Posted on 04/30/2005 12:05:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 04/30/2005 12:28:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Jennifer Wilbanks, a Georgia woman missing since Tuesday night, has been found alive and well in New Mexico, a friend of the family told CNN.
Wilbanks was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and told her family she had been abducted and taken there, according to John Kim, a friend of Wilbank's family.
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Mingling plates have a notch for your wine glass so you can have your food and drink in one hand while you mingle with the guests at the party.
All well brought up Southern brides get pots and pans. It doesn't mean she'll use them. Maybe she's like Shirley MacLaine in "Steel Magnolias", who grew tomatoes only because it was expected of her.
She'll be lucky if people don't buy her the used ones.
Oh, I have a set of those! I just called them dessert plates. I'm getting kicked down a notch in the social circles over this for sure.
I think John Mason bought himself a pig in a poke.>>>
Me thinks he'll be okay.
I can just imagine all the women across the country, not to mention Duluth, who see him as a catch and are eager to console him.
And wouldn't be surprised if some exec at ABC wants him to be next one up for 'The Bachelor'
Now that's what I'm talking about ! LOL
I can totally see them, either one of them, on the Bachelor or Bachelorette.
But they should just go ahead and marry. Jenn's biological clock is ticking as we speak. She needs to start getting pregnant right away if she wants more than one child.
and deviled egg plates!
she may not want KIDS ,...they're fun , but not for everyone
And cake stands.
Even though she has a history of it.
Can someone summarize this thread. What happened?
AND punch bowls
Tell me more of her history - first time I'm hearing it is on this thread.
And gravy boats.
yeah ,...cajungirl did a GREAT Cliff's on it , what post #??
Her comes the bride.
Wilbanks, wearing a blue blazer and a pink striped blanket that completely covered her head, arrived at Albuquerque’s main airport Saturday afternoon escorted by about 10 police officers to catch a flight back to Atlanta.
A throng of cameras and reporters shouted questions, but she did not respond, keeping her head down and moving briskly through a security checkpoint.
Bill Elwell, an FBI spokesman in Albuquerque, said Wilbanks apparently decided to flee shortly after purportedly leaving for her jog Tuesday without her keys or wallet.
“Based on the information we received, it was a spur of the moment situation,” Elwell told The Associated Press.
She had enough money to take a bus to Las Vegas before going to Albuquerque, where she found herself broke. Elwell said that is probably why she called home and authorities when she did.
In her 911 call, Wilbanks sounds frantic and confused, telling an operator she was kidnapped from Atlanta by a man and a woman in their 40s who were driving a blue van.
At one point, the operator asks if Wilbanks knows what direction her captors went after dropping her off in Albuquerque.
“I have no idea. I don’t even know where I am,” she says.
Wilbanks cut her hair so no one would recognize her, but gave no indication that she had watched news reports of the search or realized the magnitude of the situation, Elwell said.
After police reported the hoax, the mood outside Wilbanks’ home went from jubilant to somber. Family members ducked inside and the blinds were drawn.
They later expressed relief that she was safe.
“Sure, we were all disappointed, maybe a little embarrassed, but you know what, if you remember all the interviews yesterday we were praying, ’At this point let her be a runaway bride,”’ said the Rev. Alan Jones, who was to perform the wedding. “So God was faithful. Jennifer’s alive and we’re all thankful for that.”
Police said Wilbanks was tired, thirsty and “very, very distressed” but in otherwise good physical condition.
Jones said the family had no idea that Wilbanks had fears about the wedding, and he believed she “probably had no clue how it had been blown out of proportion” while she was traveling across the country.
He said Mason had no hostility toward his fiancee.
“I have never met such a strong person in all my life,” Jones said. “He’s an incredible man.”
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Song: Getting Married Today Lyrics
CHOIRGIRL:
Bless this day,
Pinnacle of life,
Husband joined to wife.
The heart leaps up to behold
This golden day.
JOHN:
Today is for JENNY,
JENNY, I give you the rest of my life,
To cherish and to keep you, to honor you forever.
Today is for JENNY,
My happily soon-to-be wife.
JENNY:
Pardon me, is everybody here? Because if everybody's here, I
want to thank you all for coming to the wedding, I'd appreciate
your going even more, I mean you must have lots of better things
to do, and not a word of this to JOHN, remember JOHN, you know,
the man I'm gonna marry, but I'm not, because I wouldn't ruin
anyone as wonderful as he is--
Thank you all
For the gifts and the flowers,
Thank you all,
Now it's back to the showers,
Don't tell JOHN,
But I'm not getting married today.
CHOIRGIRL:
Bless this day,
Tragedy of life,
Husband joined to wife.
The heart sinks down and feels dead
This dreadful day.
JENNY:
Listen, everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for,
a wedding, what's a wedding, it's a prehistoric ritual
where everybody promises fidelity forever, which is
maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of, which is
followed by a honeymoon, where suddenly he'll realize he's
saddled with a nut, and wanna kill me, which he should--
Thanks a bunch,
But I'm not getting married--
Go have lunch,
'Cause I'm not getting married--
You've been grand,
But I'm not getting married--
Don't just stand there,
I'm not getting married--
And don't tell JOHN,
But I'm not getting married today.
Go, can't you go?
Why is no-
Body listening?
Goodbye,
Go and cry
At another person's wake.
If you're quick,
For a kick,
You could pick
Up a christening,
But please,
On my knees,
There's a human life at stake!
Listen everybody, I'm afraid you didn't hear, or do you want to
see a crazy lady fall apart in front of you, it isn't only JOHN
who may be ruining his life, you know we'll both of us be losing
our identities, I telephoned my analyst about it and he said to
see him Monday, but by Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson with
the other garbage--
I'm not well,
So I'm not getting married--
You've been swell,
But I'm not getting married--
Clear the hall,
'Cause I'm not getting married--
Thank you all,
But I'm not getting married--
And don't tell JOHN,
But I'm not getting married today.
CHOIRGIRL:
Bless this bride,
Totally insane,
Slipping down the drain.
And bless this day in our hearts
As it starts
To rain.
JOHN:
JENNY: Today is for
Go, can't you go? JENNY,
Look, you know JENNY,
I adore you all, I give you
But why The rest of
Watch me die My life,
Like Eliza on the ice? To cherish
Look, perhaps And to keep you,
I'll collapse To honor you
In the apse Forever,
Right before you all, Today is for JENNY,
So take My happily
Back the cake, Soon-to-be
Burn the shoes and boil the rice. Wife,
Look, I didn't wanna have to My adorable
tell you, but I may be coming Wife.
down with Hepatitis, and I
think I'm gonna faint, so if
you wanna see me faint, I'll
do it happily, but wouldn't
it be funnier to go and watch
a funeral, so thank you for the
twenty-seven dinner plates,
thirty-seven butter knives,
forty-seven paperweights,
fifty-seven candleholders--
JOHN:
One more thing--
JENNY:
I am not getting married!
CHOIR:
Amen!
JOHN:
Softly said--
JENNY:
But I'm not getting married!
CHOIR:
Amen!
JOHN:
With this ring--
JENNY:
Still I'm not getting married!
CHOIR:
Amen!
JOHN:
I thee wed.
JENNY:
See, I'm not getting married!
CHOIR:
Amen!
JOHN: JENNY:
Let us pray Let us pray
That we are getting married That I'm not getting married
Today! Today!
CHOIR:
AMEN!!!
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