Runaway brides of Reddit? What's your story? What was the final straw? How last second did you leave?

On my 18th birthday, my boyfriend proposed to me at my party, in front of all my family and friends.

I said yes, mostly because I was too embarrassed to say no. We'd been dating for two years, but I was just about to start university.

I wasn't ready at all. I asked later

when we were alone if we could have a long engagement. At least a year or two, and he agreed.

We told our families and friends we would be waiting to get married. Less than three months later,

his mom and my mom took me out for lunch and decided to take me to look at wedding dresses,

because it's never too

early to start planning. When I saw a really lovely dress that was on sale, my fiancé's mother

insisted on buying it for me. Their family was quite wealthy and had money set aside for all of my

fiance's milestones, education, first car, wedding, etc. She told me they were happy to cover the major costs as they

were the ones who wanted a big wedding, and I joked I could pay her back and grandchildren. A few weeks

later, his mom introduced me to a friend who was a florist. Next thing I know, I'm looking at bouquets

and discussing table arrangements. Then my fiance starts talking about venues for our wedding, saying

we need to start planning so we can find the perfect place. By this point, I'm truly panicking.

I'm just a few months into university. I haven't even fully decided what I want to do with my education.

Now I'm choosing venues for a wedding that's supposed to be years away? A wedding that's suddenly

looking like nuptials of a

minor royal? I tried talking to my fiancé, but he just wouldn't listen. We saw a venue we liked,

but they had no availability for almost two years. So we booked it, and I could finally breathe again.

I had two years to get ready for my big, fat, crazy wedding. Then the venue had a cancellation

for less than six months away, and my fiancé accepted it without telling me. Just canceled our

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