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<\/p>\nA bride who spent all her life savings on her wedding carried on with the ceremony after her groom stood her up.<\/p>\n
Kayley Stead discovered her wedding to her partner of almost four years wasn\u2019t going to hold when her mother-in-law-to-be broke the news he\u2019d fled on the day of the wedding.<\/p>\n
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The bride was getting her hair and make-up done when it was discovered that the groom would not be attending the wedding.<\/p>\n
Despite the heartbreak, Kayley 27, who had spent\u00a0\u00a312k on the wedding preparations, decided to go ahead with the big day on September 15 at Oxwich Bay Hotel in Swansea, with her loved ones around her.<\/p>\n
With support from her bridal party and family, Kayley went ahead with her wedding entrance, meal, speeches, dances and even posed for professional photos without her groom.<\/p>\n
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She entered the party singing along to Lizzo\u2019s Good As Hell with her bridal party and spent her first dance with the groomsmen, her brothers, Craig, 47, Matthew, 46, Gary, 46, and another Craig, 43, and her dad, Brian, 71.<\/p>\n
Now, living alone with no explanation from her ex and her honeymoon cancelled,\u00a0Kayley is coming to terms with what has happened.<\/p>\n
Kayley, who works as an insurance clerk and lives in Portmead, Swansea, said she saw the groom at 4pm the day before the wedding but hasn\u2019t heard from him since.<\/p>\n
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She said: \u201cWe\u2019ve tried to reach out to him, but I\u2019ve had no response from him, no reason why.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had no explanation \u2013 not that I want one now, because it\u2019s too far along the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an absolute shock, I had no indication he was going to do this but seeing my girls distraught as well made me want to turn the day around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to remember the day as complete sadness.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole day, we were saying it felt like an episode of Hollyoaks or EastEnders. It didn\u2019t feel like a real life situation.<\/p>\n
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