runaway bride
Cold feet personified
A runaway bride is a woman who flees her own wedding, typically abandoning the ceremony at the last moment.
The term evokes dramatic scenes of a bride in her gown escaping through a window or bolting from the altar: She left him standing there like a runaway bride.
The phrase often appears in tabloid headlines and romantic comedies.
- cold feetPre-event loss of confidence
- get cold feetSuddenly fear proceeding
- jiltReject a lover suddenly
- change of heartReversal of opinion
- elopeWed in secret
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- ___ bride
- rom-comrom-com, romantic comedy, meet cute, meet-cute, love triangle
- wedding tropesarranged marriage, elopement, shotgun wedding, marriage of convenience, green card marriage
- romance novelsbodice ripper, Harlequin, happily ever after, rake, historical romance
- forbidden loveforbidden love, forbidden romance, illicit love, secret love, forbidden fruit
- Secret Marriagessecret marriage, secret wedding, secret engagement, elopement, private vows