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But she’s also a marriage-minded mercenary who can pitch one potential client on soppy platitudes about till death do you part, and immediately pivot to assuring a bride that it’s just a business deal.

"I've never been someone who's really thought about a wedding, or dreamt about what kind of bride I would be. All of a sudden I'm like, 'Oh, what would I wear?'"

The families of the couple had alleged that the bride had also either been killed or abducted and mounted a huge campaign to find her.

A couple held their wedding at a hospital after an attempted "party trick" at the hen do led to the bride being paralysed.

No story better exemplifies that ethos than that of the teenage fake bride turned kidnapper who aches for her mother.