27 Stories Of Future Spouses Who Were Left Or Practically Left At The Altar, As Told By Folks In This Online Community

Do you remember the famous romantic comedy "Runaway Bride"? In fact, it turns out that the filmmakers could well write in the credits "based on true events." Of course, not everyone runs away from their wedding as many as four times, like the heroine played by Julia Roberts, but stories about weddings that broke down literally at the altar, as it turns out, are not so rare.

It happens that an unfortunate or completely curious coincidence of circumstances could become the cause of the break at the final spot. Sometimes these are mental reasons for one of the future spouses, and sometimes one of the guests actually has reasons why these two should not be married, so they speak now, not willing to forever hold their peace.

There is an incredibly serious thread in the AskReddit community, the creator of which asked several questions at once: "Did you ever attend a wedding where the bride or groom was left at the altar?" "Did it happen to you or someone you know?" And finally, "What happened and how did it affect the abandoned?" As of today, the thread has about 1K upvotes and nearly 400 different comments, many of which have entire life stories behind them, sad, dramatic and funny.

Bored Panda has put together a list for you of the most popular comments in the original thread, and almost every item on that list could become a movie. In any case, now feel free to scroll to the very end, mark the most interesting tales for you, and be sure to share your opinion in the comments!

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27 Stories Of Future Spouses Who Were Left Or Practically Left At The Altar, As Told By Folks In This Online Community It was pretty close for me. Technically he called it off about 36 hours before the wedding, so not AT the altar, but still with guests in town and everything booked.

We had been dating since high school and had both just finished college. We had a super s**tty relationship where he was constantly gaslighting and manipulating me. In turn, I was s**tty to him as well. We had an eight month engagement, and he started acting weird during the last month. He seemed less happy and more withdrawn. At my friend’s wedding—just a couple weeks before ours was planned—he was basically surly the whole time and wouldn’t smile or dance at all. About 10 days-ish prior he started to freak out. He kept telling me that he felt like he could probably do better than me and that he was noticing how most girls were prettier than me. He had me upload my face into some website that analyzed your face and gave a beauty score (total b******t). I went along with this because I was panicked and desperate and a little stupid. The last couple days before he called it off he got ultra paranoid. He started recording our conversations and trying to get me to say bad things. Our families all got involved at that point and it became a total s**tshow. His dad screamed obscenities at me in the church parking lot when we were there to figure out some last minute stuff for ruining his son’s life (???). Finally my mom stepped in and realized that this thing probably wasn’t going to happen. She asked him point blank if he was going to marry me, he tried to avoid the question, and when she wouldn’t back down he said no.

I sobbed and got drunk and had all of my in town friends over for a bbq that I don’t really remember. A few of my friends stayed with me for a couple of days. I went to stay with out of town friends for about a month after that (I luckily had time off work). After that month away from all of his emotionally abusive fuckery, I was finally able to see how awesome it was. It still amazes me that in a month I went from “my life is over” to “my life is just beginning.” The intense sadness lasted like a week.

The aftermath: So he convinced me to pay for the wedding so he could pay down his student loan debt. Then it would be my turn the next year. Soooo I got stuck with the 7000 bill for a wedding that didn’t happen. I froze the food and ate it for months. Some vendors were great and helped me out as much as they could. I put my dress in a consignment shop that closed and...legally stole it? Which is a bummer because it was pricey and my mom bought it.

He can crawling back about 4 months later. While I wouldn’t entertain a relationship, I asked a lot of questions about why he thought it would work and what he would do differently if we did get back together. He had no answers, other than that “the pain would make us stronger” or some b******t. I blocked his number and haven’t heard from him since.

I deleted my Facebook and cut ties with all of our mutual friends, who were really just his friends, so I have no idea where he is now. I’m doing great though! This was like five years ago now. I’m now in a super healthy, happy relationship with a great guy and working a job I would’ve never been able to have with my ex. I guess in the end I’m grateful that he called it off and saved us the s***ty pain of being together for even longer.

thisisjustathrowawaa , Bill Rand Report

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27 Stories Of Future Spouses Who Were Left Or Practically Left At The Altar, As Told By Folks In This Online Community

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