The fastest marriage on record lasted just 3 minutes. This happened in Kuwait in 2019 when a couple got divorced immediately after their wedding ceremony because the groom insulted the bride for tripping as they exited the courthouse. The bride demanded an annulment on the spot, and the judge granted it within minutes.
Lol, got married. She never moved into the house they bought together. Stayed at her parent’s house over an hour away. Filled for divorce a month later. Took a few years to make it official. I seriously don’t think they even met in person after the wedding.
About 6 months and she was a nightmare. We’d have a gathering once a month or so to play boardgames or cards. Nothing loud, or obnoxious. She’d go watch tv in their bedroom. There were other couples there, she would make no effort and we joked that she needed the, “please leave by 9” glittery banner whenever we came over.
However, whenever we or another couple would host. He’d show up without her as she’d cancel last minute, “be cause she just can’t” tonight. But would blow up his phone every 10 minutes so he couldn’t even enjoy himself. Bring me this, bring me that, I’m getting that dizzy thing again, I heard a noise outside, I’m falling asleep but you know I can’t sleep when you aren’t here.
She wanted a real princess life. Joked about how he owed her an hour massage for letting him have his friends over. You could have heard a pin drop.
After the wedding was over , there’s a cultural thingy where bride and groom eats from the same plate , bridegroom ate but bride didn’t want to , ended dramatically within the first hour after marriage.
I knew someone whose wife cheated on him on the honeymoon, with someone she’d been chatting with online and organised a meetup at the destination. I think it was 2 weeks.
(Former) friends marriage lasted less than a year because he got nudes from his sister-in-law and then started extorting her for money. Additionally turned out he was messaging other girls creepy things
My mother had this friend and her daughter had been high school sweethearts with this guy and after dating for over ten years they decided to get married. A few months after the wedding she confessed she was in love with someone else and had been since before the wedding but didn’t dare call it all off. They divorced, she got with the other guy and then they had a shitty relationship that ended in a break up.
My ex from high school got married in his early 20s right after he got out of jail. Guy was the most immature drug addicted bozo who couldn’t hold a job to save his life. I heard through others that his ‘wife’ desperately wanted a wedding, pressured him into it while in jail and held it as soon as he was out.
Anyway wasnt surprised to hear about their divorce about 6 months later lol
Girl in my high school got married at 19 to a guy 10 years older than her, they got divorced like 8 months later. Managed to have a kid that got taken away by CPS.
I knew a girl who filed for divorce after three months after she discovered he had used her credit card to sign up for Ashley Madison. I can’t remember what the charge was listed as but it was a card she didn’t use so she was surprised when she got a bill for the month. That meant he had signed up just after they got back from their honeymoon. The the divorce took 3 years and they fought over everything including a dog that he hated and a jet ski she wouldn’t ride.
I know of one that lasted two weeks (and was actually over before that). High school sweethearts, but the bride tried to back out of the wedding realizing her fiancé was and always had been controlling and emotionally abusive. Her mom and MIL convinced her it was just cold feet. She went through with it; on their wedding night he gave her a “this is how it’s going to be now that we’re married” speech about what he expected her to do/ not do as his wife, and she left that night and didn’t come back.
A friend married an “unemployed interior designer”. They went for a 3 day honeymoon. He went to work the next day. When he came home she had rearranged his house. Took down all his pictures, and put up hers. The end.
I ran into a coworker and her husband the morning after their wedding at the airport on their way to their honeymoon. She was in the restroom and I told the groom congrats on the wedding etc and he said “yeah this one ain’t lasting too long” and then just smiled.
About three months later they were divorced but I don’t know all the reasons. They both were trainwrecks.
My own, within 3 months. We got married and it was like a complete 180°. Turns out his ex girlfriend reached out to him around the same time and he still had feelings for her. I found out because she messaged me on Facebook with the screenshots of their texts. He had promised to leave me if she’d get back with him. She agreed, so we divorced. She never got back with him.
My mate lasted about 18 hours. His wife and mother got into an argument. His wife asked
Him to defend her. He said he wouldn’t choose between his mother and his wife so she left.
around 2 months. my friend was dating a guy for ~6 years and got married, then found one of his drug stash, started searching around their house and found another 3 or 4, dude was hiding them like a squirrel lol. she blocked all funds and filed a divorce immediately, im happy that she filed not after 10 years of marriage, but still curious how she didn’t find out that her bf was on cocaine for 6 years
My mom and my first stepdad were only married for a handful of weeks. I was pretty young at the time so I’m not fully aware of the details, but I suspect the marriage had been an attempt to “fix” whatever problems they had in their relationship prior to that point, which is basically never going to actually work.
They eloped to Vegas, and a couple weeks later my mom is explaining what an annulment is to me.
When I was in college I knew a girl who was friends with my roommates. She was getting married but it was clear they were unhappy. On the month of her wedding she said she didn’t want to get married anymore but a lot of people already sent gifts and others were excited so she felt bad canceling. On the day of her wedding she went and got married, had the reception, and that night slept on our couch. She lived with us for 3 months on our couch and totally spiraled until she dropped out of college.
A coworker from when I was younger left on Friday for her wedding and when I came into work on Monday, I found out she was dead. The husband stabbed her to death at the after party because she was dancing with his brother.
My own, less than a year. Turns out getting married just because you’ve been together for 6 years was a bad idea, especially when he still wanted to fuck other people.
I was a close friend of the bride. Straight after the ceremony she grabbed me. She was crying her eyes out and said “Mike’s not here! Mike didn’t come! He didn’t see me looking pretty in my dress!”
Mike was her work boss who she had a crush on.
Bride hid away in corner on the excuse of being tired. Groom partied with his friends.
Bright and groom went on honeymoon, came back separated. Mike left his wife to embark on a two-week affair with the bride, then returned to his wife.
My dad is a photographer and did a fair share of weddings. He did one about 10 years ago on a Saturday and then got a call on Monday that the bride had killed herself and the family wanted all of the pictures unedited and immediately. He sent everything he had and returned payment right then and there…it was really, really sad.
About half a year or so, the groom discovered going out with the lads was pretty fun to do and started doing it not very long before their wedding so the bride thought it might be a temp thing, he kinda kept at it after the wedding with the trust of his wife but it just so happens that he couldn’t keep his hands down so it was a matter of time before someone who knew the pair, filmed the guy full on groping a woman in a club while kissing and so it all ended.
Mind you the pair spent a huge amount of money on the wedding (at Disney) so he was financially bankrupt for a long time, he went from living in a beautiful home with plenty of land around him near the water working in finance to a small one bedroom apartment in the rougher neighborhood of the city working as a warehouse employee
1 week, I went to the wedding in Cyprus, came home the day after landing the bride announced his side piece had turned up at their home pregnant 🙈 why the side piece waited till after they married is beyond me.. but he left her for the side piece and is still with her as far as I know
Three weeks after they returned from honeymoon. She ran away with a guy from work (clearly something was going on before they married). My mate found out because the nursery where their daughter went phones on Friday afternoon to say no-one has come to collect their daughter. He was also a policeman, and it was his colleagues who found his estranged wife and affair partner in a cheap hotel that weekend. Our friendship group never thought they were right for each other, but damn, never expected it to blowup like it did.
My own marriage ended after roughly three months. Ten years together prior to that. I shouldn’t have ever married her in the first place, but she insisted/swore she would “do better.” She was horrible with money, to the point that she was making six figures and still constantly overdrafting her checking account. It made life extremely stressful.
Just a few months. Couple of kids at my high school got married during Junior year. The “groom” had just moved to where I lived and I guess they thought this was a good way to make long distance work. A Senior from my school who’d turned 18 officiated. Anyways, parents found out when the little brother told them and got the whole thing annulled. It wasn’t technically legal since they had lied about their ages in the marriage certificate, but they were at one point in the state registry.
3 months. He got federally indicted for having exactly what you think on a hard drive. She extorted him for money the whole while being aware what was going on. He later turned himself in.
One of my best friends got married August 25th, 2023. They were broken up by August 29th. She had hidden very well that he was extremely abusive their whole relationship and finally got the courage to leave. Right as it seemed things were getting better, she passed away September 6th. He’s off living a new life like nothing ever happened.
My brother, a fantastic guy, lived in LA and dated the classic stereotype of the wannabe Hollywood starlet. Store-bought boobs that arrived two minutes before the rest of her. And what she lacked in brains, she sure made up for in self-entitlement.
So, two months before the wedding, he calls me to say, “She moved out of the bedroom. What do I do?” You’d have to know my brother. He never asks anyone for advice, ever.
My reply? “If you postpone this wedding, absolutely no one will think badly of you.”
But the pressure was too great, so the runaway train that was this Hollywood wedding kept hurtling down the tracks.
It was a beautiful wedding to be sure, held on the bluffs over Malibu over Labor Day weekend. And it was an outstanding party filled with the glitterati making air kisses and promising to do lunch.
As the party was coming to an end, I pulled my brother aside and asked where the honeymoon would be.
“Well, I’ve been keeping it a surprise, but we’re going to the Caribbean.”
“In the Caribbean? It’s hurricane season.”
“The resort brochure says they never get hit.”
Five days later, I’m knotting my tie in an Atlanta hotel room before a client meeting. I’m watching the news reports about a hurricane smacking into the island where they were staying. A modest Category 4.
They were marooned on the island for three weeks without electricity and running water, eventually being evacuated by the Dutch marines.
They came home, and she immediately shoved some stuff in a bag and left.
He only saw her one more time at the divorce hearing six months later. She did reach out to him twenty years later, apologizing for being such a brat. But by that time he had married an awesome woman.
Mom’s friend left the wedding with her new husband, on the way t the honeymoon he pulled over and asked her to get out (to check a tire I think) and drove off leaving her on the side of the road. I don’t think she ever saw him again.
Two girls in high school talked about how their plan was to go to college in the south, meet a nice southern gentlemen, get married after college and start their families right away. Well, they each accomplished their goals and married their Southern gentlemen college boyfriends immediately after graduation, both had beautiful bucolic weddings with Edison bulb strands above one long table where everyone congregated with them at the head.
They were both divorced within a year. Separately, each walked in on their southern gentlemen getting plowed by another man.
Before the reception ended. Turns out bride and groom were in an open marriage by her request, bride apparently had fallen for the 3rd party and left the reception with that person instead of the groom. Had doubts before, but had gone through with the wedding because her dad had paid for it and he was traveling across the country to attend.
Overall v. shitty thing to do, the groom is a great guy and didn’t deserve it. The bride was a friend of mine but I haven’t talked to her since
EDIT: I just remembered how weird the reception was. Bride wore a black dress and only wanted fast songs the whole night, no slow songs
When I was in Iraq someone went on leave and got married.
When he came back he turned the paperwork in and learned that getting married in one state does not cancel out getting married in another. So ended up getting charged with bigamy.
Ooops.
He hadn’t told any of his peers because he was afraid of getting made fun of….
Found out two days after I got married that my ex was having an affair with a coworker. His affair partner emailed me everything as soon as she learned we got married — apparently he promised to leave me and end up with her. I confronted him, he said we should go to couples counseling, I said fuck no and kicked him out. He told me it would be embarrassing for me to get divorced so quickly … but not as embarrassing as it was for him, because she told his boss too, and he got fired.
I’m also a lawyer and wrote our pre-nup, so I didn’t have to pay the asshole any alimony 😎
I used to be a professional musician. I was playing in a big band outside of Columbus, Ohio for a wedding reception. It was the only time I’m aware of irl where someone screamed and the band actually awkwardly stopped playing in the middle of a song. I can’t remember if it was the bride’s or groom’s mother, but they found the bride under a table giving the best man a BJ. Like, you have no self control?? The father of the bride paid us and we left after only two sets…
A coworker got married … shared his wife’s nudes on whatsapp story the same night while she was asleep … his wife left him the next day and filed for divorce a few days later … he ended up quitting the job …
Got civilly married in June for insurance reasons, wedding ceremony was August. Lived together all summer. The day after the ceremony, they drove by her mom’s to pick up her bag for the honeymoon. She went in and never came out. Never spoke to him face to face again. Eventually texted that she didn’t love him and never had, and that’s the most explanation he ever got. He fought for her trying to understand what happened, but they were divorced by February.
Reading all this makes me think dating couples need to go to a marriage “boot” camp where these “stress” situations may cause an irreconcilable difference to cause a breakup.
Two days. American Bride met Australian groom in Australia but both wanted to live in the U.S., so bride gets job and buys house in U.S. while groom works on his Visa. It takes about eight months for groom to finish all the paperwork, but during that time, bride meets and starts a sexual relationship with a co-worker. As time gets closer to her fiancé’s arrival, bride gets increasingly emotionally unstable. Groom arrives and must marry bride within a few days’ time. They get married on a Sunday. Bride is now completely unstable and an emotional wreck. Two days later on Tuesday, she demands an annulment, tells the groom she’s been sleeping with and loves her coworker, groom is completely blindsided and devastatingly heartbroken, and flies back to Australia the next day. Bride is now even more crazy (crying loudly all day for several days at work) because she realized she broke a good man’s heart who loved her immensely. Boyfriend realizes he doesn’t actually care for her that much having “zero patience for crazy,” so dumps her soon after. I hope the groom realized quickly how lucky he is to not be married to her.
My aunt was once married for a few hours. During the reception, her husband took all of the cards and the gifts, disappeared and wasn’t seen again for years. Supposedly he said he was going to put everything in the car, but loaded up the car and drove off to another state that evening, and that was it.
Officially I want to say she had it annulled within a week, but unofficially you could say that the marriage was over after 6-7 hours.
At the reception. The groom hid from the bride that he has a child. She some how found out after the ceremony and before the reception. The groom was a real piece of shit in many ways but this took the cake. Poor bride was bawling at the reception and her side came to blows with the groom. At the end of the night, they went their separate ways.
4 weeks. The bride went to the bank to deposit their wedding gift monies in their savings account, asked for a statement, and saw the account was basically empty (they’d been saving for a house for the 7 years they’d been together). Turns out the groom had a secret gambling addiction and thought he could win all the money back before she noticed. I guess he didn’t bet on her looking at the account, just adding to it.
Know of someone whose wife had been nice and considerate until literally right after the wedding. They get to the hotel for the honeymoon, and she turns to him, does a complete 180 in tone and body language, and says, “Alright. Here’s how this is going to go.” She proceeds to demand that he get her a seperate room, she’ll be spending most of the honeymoon seperate from him, on a spending spree funded by him, and other aggressive, demeaning demands. The honeymoon was 2 weeks, and they had broken up by the end of week 1. He said it was really jarring, and insists that he never saw any hints of that side of her being there until right after the wedding, then it was like a switch flipped.
My friend got married. Everyone sat down to eat and he had an epileptic fit. He hasn’t had one in 10+ years, but it happened at the most unfortunate moment.
What’s worse the bride didn’t know anything about his past with epilepsy. She freaked out. So did her parents, and after a few pointy but polite words exchanged, it was over.
It was all over and the bridal party left the venue by the time the groom recovered from his seizure and was able to look around and understand where he was and what was happening.
PS: He married someone else a year later and she’s an amazing person and they made an awesome couple and they have two amazing kids together.
Had a mate as a teenager that dropped off the face of the Earth when he got his first proper girlfriend. Like basically never saw nor heard from him again. The only way we knew he was still alive was from chatting to his parents that we’d see in the pub etc.
Fast forward about 7 years, I get a text inviting me to a stag do and a wedding, from my long lost friend. Went on the stag do, and he was marrying that same first Girlfriend. At the wedding there was a weird vibe and she seemed pissed off about something.
2 weeks later, I see him in the pub in a bad way, having not seen him ‘out’ since we were teenagers. We got talking and he spilled his guts that his marriage was over. His wife had cheated on him on her hen do, after they’d been rocky for years. They were hoping the marriage would save things. She’d then proceeded to cheat on him with this lad, got pregnant, the lad dumped her and she went back to my mate, admitted it and he looked after her whilst she went through an abortion.
One day soon after, he came home to a note saying ‘I can’t do this anymore. Don’t try to contact me, don’t try to talk to my family, I’ll be in touch when I’m ready to sort all the money stuff out.’ They lived in his house, she drove a car he paid for.
Turns out she’s gone straight back to the guy she cheated with, and got pregnant again (still with him and has two kids now). My Buddy ended up selling his house at a loss to pay her out and she kept the car he bought her in the divorce. Really wrecked him and took him a couple of years to get back on his feet.
A friend was invited to a wedding; two of his colleagues were getting hitched. Not wanting to be alone, he invited me to the reception party.
Four hours after arriving, they had their first fight in front of all assembled guests causing the bride to yell “fuck this, this was a mistake” and left.
I was working for the video guy. There was other things going on, but the last straw was the bride smashing cake in the groom’s face. The groom picked up the bride and smashed the rest of the cake with her. The next day we got the call asking for the raw video for the lawyers.
I fell asleep on a couch at the “after party” (the whole thing took place at a big “mansion”) and woke up to a friend asking me for a ride because she was extremely uncomfortable staying any longer.
Apparently, not 5 feet from where I was passed out, the bride and groom got in a fist fight and agreed to end things that night. I missed the action, but apparently exist in the background of some “evidence” videos.
Not quite the question, but my friend had been married to her husband for about 5 years. She, my ex and I had lunch as I had just finished replacing her brakes (he was on a “hunting trip”).
We thought he was hunting deer, as is customary in Michigan in November. What he was hunting was a 22ish year old college girl. Waitress sat us down in the booth next to them.
“Hey Hubby!” He knew he was caught and paid for the filing that Monday.
A former coworker found out his wife cheated on him the night before the wedding. I don’t remember exactly when he found out but he came back to work from his honeymoon vacation already having filed for divorce. He was so pissed because his FIL had offered them either a big wedding or 50k for a down payment on a house. His wife insisted that it had to be a wedding because it was a symbol of their love.
He was cool dude, young guy and he didn’t let it make him an asshole. Last I heard he’d married someone, bought a house and had kids.
I am an ordained minister, the wedding was on a Saturday and everything went very well.
On Monday the bride had a meeting with her college financial advisor. She informed them she just got married and when they ran the numbers with the grooms info she no longer qualified for whatever financial assistance she was going for.
They called me right away to not turn in the certificate. Even though I had not turned it in yet they were technically considered married because they said their vows and we all signed it.
We went to the judge on Tuesday and he annulled it or whatever needed done.
They are still together, she has her degree, and now it’s a funny story to tell. They just left the relationship as is and never got “remarried”
They said maybe on their 10yr they’ll renew their vows and do it for real again.
Second hand story but too good not to tell. Friends of the groom had the tradition to do a slide show of all exes during the party. Bride recognized the swimming trunks he was wearing while being quite intimate with one of them as a pair she had given him. She ended the marriage on the spot. Marriage must have lasted three, four hours tops.
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The bridegroom cheating with one of the bridesmaids on the wedding day.
Cheating on a wedding day
The fastest marriage on record lasted just 3 minutes. This happened in Kuwait in 2019 when a couple got divorced immediately after their wedding ceremony because the groom insulted the bride for tripping as they exited the courthouse. The bride demanded an annulment on the spot, and the judge granted it within minutes.
Lol, got married. She never moved into the house they bought together. Stayed at her parent’s house over an hour away. Filled for divorce a month later. Took a few years to make it official. I seriously don’t think they even met in person after the wedding.
About 6 months and she was a nightmare. We’d have a gathering once a month or so to play boardgames or cards. Nothing loud, or obnoxious. She’d go watch tv in their bedroom. There were other couples there, she would make no effort and we joked that she needed the, “please leave by 9” glittery banner whenever we came over.
However, whenever we or another couple would host. He’d show up without her as she’d cancel last minute, “be cause she just can’t” tonight. But would blow up his phone every 10 minutes so he couldn’t even enjoy himself. Bring me this, bring me that, I’m getting that dizzy thing again, I heard a noise outside, I’m falling asleep but you know I can’t sleep when you aren’t here.
She wanted a real princess life. Joked about how he owed her an hour massage for letting him have his friends over. You could have heard a pin drop.
Twelve hours. They argued about the wedding cake and never spoke again.
After the wedding was over , there’s a cultural thingy where bride and groom eats from the same plate , bridegroom ate but bride didn’t want to , ended dramatically within the first hour after marriage.
She hadn’t even got the wedding photos back and discovered he was an ice addict with a mistress for YEARS.
He worked shifts in other states
I knew someone whose wife cheated on him on the honeymoon, with someone she’d been chatting with online and organised a meetup at the destination. I think it was 2 weeks.
One where a guy told his pregnant wife that she looked ugly and he wished he married someone else.
Three weeks. The groom was schizophrenic and had not mentioned this beforehand, also promptly stopped taking his medication.
(Former) friends marriage lasted less than a year because he got nudes from his sister-in-law and then started extorting her for money. Additionally turned out he was messaging other girls creepy things
My mother had this friend and her daughter had been high school sweethearts with this guy and after dating for over ten years they decided to get married. A few months after the wedding she confessed she was in love with someone else and had been since before the wedding but didn’t dare call it all off. They divorced, she got with the other guy and then they had a shitty relationship that ended in a break up.
My ex from high school got married in his early 20s right after he got out of jail. Guy was the most immature drug addicted bozo who couldn’t hold a job to save his life. I heard through others that his ‘wife’ desperately wanted a wedding, pressured him into it while in jail and held it as soon as he was out.
Anyway wasnt surprised to hear about their divorce about 6 months later lol
Girl in my high school got married at 19 to a guy 10 years older than her, they got divorced like 8 months later. Managed to have a kid that got taken away by CPS.
I knew a girl who filed for divorce after three months after she discovered he had used her credit card to sign up for Ashley Madison. I can’t remember what the charge was listed as but it was a card she didn’t use so she was surprised when she got a bill for the month. That meant he had signed up just after they got back from their honeymoon. The the divorce took 3 years and they fought over everything including a dog that he hated and a jet ski she wouldn’t ride.
I know of one that lasted two weeks (and was actually over before that). High school sweethearts, but the bride tried to back out of the wedding realizing her fiancé was and always had been controlling and emotionally abusive. Her mom and MIL convinced her it was just cold feet. She went through with it; on their wedding night he gave her a “this is how it’s going to be now that we’re married” speech about what he expected her to do/ not do as his wife, and she left that night and didn’t come back.
A friend married an “unemployed interior designer”. They went for a 3 day honeymoon. He went to work the next day. When he came home she had rearranged his house. Took down all his pictures, and put up hers. The end.
Britney Spears and Jason Alexander (not that one). 55 hours
I ran into a coworker and her husband the morning after their wedding at the airport on their way to their honeymoon. She was in the restroom and I told the groom congrats on the wedding etc and he said “yeah this one ain’t lasting too long” and then just smiled.
About three months later they were divorced but I don’t know all the reasons. They both were trainwrecks.
Wedding cost $70k paid by the bride’s parents. Lasted 5 months.
My own, within 3 months. We got married and it was like a complete 180°. Turns out his ex girlfriend reached out to him around the same time and he still had feelings for her. I found out because she messaged me on Facebook with the screenshots of their texts. He had promised to leave me if she’d get back with him. She agreed, so we divorced. She never got back with him.
My mate lasted about 18 hours. His wife and mother got into an argument. His wife asked
Him to defend her. He said he wouldn’t choose between his mother and his wife so she left.
around 2 months. my friend was dating a guy for ~6 years and got married, then found one of his drug stash, started searching around their house and found another 3 or 4, dude was hiding them like a squirrel lol. she blocked all funds and filed a divorce immediately, im happy that she filed not after 10 years of marriage, but still curious how she didn’t find out that her bf was on cocaine for 6 years
My mom and my first stepdad were only married for a handful of weeks. I was pretty young at the time so I’m not fully aware of the details, but I suspect the marriage had been an attempt to “fix” whatever problems they had in their relationship prior to that point, which is basically never going to actually work.
They eloped to Vegas, and a couple weeks later my mom is explaining what an annulment is to me.
Wedding photographer here, I had a couple split up during the first dance
My mom was married for like 9 days before the guy tried to set her house on fire that was a shot one for sure lol
When I was in college I knew a girl who was friends with my roommates. She was getting married but it was clear they were unhappy. On the month of her wedding she said she didn’t want to get married anymore but a lot of people already sent gifts and others were excited so she felt bad canceling. On the day of her wedding she went and got married, had the reception, and that night slept on our couch. She lived with us for 3 months on our couch and totally spiraled until she dropped out of college.
I joined the Air Force out of high school. It was common for young kids to get married in “tech school”. They didn’t last long typically.
A coworker from when I was younger left on Friday for her wedding and when I came into work on Monday, I found out she was dead. The husband stabbed her to death at the after party because she was dancing with his brother.
My own, less than a year. Turns out getting married just because you’ve been together for 6 years was a bad idea, especially when he still wanted to fuck other people.
My sister’s first marriage lasted 20 years and produced 3 lovely children.
Her second marriage lasted 6 months and pretty much financially and emotionally ruined her.
I was a close friend of the bride. Straight after the ceremony she grabbed me. She was crying her eyes out and said “Mike’s not here! Mike didn’t come! He didn’t see me looking pretty in my dress!”
Mike was her work boss who she had a crush on.
Bride hid away in corner on the excuse of being tired. Groom partied with his friends.
Bright and groom went on honeymoon, came back separated. Mike left his wife to embark on a two-week affair with the bride, then returned to his wife.
My dad is a photographer and did a fair share of weddings. He did one about 10 years ago on a Saturday and then got a call on Monday that the bride had killed herself and the family wanted all of the pictures unedited and immediately. He sent everything he had and returned payment right then and there…it was really, really sad.
About half a year or so, the groom discovered going out with the lads was pretty fun to do and started doing it not very long before their wedding so the bride thought it might be a temp thing, he kinda kept at it after the wedding with the trust of his wife but it just so happens that he couldn’t keep his hands down so it was a matter of time before someone who knew the pair, filmed the guy full on groping a woman in a club while kissing and so it all ended.
Mind you the pair spent a huge amount of money on the wedding (at Disney) so he was financially bankrupt for a long time, he went from living in a beautiful home with plenty of land around him near the water working in finance to a small one bedroom apartment in the rougher neighborhood of the city working as a warehouse employee
1 week, I went to the wedding in Cyprus, came home the day after landing the bride announced his side piece had turned up at their home pregnant 🙈 why the side piece waited till after they married is beyond me.. but he left her for the side piece and is still with her as far as I know
Three weeks after they returned from honeymoon. She ran away with a guy from work (clearly something was going on before they married). My mate found out because the nursery where their daughter went phones on Friday afternoon to say no-one has come to collect their daughter. He was also a policeman, and it was his colleagues who found his estranged wife and affair partner in a cheap hotel that weekend. Our friendship group never thought they were right for each other, but damn, never expected it to blowup like it did.
My own marriage ended after roughly three months. Ten years together prior to that. I shouldn’t have ever married her in the first place, but she insisted/swore she would “do better.” She was horrible with money, to the point that she was making six figures and still constantly overdrafting her checking account. It made life extremely stressful.
Just a few months. Couple of kids at my high school got married during Junior year. The “groom” had just moved to where I lived and I guess they thought this was a good way to make long distance work. A Senior from my school who’d turned 18 officiated. Anyways, parents found out when the little brother told them and got the whole thing annulled. It wasn’t technically legal since they had lied about their ages in the marriage certificate, but they were at one point in the state registry.
3 months. He got federally indicted for having exactly what you think on a hard drive. She extorted him for money the whole while being aware what was going on. He later turned himself in.
One of my best friends got married August 25th, 2023. They were broken up by August 29th. She had hidden very well that he was extremely abusive their whole relationship and finally got the courage to leave. Right as it seemed things were getting better, she passed away September 6th. He’s off living a new life like nothing ever happened.
My brother, a fantastic guy, lived in LA and dated the classic stereotype of the wannabe Hollywood starlet. Store-bought boobs that arrived two minutes before the rest of her. And what she lacked in brains, she sure made up for in self-entitlement.
So, two months before the wedding, he calls me to say, “She moved out of the bedroom. What do I do?” You’d have to know my brother. He never asks anyone for advice, ever.
My reply? “If you postpone this wedding, absolutely no one will think badly of you.”
But the pressure was too great, so the runaway train that was this Hollywood wedding kept hurtling down the tracks.
It was a beautiful wedding to be sure, held on the bluffs over Malibu over Labor Day weekend. And it was an outstanding party filled with the glitterati making air kisses and promising to do lunch.
As the party was coming to an end, I pulled my brother aside and asked where the honeymoon would be.
“Well, I’ve been keeping it a surprise, but we’re going to the Caribbean.”
“In the Caribbean? It’s hurricane season.”
“The resort brochure says they never get hit.”
Five days later, I’m knotting my tie in an Atlanta hotel room before a client meeting. I’m watching the news reports about a hurricane smacking into the island where they were staying. A modest Category 4.
They were marooned on the island for three weeks without electricity and running water, eventually being evacuated by the Dutch marines.
They came home, and she immediately shoved some stuff in a bag and left.
He only saw her one more time at the divorce hearing six months later. She did reach out to him twenty years later, apologizing for being such a brat. But by that time he had married an awesome woman.
Mom’s friend left the wedding with her new husband, on the way t the honeymoon he pulled over and asked her to get out (to check a tire I think) and drove off leaving her on the side of the road. I don’t think she ever saw him again.
Two girls in high school talked about how their plan was to go to college in the south, meet a nice southern gentlemen, get married after college and start their families right away. Well, they each accomplished their goals and married their Southern gentlemen college boyfriends immediately after graduation, both had beautiful bucolic weddings with Edison bulb strands above one long table where everyone congregated with them at the head.
They were both divorced within a year. Separately, each walked in on their southern gentlemen getting plowed by another man.
Before the reception ended. Turns out bride and groom were in an open marriage by her request, bride apparently had fallen for the 3rd party and left the reception with that person instead of the groom. Had doubts before, but had gone through with the wedding because her dad had paid for it and he was traveling across the country to attend.
Overall v. shitty thing to do, the groom is a great guy and didn’t deserve it. The bride was a friend of mine but I haven’t talked to her since
EDIT: I just remembered how weird the reception was. Bride wore a black dress and only wanted fast songs the whole night, no slow songs
When I was in Iraq someone went on leave and got married.
When he came back he turned the paperwork in and learned that getting married in one state does not cancel out getting married in another. So ended up getting charged with bigamy.
Ooops.
He hadn’t told any of his peers because he was afraid of getting made fun of….
Found out two days after I got married that my ex was having an affair with a coworker. His affair partner emailed me everything as soon as she learned we got married — apparently he promised to leave me and end up with her. I confronted him, he said we should go to couples counseling, I said fuck no and kicked him out. He told me it would be embarrassing for me to get divorced so quickly … but not as embarrassing as it was for him, because she told his boss too, and he got fired.
I’m also a lawyer and wrote our pre-nup, so I didn’t have to pay the asshole any alimony 😎
I used to be a professional musician. I was playing in a big band outside of Columbus, Ohio for a wedding reception. It was the only time I’m aware of irl where someone screamed and the band actually awkwardly stopped playing in the middle of a song. I can’t remember if it was the bride’s or groom’s mother, but they found the bride under a table giving the best man a BJ. Like, you have no self control?? The father of the bride paid us and we left after only two sets…
I can’t imagine they’re still married.
A coworker got married … shared his wife’s nudes on whatsapp story the same night while she was asleep … his wife left him the next day and filed for divorce a few days later … he ended up quitting the job …
Got civilly married in June for insurance reasons, wedding ceremony was August. Lived together all summer. The day after the ceremony, they drove by her mom’s to pick up her bag for the honeymoon. She went in and never came out. Never spoke to him face to face again. Eventually texted that she didn’t love him and never had, and that’s the most explanation he ever got. He fought for her trying to understand what happened, but they were divorced by February.
Reading all this makes me think dating couples need to go to a marriage “boot” camp where these “stress” situations may cause an irreconcilable difference to cause a breakup.
Two days. American Bride met Australian groom in Australia but both wanted to live in the U.S., so bride gets job and buys house in U.S. while groom works on his Visa. It takes about eight months for groom to finish all the paperwork, but during that time, bride meets and starts a sexual relationship with a co-worker. As time gets closer to her fiancé’s arrival, bride gets increasingly emotionally unstable. Groom arrives and must marry bride within a few days’ time. They get married on a Sunday. Bride is now completely unstable and an emotional wreck. Two days later on Tuesday, she demands an annulment, tells the groom she’s been sleeping with and loves her coworker, groom is completely blindsided and devastatingly heartbroken, and flies back to Australia the next day. Bride is now even more crazy (crying loudly all day for several days at work) because she realized she broke a good man’s heart who loved her immensely. Boyfriend realizes he doesn’t actually care for her that much having “zero patience for crazy,” so dumps her soon after. I hope the groom realized quickly how lucky he is to not be married to her.
My aunt was once married for a few hours. During the reception, her husband took all of the cards and the gifts, disappeared and wasn’t seen again for years. Supposedly he said he was going to put everything in the car, but loaded up the car and drove off to another state that evening, and that was it.
Officially I want to say she had it annulled within a week, but unofficially you could say that the marriage was over after 6-7 hours.
At the reception. The groom hid from the bride that he has a child. She some how found out after the ceremony and before the reception. The groom was a real piece of shit in many ways but this took the cake. Poor bride was bawling at the reception and her side came to blows with the groom. At the end of the night, they went their separate ways.
4 weeks. The bride went to the bank to deposit their wedding gift monies in their savings account, asked for a statement, and saw the account was basically empty (they’d been saving for a house for the 7 years they’d been together). Turns out the groom had a secret gambling addiction and thought he could win all the money back before she noticed. I guess he didn’t bet on her looking at the account, just adding to it.
Know of someone whose wife had been nice and considerate until literally right after the wedding. They get to the hotel for the honeymoon, and she turns to him, does a complete 180 in tone and body language, and says, “Alright. Here’s how this is going to go.” She proceeds to demand that he get her a seperate room, she’ll be spending most of the honeymoon seperate from him, on a spending spree funded by him, and other aggressive, demeaning demands. The honeymoon was 2 weeks, and they had broken up by the end of week 1. He said it was really jarring, and insists that he never saw any hints of that side of her being there until right after the wedding, then it was like a switch flipped.
Two hours. This happened in India.
My friend got married. Everyone sat down to eat and he had an epileptic fit. He hasn’t had one in 10+ years, but it happened at the most unfortunate moment.
What’s worse the bride didn’t know anything about his past with epilepsy. She freaked out. So did her parents, and after a few pointy but polite words exchanged, it was over.
It was all over and the bridal party left the venue by the time the groom recovered from his seizure and was able to look around and understand where he was and what was happening.
PS: He married someone else a year later and she’s an amazing person and they made an awesome couple and they have two amazing kids together.
Had a mate as a teenager that dropped off the face of the Earth when he got his first proper girlfriend. Like basically never saw nor heard from him again. The only way we knew he was still alive was from chatting to his parents that we’d see in the pub etc.
Fast forward about 7 years, I get a text inviting me to a stag do and a wedding, from my long lost friend. Went on the stag do, and he was marrying that same first Girlfriend. At the wedding there was a weird vibe and she seemed pissed off about something.
2 weeks later, I see him in the pub in a bad way, having not seen him ‘out’ since we were teenagers. We got talking and he spilled his guts that his marriage was over. His wife had cheated on him on her hen do, after they’d been rocky for years. They were hoping the marriage would save things. She’d then proceeded to cheat on him with this lad, got pregnant, the lad dumped her and she went back to my mate, admitted it and he looked after her whilst she went through an abortion.
One day soon after, he came home to a note saying ‘I can’t do this anymore. Don’t try to contact me, don’t try to talk to my family, I’ll be in touch when I’m ready to sort all the money stuff out.’ They lived in his house, she drove a car he paid for.
Turns out she’s gone straight back to the guy she cheated with, and got pregnant again (still with him and has two kids now). My Buddy ended up selling his house at a loss to pay her out and she kept the car he bought her in the divorce. Really wrecked him and took him a couple of years to get back on his feet.
A friend was invited to a wedding; two of his colleagues were getting hitched. Not wanting to be alone, he invited me to the reception party.
Four hours after arriving, they had their first fight in front of all assembled guests causing the bride to yell “fuck this, this was a mistake” and left.
I was working for the video guy. There was other things going on, but the last straw was the bride smashing cake in the groom’s face. The groom picked up the bride and smashed the rest of the cake with her. The next day we got the call asking for the raw video for the lawyers.
I fell asleep on a couch at the “after party” (the whole thing took place at a big “mansion”) and woke up to a friend asking me for a ride because she was extremely uncomfortable staying any longer.
Apparently, not 5 feet from where I was passed out, the bride and groom got in a fist fight and agreed to end things that night. I missed the action, but apparently exist in the background of some “evidence” videos.
Not quite the question, but my friend had been married to her husband for about 5 years. She, my ex and I had lunch as I had just finished replacing her brakes (he was on a “hunting trip”).
We thought he was hunting deer, as is customary in Michigan in November. What he was hunting was a 22ish year old college girl. Waitress sat us down in the booth next to them.
“Hey Hubby!” He knew he was caught and paid for the filing that Monday.
They got married at 11:00am
The reception started at 6:00pm
The bride was caught fucking her ex in the bathroom at about 7:15pm
So… 8 hours and change.
When he said “I guess so” instead of “I do”, we all knew this wasn’t going to last.
It didn’t.
A former coworker found out his wife cheated on him the night before the wedding. I don’t remember exactly when he found out but he came back to work from his honeymoon vacation already having filed for divorce. He was so pissed because his FIL had offered them either a big wedding or 50k for a down payment on a house. His wife insisted that it had to be a wedding because it was a symbol of their love.
He was cool dude, young guy and he didn’t let it make him an asshole. Last I heard he’d married someone, bought a house and had kids.
3 days
I am an ordained minister, the wedding was on a Saturday and everything went very well.
On Monday the bride had a meeting with her college financial advisor. She informed them she just got married and when they ran the numbers with the grooms info she no longer qualified for whatever financial assistance she was going for.
They called me right away to not turn in the certificate. Even though I had not turned it in yet they were technically considered married because they said their vows and we all signed it.
We went to the judge on Tuesday and he annulled it or whatever needed done.
They are still together, she has her degree, and now it’s a funny story to tell. They just left the relationship as is and never got “remarried”
They said maybe on their 10yr they’ll renew their vows and do it for real again.
My cousin’s lasted 43 days and half of that was them not speaking lol
Second hand story but too good not to tell. Friends of the groom had the tradition to do a slide show of all exes during the party. Bride recognized the swimming trunks he was wearing while being quite intimate with one of them as a pair she had given him. She ended the marriage on the spot. Marriage must have lasted three, four hours tops.
3 days he called her by his ex’s name during the honeymoon
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