Doesn't she just look like a nut?

[Sir_Winston54]

Duluth? Hot? I lived in MN in St. Paul for 10 years...it doesn't get warm until May -- well I guess about now... I've never known it to be warm Oh I had misread then about Duluth. Oh well. She still looks like a nut.

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Ummm... we're talking Duluth, Georgia, here - a suburb on the NE corner of Atlanta - where she and her fiance lived.

btw, the news yesterday said the wedding plans included 600+ guests, 14 bridesmaids, 14 groomsmen... so just a small wedding.

 

[esclave_PP]

HAHAHAHAH der on me. I should learn to read more carefully. Duhhhh on me. Thank you for the clarification lol hee hee. See I knew my insomnia would screw up my vision lol.


''But that being said, this is one of the most selfish and self-centered acts I've ever seen. We saw her parents, and you could see the anguish in their eyes. It was terrible,'' he said.

''I don't care where you are - unless you're in the Amazon rain forest, you'd know everybody was out looking for you.''


Now that is a great quote.

 

[Marquis]

Brr? Duluth is hot at this time of the year. Besides, she hid in New Mexico, not Duluth.

Yeah, she looks like a nut in that particular photo but a lot of people have naturally wide-eyed deer-in-the-headlights expressions when photographed. I don't see her as that crazy. She just panicked, something many people are prone to do under heavy stress.

I also can't help but think there's more to this story than meets the eye. If someone feels they have to bolt rather than face the person they're running from, it could be because facing them is not only a frightening but also unsafe prospect. The article did mention a family member praising the fiancee as being "amazingly strong." There are people to whom it is very hard to say no to. Either they don't accept no for an answer, or you pay, very heavily, for saying it. (shrug) Maybe he was that type. If so, running away _and_ engendering a huge amount of publicity over the running was a pretty smart thing to do if you felt fear for your life or health, as the person you feared wouldn't dare do anything vengeful with such a spotlight turned on him.

The most surprising thing about this story is that it is a story at all. Thousands of people run away from home, children and adults, each week. Why did this particular case make the news while others don't? Is the family or fiancee rich or considered important in some way?

The wedding is still on.

Yes, I couldn't believe it was a story too, but I guess it was weird that the bride dissapeared right before a huge wedding. That can't happen too too often.

 

[luxey313]

Welcome to the world of nation-wide embarassment.

Totally.

My favorite part is all the rationalization about how overworked she is and excuses they make for her.


Oh, and P.S. congrats Marquis on your modship...

 

[Marquis]

Totally.

My favorite part is all the rationalization about how overworked she is and excuses they make for her.


Oh, and P.S. congrats Marquis on your modship...

Thank you, just noticed you have a pic thread, I'll have to check it out.

 

[luxey313]

Thank you, just noticed you have a pic thread, I'll have to check it out.

You are welcome.
Hope things are going better for you than this crazy wench this thread was made about.
If you wanna, not much to check out..

 

[Marquis]

You are welcome.
Hope things are going better for you than this crazy wench this thread was made about.
If you wanna, not much to check out..

I can't complain.

Of course, I do anyway.

 

[onceburned]

My favorite part is all the rationalization about how overworked she is and excuses they make for her.

Oh, from what I have read in the news, the people of Duluth GA are not very pleased with her.... I don't think she will get a lot of sympathy there.

Someone mentioned that the wedding was going ahead - this really surprises me. She panicked because she wasn't ready to marry. And I am guessing that she is a 'good girl' who didn't want to distress everyone by cancelling the elaborate wedding plans.

It would seem sensible to delay everything, and scale down the wedding so that she marries because she really wants to.... not because she is being forced by circumstances. Why let a 'good' wedding cause a bad marriage?

 

[luxey313]

I can't complain.

Of course, I do anyway.

And never would want you any other way


Now back to the psycho bitch...

 

[serijules]

Maybe I'm reading it all wrong, but it seems to me that she was more so running from the pressure of such a huge wedding than she was from the marriage. The brides don't always have a lot of say in wedding plans when pushy parents are involved...who's to say that wasn't the case here? MY wedding was stressful because I'm not really a social butterfly, and seeing 100 plus people I barely knew was very intimidating. I can't even fathom 600 or more.

A friend of mine got married not long ago in a wedding almost that size...only 10 attendents on each side and 500 guests though. Both her mother and her mother in law were very pushy, very demanding, making the entire wedding some huge production of which side was more important and better at planning and had more money than the other. Not wanting to cause more tension, she just put up with it and put up with it...until finally her and her fiance ran off the night before the wedding and eloped in vegas....taking their closest friends with them (most of the attendents were people they didn't even KNOW) and having their own little after-wedding bash in a cheesy hotel room at the MGM. She doesn't regret it at all, although she does feel bad about all the money both sides lost. If they had put their own selfishness aside and considered what their son and daughter wanted rather than what they wanted, it probably never would have happened.

Soo...my point is...we don't have the whole story, at all, and in my opinion she didn't mean to cause that much of an uproar. She certainly handled it wrong, but I've seen people do stupider things and not have it make nationwide news. I think the whole thing is a bit media gimmicky rather than giving a clear picture of what caused her actions, etc. *shrugs*

 

[snowy ciara]

Two things strike me.

First, I wonder if possibly a great deal of the uproar is that she happened to run away after a movie of the same name/idea made headlines. I think a lot of the hype is just that people can't resist the coincidence/comparison thing.

The other thing is, a few months ago I'd be saying "what a nut!" too. But I've been watching mariposa battle both families and well meaning friends who are trying to derail the wedding that she and D want. She's also been running the gauntlet trying to keep her own temper, and trying to act as a buffer, keeping D from telling her family to fuck off (and I'm starting to think he's got the right idea!) and trying to keep them from going after him. They're planning a minuscule ceremony compared to the runaway's. And know what? I can see how even the smallest wedding can make a bride lose her mind.

 

[TaintedB]

The wedding is still on.

Yes, I couldn't believe it was a story too, but I guess it was weird that the bride dissapeared right before a huge wedding. That can't happen too too often.

Yeah, in our culture it's supposed to be the guy who gets cold feet.

 

[TaintedB]

Two things strike me.

First, I wonder if possibly a great deal of the uproar is that she happened to run away after a movie of the same name/idea made headlines. I think a lot of the hype is just that people can't resist the coincidence/comparison thing.

What's the movie called?

 

[babiesmiles]

What's the movie called?

Runaway bride I think