Groom stood her bride up but the wedding party continues After being dumped by her husband-to-be, a bride who had spent her whole life savings on the wedding continued the ceremony. When Kayley Stead’s future mother-in-law informed her that her soon-to-be husband had departed on the wedding day, she realized her almost four-year engagement to him was not going to last. When it was learned that the groom would not be attending the wedding, the bride was having her hair and makeup done. With her loved ones by her side, Kayley 27, who had spent £12,000 on the wedding preparations, made the decision to proceed with the big day on September 15 at Swansea’s Oxwich Bay Hotel. Kayley continued with her wedding entrance, lunch, speeches, dances, and even posed for professional pictures without her husband-to-be with the help of her bridal party and family. She and her bridal party arrived at the party singing along to Lizzo’s “Good As Hell,” and she spent her first dance with her father, Brian, 71, and the groomsmen, her brothers Craig, 47, Matthew, 46, Gary, 46, and another Craig, 43. Kayley is currently coming to terms with what happened while living alone, having received no explanation from her ex, and having her honeymoon postponed. The day before the wedding, at 4 o’clock, Kayley, an insurance clerk who resides in Portmead, Swansea, saw the groom but hasn’t heard from him since. She uttered: “He hasn’t responded to our attempts to contact him, and I don’t know why. “I haven’t received an explanation, not that I now need one because it’s too late. “It was an absolute shock, I had no indication he...
