Bride 'dumped by fiancé at reception after she misses her own £12,000 wedding'

A bride was reportedly dumped by her fiancé at her reception after she was so late to her own wedding.

Nichola Tuohy accidentally jilted her husband when she failed to turn up for her wedding ceremony following a series of disasters. She eventually turned up for only the reception but her man, Darren Ferne was no longer willing to have her as his wife.

Nichola had spent months planning her dream wedding to Darren Ferne - costing £12,000 - according to The Sun. On the wedding day, Darren waited for his bride at the altar but she didn't show up.

Back at home, Nichola was having a bad day. Her makeup was messed up and made her look horrible so she had to clean it, one of her bridesmaids canceled on her, dresses were missing, the car booked for the wedding had an issue... By the time she sorted all that and drove herself to her own wedding with her dress in the boot and no makeup on her face, the wedding was over and her groom walked out on her when he saw her enter the reception.

The couple met online in September 2014, Nichola said thy hit it off straight away and Darren proposed just five weeks later. Too soon for the mum-of-three, they waited another three months and when Darren got down on one knee again on Valentine's Day she said yes.

Nichola and her children, Alexander, 20, Grace Isabella, eight, and seven-year- old Max, began planning her wedding to the 40-year-old customer services adviser, the Sun reports. But it ended in disaster. 

Nichola, from Hornchurch, Essex in England said: “I wish the rehearsal the night before had been the real thing. It was my fault. I just got so overwhelmed with things to do on the day that I had a meltdown. I feel like I have lost everything.”

The would-be bride said the makeup she had done at a department store made her feel like a"TOWIE extra". She said when she got home her parents told her they were not attending the ceremony, as they disapproved. Further problems followed including her bridesmaid canceling because her children were ill. Also, the vintage car they had booked did not have enough seatbelts, so she was forced to drive herself and her children in her Ford Focus to pick up the dress and get herself to the church, with no make-up on and her dress in the boot.

Trying to make the 20 mile journey in 30 minutes meant care worker Nichola missed the entire ceremony, with Darren walking out at the reception after she arrived. The couple stayed together after that but the doomed wedding hung over them and they eventually split up.

"We would probably still be together now if our wedding hadn’t been ruined," Darren told the paper. "It’s not the kind of thing you can get over easily."