Jilted bride who went ahead with wedding gets engaged

Jilted bride who went ahead with wedding gets engaged8 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleNicholas Bourne,BBC WalesandLeigh Boobyer,BBC WalesKayley SteadRather than cancel the £12,000 wedding day, Kayley decided to continue after her former partner failed to turn up When Kayley Stead was left alone at the altar on her big day, she did what few would think to do - let the wedding continue.Kayley, now 30, became a social media sensation off the back of her decision in 2022, with many of her guests also agreeing to "just go with this madness".Footage from the day shows her enjoying her day in her wedding dress, making speeches and dancing - despite there being no husband in sight. But four years on, Kayley has found love again and is engaged to the man she now lives with in Swansea."I'm going to invest in AirTags because he needs them all over him, obviously, so I need to know where he is at all times," she joked. Recalling the wedding, Kayley told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: "We'd just come out of covid, I hadn't seen friends and family for such a long time. "I had people coming from Ireland and Scotland. They had spent money, I spent just shy of £12,000 of my own money on this wedding."Kayley said another reason she carried on was because she was looking forward to a nacho bar.She said: "I had a cheese fountain, salsa, guacamole, jalapenos, the chips. I had the whole works. I love it."She added: "I wish I could go back and do it again, but as me now. I would enjoy it 10 times more. "It's a day nobody gets to be filled with so much love and gratitude."Her non-wedding day video was viewed by more than 800,000 people online.After the wedding, Kayley was supposed to go to Turkey on her honeymoon, and stay in a flat owned by a relative of her former fiancé.Instead, she flew to New York with her friend and had her "own dream honeymoon"."I did things by myself, like have b...