Fellas: would you still want to marry a woman who pulled a runaway bride?

[CatWoman]

Groom Still Wants to Marry Runaway Bride

By CHARLES ODUM, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago

DULUTH, Ga. - The jilted groom whose bride-to-be ran away four days before their wedding still wants to marry Jennifer Wilbanks, saying, "Haven't we all made mistakes?"

"Just because we haven't walked down the aisle, just because we haven't stood in front of 500 people and said our 'I Do's, my commitment before God to her was the day I bought that ring and put it on her finger, and I'm not backing down from that," John Mason said Monday in an interview with Fox News' Hannity & Colmes show.

It was Mason's first public statement since he learned on the morning of his scheduled wedding day that his fiancee was not kidnapped, but instead had cold feet.

As her family and friends feared the worst, police say the bride-to-be cut her hair, took a Greyhound bus to Las Vegas and didn't call her family to say she wanted to back out of a lavish, 600-guest wedding planned for Saturday. The runaway triggered a huge manhunt and requests from police that Mason take a polygraph test.

Mason said he has given the 32-year-old Wilbanks her ring back — she'd left it at the house — and said they still planned to marry.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/runaway_bride

[Bunny]

1. I'm torn between thinking that this guy is unbelievably

compassionate and understanding in standing by his woman, despite what she did.

Or thinking that he's amazingly controlling, who is going to have this woman, whether she likes it or not, goddammit!

[CatWoman]

2. I'm with you on the latter..........

[Bok_Tukalo]

8. See what I mean?

Public humiliation and people speculating about your character.

I would get as far away from her as I could.

[CatWoman]

11. heh, if you think we're rough

you should check out the Yahoo Message Board on this subject: http://post.news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=NEWS&action=l&ft=1&board=37138445&sid=37138445&title=Runaway%20Bride-To-Be%20Could%20Face%20Charges%0A&tid=aprunawaybride&date=05-02-2005&url=story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20050502%2Fap_on_re_us%2Frunaway_bride_1&.sig=P2x1NDTpLEDtuf_xAFxFKw--

[petronius]

3. If my bride had run away

it would have shown how intelligent she was, so I would have wanted to marry her even more...

[matcom]

4. depends how HOT she is and how much $$ she has

i'm a "realist" :P

[CatWoman]

6. If i recall correctly, his family is quite affluent

[matcom]

9. then BRING IT ON I say!!!

:bounce:

yeah, i'm a slut :P

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. No.

It would be hard to think of a worse humiliation.

I haven't been following this story (it's a bit Jerry Springer to me) but to be so publically rejected would not be something I could easily forget.

[MrScorpio]

7. I'd dump her ass in a heartbeat

So long, sweet thang

[ClintonTyree]

10. No....

I think the guy has a self image problem. Any guy who would take her back after the shit she pulled would have to be crazy himself. Maybe he thinks he'll never get another woman so he's sticking with this one through thick and thin.

She'd be on her own if I were he. Adios.

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[bufffbison]

13. instead of being exhausted by wedding guests of 600

she gets national attention of 200 million viewers! wow!

[Lexingtonian]

14. Yes

But it would require a period of some serious rethinking and renegotiating the relationship, because some large chunk of that work evidently wasn't done right.

[CatWoman]

15. you're very "grounded"

:D

such a nice reply.