Can anyone explain to me why last night’s cable news docket was filled with speculation about how jilted Georgia groom John Mason could possibly still want to marry Jennifer Wilbanks, the woman who faked her own kidnapping to run off for a Las Vegas sojourn? Mason put the engagement ring that Wilbanks left behind when she left Georgia back on her finger upon her return. Is it a somewhat surprising development? Perhaps. But I see no need for the national media to get themselves involved in this. That said, here’s part the story, from CBS News:
The man whose jittery bride-to-be skipped town days before her lavish wedding and claimed she had been abducted says that his fiancée wants the “whole world to know she’s very, very sorry.”
John Mason is defending his fiancée’s decision, and says he still wants to walk down the aisle with her. The guilt she is dealing with “has got to be consequence enough to me,” Mason said Monday in an interview with Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” show.
It was Mason’s first public statement since he learned on the morning of his wedding day that his intended, Jennifer Wilbanks, had gotten cold feet.
“We would still welcome her back to the family,” Mason father Claude said Tuesday on CBS News’ The Early Show.
“I just said, ‘John, you just know what’s best for you. We’ve tried to help you through this as best we can, and it’s your decision to make,” Claude Mason told co-anchor Harry Smith. “‘And if you decide you still want to marry her, be happy. Go with what makes you happy.’”
