The bride's in "severe shock". The groom has fled underground. A massive manhunt now ensues on the island of Crete, led by allegedly worried police convinced that the fleeing groom is in grave danger. The attention of world media from Athens to Australia has been riveted by this melodrama.

The beleagured bride-to-be has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Heraklion after encountering a scene deemed, even by uninterested bystanders, as a blatant exercise in the art of the unexpected.

Alas, she caught him on their wedding's eve, wearing her very own wedding dress and boinking not with the Maid of Honor, no, but with The Best Man.

This incident is being treated by the bride's angry family as the very gravest and most profound sort of humiliation that the groom-on-the-lam has visited upon them.

Reactions, following the bride's collapse, are summoning up seldom-thought-about issues that revolve around both the "sacrament" of marriage, and whatever possible international repercussions may ensue as a Greek male's unsuccessful attempt at adopting conventional marital trappings becomes global Village news.

These marital trappings, strictly enforced in present-day Greek society, seem to have been, at least, somehow attractive to the now-fugitive bisexual (and possibly) transgendered man.

The island's population—Cretans-- are furious not only because the bride is in shock, but because her fiancée has reportedly "shamed" them in front of the entire world. They fear, it appears, that this bizarre episode has made a laughing-stock of their venerable island.

The bride's family has sworn revenge should they lay eyes upon the unlucky groom again.

Police say that the most unsettling aspect of the scandal seems to be have been the groom's inappropriate (in their view) wearing—at an inopportune time-- of the bride's wedding dress.

According to news reports from Athens, the bride and groom, on the eve before the marriage ceremony, each went their own ways, according to a custom which forbids the groom to lay eyes on his betrothed on the day before the wedding.

The bride, in the company of a group of women who were her friends, had been asked to show off her nuptials- fashions and finery. She had not expected to lead her friends into the house she and her "husband to be" had purchased as a home and to find him in full drag and in the embrace of the Best Man.

Front-page newspaper cartoons portraying two males enjoying a pre-nuptial romp have appeared across Greece.