[aspiring.hillbilly]

Wanting out of a potentially bad marriage to a jerk of a husband is a sign of sanity not mental illness. Granted she didn't go about it the right way but the woman felt crushed under the weight of a overblown 600 person wedding and two control freak families to deal with. Can you imagine staying in town to face all the nastiness of canceling that kind of wedding? I think she did what she had to do...

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Wanting out of a potentially bad marriage to a jerk of a husband is a sign of sanity not mental illness.

No dispute there. But the way she handled it opens up the question. A 600 guest wedding and 14 bridesmaids is pretty extravagant in my book - this had to be planned for months, and unless she objected to details like that (and my guess is that she designed it) she has to take responsibility for not making a decision.

The criminal aspect of it has nothing to do with getting cold feet - it is allowing all those law enforcement resources to be dislocated in a search for her. I'm not buying the idea that as a bus rider - she had no access to information clueing her in to what was being done to locate her.

[Hildy]

. Granted she didn't go about it the right way but the woman felt crushed under the weight of a overblown 600 person wedding and two control freak families to deal with...Can you imagine staying in town to face all the nastiness of canceling that kind of wedding? I think she did what she had to do....

And you know this for a fact? HOw do you know it wasn't she who wanted a big freaking wedding. You truly think she was right in what she did. You're crazier than she is.