81 Wedding Moments In Which People Realized That The Marriage Wasn’t Going To Last Long

Prior to wedding:
-Her 2nd marriage by mid 20s
-Couldn't pronounce his last name properly
-Cheated on him multiple times while blackout drunk, but projected those insecurities & "decisions" onto him

During wedding:
-The "minister" tried to start the wedding ("We are gathered here today...") without her even walking down the isle yet
-Her Dad, directly after their vows, stated "They won't make it..."
-Her new FIL got blackout & stole items from groomsmen changing room

Icing on cake was that she chose a horse farm as their wedding venue...Groom is highly allergic to horses.

In their vows the bride said, “and remember, everything that’s yours is mine and everything that’s mine is mine.” It was quite the foreshadowing. .

Groom showed up drunk and late, riding in on an electric scooter.

I was at a wedding about ten or fifteen years ago where the bride’s sister was the maid of honor. When it was time for the speeches, the sister took the microphone, and started talking about the first time she met the groom. At first, there was nothing unusual about the story; she threw in a couple of the usual good-natured jabs that always get thrown into wedding speeches. From there though, it went downhill really fast. She went on roasting the groom for about ten minutes, but not in a good-natured way — it was a lot more mean-spirited than any wedding speech I’ve ever heard. By the time she was finished, it was very apparent to everyone there that she absolutely *hated* the groom, didn’t support the marriage, didn’t want to be there, and wished her sister was marrying pretty much anyone but the groom.

The couple is still married. When my wife and I occasionally see them, I’m always tempted to ask the bride how her sister is doing, just to see both of their reactions.

When the BF (my brother )before he proposed 


BRO : I might as well we been together for 7 yrs".


ME: let me see the ring? 


BRO: oh she has it she went n picked the ring for me to propose. 


ME: Oh so ur engaged now?


BRO: I guess


Divorced 5 months later. BRO cheated on her n got the mistress pregnant.

Bride's father gave a speech about how the first time he met the groom it was a challenge. Long verbal pause before mentioning his name. Turns out the couple decided to have a baby because they were "bored".

Divorced within 5 years.

I've told this story before but it begs to be told again bc the couple didn't even make it past the ceremony.

Old money on both sides of the altar, however the venue was a random church in the middle of absolutely nowhere. For some reason the space was set up to have a reception first, with tables surrounding the aisle. The main course, bafflingly, was soup.

The bride is absolutely gorgeous. Designer ball gown, iridescent veil.... meanwhile the groom could only be described as a ginger pimp. Yes, hat and all.

It's when they get to the exchanging of rings that it went completely off the rails. The bride was looking an interesting mixture of angry and nervous, like she was wondering what the hell she was doing. Then a close friend of the bride showed up and got into a massive fight (verbal then physical) with the groom.

Most guests took this as their cue to get out, which is a shame bc it was explosive. The friend tried to actually give a love confession at some point, the groom yelling over him. The bride apparently had enough, ditching them both in what was supposed to be the getaway car.

The mother of the bride said to the mother of the groom "I'm so glad Amy chose someone like James for her first husband.".

She wanted to invite only part of the his family. Her family all got invites. Before the wedding, she invited all HIS family to a bridal shower where they got lots of presents.

After the wedding, she was complaining about a lack of gifts from his side of the family. 

They got divorced after a year and ten months of marriage. She claims she’s “unhappy.”.

My buddy who is an attorney made his gift to the groom a free divorce. I won the game at the ceremony of how long it will last…I used Price is Right rules and bet the equivalent of $1.00. The person who bet 6 months lost to me, lol.

The grooms entire family didn’t show up for the wedding or reception. Apperently there was a big blow up the day before and despite RSVPing, 50+ people on his side didn’t show. I remember a lot of empty tables and almost no one on the dance floor. They barely made it to their one year and are divorced now.

Wedding postponed due to issues between groom and bride’s family. Groom orchestrated a secret wedding ceremony on same date with only his friends and bride. All of bride’s family and friends were excluded despite sisters being her bridesmaids.

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩.

She rapped a Cardi B song, full length, at the reception and replaced some lyrics with the grooms name. She’s white. She did the “blaccent” too for chrissake. I wanted to run away from secondhand embarrassment and the way he ate it up told me they wouldn’t make it. They got divorced two years later.

When they danced like they were scared of each other but then when it was the mother son dance they were like into the music.

Everyone who came to the wedding, without coordinating beforehand, wore black. Everyone.

Bride told me ( maid of honor ) the day of the wedding that she wasn’t sure this was a good idea, but that it was OK cause if it doesn’t work out, they could just get divorced.

The bride's dress was completely wrong -- think romani sweet 16 level 10 embellishment in bright white satin for a modest afternoon budget wedding. It had a long, wide, hopelessly wrinkled train, huge bedazzled wings on each shoulder with full lace mesh sleeves. Hair and makeup were non existent: a struggle bun and a swipe of red lipstick. Veil plopped on the top of her head like a fountain. Nobody said anything, but she looked like she'd been up all night, woke up late, thrown it on and run up the aisle, no mirrors at any point.

A couple hours before, the bride's mom (in full hysterics) had literally threatened not to attend unless she was allowed to walk her down the cramped aisle, which the bride did not want. So mom was beaming, bride was just getting though it.

The bride laughed when they got to the honor and obey part. The groom's brother officiated. Reception was Olive garden catering for over 200 people, half of whom were minors. Chaos.

The bride and groom played some Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole for the first dances before some old aunties bullied the dj into playing electric slide basically the rest of the night.

To be fair, they were both freshly 19 and thought they had it all figured out, but the wedding was like riding a skateboard down a mountain. Neither family helped with the wedding prep. This was before the Internet, so I'm not even sure how they pulled it off. In any case, it was clear they were gonna be completely on their own for the marriage part.

It lasted 4 years. The pics still make me cringe, especially my dress.

Fortunately my current fiance is not a wedding person. We're just gonna go somewhere and pay someone to make it all happen, and nobody is invited.

My brother in law said “absolutely baby” at the i do part. Didn’t last a year.

Covid wedding. Bride refused to dress up or even shower. Looked like she was going to her funeral.

I divorced her 2 years later. Couldn’t be happier.

I know this may only be applicable in my bubble or whatever but my friends and I concluded that every destination wedding we went to did not last long as a marriage.