Jennifer Wilbanks found alive in New Mexico!!! (Missing Georgia bride-to-be found alive)

CNN ^ | April 30, 2005

[kcvl]

CNN: Missing Georgia bride-to-be found alive in New Mexico

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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[babaloo]

Cleaned up? I wonder if she took any luggage with her on the trip.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The police said that she getting cleaned up

She's probably trying to do something with her hair.

[WestCoastGal]

This reminded me of this movie as well. In this case the husband was a nutcase and she planned for months to runaway, stashing clothing, learning to swim, stashing money etc. She faked her own drowning, cut her hair and dyed it and left on a 'bus'. Eventually he found her and tried to kill her but she got him first!

Anyway, the moral to the story is you never know someone until you live with them, maybe she decided she wanted out and didn't know how to do it at this point with all the wedding plans.

She just chose a very stupid way to do it.

[cajungirl]

I went to a wedding with 22 bridesmaids, in New Orleans.

[beyond the sea]

what a tangled web we weave when we have eight showers....

[tiredoflaundry]

[Cboldt]

I'm glad she didn't end up a violent crime statistic, but to put her family through this kind of emotional torture is unfathomable.

Almost all runaways put the leftbehinds through emotional hell. Likewise people who commit suicide, the ultimate runaway.

[mabelkitty]

Do a Pretty In Pink thing.
Tear them up and make new dresses.
Or handbags.
Or a very cool looking table cloth.

[Right_in_Virginia]

LOL.

[WeddingPlanner]

In my business I've seen weddings mushroom to the point of a circus. The bride and groom can completely lose control - it suddenly becomes all about the mothers. We're doing one right now where the groom has no sisters, and his mother is doing everything she can to upstage the reception with the rehearsal dinner. It's her one chance to relive the dream.

I've also seen brides have almost complete nervous breakdowns - not from the planning, we're doing that - but from the pressure from parents. I'm not surprised we don't see this more often.

[kalee]

I use my grandmother's silver every Sunday. My husband and I chose silver and china before we married. He wanted the Grand Baroque because it reminded him of his mother's Sir Christopher. I was never very fond of that pattern and was happy to inherit my grandmother's Gorham Lancaster, which is what I use. I LOVE it!

[Taft in '52]

This hit tune from 1933 popularized by the Casa Loma Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson, and other acts comes to mind:

It's the Talk of the Town

I can’t show my face,
Can’t go anyplace;
People stop and stare;
It’s so hard to bear.
Everybody knows you left me,
It’s the talk of the town.

Everytime we meet,
My heart skips a beat;
We don’t stop to speak,
Though it’s just a week.
Everybody knows you left me,
It’s the talk of the town.

We send out invitations to friends and relations,
Announcing our wedding day.
Friends and our relations gave congratulations.
How can I face them?
What can I say?

Let’s make up sweetheart;
We can’t stay apart.
Don’t let foolish pride
Keep you from my side.
How can love like ours be ended?
It’s the talk of the town.

[cajungirl]

Howl, does she have to return the ring???

[Quilla]

It sounds beautiful - my bedroom is black and white and I love it. But here in LA (Lower Alabama) there still stuck on pastels - dresses so gawd ugly - they'll never be worn twice.

BTW sis, my father is from Franklin, Louisiana and one of his cousins taught me the finer elements of table setting. She made it an art.

[beyond the sea]

That's great! Laughter is the best medicine.... that and a little garic, olive oil, carrots, parsley, ............

[HairOfTheDog]

I muck stalls every day and wear boots far more often than pumps. I don't have a use for really anything made from taffetta. And it's a little formal for my table ;~D

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

And let this be a lesson to all. If you are suddenly gone for any reason, make sure there's a better picture of you than this one out there.

[beyond the sea]

She's probably trying to do something with her hair.

Trying to find it.

[cajungirl]

I was about to post that she needed a wedding planner.

At our middle daughter's wedding, suddenly all the little girls wanted to be flower girls the day before the wedding. We did it, seven of them, even got them matching dresses and they were adorable. Our daughter was so relaxed that she let everything just flow.

[HairOfTheDog]

Howl, does she have to return the ring???

Maybe that's what she lived on in Vegas....