The show must go on.
A bride recently attended her own wedding without a husband after calling off the engagement just days beforehand.
Lindsay Slater, 31, had been planning her Aug. 17, 2024, wedding for the last four years.
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Just days before the big event, Slater found out that her fiancé had cheated on her — and called off the wedding.
Unable to receive refunds or cancel the occasion, Slater decided to inform her 60 to 70 guests of the party theme change — and host it anyway.
She told SWNS that at first, she didn’t know how she was going to survive the heartbreak.
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“I was distraught. It was too late to go back on the wedding plans [and] all that money had been spent,” she said, noting that roughly $40,000 had gone toward the event in Nottingham, England.
With the money out the window and a party on the books, Slater rebranded the day as a “freedom day” — and chose to spend it with close friends and family.
“I chose to spend the day with close friends and family rather than sit at home [and] cry,” she told SWNS.
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Slater decided to still wear her roughly $1,350 wedding dress and had a wonderful day drinking, eating, dancing and throwing an epic party, she said.
After welcome drinks, Slater said guests enjoyed a sit-down meal and dessert before the DJ began the music at the reception.
“Looking out at all those supportive faces, I felt a bit better,” she told SWNS.
Slater added that having so many people show up to support her on that day made her confident about being independent.
She said, “I’m glad I did it. I really enjoyed the day [and] I was surrounded by so much love — [it] really reminded me that I didn’t need him.”
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