the big day of Kayley instead was scheduled for September 15, in Oxwich Bay Hotel Wales. The 27-year-old had spent about $14,000 to celebrate her wedding Kallum Norton with a mega event But that morning the dream was shattered.
The night before the couple had agreed not to see each other out of respect for tradition. She went to an AirBnBcelebrating with his closest friends, while the groom and his groomsmen they stayed in an RV near the lobby.
Kayley woke up happy. She had breakfast and received the make-up artist, who at 11 in the morning already had her as beautiful as ever. The wedding was an hour away and at that moment the phone rang. Jordie Cullen, one of the bridesmaids, attended, and on the other side she heard the voice of the father of the groom…
In August 2020, the couple had decided to bring their love to the altar, they had been together for just over two years at that time and had begun to imagine a complete party in which nothing could be missing. They spent a lot of money to make the night perfect. After two years of preparations, the date has finally arrived.
Kallum woke up anxious, tense, something was wrong. He got out of the camper, he told friends and relatives that he was going for a ride in the car, but the hours went by and there was no news.
in crisis, the groom’s mom called Kayley. “She was crying and told me she had gone for a ride in the wee hours of the morning and that he was gone,” the young woman told The Sun. But at that moment she didn’t think she could escape, she knew him well, he was just a little nervous, he was about to return.
“I still had high hopes . Throughout our relationship he went for walks or in the car to clear his head many times when he was nervous,” Kayley explained that she trusted her man about her.
It was the fiancée herself who reassured everyone and continued with the preparations: “For a couple of hours I was sure he would come and I calmed the girls down. I honestly didn’t think she would go away.”
The call that nobody wants to receive
The phone is ringing. She answered Jordie, who had stolen the cell phone from his girlfriend so as not to make her nervous further.
-“Hello?”.
-“I’m the boy’s father. I’m calling you to tell you that he’s fine, but he’s not coming. I’m sorry but there are four hours to go.”
Trembling, Jordie approached the bride and told her that Kallum would not be coming. Kayley cried for an hour.
Her eyes were swollen from crying, her makeup ran down her cheeks, and the white dress she’d imagined so many times entering her wedding stared at her from the side, hanging on a hanger. But something made her react. Her soul ached for her but she couldn’t let it all end like this.
She went to the bathroom, wiped away her tears, looked in the mirror and said to herself: “I will.” Her heart rekindled, she told her friends that the party was not cancelled: “I had spent all this money, I couldn’t wait to eat, a dance with my fatherspending time with my family, so why not?”He explained.
marriage without groom
“That nightmare turned into a day I will always be proud of,” said the young Welsh woman. “I can actually look back and smile because it will always remind me that I don’t need another person’s love to be happy.”
“I didn’t want to remember the day as complete sadness. The photographer said to me: ‘Why don’t you girls continue? You spent all this money, you won’t get it back, all your guests are here.”
Kayley’s friends, including her sister Katie, 29, called the groomsmen and told them not to leave because the wedding was canceled but the party was going to take place anyway.
Many of the guests knew nothing of all that had transpired, simply assumed the wedding had been delayed and waited in the Oxwich Bay Hotel’s ceremony hall. Y then the bridesmaids and groomsmen arrived to explain that the only one absent from the party would be the groom.
The sign at the entrance needed to be changed. instead of “Mr. and Ma’am”, it became “Kayley’s Shindig”. Instead of sharing her first dance with the boy, Kayley danced with her father, Brian, 71, and his brothers Craig, 47, Matthew, 46, Gary, 46, and another Craig, 43.
He even indulged in hitting the wedding cake because it reminded him of Kallum.
“I always dreamed of dancing with my father at my wedding”said Kayley, who thanked the groom’s family and friends for the gesture, who stayed at the event.
“They didn’t run away, and I would have totally understood if they had, but they supported me. We’ve been saying all day that it felt like an episode of a series.”
“There were a lot of special momentsthe entrance to my wedding, the walk with the sparklers and the punch on the wedding cake,” recalled the young woman who became something of a viral star. She was invited to British television programs, received donations to pay for her wedding expenses failed and even won a trip to the “The Morning” cycle.
Callum? He has been contacted by the local press, but he just said he didn’t want to say anything on the subject.
Source: Clarin
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