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Listen to Your Gut Before Getting Married
It is important that you listen to your gut if you are having doubts about getting married.

Broken Engagement
If either of you, or both of you, have decided that you shouldn't marry one another, please don't think you've failed. Although breaking an engagement is a difficult thing to do, it is less painful to call off the wedding now than it is to file for divorce later on.

Engagement Ring Laws
Although etiquette rules that an engagement ring should be returned when a wedding is called off regardless of who broke the engagement, the legal system has differing opinions on this issue.

Runaway Brides
Although runaway brides are a source of humor in many movies, considering the fear and pain that their running can cause to loved ones, runaway brides are not really funny. Here are some of the reasons that brides runaway, what can be done to prevent the phenomenon, and more resources on this extreme form of disengagement.

Jennifer Wilbanks, Runaway Bride
Jennifer Carol Wilbanks planned on running away from her wedding. Thankfully, such an extreme, thoughtless way to avoid cancelling or postponing a wedding is a rare occurrence. Here's a time line of the Wilbanks selfish saga.