The Tyee features a fraught tale on how to get dumped by your fiance and cancel your wedding:
In April I sold my condo and removed the final subjects for buying our new home. This should have been a joyous occasion. Small detail: The day after I sold my condo my fiancé announced that he was infatuated with a woman in his master’s program and didn’t love me enough to marry me.
You’d think this would have been a hint: “We had the engagement ring crafted in July, yet my fiancé procrastinated over proposing to me until I set a deadline for the end of summer.”
DarrenBarefoot.com 
My daughter is thinking of eloping and cancelling her formal wedding .
She wants to have a party, after the marriage, for her friends and family, and guests .
Should she send back the bridal shower gifts that she already received, or may she keep them?
Mother of the “eloping” Bride