Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced on Facebook Monday that her daughter Bristol has called off this weekend’s planned wedding to U.S. Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer. 
 
 “Bristol and Dakota couldn’t be more thankful for the love and support of family and friends over the past months while preparing for their wedding,” the former GOP vice presidential nominee wrote. “They have informed loved ones that unfortunately the announced celebration planned for May 23 will not be held.” 
 
 Palin’s post included a note from Bristol dismissing allegations that Meyer had been secretly married and not divorced. But the post did not provide more detail on why the wedding was called off. 
 
 Sarah Palin also included an image of a poster reading ” Trust in God’s timing. It’s better to wait a while and have things fall into place than to rush and have things fall apart.” 
 
 The couple had announced their engagement in March. As USA TODAY reported at the time: ||||| A friend of Bristol Palin’s husband-to-be’s 'secret wife' has attacked the former Marine, telling him to ‘tell the truth’ because the woman from his past ‘doesn’t deserve’ to be part of his ‘mess’. 
 
 Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, who is due to marry Palin in just one week, married Cassandra Wain in Campbellsville, Kentucky, in May 2008, a marriage certificate in his name shows. 
 
 Her friend has come forward to say that the couple ‘realized it was a mistake’ to get married and they ‘remained civil’ after the breakup and were in contact as recently as October. 
 
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 A friend of Cassandra Wain (pictured), who married Dakota Meyer in 2008, said she doesn't understand why the former Marine is hiding information about his previous marriage 
 
 The friend of Wain (pictured second from left) said that the couple's relationship was 'short-lived', but that they 'remained civil' after breaking up. She said they last spoke in October 2014 
 
 ‘We never discredit you as a Marine, you were a great soldier. We took you in after you came back from the hospital in Ohio and wanted to be there for you,’ she wrote in a Facebook comment on Meyer’s profile. 
 
 She continued: ‘What I'm not understanding is why this marriage to my best fiend is something you are trying to hide. 
 
 ‘You guys were young and infatuated with one another. You got married, then realized it was a mistake. No scandal, no abuse, no nothing. It was short lived and we thought you all remained civil. 
 
 ‘To read the bulls*** of people putting their two cents into this issue they know nothing about is hard to read. 
 
 ‘Cassie is a small town girl who is beautiful and intelligent and just wants the past in the past. Now she's suffering from other people’s opinions of her based off your lies Dakota. 
 
 Days from marriage: Bristol Palin is pictured with her fiancé, Dakota Meyer. It has emerged that Meyer was previously married in Kentucky and the couple legally divorced in March 2010 
 
 Vows: A document appears to show the union between Meyer, then 19, and Cassandra Marie Wain in 2008 
 
 ‘She doesn't want the spotlight like you do....she wants to move on and you aren't letting her. The last time you contacted her was in October of 2014.....leave her alone and let it go. 
 
 ‘We wish you all the best with your future Dakota. Just be honest.’ 
 
 Meyer, now 26, would have been just 19 when he wed Wain, who was two years his senior. 
 
 On the marriage certificate, he lists his occupation as 'marine', while Wain, who is from Michigan, worked as a records processor at the time, the certificates shows. 
 
 The couple legally divorced on March 3, 2010, according to Meyer's lawyer. 
 
 Other information about the marriage is sealed, reported RadarOnline, which was the first to share the document. 
 
 Bristol's rep told DailyMail.com that it was the first he had heard of the relationship and had not discussed the issue with his client. 
 
 Celebration: Bristol shared this snap of her kissing her fiance after their engagement two months ago 
 
 Daily Mail Online is still awaiting a response from Meyer and his lawyer, regarding Wain's friend's Facebook comment. There have also been attempts to contact Wain and her friend. 
 
 Palin, 24, announced that she was engaged to Meyer in March on Instagram. 
 
 'Truly the luckiest girl in the world, cannot wait to marry this man,' Palin wrote next to photo of herself kissing Meyer and flashing a large ring. 
 
 She met Meyer last year when he flew from his home in Kentucky to Alaska to appear on Sarah Palin's Amazing America TV show. 
 
 Meyer, who served in the Marines for four years, was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama in 2011. 
 
 He was given the top award after repeatedly charging into a kill zone during a 2009 ambush in Kunar Province, Afghanistan in search of four of his missing comrades. 
 
 Approval: Meyer, who served in the military for four years, is pictured with Bristol and her mother, Sarah Palin 
 
 Heroic: Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama in 2011 for repeatedly headed into a fire zone in 2009 in a bid to save his injured comrades. He was able to save 36 troops 
 
 He was able to rescue 36 troops and kill eight Taliban attackers despite being shot in the arms. He was not able to save his four fellow Marines, but went back and carried their bodies out. 
 
 Following the engagement, he also shared his excitement on social media, saying: 'I'm definitely the luckiest guy ever to be able to spend the rest of my life with [Bristol].' 
 
 The couple have both been counting down the days until their wedding. 
 
 'I just want to wish the best mother I know a Happy Mothers Day!' he wrote last weekend. 'Thank you for being the amazing woman that you are! #futurewife #13days.' 
 
 Palin has a six-year-old son, Tripp, with former fiancé Levi Johnson. She gave birth to the little boy when she was just 17 and she and Johnson ultimately broke up in 2009. 
 
 Since her mother's failed bid to become vice president in 2008, Bristol has appeared on Dancing with the Stars and featured in her own Lifetime show with her son, 'Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp'. 
 
 She also released a best-selling memoir in 2011, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far.
– Bristol Palin's wedding to a Marine war hero this weekend has been called off, mom Sarah Palin writes on Facebook. But the Palins are still planning "a great bar-b-que" in Kentucky that day for family and close friends, the former Alaska governor adds. Bristol and fiance Dakota Meyer "couldn’t be more thankful for the love and support of family and friends over the past months while preparing for their wedding," Palin writes, per USA Today. "They have informed loved ones that unfortunately the announced celebration planned for May 23 will not be held." Whether it's over or just delayed isn't totally clear, People notes. Awkwardly, tabloids like the Daily Mail reported mere days ago on Meyer having a "secret wife" he was "still calling." But on mom's Facebook post, Bristol dismisses such "salacious headlines," saying "Dakota and I discussed our past relationships prior to our engagement. Dakota was legally divorced years ago." Indeed, Meyer's lawyer tells Inquisitr that the Marine and his former wife, Cassandra Wain, divorced back in 2010. But a friend of Wain's sister reportedly accused Meyer on Facebook of "trying to hide" the old marriage—and now Wain is "suffering from other peoples [sic] opinions of her based off your lies Dakota." Well, at least there's gonna be a barbecue. No fighting allowed.