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Story by Bernadette Blanco

There have been many wedding horror stories, but certainly very few stories about a bride being kidnapped by her very own parents.

On Wednesday, a bride was kidnapped by her parents just days before her wedding day. The bride was told by her parents that they were taking her on a shopping spree, but instead, they drove 240 miles away from the wedding ceremony, Provo, Utah to Colorado.

The bride-to-be, Julianna Redd, was taken captive by her parents, Lemuel and Julia Redd. Her parents tried to talk her out of the wedding nuptials, but couldn’t convince her so they kept her in Colorado until she missed her wedding.

Her fiancé, Perry Myers, realized his bride was missing after she didn’t show up to the pre-wedding dinner and called police. Yet, the police had to do little, in fact, did no searching for the bride.

Mr. and Mrs. Redd brought their daughter back home the day after her scheduled wedding date. The parents were then arrested by the Provo police and they were charged with second-degree kidnapping. If the parents are convicted, they could face up to 15 years in prison.

Despite the whole fiasco, four days after the incident, 21-year-old Julianna Redd got married. It’s too bad her parents didn’t realize before their plan, that nothing -- not even kidnapping -- can prevent their daughter from getting married.

What would drive her parents to do such a drastic thing?

Julianna indicated that the kidnapping had nothing to do with her fiancé. So what was it? Did Mr. and Mrs. Redd think that Julianna was too young to get married? Or did they think that the wedding date wasn’t the appropriate time to get married?

Whatever the case may be, the parents’ plan was stupid and selfish. The Redds can’t hold a grown adult captive and think that it is okay.

Julianna and Perry are now expecting their first baby in May 2007. This will surely be an interesting wedding story they can tell their new child about.