At the rehearsal, the groom refused to sit next to the bride and insisted on sitting next to his female best friend. The priest said " Don't you want to sit next to your soon to be wife?" Kind of chuckling like the groom had just not gotten around to sitting next to her yet.

He says "I have the rest of my life to sit next to her".

The gasp from both sides of the family was AUDIBLE. Everyone was horrified. He did not move.

Bride spent the rehearsal dinner crying in the bathroom.

They still went through the wedding the next day, which was in October. She kicked him out and filed for divorce AND annulment (Catholic) by that December.

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Worst one for me was when I was second shooting and with the guys getting ready. The groom was in a rowdy mood with his boys while they were getting dressed and he went into horrifically graphic, disrespectful detail with them about all the ways he was going to 'give it' to his wife that night.... like 15 mins of just flat out nasty detail about stuff she would have been horrified to hear. I'm a guy... Im not a prude... Sure, me and my friends have said some things we wouldn't like our wives to hear about 'so and so being hot', or 'did you see the size of that...' but nothing... NOTHING like this. Just absolutely no love or respect, or kindness toward the woman he was going to marry and just completely demeaned her in front of all his friends. I was totally repulsed.

Then, same guy, during formal photos of the wedding party... after maybe five mins of taking photos with the wedding party, he just stormed off... "This s**t is stupid. Im done!" Left his bride in tears with all her best friends on her wedding day.

The sad part is I don't know if they divorced, but I hope to god for her sake they did. If not she's had probably a pretty abusive 10 years.

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I started as a wedding photographer, haven't done that in ages. I used to photograph for a bunch of TV shows where the wedding was a disaster and the show stepped in to save the wedding. On more than one occasion I was contacted later for documents because the couple was involved in an ugly divorce.

The one that was obvious, and their shoot came out absolutely amazing, was when the bride's entire family just didn't show up to the wedding without announcing it. Her father showed up alone for the reception after I think he snuck away from his family. It was really sad, I felt awful for her. The father daughter dance was so touching and sad because he showed up and danced with her. She was distrought and you could tell in that moment, she actually felt safe and happy.

They got divorced not that long after.

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I’m a wedding videographer, but my moment is when the bride constantly made everything about the photos.
During the first dance—and this is the moment I had a feeling this was more about the wedding than the marriage—the bride was never focused on her groom. The groom was being so careful and loving with her, smiling all the way while she made sure to stop dancing with him every five seconds to reposition them to always be facing the camera. She would stop the most intimate moments to always remind him where the camera was and to ALWAYS look at that camera.
I felt so bad for him from the moment they shared their first look too cause she just kept forcing him to tell her how pretty she looked and to make sure that he cried when she actually walked down the aisle.

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Was about 10 years ago now, the bride was a 10 and the groom was maybe a 5. During the reception everyone was hanging around talking and the bride and groom were talking to us (the photographers) when the groom drops something and goes “pick that up b***h.” I make a noise at the unexpectedness of it and the bride and I lock eyes in shock as she bends down to pick it up for him. No idea if they are still together but I hope not.

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Walked in on the bride and the wedding planner making out and dry humping. Yea, f*****g most awkward day of work ever.

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I met with potential clients to go over the details of the wedding and to see if we would be a good fit to work together.

I tried to schedule something at a cafe, but they insisted on me coming to their house. When I arrived, there was a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket of dirty diapers on the front porch. I had a feeling this wasn't going to go well. A young kid probably 7 or so answered the door, all I could see and hear were children running around everywhere. The soon to be husband was sitting on his bed that was in the living room watching TV and the bride was in the kitchen with two kids on either hip. She told me to sit at the kitchen table to go over the wedding details. She shouted at her fiance to come and join the meeting where he didn't acknowledge that I was there to talk about shooting their wedding. The bride was annoyed, then asked if I saw the bucket full of dirty diapers on the porch. I said that I had, and she said her fiancee has so many kids with other women that is the only place to keep them so they don't stink up the house.

I did not take the job. I always wondered what happened to that couple.

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This was 15 years ago or so, I left wedding photography a few months later.

The reception was at their home, they didn't want photos at the ceremony, and didn't want wedding party/family photos between the ceremony and reception triggering the first raise of the eyebrow on my end. At the reception the groom didn't want his brother, the best man, in the photos. Other eyebrow goes up. The mothers of both the bride and groom both scolded me to let them be and told me to eat instead of take photos. The groom and the best man got unholy drunk and had a weird by play of brother making way too many toasts and the groom making grossly inappropriate speeches of what he's going to do to the bride on the honeymoon.

As the newlyweds were making their grand departure the bride tosses the bouquet, everyone cheers. The groom shouts "I knocked the b***h up so hard she's got two babies in her coochie". Guest react in various ways of shock and happiness about the pregnancy test but the best man lunges at the groom shouting and swearing. Family holds the best man back as the couple runs out to a car. The groom flipped off the spectators, and pulled out of the driveway. Two houses down the car stops, the groom gets out and pukes on a neighbor's lawn, the bride gets in the driver's seat and takes off, leaving her husband yurking into a flower bed, and the best man ran down the street trying to flag down the car.

Divorced four months later.

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I do wedding videos. I shot one wedding last year that is still together, but I'm still weirded out by it.

They wanted a wedding video, but didn't care about photos so asked if I'd do both. I've done it before, so I figured it wouldn't be too bad. Just bring a second shooter and it's chill.

So I get to the bride's parent's house where she's getting ready and it's a mess. So naturally, my second shooter and I start trying to salvage an area we can use for the staged getting ready photos. We finally get ready, and the bride is like "No, I don't really want getting ready photos."

So we don't do them. We get to the venue, and suddenly the bride wants to change what I was originally giving them in their video/photo package because she desperately needed a video just of her brother's speech (which I already had in their package, but she decided she didn't want vertical videos for social media anymore and wanted to exchange it.)

We do the ceremony and get to the first kiss. It lasted all of 0.01 seconds because she would not kiss him.

We go to do family photos, breeze through those just fine.

Then, I say it's time for my second shooter to go shoot their cocktail hour while the couple and I go out into their nice venue and do photos of them.

She refuses. Doesn't want to do it. Instead she wants to hang out at the cocktail hour with her mom. Eventually I get them outside into the garden area, but she'll only take photos if her brother is also in the photos.

Outside of the ceremony, I have 2 photos of just the bride and groom. It's always bride, groom, brother. Or just bride and brother.

The rest of the night went on like normal, then we got to the first dance.

They danced for about 15 seconds, and then invited everyone else to join in. As soon as they did, she ditched the groom to go dance with her brother.

I got their photos done, and sent them off, super stressed because I had so little of the two of them together. She went through them and loved them, but wished I had more of her and her brother.

Oh, and the speech that she NEEDED on video was literally the brother talking about how well he was doing in university and how he's smarter than her.

EDIT: One other detail I forgot. When they were getting ready she spent the whole time bragging about the prenup and all the fine print in it and how good it was for her.

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One of those hotel venues that can run two weddings at the same time. Bride from our wedding is found in a hotel room with the groomsmen from the other wedding doing coke before the first dance. End result was we got paid and told no need to edit or deliver pics. Safe to say It didn't last the night.

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Bride looked visibly miserable the entire ceremony. While photographing the men’s “getting ready” portion, the groom repeatedly kept joking about killing himself.

During the toast, the bride ran off to the bathroom for about 30 minutes and came back wiping her tears with her eyes red and puffy. Neither of them had any chemistry at all, it made no sense why they were together to me. That was the last wedding I shot.

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I'm a videographer and the groom called me a couple days after the wedding. He wanted me to make sure I didn't include any footage of him checking out the women at the wedding.

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The bride looked like she was about to cry the entire time, looked absolutely miserable in the posed photos, shockingly little chemistry, the groom seemed utterly disinterested.

Fundamentalist evangelical wedding that occurred in the middle of 2020 and they'd met less than 6 months prior.

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I shot many weddings and there were a couple that have stuck with me. One was a drunken soirée at a cheap vfw. That’s not so strange, but one year later I got a call from the brides mother for another wedding for the same bride - at the same vfw (another drunken soirée).

Another was a rather nice event at a local yacht club. The groom and his groomsmen were all psychiatrists. The mother of the bride(my contact and eventual confidant) didn’t like the groom much despite him being quite successful and handsome (she called him “the psychiatrist”) because the bride had caught him wearing the brides underwear. He brushed it off and gaslighted her so they got married. A year later I got a call from the mom because the older sister was getting married. I asked how was the psychiatrist and she responded “he turned out not to be the person everyone though he was”.
As soon as the honeymoon was over he started pressuring his now wife to support him in transitioning to a female. I guess you just never know …

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Oh man, I was a wedding photographer for about 5 years.

I get being awkward on camera and not wanting to do any public PDA. I’m very awkward myself! But when prompting couples for fun poses like whispering obscenities in each others ear for a laughing shot, nuzzling close together, etc, most couples eventually let their guard down and enjoyed holding each other. It was so sweet.

A few times though, I had couples that visibly didn’t want to be near each other at all. Once the shot was done, they went back to standing a foot apart. They would complain about each other and make fun of each other in front of me. It always left me with a bad feeling in my gut - and most of the time the marriage didn’t last long!

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The maid of honor very drunkenly said in her speech for the groom to call her once the marriage was over ( a couple of her friends said that in their speeches actually) and the best man told the bride the groom's phone lock code in his speech because "she was going to need it". Those two last maybe a year. The bride ended up moving states for a new job which made sense to me after seeing how s****y her friends and family were during that wedding.

The other couple I can think of had 12 bridesmaids/groomsman EACH, yes 24 people just in the wedding party. Not including users, guest book attendant, flower girls etc. The bride and groom belonged sorority/fraternity at the same school, that's why there were so many people. The bridesmaids/groomsmen had all dated each other and several of them had dated the bride and groom in college too, so it was a ton of fighting and drama the whole day.
Those two lasted a while. I think 5 years. But the bride got pregnant on their honeymoon. I doubt they would have lasted a year if she hadn't gotten pregnant so quickly. Years after they broke up, I was invited to the bride's younger sister's bridal shower (they were family friends) and the og bride got drunk on champagne and talked about how miserable she was planning her first wedding, and besides her daughter it was the biggest mistake of her life blah blah, so that was fun.

**Edit: For the confused comments, the last bride regrets the marriage, not the daughter. Sorry I should have been more clear. She regretted getting married to her first husband/wedding but NOT having her daughter. The daughter is in Jr high now, seems very happy and loved.

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Groom said to me before the first look: “thank god it’s not so hot today, if it was I’m gonna call this wedding off. I love her but I don’t want to sweat.”

Wedding happened… and 4 years later, I happened to book the brides sister from that wedding and she told me that they are divorced and that he is a jerk and cheater on her.

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As a gift, I did the wedding photos for my niece and her intended. When she got to the alter, with priest and husband there, she looked so miserably unhappy--I knew the marriage was doomed. Why in f**k she went through with it is still a mystery --they divorced later on that year.

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I photographed my friend’s wedding about 10 years ago. Neither of them seemed very excited by each other, the speeches didn’t mention the couple at all, and there was just an odd vibe.

They divorced a few years later after his failed campaign to force her to flunk out of her PhD (turns out he was quite against women in education, and assumed she’d just give up and want to be a housewife when they were married,) and I got lots of other pretty sad details from her that made much of the wedding weirdness make sense.

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When the groom engraved "F**k You" on the bride's ring.

(It's what he says to her when they fight.)

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The groom didn't want to put on his suit to take portraits , even after the bride insisted , because " it's uncomfortable and hot ".


Different wedding, saw the groom down an entire bottle of wine in one go when he finally had a minute to himself. I took the picture thinking it was just going to be a goofy moment, until later on while I was editing pictures, I realized what I was seeing.

Oh wait, another one, the bride was 30 minutes late, when I was in the room with the bride while she was getting ready, she told bridesmaids how her sister drove her all around town because she couldn't make up her mind about if she really wanted to get married.

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I'm a wedding photographer. Most of my couples are super awesome.

Occasionally couples are grumpy with each other during photos and it's not a great look, but honestly, I like to give them the benefit of the doubt. Your wedding day should be a happy day, but sometimes it's just stressful; stress can get to people and make them act in a way they normally wouldn't.

I think the "worst" moment I witnessed was when a couple clearly didn't know each other very well. The guy made a comment about not knowing she had OCD during photos and her mom whispered behind me "You have no idea...". I have no idea if they're still together.

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When you tell the bride they make a beautiful couple and she’s like “yeah, he will do. For a first husband, anyways! Ha ha” Never found it funny and always thought it was such a s****y way to start out a convo about your “forever mate”.

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We always ask the couple to tell their story, and in this one case the couple glowingly told us about how they were both cheating on their prior partners. That was more glaring but also pretty regular are couples where one person is having a drink-fest with their dudes and barely aware of their partner all day. Those ones bum me out.

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Omg so many to choose from. Two that immediately come to mind:

- Groom would not make any eye contact with the bride. So many photos where she is gazing lovingly at him, and he’s just like 10 yard stare right over the top of her head. Was a tough edit

- Groom’s speech included a line about how opposite he is from his bride because “her friends have never even been to Paris!”

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I mean ... seeing the bride getting out of the toilets with a man that is not her husband ... during the weeding dinner, is a good hint.

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My husband and I were wedding photographers and he spent the morning for the wedding with the groom and his party getting ready while I was with the bride and her party. We both saw the same thing from each half-downing drinks and sh*tfaced by the time the ceremony actually started because they both couldn’t be faced with the fact that this would be the only person they could sleep with for the rest of their lives. They lasted longer than we expected but the bride recently announced the divorce.

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It was actually for a friends wedding which made it all the more awkward. I knew they weren’t going to last when the bride made a massive deal out of me wanting to be compensated for not just photographing the wedding but also editing pics, putting a book together for them etc. my friend desperately wanted to pay me bc he is an artist as well and knows how much work goes into this, I got to stand in the middle of a blowout fight between them. For the sake of moving on, we ended up agreeing that this was their wedding and gift and that was it. Flash forward to the wedding, groom took a bunch of acid and tripped balls the whole time. Bride was drunk as a skunk. Bride then spent the entire evening trying to sleep with various friends of the groom and then they announced that they had opened up their relationship prior to the wedding. I ended up getting very stoned with the grooms mom who then walked around and took bets on how long the marriage would last. Idk if they’re still together as we ended up having a bit of a falling out a year later but hell I hope they figured their s**t out. The pictures turned out beautifully tho!!

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Only one red flag. This was early days as a wedding photographer.

A friend recommended me to his boss. The boss' sister was getting married. Boss and sister were Australians with well-off Greek immigrant parents - it was going to be BIG. So big that I hired an assistant to stand next to me and duplicate with her camera every photograph that I took. I could *not* afford to f**k this up, and a good result would open doors to a traditionally insular community. I knew some of the greek community and they're friendly and welcoming to guests, but they tend to do business within the community unless there's no other option.

The red flag? Sister was marrying a non-Greek Australian.

The wedding and reception went off without a hitch and I had a bunch of beautiful photos. I sent contact sheets off to Boss (he was the one who'd engaged me), and waited for the orders to roll in.

It was going to take a couple of weeks because the bride had to head off interstate for work.

She came home to her husband cheating on her. She gave him two weeks to make up his mind. His response was "I'm outta here".

I felt bad chasing up for payment, but I'd already incurred costs. Boss paid me 50% of the invoice and I figured I wasn't going to get any more, so I left it at that.

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Best man's speech made the groom out to be a gold digger.

He wasn't entirely wrong tbh. And this guy was the groom's best friend.

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I never got follow-up info, but at one wedding, it took 30 minutes to coax the bride out of her limo, including a visit from the priest. She may have just been incredibly nervous, but still.

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I did an engagement session on a boat and about a year later shot the couple's wedding.

The groom was "seasick" and vomiting the entire engagement session even though the water was perfectly calm and the boat was completely still for 2 hours.

They got divorced about 6 months after the wedding.

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While I was taking pictures of the bride and her bridesmaids, the bride constantly making remarks about me while the groom looked on. “See girls, I told you I got us some hot, man candy to look at.” It wasn’t just one time, she kept doing it almost like it was to p**s off the groom. By the time of the ceremony, all had had way too much alcohol, a food fight broke out at the reception completely ruining the venue. Was a good one. Also was both of their second or third wedding, sure it wasn’t their last.

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Oh! I know this one!!

When the groom was angry talking about the photos we were going to get and then at the engagement shoot couldn't be bothered to hug the bride-to-be or smile for any of the pictures.

Edit: Thank you all for your stories. I've had relationships where I've missed signs too.

People like this guy are tough to identify in relationships but of course there are 🚩🚩🚩. It turns out her girlfriends warned her; they saw him show no interest in helping prep for the wedding, not wanting to help with a location, go food tasting to find a caterer, and show a lack of interest in being a partner.

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My dad did wedding photos for many years. He said once while she was taking photos, the wife’s breast slipped out and he accidentally got a photo. Of course he deleted it, but the husband was super bothered by it and even yelled at the wife for it, kept like interrogating my dad about it, and was generally weirdly paranoid about it.

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I was a photographer for a wedding. I'd line up the group for a family shot, look down into my camera and the bride would be.....gone. She was SO flaky. The pictures weren't the best but the shop I worked for wasn't terribly worried. The marriage was almost immediately annulled.

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When the bride is not enthused as the groom. The kiss is a big hint. Avoidance.

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He was a popular real estate agent and I think she was a kardashian wannabe. He looked like he was desperately in love with her, she looked like she had a serious case of resting b***h face and just didn’t seem to want to be there. After the ceremony they arrived at the reception early because she couldn’t be bothered with more than a couple of the formal couple/wedding party photos. It was just a weird vibe all round. I heard through the grapevine at the end of the year he was caught in a broom cupboard with his receptionist at the office Christmas party.

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When the bride is over an hour late for wedding!

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Both was very drunk, arguing and fighting, both of the families don't like each other, they didn't stay married to long.

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When the uncle’s second wife was trying to tell the bride how to do the wedding.

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If the grooms grandmother nearly choking to death at dinner wasn't foreshadowing enough, the bride cursing out the groom's entire family at the after-party certainly was.
They lasted a few years, surprisingly.

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