Jennifer Carol Wilbanks, forever immortalized as the real life runaway bride, made headlines in 2005 when she vanished from Duluth, Georgia – just days before her 600-person wedding – and again when she resurfaced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, several days later. Wilbanks and her fiancé, John Mason, were to be married a mere six days after her disappearance. Although, at first, she claimed to have been kidnapped, she later changed her story and admitted that she panicked at the thought of marrying Mason in front of their 600 wedding guests and 28 attendants.