I called off my wedding after everything was ordered. Gown, bridesmaid dresses, invites ect. Calling it off was probably the hardest thing I have ever had to do, so I kinda understand her feelings. But my advice is no wedding. If you are that unsure it is better to call it off.

I'd go on the honeymoon by myself, have lot's of fun and thank God that I didn't get married to such a flake.

She let him take the brunt of the pressure while she wandered around Vegas -- the poor guy was compared to Scott Peterson by the media.

I feel sorry for her family and everyone close to her who thought that she had been kidnapped or worse. She should definitely be charged with something. The woman in Wisconsin who staged her own kidnapping faced charges; this was worse in my mind.

If he ends up marrying her -- all bets are off, he deserves anything that he gets.

Not condoning her actions, but I'd be interested in knowing whose idea the 14 attendants and 600 invitations were...

Everyone assumes it's the bride making these kinds of decisions, but it's often not. Sometimes it's the parents, of both the bride and the groom. Often the groom is shielded from the worst of the stress imposed by the two sets of parents.

Eloping is a fine idea... maybe it was groom who chickened out and didn't meet her in Vegas for the small wedding?

My advice to the groom is don't walk away from this woman.

Run, Forest. Run.

What would I do?

Hasta la vista babe.

From what I have seen they both need to spend some time in a rubber room.

Damn, I'd try and get Donna B's phone number. How you doin' babe? M/31. Let me know if you want to meet. ;-)

Seriously, if I were the fiance? Get a good lawyer and see if there were some way to sue this b***h for emotional distress and the humiliation of being subjected to the speculation of people like Geraldo Rivera on national television.

Lied to her fiancee. Lied to her family. Lied to her friends. Lied to her church. Lied to an entire town who had loved her since she was a child. But most imposrtantly, lied to police officers. Obstruction of justice, false statements to law enforcement, false police report, fraudulent staging of a kidnapping. Those are FELONIES! If she is not charged and jailed for this, there is no justice. Need to teach stupid, flaky women that there is a price to be paid. I hope that the fiancee, who was being suspected of murder, not only dumps her, but that she is driven from her twon, disowned by her family, and made into the poor, flea-bitten whore she ought to become. Maybe that will teach her a lesson of the price of looking her "gift horse" in the eyes. Out.

From observing his demeanor during the last few days, I wouldn't discount Donna B's theory.

I don't know. I can't imagine making my momma cry that way. She has to have had some kind of serious pressure building up inside her. Maybe gas. There was supposed to be a Mexian restaurant there that all the Christians attended to pray for her and Terry Schiavo's ashes or something. Maybe they prayed for ole W. Bush to come down from Washington and find her himself, or at least go rattlesnake hunting. I guess we all can learn a good lesson from this: STOP WATCHING SO MUCH CABLE NEWS.

I think she ought to be taken out and horse-whipped for all the trouble she caused! I can see getting cold feet and wanting to get away for awhile, but Calling and telling your parents you were KIDNAPPED, and making everyone go through HELL looking for and worrying about you?! Bull___!! Her poor mother was so upset--it's lucky she didn't have a heart attack! This is a CRIME, and this idiot had better be punished! Now, whenever someone goes missing, everyone will be less likely to look, wondering if they just "took off" like this inconsiderate brat! If I were her groom-to-be, I'd tell her to go to h---!

I too got cold feet before I was married.
I called my fince, we met at a quiet restraunt, we talked, we laughed, and a week later, we were married. That was 20 years ago.
It happens to the best of us.
This woman distressed her friends, and family, along with the ordeal her Husband went through with law enforcement.

She should make a public apology to everyone! Police,friends, volunteers, her fiance.
And most of all she should made to pay for the extra hours that were spent for the extra police hours worked.
Lastly, she should seek professional help.

The gov't should send a bill to this crazy b**** for all the manpower, all the wasted time and energy spent. And her fiance should sue for having to deal with police detectives, lawyers, media, all seeing him as the next Scott Peterson! What a selfish nut!

The Police in Atlanta were looking at John Mason (her fiance) as a potential MURDERER! Is that the kind of suspicion that one should expose the one that they claim to love and want as their life partner too?

Look what happened to Laci Peterson and Lorie Hacking at the hands of there partners! John was in REAL trouble here!

Her immature behavior has proven to John Mason that she's not a dependable, trustworthy, or person. How could he trust her again?!

God knows what she'd do with their kids down the line if she got stressed again! She's gotta go.

Even if she didn't want to deal with John, she should have told SOMEONE what was up. Any family member or close friend! Anybody!!!

After the disappearances and murders of late, she should have KNOWN she would be putting a lot of people out with her lack of communication.

But, even if she didn't, why did she LIE about being kidnapped?? She probably claimed it was some big black guy who did it (as we've seen so MANY do over the years!).

I hope that the police AT LEAST CHARGE her for their services over the last several days! That would be only fair.

John has been given a "get out of jail/marriage with a horrible woman free" card. I hope he's already dumped that crazy nut broad!

Dump her. You do not want to be with this woman for the rest of your life, dude.

Send her a bill for the cost of all the trouble!!!

Wow it is quite interesting to read everyone's reaction to this recent saga involving the "run away bride." Although I am not agreeable with the way she handled the situation by leaving everyone in shambles to worry about poor Jennifer, I also understand why she could've wanted out. I was raised as a deep rooted Southerner and know all about the good ol boys, demanding expectations and Southern politics. NO FUN!!
Her fiance's father is a former Mayor and I would guess that his mother is a bit of a community socialite. Makes me wonder about all of the pressures that went along with planning this huge shin dig and what role Jennifer was expected to play throughout the entire ordeal.

Can anyone be remotely surprised that a woman acted in a cowardly fashion, lying and cheating? This is what women are biologically programmed to do. Women get ahead in the business world by having zero ethics and backstabbing the men that get in their way. The runaway bride is merely an obvious example, but men know of numerous women that behave in a similar way. Honor, forthrightness and honesty are masculine qualities totally unknown to the female sex.

He is a very lucky man. Most don't find out until after saying "I do."

If he still marries her then he deserves all the misery that would be sure to come his way.

I have a couple of ex-wives that I wish had been capable of being decent enough to be openly insane before the wedding rather than after. I applaud her courage and hope this sets a trend!

What bullwinkle said -- but only one ex-wive.

So far.

Police departments should not have "news conferences" about cases. If they want to issue a bulletin to try to help find the woman then that is ok but a conference causes accusations to be assumed and people to be wrongly shaded.

If I were a judge any official who had news conferences like in the DC case, Peterson, Bryant would have their case bombed right out of the courtroom. You do not investigate and accuse in news conferences. It is hard to believe that cases were solved with confidentiality for decades until the egotistical police chiefs, sheriffs and prosecutors found a need to stand up and pontificate.

Just watch. They are going to screw up a major case. I expect the "pre-trial publicity" defense will come up to blow a case apart and hopefully deny these assholes their fifteen minutes thereafter.

I feel sorry for the fiance'. That guy will have a stigma forever due to these idiots putting the whole thing on the tube. Public safety officials are becoming loonytoons in that they just have to run their mouths in front of cameras.

I should mention that I am a former enforcement officer and there are other ways to get information out to try to secure leads. These guys in Georgia acted like they wanted a body so they could be stars. Shame on them.

Forget help and counseling.... did anyone stop to think that might be what pushed her out the back door in the first place?!
Also forget forgiveness for our sins!!! Jesus Christ is really the only one who can do that.
Interesting how she left only hours after her meeting with the Pastor!

The male fiancee of the situation should do what every other money hungry person in America would do, call 20/20, write a book, and appear on Nancy Grace Live. $$$.

What would I do if I were the fiance? Haul arse. Cancel the wedding, break up with the bint, and just get the holy hell out of there. I could understand if she needed space and time. I could understand if she needed to take a little trip to clear her head. BUT LET PEOPLE KNOW. With the publicity around this case, she could not have not known, which is absolutely reprehensible...

Wait...wait for it!

A video will surface from Vegas showing this idiot arm in arm with a previously unknown boyfriend.

Also expect her to float the "I was abused" line of defense shortly.

Yet more proof that marriage and maturity don't necessarily go hand in hand.

This was really bad behavior. Almost as bad as voting for Kerry/Edwards.

If she were my daughter, and I was paying for the wedding, I'd be beating her a$$ about now.

She obviously did not have a close relationship with anyone in her "family", including her Fiancee, Pastor and Mother. Wonder why?

Ok, aside from a faked abduction, grandstanding wannabee Petersen police, wasted manpower across several states, and a ruined reputation for the fiance, hmmmmm...

Regardless of the pressure the woman may or may not have been under to marry, her actions were just plain wrong, and the guy will wear the consequences for those actions for a very long time. The court of public opinion is quick to judge, unforgiving, and has a long memory.

I agree with others that she should at least be made to pay for the manpower cost, and charged with obstruction of justice. And someone should b****slap the police officials who had the guy crucified in the media.

When will people grow up, I wonder...?

I'm a bit taken aback by the people commenting and actually sympathizing with this childish female. I'm not doubting that she was having second thoughts, I don't really care. Many people do, including me, but they don't overreact in this way.

The point is, her act was one of the most selfish I've ever come across. "I needed time, I needed space." Big deal. Postpone the wedding. But what she did to her loved ones was inexcusable. She's 32 years old, for crying out loud....has she learned NOTHING in all that time about people? Did she really think her parents would say, "Oh, well, she'll turn up" when from all accounts this act was so unlike her? Not to mention potential victims of real crimes that those police could have been helping...do they not matter?...or does everything come to a standstill in Georgia when some poor little wisp of a thing develops a pair of cold feet?

I think that this stunt wouldn't have gotten all the publicity it did if her future father-in-law hadn't been a former mayor and a judge in the community. I also doubt very much that there would have been no charges filed, either.

The woman should go to jail.

She is not worthy of the airtime wasted on her and she certainly isn't worthy of the grief she has caused her family and that poor guy who almost got stuck with her as a wife.

well it is pretty obvious, BorgQueen, that you are one unempathetic huzzy! You have NO idea what happened between her and her fiance before she left. It also appears to me that she was a real victim to the whole Mayor, Judge thing in Duluth. And what about the Southern Baptist Pastor, standing there talking about her like she was a child by telling the press that they were going to "get her some help." All of this is probably the exact sort of thing she was running away from in the first place.
You can all post cruel things about this person but whatever happened to the proverb, "people in glass houses should not throw stones."
Borgqueen, I think she was so distraught that she was thinking correctly. Ever been in a situation that drove you off the edge? Did you think about other people, circumstances, or reality even?
Sometimes people lose it- period.

Jennifer is a long-distance runner. In the same vein, she took a bus (then another bus) to get as far from her fiance and her upcoming wedding as possible, over 1,400 miles. Why? A psychiatrist (Mount Sinai in LA) commented on Fox News that Jennifer had limited emotional resources. The upcoming wedding to a former mayor's son was too much for this emotionally fragile woman. Don't blame her. Blame her family and her fiance who should have noticed that she had been bursting at the seams before running away.

Regarding the father paying for the wedding.When I finally did get ready to walk down the aisle, my father turned to me just as we were about to go and said, "If you have one moment of doubt about this we can walk out that front door right now, no questions asked. You will have my blessings to do that. Just say the word sweetie and we walk." (I guess I had gotten kind of a reputation for backing away by then) I knew my dad was being the wonderful person he was, but I just smiled and said , "Shutup."

That was 22 yrs ago. And no one thought I would stick with it...;-)