Classy Classy Classy

Speaking as a former jilted bride, I understand the myriad emotions and ideas that assault from every side when trying to process what to do next. Send back gifts? Return the dress? Book a weekend of drunken spa buffet deliriousness in Vegas the weekend you were supposed to get married? I got awful close to hopping the next plane to anywhere for 48 hour booze blackout, but ultimately I decided I would much rather look and feel good on the day that was not to be, so I trained for and completed my first sprint triathalon. I had a big cookout afterwards with all my friends, it could not have been more satisfying.

But this incredibly poised, classy girl took her jilted nuptials one step further.

This weekend her would-be wedding is being transformed into a charity event.

From today's NY Times:

"Six weeks before Kyle Paxman’s scheduled wedding, a stranger walked into her office with e-mail messages and other evidence that Ms. Paxman’s fiancé was cheating on her — with the stranger’s girlfriend.

Kyle Paxman won’t be saying ‘I do’ as planned, but heartbreak or not, the reception will go on , with a new focus: philanthropy. “The dress had arrived, the flowers were done, the menus were chosen,” said Ms. Paxman, manager of two food and beverage outlets at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. “One hundred and eighty guests had tickets from all over the country and the Virgin Islands to come and make a weekend of my wedding.”

But rather than cancel the reception, planned for this Saturday in Vermont, Ms. Paxman, 29, has turned it into a charity benefit, at which strong women will be celebrated. “How do you turn something so awful around?” she said. “We needed to turn this into something positive and start the healing process.”

The rest of the article is here.

Congratulations Kyle Paxman for being such a badass - and being spared the pain of actually marrying her wretched fiance.

Have you been left at the altar? How did you deal with the Day that Never Was?