Worst Case Scenarios
No one wants to think about it. No one wants to deal with it. Wedding collapses are such toxic unmentionables that when they happen, no one knows what to do. It’s incredibly difficult to get around a canceled wedding, let alone being jilted at the altar, and Good Morning America this week did a piece on some women who exhibited real grace under pressure.
There is of course plenty of fictional history for altar jiltings. There’s Miss Havisham in Great Expectations and a quick search will reveal a trove of novels, movies, studies all about runaway brides bolting at the last minute.
Anyway, there is no way to erase the pain and embarrassment and general horror of being dumped, but there is etiquette and that is why Chapter 16 of Something New is all about how to handle the worst.
