A jilted Malaysian bride was left waiting on her wedding dais after her groom called off the engagement via a cellphone text message, a report said on Monday.
But Norlida Abdul Rahman (23) put on a brave face and her wedding dress on Friday night and carried on with the wedding feast for 1 000 guests at her family home although her fiancé, a state football player whose identity was not revealed, did not turn up.
”Everything was going well until last Monday when he began behaving differently and showed doubts about the marriage,” Norlida was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.
”The last time I spoke to him was on Thursday, when he said he had deposited the balance of 4 000 ringgit [$1 053] of the 6 000 ringgit dowry into my bank account,” she said.
He went missing shortly after, and his own family said they could not reach him, she said.
Early on Friday, she received his text message, cancelling the wedding and asking her to forgive him.
”We were not meant to be together,” he had written.
The couple had met two years ago and became engaged in July last year. — Sapa-AFP