Marrying the love of one’s life is certainly among wishes everyone hopes will come true. But sometimes, the person that you chose to be your lifetime partner turns out to be someone you barely know.
That’s how marriages fall apart, families are torn and hearts are broken. Finding out the harsh truth always appears with disappointment and a lot of hurtful feelings. How was it possible that you never saw the signs of the person sitting right next to you throughout all these years?
Casey was getting ready to marry her boyfriend Alex after a 6-year relationship. She couldn’t wait for their wedding day to arrive and to share the luckiest day of her life with her closest ones.
But she couldn’t have imagined that what was supposed to be her luckiest day of all turned into a nightmare no one would want to go through. And all of her close friends and relatives were going to witness it. But everything seemed just fine until the night before the wedding.
The happy bride-to-be was so enthusiastic about her wedding day and she couldn’t hide it for days. Finally, she and her closest friends were getting ready for the bridal party at the posh hotel room. Casey was prepared to say goodbye to her days as a single woman once and for all.
But then, out of nowhere, she found out something that would change her plans forever, and make her see that the man she was with, wasn’t the person she believed to know. Apart from what she discovered, the way she discovered it was even more unbelievable.
Not only was Casey madly in love since the day she met Alex, but she truly believed that he was the one. Their families also got along very well, and the couple seemed so perfect that it everybody knew it was just a matter of time of when they will get married.
After 6 years of love, their wedding day finally arrived. She was ready to have the best day of her life and was happy to share it with all the attendees. But, her fairytale ending was far from happening. At least not this time.
Casey was enjoying her bridal party with her friends and sipping champagne. When her phone buzzed to announce the arrival of a new message she happily went to pick up her phone as she was expecting another person to wish her well for the wedding day.
Her friends were making jokes about how busy she was that night with receiving good luck messages. Little did they know that the messages she was about to receive will change her whole life.
When Casey picked up her phone, she still had a smile on her face that was about to disappear for good. After reading the messages she just got, instead of “thank you” reply, she broke down into tears. Her heart was immediately broken into a thousand pieces. The X-rated messages from an unknown number revealed a number of screenshots of a conversation of her fiancé Alex, and another woman.
The messages showed that her fiancé was not honest during their relationship and that in fact, he had a side chick for quite a long time. Alex was getting very intimate with another woman that wasn’t her and now she even had selfies of the pair to testify. Casey could not imagine this happening in her wildest dreams. But there was something more haunting about the messages, there was the last message that said, “I wouldn’t marry him. Will you?”.
Now that she was aware of the person her fiancé was, Casey had to make the hardest decision. Her friends suggested that she should call him immediately and call off the wedding. But she didn’t want to do it.
She was so crushed and said: “Every word like a dagger in my heart and my wedding was only hours away. How could I cancel when everyone had already traveled to be there and everything was paid for?”. So Casey finally made her decision to have the wedding day anyway but with a couple of changes.
But what could cause her fiance to cheat on her in the months before their wedding? According to Dr. Rowan Burckhardt, there are two main reasons for infidelity. The first is what the cheater partner probably sees as a problem, and the second is when the cheating partner fails to have romantic feelings for the other one.
That’s why some people simply step out of the relationship into the arms of someone else, while others start looking for the “romantic connection” elsewhere. But it seems that for these people, knowing that it is forbidden to be with another person, makes this attraction to a new person much greater.
Now that she decided the wedding was still on, Casey still wanted to find a way to revenge to her cheating fiance. All those people came to gather because of them, but now she wanted everybody to know the truth.
She was ready to say out loud what he couldn’t have said to her for months. She was preparing for her wedding, but everything now seemed completely fake to her. Casey was experiencing the biggest turn in her life when she was least expecting it.
Finally, the wedding started. Later Casey said “I walked down the aisle with leaden feet, my dream dress now just a costume. As he saw my face he knew this was not an ecstatic woman on her big day, but he had no idea what was coming,” and neither did anybody else in the crowd.
Her dreams of being Alex’s wife were now completely buried and she lost all of her hope for her true love. Casey was deeply crushed, but she gave her best to get to the wedding as if nothing happened.
“I stood at the front of the room in my wedding dress and looked out at the excited faces of our friends and family,” she reportedly recalled. “My hands were shaking, but not nearly as much as my insides quivered.”
But then, she took a deep breath and introduced a sad announcement. “There will be no wedding today,” announced Casey, “It seems Alex is not who I thought he was.” In that very moment, she pulled out her phone and began to read the messages she received last night.
Many of the messages Casey read out loud contained sexual references between Alex and his side woman. One of them even was, “Your body is f****** incredible. And s*** do you know how to use it. I wish my GF had half the skills you do.”
Casey thought that reading these messages would at least make him feel as much humiliated as she felt the night when she found out about his cheating. She continued with new messages, another one read, “I miss you so much. I can’t stop thinking about L, S, F’ing you. I’ve never had this kind of connection before.”
Alex couldn’t believe what had just happened to him and he ran out of the church with some of his relatives that were deeply shocked. He just wanted to be left out of the wedding that was meant to be his happiest day.
But it seemed that Casey had something more to say. She couldn’t leave all the guests simply sitting in shock after what happened. Everyone was surprised by her bravery and listened to what she had to say.
She said, “I love all of you and as horrible as this is, I’m glad you all are here. There will not be a wedding reception today, but instead, there will be a celebration of honesty, finding true love and following your heart even when it hurts.”
Despite her heart being broken to pieces and the shocking news she wasn’t prepared for, Casey still apparently had “one hell of a party.” Soon, her story appeared all around the web and provoked debates on if people would do the same she did. What would you do in her place?