I Left My Stingy Fiancee

Hunter Ludwig has spent years with Jessica Little, a wealthy woman whose extreme frugality has always been aimed at him alone. She refuses to buy his favorite chicken drumsticks, treats his fever with nothing but warm water, and calls the marriage certificate a pointless expense. When the fee finally drops to nothing, he puts on his one discounted suit and waits at the city hall hours early.

Jessica never arrives. Instead, Hunter finds her by the lake with Henry Kirby, the assistant she hired months ago, paying a street photographer a thousand dollars for a hundred intimate photos of the two of them. That night she calls Henry a college junior she is only helping, and pours Hunter the same warm water she always uses to smooth things over. At the office she hands Hunter's finished project to Henry, insisting young newcomers need a chance.

Hunter finally sees that her thrift was never about money, only about him.