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In praise of Teanne Harris, the jilted bride with a heart of gold
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Teanne Harris is the bride who was jilted days before her wedding: and then turned her wedding reception into a party for the old folks.
Matt Harker might one day begin to rue his mistake. For he jilted his intended, the bride to be Teanne Harris, 6 days before their wedding day last Saturday.
Teanne, with her mother, then went to see if she could get back the deposit they had paid for the wedding party and were told that no, at such short notice this was not possible. At this point most would simply retreat into the shell of rejection but not Ms. Harris. She decided that since a party was booked and a party had to be paid for then by dang why not have a party? Which is exactly what she did, she had a party on what was to have been her wedding day but without the wedding or the recalcitrant groom.
For the Asbury Court Retirement Community was right across the road from the booked caterer and, well, it's not every year that the inhabitants of a retirement community get a great big Halloween party, is it? And the reception was already, given the date, going to be a Halloween themed one.
Instead of letting a Halloween-themed wedding reception go to waste, Harris, 34, and her mom decided to move the festivities across the street. "She came in one day and said she wanted to make a donation," said Eichenfeld. "I don't think she knew anybody here, and we don't get offers like that. So we were thrilled and so were our residents. It came out of the blue."
By all account, the bash was a blast. The wedding DJ played oldies. The tables were decked out with candy jars and feathered masquerade masks. The banquet hall served up a senior-friendly meal. And the guests dressed up as everything from Dracula to Raggedy Ann. As for the bridal bouquet, Harris had it placed in the chapel of the old folks' home.
Ms. Harris is now in Hawaii on what should have been her honeymoon and which obviously isn't. And the woman running he retirement center says she hopes she finds a good young man who deserves her and so say all of us.
For that is the mistake that Matt Harker made: a woman with a heart of gold has a value beyond that of rubies as the Good Book says. And if it doesn't then perhaps it ought to.
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