Kilee Manulak was busy preparing for her wedding when she received a text message from her fiancé saying he didn’t want to marry her after their two-year engagement. “I was just so devastated”.
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Manulak did the color run with her mother, stepfather, bridesmaids and even the woman who custom-made her wedding dress.
Instead of sitting around and moping, Manulak, 29, decided there was only one thing left to do: trash her dress.
Jessica Rios of All Brides 2 Be, the shop where Manulak bought the dress, attended the event at Manulak’s request.
“Luckily I have a really good support system and a really good family”, she said.
“I don’t want a pity party”.
The jilted bride then thanked her fiance for sparing her the heartache she would have experienced in the future if they had gotten married.
“It was actually very liberating”, she told WFLA Tampa. Had the wedding happened, she never would have done it. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I should do this in my dress!'”
“I wanted to keep my dress”.
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Manulak hopes to sell the dress if the color can be washed out and is ultimately thankful to her former fiancé for the experience. “I just want to have fun with it”, said Manulak. A friend sent her the registration link to the Color Fun Fest 5k in Tampa Bay, Fla., where runners get doused with colored powder throughout the course of the race.
