Better late than never.A young bride-to-be from the Midwest woke up next to her fiancê on the day of their planned $40,000 wedding — and decided it was time to dump him.Alexis Saya, of Huntington, Indiana, had gone to bed the night before excited for what she said would have been a “beautiful” celebration of love.But when the big day arrived, she found herself facing a surprising realization — she wasn’t happy.Sharing a child with her hubby-to-be, the 24-year-old said the pair were high school sweethearts who began dating at age 16. Both “young” and “stupid,” according to Saya, the pair intentionally became pregnant and engaged in 2020, despite the on-again, off-again nature of their tumultuous union. It was a rocky romance that lasted from 2019 until their scrapped big day in April 2023. “I knew that I wasn’t happy in the relationship,” she admitted.
“I just always tried to make myself believe that I was because I loved him.”Finally faced with the prospect of unhappily ever after, she took action.“It was about 6 a.m., I said ‘I’m sorry, we can’t get married today,’” Saya told Kennedy News.“I didn’t want to but I knew that I had to,” she continued, adding, however, “it’s best decision I’ve ever made even if it’s hard to accept.The relationship wasn’t a good relationship.” Saya has since shared a few sordid details about the breakup with her TikTok audience of over 15,000 viewers.
In one post, she refers to her child’s father as an “abuser.”“After my daughter was born we had broken up a few times and got back together a few times,” Saya explained.“I think I had, in total, three or four rings because of how many times we’d broken up.”“I said, ‘We’re not getting married today,’ she remembered of breaking the news to her groggy groom.“He looked at me and was like, ‘What are you talking about?,’ and I said, ‘Do you really think this is a marriage?.”The bolting bride’s ba...