A young eager bride was looking forward to her wedding day this past week, when she received the dreadful phone call that her fiance had committed suicide. Little did she know, the voice on the other end of the call was the scheming fiance himself.
Alex Lanchester, 23, of Sutton Coldfield, UK, had been planning her nuptials – but her fiance had other plans. He chickened out of the wedding and did so in the most delirious way possible… faking his own death. The fiance, Tucker Blandford, called Lanchester and pretended to be his father. He told the anxious bride-to-be that his son had been suffering depression and ran in front of a car – ending his life.
Naturally, Lanchester was surprised, stunned, and heartbroken. She calmed down after some time and later called the real parents back to offer her condolences. It was then that she found out that her fiance was indeed alive and well. To make matters worse, she found out that the parents were completely unaware that a wedding was to take place… they did not even know that the couple was still together.
It was possible for Blandford to live a double life, since he and his fiance’s relationship was long distance. They had met while studying at Connecticut University, where Lancaster was participating in a study-abroad program. They dated for one year and during that time Blandford proposed. Later, Lancaster returned home to the UK – and it appears Blandford continued his life in the US very much without her.
The jilted bride says that Blandford eventually admitted to the lies. “It may be our wedding day, but I’m going to spend it making my own awesome memories — without him,” she told the UK Mirror. Although she will not be using her flights and hotel accommodations for the honeymoon she so desired – Lancaster still plans to use the pre-paid trip to visit the US.
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