedding dress on sale, and the guys wore regular suits..

So are we any less married because we were too poor (and too smart) to spend thousand on a party we would be too nervous/anxious to even enjoy???

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. I cannot imagine how her mother feels right now

As any mother would be: she was likely so frantic at the thought of her daughter kidnapped and harmed and enduring godknowswhat at the hands of godknowswho. And to find out her daughter put her through this pretend kidnapping due to cold feet?

How horrific for her family (not to mention her fiance). Dang...did he dodge a bullet! (and I mean marriage to that woman who would be willing to put her family through that).

I agree: enough with the media attention. Go investigate "no child left behind," "clear skys initiative" Enron and cheney setting energy policy...the list is endless

[SoCalDem]

10. Passive/Aggressive?? what a "perfect" way to punish a mother

for escalating a wedding into an extravaganza:(

[bleedingheart]

9. A lesson to be learned....Don't put so much effort into the Wedding Day

cuz it is a waste of money....

how about big celebrations for those who actually achieve certain anniversaries??

[spanone]

11. The press is used to giving coverage to people who LIE.

[Cleita]

12. So turn CNN off.

I already did three months ago and I didn't even know about the story until DUers starting posting on it.

AAR has aired news bytes, with no mention of bridezilla, including Lynndie England's plea about the Abu Ghraib abuse of prisoners. My bookmarked internet sites certainly don't seem to think it merits the front page either.

Oh, no AAR just mentioned it. But it was ten seconds at the end of the newscast. She was found!

[RevCheesehead]

13. Aha - she's a Baptist!

Let me go all out here:
Typical Baptist, sexually repressed, traumatic focus on a wedding, the wedding day, the wedding NIGHT.... (are you getting the drift here?)

Now this story is becoming more interesting, at least to me.

(CNN interviewed her "counselor," the Associate Pastor of a Baptist Church. Quite frankly, he looked kinda creepy to me. :scared: )

[NYCGirl]

14. No one watches the news on Saturday. It'll be mostly gone by Monday. NT