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I’ll start, the bride and groom got married at 20 and the bride’s dad asked her to return his credit card during his speech because she can’t use “daddy’s money” now that she’s married. He then ran over and started cutting his OWN credit card while the DJ played Rich Girl.
Saw some signs at the wedding like ignoring each other, making rude and snide remarks publicly, etc. They tried to fix their marriage by having a kid earlier than they planned and that led to divorce. Both are married to different people now and have had more kids, by all accounts far more civil, even cordial with each other.
During the reception the brides niece accidentally knocked over a drink that splashed the brides shoes and she back handed her in front of everyone. It caused a huge fight and the groom walked out right then.
Actually, I performed a wedding at a local bar.. we left about 10 pm. The newlyweds got drunk, started fighting, and were arrested, spending the night in jail.
She was way hotter than my cousin. By like a lot. She was also was nicer than him. Like a lot. So she left him. I still don’t know why she married him in the first place. She made more than he did/does. So it wasn’t looks, personality, or money.
My cousin (female/bride) was “dancing too much” at the reception so the groom hit her. My uncles gave HIM a ride to the hospital which he needed very badly by the time he got there. It was annuled pretty quickly.
I was going to be “best man” at a friend’s wedding. We got together the evening before the wedding, and all seemed well. Then, at 7:30 the next morning, I got a phone call from my friend. He said that the wedding was called off, and he would call and explain later. He didn’t. It was two weeks later, I finally got a hold of his dad, and he said that his son was away at boot camp, and wouldn’t be coming back. I never heard from him or the bride again, so I don’t really know what happened.
The bride and groom got married and within 3 months, the bride found out the groom was married and had kids in a different country.
Uh…The bride came out to slipknot. They wrote their own vows which were, shall we say, overtly and uncomfortably sexual, and they had been dating for a grand total of two whole weeks.
Any and all attempts to inform them that this was a mistake were met with “When you know, you know.” or “You’re just jealous.”
But hey, a free bar is a free bar.
Didn’t go to the wedding, but did go to the bachelorette/goodbye party. We were in college, she was 19, from a super conservative family. Her long time boyfriend visited her once and was terrible – wouldn’t talk to anyone, basically sulked the whole time. He clearly hated that she was in school. When he proposed, her parents pulled the plug on college tuition because “she didn’t need it anymore.” So she dropped out at the end of her freshman year, moved back to central California and got married to the shithead.
I never saw her again, but from what I’ve seen on Facebook she finally dumped him in her mid-20s, moved across the country to get away from her family, and was working restaurant jobs while trying to get a degree. We’re in our 30s now, and she still seems pretty angry about everything she missed out on and how she was treated, but she’s living her life on her own terms. Not a happy ending, but I’m happy for her.
There was a young lady working with me, who was caught texting her boyfriend on the wedding day. She had even sent him herself in her wedding dress.
My brother got married to a woman from Russia while in the army. The whole family thought she married him for a green card, but he was convinced it was love. They had their ceremony in a gazebo on a military base. It was a small gathering of family that traveled to it from out of state. His best friend since high school got ordained just so he could marry them. My brother was really excited. He wore a nice suit and the bride… well… she showed up in a bright pink track suit. They divorced a year later
The relationship between the bride’s father and the groom was contentious from before the wedding. At it, one of the bride’s cousins’ +1 had a dress with a cleavage, and one of the groom’s cousins, drunk off his ass, came to her and told her he wanted, ad verbatim, to suck her boobs.
+1 tells her date, who promptly punches the groom’s cousin. This begins a full on family vs family brawl, that culminates with the groom punching the bride’s father, and this man taking his daughter away and keeping her away from her husband for ten days.
It got annulled! Can’t imagine why 🤪
I’m not sure but the thank you card from my gift arrived on the day I found out they were divorced. 2 weeks at most.
A few weeks later, the bride drove to her parents” house after work instead of her home and said she didn’t want to be married anymore and asked them to fix it.
Another one, bride left months later because groom’s drug use had quickly spiraled out of control.
My cousin got married pretty early into a relationship in her early twenties. It was a very simple wedding as not much could be afforded (they had the groom’s… 12 year old cousin (?) be the photographer because I was a bridesmaid).
When cutting the cake, my cousin fed the piece of cake to her new husband and did the usual little show but didn’t make that big of a mess. It was his turn. He absolutely tried to smash it into my cousin’s face.
They got divorced. I can’t remember how long after the wedding that was but maybe at least a year later?
Now she’s remarried and seems very happy. They’re on holiday right now. I’ll be able to meet him in roughly two months.
The maid of honor sat down at our table, downed a shot, and said, “I give them three years.”
Edit: They made it 2 years and 8 months.
They were both 35 successful lawyer and doctor. But had never spent the night at each other’s house.Â
After the marriage they couldn’t agree who would move in with who. And filed for divorce after 3 months. No one knows why they even got married at all. I guess they felt like they were supposed to at that age.
The wedding was beautiful and the most expensive wedding I have even been to. The bride worked for a fashion designer in NYC and had 3 different dresses she wore during different parts of the wedding.
They announced she was pregnant soon after the wedding and unfortunately scans showed there were a few things wrong with the baby. The stress of the situation caused my cousin (the husband) to relapse and go back to his old heroin habit – which apparently she had no idea about. His drug use quickly spiraled and he got fired from his job for stealing, and then his wife found out about it all and moved out to stay with her parents. Baby was born 100% healthy – scans had got it wrong. He tried to quit drugs and make amends to her but it was rocky and she divorced him before their 1st anniversary.
He dipped off for a few years doing drugs, then got sober and found out he had brain cancer. Relapsed. Got sober again and had his brain tumor removed. Now he is still sober and remarried, has a few kids with his new wife.
Went to Singapore to attend a female friend’s wedding with a Singaporean guy.
She’d been so happy up until the actual wedding. My friends and I arrived like three days before the ceremony, and the wedding girl was visibly troubled when she met us. We just thought it was nerves and all that.
Wedding day comes and she comes out, in her full wedding gown, with an absolute bitch face. Like I’m-about-to-murder-someone kind of bitch face. I’m not even kidding lol. Never smiled once during the whole ceremony and the dinner. She loosened up a bit in the after party, and my gf went and asked if her she was OK. She waved my gf away.
Right after the wedding, she went back to Hong Kong for work, claiming there’s shit she needs to do. Then covid hit and we’re practically not allowed to travel anywhere for a year or two. We were worried about her marriage but she was always rather evasive, not answering our questions or just shooting the shit whenever we talked about it. Our circle of friends learned not to ask about it anymore.
Fast forward 5 years until now, it turns out that she never actually got married lol. The ceremony and everything was a show. We gathered that the dude probably had another girlfriend in Singapore and she only found out right before the wedding. But then she never said it out loud, hinted it here or there with some close friends of hers.
Shits unreal.
6 or 7 of us, with a 4yo kid, flew to Singapore just to witness a show of a wedding lol.
Groom went missing between ceremony and reception. Bride found him banging the best man in the toilets. She smashed a glass in his face.
Wedding was fine. But then the groom tried to throw the bride off the balcony of the penthouse apartment they were staying in on the wedding night.
I know this because I was a bridesmaid and she called me and another bridesmaid and asked us to stay the night with them in their hotel room. Super awkward, but she assured us it wasn’t a sexual thing. Turns out she didn’t feel safe being alone with him. Rightly so.
They hid it well in public, he seemed like a decent guy until then (from what I had seen. Obviously that wasn’t accurate). Why she married him I l’ll never know. I guess she was afraid of what he’d do if she said no.
A week before the wedding the bride walked in on the groom fucking the dog’s stuffed toy. They went through with the very elaborate wedding and I’m pretty sure it’s because she wanted a wedding, not a marriage, in the first place. They anulled the marriage 2 weeks later. Her parents are still paying off the wedding debt and that happened 5 years ago.
It was a very small wedding with just parents, siblings and a few close friends with the reception taking place in a restaurant. The groom disappeared from the meal for almost an hour to go and smoke weed and when he returned she yelled “You couldn’t last three fucking hours without going for a spliff! Fucks sake!!”
Six months later the two of them had no cash as he wouldn’t get a job and she was studying. She said to him “We have £20 left in our account. If you spend it on weed I’m leaving you”
He spent it on weed. She packed her bags that night.
One of my best friends got married. None of us had met her before but we hadn’t seen him in years and were super excited to reconnect. This was the most elaborate wedding I had ever been to. Tuxes, an incredible meal, a hall that resembled hogwarts, an opera performance and a string quartet playing his favourite rap songs. It was incredible, yet we just knew it wasn’t “him”. We started to mingle with her friends at a table and we soon learned they didn’t really know her.. We brushed it off as we just wanted to be there for him and have a good time.
That was until the mother of the bride made a harmless joke about the bride being difficult as a child. This led to the bride eventually storming off after the dances, locking herself in a room, getting blackout and berating him, his family and many guests who had flown across the country to be there. It all started to click that she was just absolutely psycho. Most of the guests caught the vibe and left by 930pm. Me and my friends eventually sat with her “friends” and shut down the party. From 150 guests down to 8. Why would we let everything go to waste? He quickly came over after he was able to calm her down and apologized to us and left. We honestly thought we’d never see him again.
6 weeks later he called me, he had returned home. They were done. The story just has so many layers to it.
Looking back, in the one day we had been around the situation there was SO many red flags. Thankfully we have him back and he’s thriving.
High school friend, and tennis partner. She fell in love with the highschool football jock that wanted to be a police officer. He got the job. And beat the brakes off my friend just 3 months after she had his child. She divorced him on the spot. She had enough. Looking back I can see the red flags he was flying in high school. I guess I just didn’t have the voice or knowledge to know better (I came from a shitty home.)
She’s doing good now! And I’m happy for her!
I live in a small town in switzerland, so everybody knows everybody.
A couple was to marry on saturday. The guest came along and while they were greeted the bridge excused herself. She left to suck of a former male friend of her ‘one last time’ and got caught. We used to joke about her ‘blowing of the wedding’. This thing happend years ago, but the both are still living in our town seperatively and i can’t unhear the story when i see them.
I’m offering up this one because it actually, ultimately, has a happy ending.
I got to know a guy in my home town who had a wife from somewhere abroad. Every time I was around at his house she’d glare at him, refuse to speak to or acknowledge me, and just walk around like the physical incarnation of a thunderstorm. She was the exact same toward everyone else as well.
When I asked my friend about this, he admitted she didn’t really like where they lived, that being a town in the UK. And in fairness, it was not the nicest area of town by a very long shot, but he seemed oblivious to this. Their apartment was great, but the area around it looked like a set from The Walking Dead.
That marriage lasted six months. When I asked him after, why they got married, he told me he thought that since he was now (at that time) thirty years old, he should probably settle down. Which is the daftest reason to get married anyone’s ever given me.
Then this happened, told to me, by him, after the fact.
From time to time he’d get emails from an old friend of his, a girl who had been a part of his circle of friends when he was younger, and who had since returned home to Asia. When she learned he’d married, her emails dried up for a few years.
Just days after his divorce, she got back in touch for the first time in a long time and he wrote back with the news he was divorced.
Three days later she flew halfway around the world to see him. They became a couple after a couple of days, married one year later, and now have three kids. And live in a much nicer area.