Maybe all the God-talking, jock-talking, purpose-driven people in her life just drove her nutty

Well, the left-behind jock-doofus fiancé (John Mason) of the spooky-eyed runaway bride (Jennifer Wilbanks) has spoken to his good bud Sean Hannity and here's what I learned: I would have put at least an ocean between myself and the guy…and Dr. Smiley the pastor… and the 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen…and the intensely intertwined families, step-families, and church families. But hey, that's just me.

I think it's telling that Mason didn't realize how long she'd been jogging because he'd been watching a Braves game and talking on the phone with his future father-in-law.

MASON: Yes, yes. I waited — actually, it's funny, I'd forgotten this part of the story. And I don't think we've told it. I was watching the Braves game and I was talking to him on the phone as a matter of fact, because they were getting ready to blow another lead and they had the reliever in the ninth inning that was just giving up one base hit after another. Your boy Coles.
HARRIS WILBANKS, JENNIFER WILBANKS' FATHER: Yes.
MASON: And we were cutting up about that and then the Braves game finally got over and I was trying to get Harris off the phone, because it was like 10 at night, which is my bedtime normally, because I get up at 5 and go to the gym. At least I have been when I've been in honeymoon training.And I finally got Harris off the phone, it was like 10:15, and I'm like, wait a minute. She ain't back here. Something's going on.

And I think it's telling that Mason calls his family pastor, Dr. Tom Smiley, a special breed of cat.

MASON: Yes, Allen's a special breed of cat, man. He's been my rock this week. And we prayed and then a couple other deacons came in, went back in my office and we prayed some more. And by about Thursday afternoon on through the end of this, I've had this peace that — what's the verse in Philippians?
SMILEY: The path of understanding.
MASON: The path of understanding.
SMILEY: All things work together for good with them that love the Lord.
MASON: And that one.

And I think it's telling that the Mason-Wilbanks relationship has gone unconsummated (at least on some religious technicality that I really don't understand).

HANNITY: Now, she had just basically moved her stuff into your place.
MASON: Yes. Over the last months and weeks and whatever, she'd just kind of moved stuff down. And she would kind of started staying the night at the house. It was just convenience more than anything else.
Our relationship from that standpoint is still very pure. We have not broken the sanctity of marriage yet, if that's the right way of putting it. In God's eyes, our relationship is still very pure.
But we did sleep under the same roof from time-to-time and that has come up this week. And I know that that's been a question on a lot of people's minds. But we weren't technically living together.

And I think it's very telling that the good Dr. Smiley isnt' telling.

SMILEY: We [Jennifer and I] talked about this last night. And you know, as hard as it is to understand — and I know people just can't understand it, Sean; they just can't — but as hard as it is to understand, this was not about the wedding. It was not about John. It was not about whether she wanted to get married.

As I said, at least an ocean. And maybe a mountain range, too.