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TomppaTom , pexels (not the actual photo) Report

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake I was at a wedding when a phone went off during the ceremony.

In the middle of exchanging vows.

It was the grooms.

He took the call.

They are divorced now.

Final score:

347points

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TmKhr 3 years ago

"Dude! What's up? Hey guess what? I'm getting married! Yeah! Now! Wait a sec dude... honey, where are you going? What do you mean this is over?"

110points

Ropes4u , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

u/Olya_roo told Bored Panda they never expected this thread to become that popular.

"I am always interested in people's experiences, especially private ones. So, l asked this question [out of curiosity]," they said.

"I was really surprised by people's answers — like 60% of them were extremely detailed and private; you can really feel the pain in some of them."

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake Just before the wedding started my mother turned to me and said “You are making the biggest mistake of your life, if we get in the car and leave now I will never say another word”

She was right…

Final score:

305points

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ƒιѕн 3 years ago

And...did you get in the car and leave?

62points

DunningFreddieKruger , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake Groom slept with another groomsman the night before he married his wife. Wanted to go to a gay bar at the bachelor party. Came out two years into the marriage. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Final score:

296points

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Vorknkx 3 years ago

Sadly, a lot of people do this on purpose, to hide being gay for various reasons (usually fear or social pressure).

101points

erik_working , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake The groom took the stupid cake thing to an extreme. The bride had given him his bite, and mushed a little on his chin or nose. He then took a piece and MASHED it into her face so hard that I was expecting her to end up with a bloody nose. Cake and frosting got up her nose, in her eyes, down the front of her dress, etc.

The bride had to go get cleaned up, had her makeup re-done, and was ugly-crying within an hour of saying, "I do." He didn't give a damn.

Final score:

287points

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D K 3 years ago

Uh, domestic violence?

231points

Short_Perspective72 , pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Divorce rates in the US have been dropping since the 1980s. Today, it is thought that approximately 42-45 percent of marriages in the country end in divorce.

A recent analysis of marriage and divorce data by researcher Phillip Cohen of the University of Maryland revealed an 18 percent reduction in the country’s divorce rate between 2008 and 2018.

According to experts, this change can be explained by the following points:

1. Cohabitation leads to a yes or no before marriage;

2. People are getting pickier;

3. There’s not as much of a rush;

4. Those who are married are discovering more options than divorce.

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake When she went alone on her honeymoon, because she booked a trip to the caribbean despite her newlywed husband having a severe sun allergy

Final score:

281points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

He'll get an allergy for her too!

83points

Don't know what happened... Sat down with bride and groom, filling out the contract. Got the deposit. He stood up, said forget it, and walked out. 2 months later I get told the wedding is off, 3 months later she calls to rebook, different groom. Day of the wedding I am at the church... Got the final payment the week before... No one shows... No one, just me and the DJ.

TexasTiger70 Report

Final score:

276points

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Anthony 3 years ago

Well, she's living the sad life

74points

cat9tail , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake When the maid of honor professed her love for my brother during her toast at my brother's wedding... and her husband walked up to the head table, picked her up and carried her away before she could embarrass him further. They lasted about 3 months after that. My brother and his wife on the other hand are still happily married 20 years later.

Final score:

264points

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Becklass 3 years ago

At least this ended well for couple getting married! Finally

120points

Shakespurious , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

A lot of the stories shocked u/Olya_roo, and some left them in legit terror. "[At one point], I wanted to call the ambulance and have some of those insane people locked in a hospital," they said.

"This thread was a really fun experience, and I am so honored to see people still replying to it, and people ... contacting me."

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake Two friends of mine got married, and when they gave their vows, the guy started laughing at the part about being faithful. Oops.

Final score:

259points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

What a twat. She should have left then and there, go to reception venue and party without him.

118points

Half-Bastard , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#10

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake When the groom went in for the kiss after their vows and the bride presented her cheek instead. They divorced less than a year later after it was discovered she had been cheating on him pretty much their entire relationship.

Final score:

255points

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Debbie Barnes 3 years ago

Why did she go through with the marriage, if she was seeing someone else? I don't understand why people do this?

167points

#11

Bride disappears right after dinner for about an hour. After she returned, groom's father comes up and asks for the mic. Proceeds to announce to the entire place that his son's new bride was just upstairs schtupping her ex boyfriend, and that the marriage is over.

mouthdrummer Report

Final score:

246points

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Pink Floydian Panda 3 years ago

I am surprised at how many stories like this there are. Weddings bring out such intense, raw emotions that people just can't seem to control themselves. You would think the bride could get it together for what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life.

65points

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#12

I was maid of honour. Me, best man and the couple went into a separate little room to do the signing stuff. Bride excused herself to go the bathroom and the groom started making pretty mean remarks about her cooking (sth she's passionate about) to the officiary. She came back, heard they were talking about cooking family meals together and gave him the warmest smile, thinking he had praised her. He scoffed awkwardly and changed the topic. That always stuck with me. He wasn't laughing WITH her but AT her, behind her back.

They lasted 7 months.

Final score:

232points

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Miriam L 3 years ago

That's horrible... Not as gruesome as some of the other stories here but so sad

92points

codyish , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#13

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake A fun light-hearted dance with the groom followed by a close and slow dance with her male best friend.

Lasted 18 months and now she's living with the "friend".

Final score:

217points

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New Prometheus 3 years ago

These things happen in plain sight and many are way too naive about them. Not saying that men and women could not be friends together, just saying that they very rarely can be THAT (slow-dancing, emotionally and physically intimate) kind of friends together without it causing problems to actual spouses.

53points

hernes63 , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#14

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake Portuguese wedding. Fist fight broke out at the head table during the reception. Between two groomsmen. They were arguing about which of them had slept with the bride first. Groom was oblivious.

He came home from work early one day two years later and caught her in bed with another man. Surprised it took that long.

Midnight buffet was amazing though.

Final score:

211points

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D K 3 years ago

*shrugs* At least the buffet was good.

87points

ItsAlecito , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#15

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake At my aunts wedding.

Pastor: “Repeat after me…. For Richer and for poorer” The bride: “ for richer and for richer”

Yea they didn’t last long

Final score:

205points

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TmKhr 3 years ago

Apparently she was daddy's special little princess who always had money to buy things and got married to a rich guy.

6points

darthaquaticmammal , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#16

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake The part of the vows where you pledge monogamy? The audience laughed

Final score:

197points

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Priscilla Reshell 3 years ago

Maybe it was a polygamous wedding?? But i'm guessing it wasn't

58points

summerreyner , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#17

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake The groom had a “best woman” instead of a best man. Nothing wrong with that, but her toast left the whole room in awkward silence because she was clearly in love with him.

Final score:

194points

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Debbie Barnes 3 years ago

I think that's quite sad.. Not the best time to make that speech.. But still quite sad..

97points

ericdavis1240214 , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#18

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake When they disappeared for half an hour during the reception. They were both “saving themselves for marriage” and were desperate to bone down. Which is a fine thing to want. But it turns out that was more or less the main reason they got married. They made it almost a year.

Final score:

192points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Idiots

76points

brbdead , pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#19

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake She told me two days before that she found her fiancé annoying and that she didn’t like him and that he was AWFUL in bed.

She was visibly, endlessly uncomfortable at the rehearsal wedding/dinner combo.

Then she sobbed the ENTIRE morning, day-of. She ended up not getting any makeup done cause she wouldn’t stop scream-sobbing and refused to get dressed, stalling the wedding ~35 minutes.

She then said 45 minutes of “vows” that she had prepared (9 pages of things like inappropriate vows to friends and family, his parents and sisters, none of them her husband), and then ALMOST didn’t say “I do”. Managed to get a, “uh, yeah, okay, yeah I do” out of her almost a full 60 seconds after she was supposed to say anything.

I could go on for HOURS, but it was the most painful and awkward wedding I’ve ever been to. I’ve got my money on 10 months. We’re 1 month in.

Final score:

192points

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Flopsy 3 years ago

I wonder what made her still do it. This is terrible

113points

blkwid0w , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#20

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake When the groom started off his speech by saying, “we all know I didn’t want to get married but we’re here for bride and child we had together_.”

1 year, 3 months later they were finished.

Final score:

188points

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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Wow.this takes disrespect to a whole new level.

124points

TaylorSwiftsClitoris , pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#21

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake The bride told her bridesmaids that she didn’t actually want to get married. Multiple times. No one told the groom until after the divorce.

Final score:

186points

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tomandjerry56 3 years ago

If you don't want to get married.....then why not say so....if you don't feel like you can be honest with your fiancé, why say yes?

91points

ChillyWillie03 , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#22

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake I used to work for an event center that hosted a lot of weddings pre-Covid.

After one ceremony I saw the groom slap the butt of one of the bridesmaids in the hallway. She laughed and with a big smile said, "Oh Jeremy, you'll never change!"

Final score:

166points

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D K 3 years ago

Jeremy as in, my cheating ex-boyfriend? HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

64points

#23

When there's name calling. I particularly cringed at "it's because we so get each other and are so comfortable that he can call me dumb slut as a nickname." They didn't last the year.

ras1304 Report

Final score:

160points

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Michelle M 3 years ago

I have a friend like that. His girlfriend calls him demeaning name and he's totally fine with that but she doesn't allow it from him. They're like best friends, he says. If my best friend did that, I would end the friendship straight.

64points

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#24

An infamous one for me was leaving a venue late one night and as I’m walking to the train I can see the bride down an alley, on her knees with the best man.

the_heff Report

Final score:

159points

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JuJu 3 years ago

I don't get why it's so often the best man/bridesmaid. Aren't they usually the best friend of groom/bride? Why would they do that?

56points

Actuaryba , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#25

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake I was the best man at a wedding a few years back. At the rehearsal dinner, his future in-laws were treating him like cr*p. They were bossing him around, making him do cr*p, and talking down to him. They didn’t let him hang out with his groomsmen afterwards while the bride went out and got drunk.

They are now divorced.

Final score:

152points

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TmKhr 3 years ago

Good for the groom really

68points

#26

Had an old boss who was divorced. He told me once "I should have known it wasn't going to last when the only happy moment I had on my wedding day was when I snuck out to smoke weed with my buddies in the parking lot."

BigMax Report

Final score:

148points

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Muff_Fluff 3 years ago

Nobody has any words for this, do they.

32points

Pansexual fnaf weeb 3 years ago

Nope

4points

Pungent Sauce 3 years ago

I was there! I remember suddenly there was a uniformed cop who came around the corner and saw 4 very well dressed guys burning one, and we all froze. Cop rolls his eyes ”C’mon guys, I have enough trouble with the kids” and walked on…(Woodstock, IL 1985)

5points

Carl Dombek 3 years ago

My favorite "I should have known it wasn't going to last" moment involves a man who, upon arriving at their hotel for their honeymoon, suggests that it's time to have married sex for the first time. His new wife says, "Oh, yeah, I guess we HAVE TO do that, don't we?"

3points

Thomas Sweda 3 years ago

I do. Carrots, thoughtful and sweatshirt.

2points

PeachPossum 3 years ago (edited)

He should have gotten in the car and driven away without the bride

1point

Mickie Shea 3 years ago

Awesome dude.

0points

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#27

When he smashed the cake in her face and hair, then went off drinking with his buddies. In 12 weeks, she filed. Good thing I didn't buy an expensive gift.

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Final score:

144points

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Iggy 3 years ago

What's with the cake-smashing thing?

71points

#28

One where the wedding was all about the groom promoting his band. He even "sang his bride a song" that was literally just him showing off his vocal range with some classic piece. She stood up and joined him on stage half way through and he looked annoyed that he had to share the limelight. They lasted about 2 years (he was sleeping with the other vocalist in the band.)

ras1304 Report

Final score:

142points

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Michelle M 3 years ago

Not surprising

29points

#29

The most beautiful wedding I've been to ended in divorce. Venue was where the groom's father is buried and he cried as he made his vows to the bride there.

Turned out he'd been cheating on her for months and they divorced a while later. Something so repugnant about marrying someone you're cheating on practically over your father's grave. To date it's the only wedding I've been to that ended in divorce.

Total-Willow5165 Report

Final score:

139points

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Michelle M 3 years ago

That's just disrespectful to the father, family and bride. The groom is an ah

63points

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#30

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake The entire bridal party, including parents of the wedded couple, entering in to a betting pool of how long the marriage would last, at the wedding reception.

IIRC the best man won (price is right rules) at 14 months

jiggajim , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

138points

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

Whether they were right or not, this was incredibly distasteful.

69points

#31

My husband was the best man at a wedding. The bride was a nightmare. Not just during the wedding, but in general everyday life. All of the friends hated her, and she had no friends of her own.

We knew it was doomed when: during the portraits, the bride was making everyone miserable as can be. The groom said (exact words):

"I'll just send her to therapy. And, if that doesn't work, we can just get divorced."

Unusual_Form3267 Report

Final score:

128points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Pragmatic

33points

Intelligent_Watcher Report

#32

He complained she was mean to him throughout their dating life. The day before the wedding all of the groomsmen and the grooms friends told him not to marry the girl. Like straight up.

They lasted less than a year.

Final score:

126points

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Hmm. I get that you don't want to marry someone who is mean. I know my ex used to tell everyone how awful and mean I was, until one day when we were with a group of friends and he he lost "control" and socked me in the face for frowning at him. You could have heard a pin drop. Thing was that was normal for me. But always take it with a grain of salt: advise your friend but don't just blindly hate the other party. His friends used to give me so much s**t til he showed his true colours (his friend group changed somewhat after that as you can imagine)

63points

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#33

When he raised his eyebrows and gave her a knowing look during the “for richer or for poorer” portion of their vows.

For context, he was a newly drafted pro athlete and she was a big fan of his signing bonus

basic_tater_thot Report

Final score:

124points

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Otter 3 years ago

So he knew what he was getting into.

60points

#34

One of my friends got married, afterwards she looked at me, crying, and said " what did I do? ". They were separated by the time the plane landed from their honeymoon. He was a good guy, she was a mess.

The beta fish in the flower centerpieces lasted longer than the marriage.

Boosully Report

Final score:

123points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Poor fish!!!!!

88points

screamingincaps , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#35

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake Groom got into a fist fight with the father of the bride. Split after 4 months.

Context- Groom and brides dad (actually most people in these families if I'm honest) have pretty aggressive drinking problems. Father in law has always hated him. I wasn't around for what actually set it off but it ended when the bride got in the middle, got an elbow in the eye and the happy couple left for the night. This was in rural Canada. Not Letterkenny, but basically Letterkenny. I'd say the father in law won the fight though.

Final score:

121points

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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Classy

42points

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#36

40 People Are Sharing Wedding Moments That Made Them Realize The Wedding Was A Mistake I was at the wedding of one of my mum’s oldest friends and she clearly had more fun dancing with the best man after the wedding.

Long story short, they dated for a while after the divorce.

JackTheJackerJacket , unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

117points

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D K 3 years ago

Of course they did.

24points

#37

The groom and best man had a dancing routine for getting into the church ceremony and they got nearly halfway through it and I guess the groom felt they hadn't received much applause and wows from us the attendees and decided to go back to the entrance and start all over. Sigh...

teatowelmechanic Report

Final score:

112points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

That's funny.

26points

#38

My brother’s ex-wife. Throughout the exchange of vows, she was looking at everyone but my brother, making sure all eyes were on her. Later, she instructed the photographer (a family friend who was cheap) to “mingle” and get shots of people “being happy”. Within 10 minutes, she’d summoned the photographer back shouting, “Whose wedding is this?! I meant get shots of people being happy for me.”

Stormaen Report

Final score:

111points

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Priscilla Reshell 3 years ago

Damn the entitlement in this

53points

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#39

The bride and groom did the first dance then spent the rest of their reception completely apart from each other getting s**t-faced with their own separate friend-groups. The only other dancing all night was the bride dancing with her high school friends, the father-daughter dance and the mother-son dance, during which the groom was crying. The best man's speech didn't mention the bride at all and basically boiled down to "Groom, you're married now but our bond is older and stronger, all of our hunting and fishing trips together are the best thing in our lives, can't wait for more." Such a sad, desperate atmosphere. They made it a little over one year.

DrPeace Report

Final score:

108points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Some people don't take a marriage serious enough.

30points

#40

I was kindly included in a last-minute plus-one to the wedding of a family friend who I'd never met before. At the rehearsal dinner (or the German equivalent, the Polterabend) the guests smashed ceramic and porcelain items on the ground. I was fresh in Germany, so this was all pretty out of context and frightening, but my boyfriend explained that it's a tradition - reminding the couple that life is sometimes difficult and you have to work together to clean it up.

The bride kind of half-heartedly motioned to the groom to sweep it up. He did a little bit, then just moved on to talk to his friends, leaving most of the shards strewn around the yard. Additionally, I don't think I saw the couple talk to each other once over the next three days of celebrations.

It was a gorgeous wedding, and I'm so grateful that I was invited (really good way to begin living in a new country), but it wasn't surprising to hear that they'd divorced a few years later.

BilobaBaby Report

Final score:

106points

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JuJu 3 years ago

Why have a Polterabend when you are not prepared to use snow shovels to clean up (and probably have ordered a small container)

23points

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#41

Wedding videographer here, I think my favorite moment was when I was sitting at the miscellaneous table with all the randoms and the girl next to me, the grooms ex, drunkenly admitted to sleeping with the groom a few months prior

qwertyNopesir Report

Final score:

33points

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Tracy Baparam 3 years ago

Why do people invite their ex to the wedding?

25points

#42

Groom was going after the garter - blindfolded. Picked the wrong girl (Maid of Honor). Should have known it wasn't his bride when the garter wasn't there. Had his head up her dress for WAY too long!

mouthdrummer Report

Final score:

30points

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Xottel 3 years ago

What the heck is going on at y'alls weddings?

42points

#43

Her friends took turns motorboating her (females), and he said, get it out of your system as after tonight you never get to do that again. Was a good sign also when she dove into the pool with her bridesmaids at the reception...in her wedding dress.

TexasTiger70 Report

Final score:

29points

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Pink Floydian Panda 3 years ago

What happened next?! Did she wind up leaving him for one of the bridesmaids to motorboat in sickness and in health? Please do tell us the rest of the story!

29points

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What do you think ?

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October 3 years ago

During one wedding I was seated at a table with about ten people. Someone asks how we all know the bride and groom. First girl says he's an ex of the groom. Second girl says she's an ex of the groom. Third girl says: 'Omg is there anyone here who hasn't slept with the groom !?'. Turns out I was the only one who hadn't...

26points

lazy panda 3 years ago

It's hella ballsy to invite 9 exes to your wedding and seat them all the same table. Wow!

17points

Laura Lou 3 years ago

I went to a wedding where the pastor was the groom's father and he kept going on about how the bride was to always serve the groom. She should always have dinner ready with a smile, be ready to fulfill her duties in the bedroom, etc. Nothing about what the groom needed to do. Was super awkward with children of all ages there.

16points

Michelle M 3 years ago

Seems like marriage has lost the value it once had. Better to be single or just be in a relationship than go through these shits. But don't be fooled by these posts. There are still many beautiful marriages out there. Just getting fewer by the day.

12points

D S 3 years ago

I think people seem to put much more focus and effort on the wedding than on the marriage itself and tbh that´s just a day. It might be a great day or all your plans might fail and the day go completely amiss but that´s not the marriage. The marriage is what you do everyday to your spouse and how you live together and make stuff work while dealing with everything else. Some os these seem like people who focused on the wedding but forgot it´s a marriage they´re supposed to be getting into...

16points

Monica 3 years ago

Plenty of people had awful marriages since the beginning of time. It’s only recently that divorce is an option.

3points

Blarrg 3 years ago

The prompt on reddit was "What wedding moment made you think: 'They are not going to last long'?" So of course these are the stories you'll get. I'm not sure it's reflective of the state of marriages in general. I hope not...

2points

Franc Esca 3 years ago

Marriage was always used as a tool all throughout history, don't be daft. Now that people have options they're caving and get married just to pretend they're respecting "old fashioned values"

2points

Gabby M 3 years ago

I doubt that marriage has lost value. I'm sure there have been plenty of unhappy marriages in the past, however, there was more pressure on the couple to stay together.

0points

Rose the Cook 3 years ago (edited)

Bride left the reception and had the marriage annulled when they argued over her young son going on the honeymoon with them. They had been having an affair for years behind her husband's back before she eventually divorced her husband so they had plenty of time to organise and agree on details regarding her son accompanying them or not. Incidentally the groom married and divorced 3 more times after. The bride never remarried.

8points

Glirpy 3 years ago

Hi everyone. Hey, if you are planning on getting married, I would very much appreciate if you could just cancel those plans and send me the money you would use for your wedding. I could really use it right now. Thanks! (And don’t forget to include a thank you note to me about how I saved you from making a big mistake)

8points

Octavia Hansen 3 years ago

My happy wedding tale: As a punk rocker, my hair was FLAMING PINK. At my sister’s wedding rehearsal dinner, groom’s family said mean things just loud enough to hear but not to my face. That night, I rinsed it to black, wore it tastefully pulled back with ribbons as I stood next to her. My sister CRIED with happiness -- she would NEVER has asked me to change but I did it for her, not for them. Did not want my clown pink to ruin her wedding photos. Shame the marriage only lasted a few years. Guess the family found other things to hate.

7points

Maneki Neko 3 years ago (edited)

Went to a wedding where the bride disappeared during dinner. She had been sick for hours and blamed it on too many cigarettes and too little food during the day. We knew there must have been something else - like her realising what she just did. She wanted to be married „before 30“, to whomever it seemed as none of her friends liked him. While one of grooms colleagues drove her home at 8 p.m. groom got drunk and shouted „Bride would have loved to see you all party hard“. We left at 9 p.m. Things started to go downhill in their honeymoon and they separated 3 months after the wedding. Two years later or so, bride married his colleague who drove her home. 2 kids and 15+ years later, they‘re still together.

6points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Weddings are such high-stress high-money events that I think people feel "trapped" by them, and forget the marriage. Friend of mine decided to "go through with it". The minister mentioned the word Divorce 13 times in the sermon (we counted) and then they were done within 5 years (domestic violence, infidelity).

6points

VeryDarkMatter 3 years ago (edited)

When he said "Rachel" instead of "Emily".. oh no, that was on TV

5points

Steve Wilson 3 years ago

Many years ago I was asked to be the best man for a wedding between two friends who decided to get married at the spur of the moment. So they went to one of those “marriage parlors”. They had to get the license and had a few drinks as they waited for the results. During the ceremony when the preacher asked the groom if he “takes this woman to be his lawful wife” he replied “Yeah. But I’m drunk”. Didn’t last a year. Both been dead for years.

4points

Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago

Perhaps being single isn't so bad after all...

3points

Paddling Panda 3 years ago

Flying Solo is AWESOME! Enjoy, embrace, and love it; you're the only You you have. 🙂

0points

Carol Emory 3 years ago

I think I knew my brother's second marriage was over the day he married the girl. He said his "I do," went to the bar after the ceremony wrapped up, lifted a glass to his friend and said "Holy Crap! I did it again." Like he regretted the decision immediately. Took about 5 years, but they finally divorced. He married again, divorced and is now working on marrying wife number 4.

3points

DDmaybeandor 3 years ago

We need to remember that MANY cultures stress the necessity of marriage even if it's evident that it won't result in a happy marriage. Sad but true and it explains about half of these.

3points

y a n a 3 years ago

So glad I'm single right now ^_^

2points

FABULOUS1 3 years ago

I have to admit my wedding was memorable for some of the wrong reasons. After we said our vows my wife got really drunk and used her hand to cut the cake, through her wedding ring at me and hit my daughter in the stomach and left a scar. Her friend took her home while I stayed at my friends house the wedding was at and partied all night, plus it was 4t of July so watched fire works. While the wedding was not the greatest, we are still married after 7 years. Not the greatest moments but we are happily married still.

2points

Marie 3 years ago (edited)

Was my 6th anniversary yesterday. Not all bad weddings end in divorce... Wanted to marry on the beach we met. I couldn't take any days off but we HAD to get married the day before he turned 30, to fulfill a lifelong promise he had made to his childhood friend. It rained during vows, which drowned the sound of everyone recording. Then we got a few pics before packing up to have the reception at his mother's church rather than stay for fireworks at the beach. I had not planned a reception so I didn't know what to do. We played some board games with nieces than cut the cake and ate some half burned BBQ. Then we went home to our boat where the storm lasted another few days.

1point

Iamtheblaine 3 years ago

I was best man at my brothers wedding, what a s**t show that was. Walking up the aisle she was crying, and you could tell they weren't tears of Joy, ugly, ugly crying. The vows were very stiff from her side. Didn't turn up for the reception dinner. During the reception hung around with the three work friends she invited, and didn't even try to talk to anyone. The first dance was awkward as all he'll. Wedding was a Saturday, brother went to hand in the marriage certificate at the registry office on the Monday and by the time he got back to the house she had ran off. Leaving my brother to look after her daughter. Still managed to last two more years

1point

Laura Mortensen 3 years ago

My cousin said she was surprised her little sister was getting married first and then a year later got married. The groom's mother wore black to a wedding. They actually ended up getting the marriage annulled.

1point

UpupaEpops 3 years ago

Some of these people probably would have done well with an OT birthday bash...

1point

Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

Couldn't finish. Too sad!

0points

Pearl 3 years ago

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JessG 3 years ago

Marriage is a partnership. When you actually have a true partner, and friend that loves and supports you, you want to make eachother an official member of your family. They are your closest family member and laws recognize that. If they get sick or badly hurt and the hospital only allows family for example. All the rights and privileges that come with being related is just one benefit to it. Don't let all the nasty stories out there make you disillusioned and jaded, some people are very happy to have that partnership and bond.

10points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Don't do it unless you feel you want the legal protections it offers and the formality of binding it offers, and read 'Marriage for dummies" before getting married. Thirty years in, still feel in love, loved, and he's my best-possible friend.

10points

Any 3 years ago

The formality of binding isn't necessary, you can be bonded with somone without government interfering, and if you need legal protection... Think about getting married twice. But its good, that it worked out for you well. I know a lot of people who are happy without marriage, i think it isnt needed anymore in todays n western society and I'm glad about it.

-1point

Amy Gurley 3 years ago

Unfortunately, marriage is nothing but a legality. In my heart, and in my bf's heart, we are already committed. But I can not share my medical ins with him, or use my sick leave for him if he was to get ill and needed help etc. There's lots of *legal* reasons one gets married.

7points

Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

Actually, the purpose of marriage was almost the exact opposite: "Look, what you want to do is likely to result in babies. If you want to do it, I have to know that you're an equally invested partner is taking care of those babies." It's no coincidence that after thousands of years of that institution, no-fault divorce and birth control were popularized within a couple short years of each other.

2points

Any 3 years ago

Please gather downvotes here! Thank you! :D

0points

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October 3 years ago

26points

lazy panda 3 years ago

It's hella ballsy to invite 9 exes to your wedding and seat them all the same table. Wow!

17points

Laura Lou 3 years ago

16points

Michelle M 3 years ago

12points

D S 3 years ago

16points

Monica 3 years ago

Plenty of people had awful marriages since the beginning of time. It’s only recently that divorce is an option.

3points

Blarrg 3 years ago

2points

Franc Esca 3 years ago

Marriage was always used as a tool all throughout history, don't be daft. Now that people have options they're caving and get married just to pretend they're respecting "old fashioned values"

2points

Gabby M 3 years ago

I doubt that marriage has lost value. I'm sure there have been plenty of unhappy marriages in the past, however, there was more pressure on the couple to stay together.

0points

Rose the Cook 3 years ago (edited)

8points

Glirpy 3 years ago

8points

Octavia Hansen 3 years ago

7points

Maneki Neko 3 years ago (edited)

6points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

6points

VeryDarkMatter 3 years ago (edited)

When he said "Rachel" instead of "Emily".. oh no, that was on TV

5points

Steve Wilson 3 years ago

4points

Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago

Perhaps being single isn't so bad after all...

3points

Paddling Panda 3 years ago

Flying Solo is AWESOME! Enjoy, embrace, and love it; you're the only You you have. 🙂

0points

Carol Emory 3 years ago

3points

DDmaybeandor 3 years ago

We need to remember that MANY cultures stress the necessity of marriage even if it's evident that it won't result in a happy marriage. Sad but true and it explains about half of these.

3points

y a n a 3 years ago

So glad I'm single right now ^_^

2points

FABULOUS1 3 years ago

2points

Marie 3 years ago (edited)

1point

Iamtheblaine 3 years ago

1point

Laura Mortensen 3 years ago

1point

UpupaEpops 3 years ago

Some of these people probably would have done well with an OT birthday bash...

1point

Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago

Couldn't finish. Too sad!

0points

Pearl 3 years ago

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JessG 3 years ago

10points