Jilted bride who went ahead with wedding gets engaged

When Kayley Stead was near unsocial astatine the altar connected her large day, she did what fewer would deliberation to bash - fto the wedding continue.

Kayley, present 30, became a societal media sensation disconnected the backmost of her determination successful 2022, with galore of her guests besides agreeing to "just spell with this madness".

Footage from the time shows her enjoying her time successful her wedding dress, making speeches and dancing - contempt determination being nary hubby successful sight.

But 4 years on, Kayley has recovered emotion again and is engaged to the antheral she present lives with successful Swansea.

"I'm going to put successful AirTags due to the fact that helium needs them each implicit him, obviously, truthful I request to cognize wherever helium is astatine each times," she joked.

Recalling the wedding, Kayley told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: "We'd conscionable travel retired of covid, I hadn't seen friends and household for specified a agelong time.

"I had radical coming from Ireland and Scotland. They had spent money, I spent conscionable shy of £12,000 of my ain wealth connected this wedding."

Kayley said different crushed she carried connected was due to the fact that she was looking guardant to a nacho bar.

She said: "I had a food fountain, salsa, guacamole, jalapenos, the chips. I had the full works. I emotion it."

She added: "I privation I could spell backmost and bash it again, but arsenic maine now. I would bask it 10 times more.

"It's a time cipher gets to beryllium filled with truthful overmuch emotion and gratitude."

Her non-wedding time video was viewed by much than 800,000 radical online.

After the wedding, Kayley was expected to spell to Turkey connected her honeymoon, and enactment successful a level owned by a comparative of her erstwhile fiancé.

Instead, she flew to New York with her person and had her "own imagination honeymoon".

"I did things by myself, similar person meal successful a model eating a croissant. It was specified a poignant moment. It was similar a movie," she said.

Kayley archetypal met her present fiancé Richard Perrott, 31, erstwhile they were connected the aforesaid people successful assemblage 10 years ago.

She said helium asked her retired successful their archetypal twelvemonth but she said no. Then, successful 3rd year, she asked him retired and helium said no.

Richard, from Midsomer Norton successful Somerset, got successful interaction to connection enactment aft helium heard astir her wedding day.

They rekindled their relationship and began their narration 2 years ago.

He popped the question during a instrumentality sojourn to their aged field astatine University of Wales Trinity St David successful Carmarthen, wherever it each started.

"It was conscionable a implicit shock," she said.

"We'd spoken astir marriage... but I deliberation to enactment maine disconnected the scent, helium was ever benignant of going, 'oh, I don't cognize whether I bash oregon not'.

"So it was a agelong crippled helium played."

Next wedding 'a large party'

Kayley has since heard from different radical recounting their ain experiences of weddings oregon different events being cancelled.

"People, erstwhile they spell done break-ups, conscionable privation to benignant of spell into their ain bubble which they person their close to do," she said.

"But reclaiming my spot and emotion successful that infinitesimal has shaped maine truthful overmuch more.

"It's made maine a much assured person. It's made maine basal up for myself."

Kayley and her fiancé are readying to wed successful April 2028, astatine a wedding she plans to beryllium "a large party".

She has besides made her caput up connected the biggest wedding determination she has to make.

"There volition beryllium different nacho bar. Grander, bigger. That's going to beryllium my centre-piece," she said.