71 Wedding Moments That Made Guests Think, “This Marriage Is Going To Be A Problem”

I come from a very large Indian family, portions of which still strongly believe in "traditional marriage" (read: child brides, forced marriage, uncle/niece marriages).

There was one where the groom was clearly a horrible person but she was still forced to marry him. To no ones surprise the marriage ended in a horrible, long, drawn out divorce. Her parents still haven't forgiven her for divorcing him.

In another case, a woman in the family eventually found the guy of her dreams and wanted to marry him (love marriage - and he's a good guy). However, as her older brother was unmarried, she was not allowed to marry until he did first.

So their parents forced him to marry an emotionally manipulative girl, which he clearly understood she was prior to getting married. He went thru with it anyway on the pretext that he was ok "sacrificing" his life for the sake of his sister. Within 2 years they were divorced. He eventually married again, for love, but got divorced. He is now preparing to marry for the 3rd time, again at the behest of his family because "it's not ok" for the older brother to be single while the younger sister is married.

It was a small, intimate wedding and the couple just played music on a stereo instead of hiring a DJ/utilising a sound system.

He had made a "mixtape" CD and wanted to play it at the reception. She patted his arm and said, Oh sweetie, no one but you wants to hear that". They were divorced within a year of the wedding.

One bride, S was a huge hip hop fan. Before she got married, her whole life was hip hop, be it music, dance, or street style. Her (now ex) wife, A, liked country, so they had an entirely country themed wedding. Like in a barn with boots and burlap and camo. There was nothing of S in their wedding. Not even her family, who didnt approve of A.

The bride didn't look happy to be walking down the aisle. She was smiling but it was very much a pasted on smile that I assumed was because she was nervous. Found out at the wedding that her parents had offered to pay for the big wedding or pay for a small wedding then give them the money for a down payment for a house. She wanted the wedding. Where we live the housing market is insanely competitive and this was at the peak of the housing prices right before the crash. Her parents basically offered her the ability to jump start their lives together, she turned it down for the big party with her as the center of attention.

It was over within 2 years. She didn't even seem upset about it.

At my brothers first wedding his fiancés dad came into the room we were using to get ready and told my brother that if he wanted to leave that he would take care of all the people inside and he wouldn't even be mad.

My brother did it anyway. Divorced 4 months later.

It was at the rehearsal dinner, the night before. Bride was drunk and crying in the car because he had some other girl's phone number in his wallet. Still got marro, divorced within a year.

It was a dual wedding. That’s right folks, TWO sets of my friends got married at the same time; I thought it was freaking stupid and neither marriage would last two years.

I was right.

My friend got married to his baby mama after their kid was a few years old. At their wedding it was a good reception and the bride was a great wing woman so a bridesmaid and I left to have a party of our own. Not great and that's a different story.

We came back and joined the after party and everybody was feeling pretty good. Well soon enough the bride was sitting at the bar by me and starts making comments and getting pretty grabby. I try to get away, it's awkward, so I wave my buddy the groom over and tell him what's up and he should probably get her out of there. She tells him she just wanted to feel my privates but I wouldn't let her. They proceed to get in a fight.

Years later they're still together. No way she's been faithful but not my problem. He refuses to see it. Wish him the best of luck.

The wedding is happening tomorrow. They have known eahcother for 4 months. He speaks almost zero English and is in The country illegally. She is pregnant with his baby. This is her third time literally in this exact situation.

I'm going for the drama. Mostly.

UPDATE: What a circus that was. I feel a bad spilling the juice on this, but here is what happened...

So her parents didn't come - her mom allegedly told her she's a fool and I guess they're done with this. All the guests, including myself, seemed like random invites to fill seats. She put the wedding together herself and it was falling apart everywhere.

The limo driver hadn't been paid. The room for the party afterwards wasn't ready and she invited more people than the host could allow, and people were being turned away/encouraged to leave early.

The groom read a speech written by the bride in very very broken and incoherent English. We didn't know what he was saying. He didn't know what he was saying. She was visibly annoyed with everyone and with the groom nearly the whole time. The lady officiating the wedding seemed the most stable one there, and deserves an award for keeping her stuff together.

This is completely different, but a few friends thought it was a red flag.

My wife stopped me before our wedding and made me take off my socks and shoes and my suit jacket. She then rolled up my sleeves and my pants and unbuttoned my shirt and said something like "I'm marrying a hippy lumberjack, not a darn business man." She was a little tipsy, as was I. It wasn't a very traditional wedding.

She is amazing and I love her. You could just picture Nana's face as I walked down the aisle with a wide open shirt. I think she took it better than her grandparents though.

Older couple 50’s. Bride never married. Groom divorced with three kids. I was their wedding photographer. The brides grandma told “oh gosh! (Brides mom) went all out on this wedding! You know we never thought (bride) would marry.” Then rolled her eyes. Bride never smiled the whole day. The groom was completely drunk. After she got drunk they made out and it was horrid.

Before I could finish their photos I found out the bride had been having an “affair” with a guy in the prison she worked at.

I met my friend’s to be wife AT the wedding. Never even heard of her before that day. She did several weird “I’m getting a bad vibe” things, but the only one I really remember was her constantly facing the emblems on the champagne glasses in the same direction for the photographer, instead of enjoying her time or paying attention to anything else at the reception.

They divorced six months later.

I have redneck cousins.

I went to one of their weddings. Jello shots at the altar & the groom was wearing a flannel, which he tore off to jump in my grandparent’s pool. Bride was wearing her classiest tank top & had a King Cobra in her hands for half the afterparty.

My cousin (the bride) told me that she only said yes because she couldn’t see herself getting anyone better.

About a year later and they’re still married. If they’re happy they’re happy, so I won’t judge.

Wasn't at the wedding, but the bachelorette party beach weekend. She fully acknowledged that she had confessed to cheating on her fiance, he would be so hurt if he found out she cheated again, and she would absolutely never do anything to hurt him like that a second time, etc. Proceeded to disappear into a random car, to drunkenly make out with a random drunk dude. I know there's a whole thing about bachelor/bachelorette parties and infidelity, but to call attention to how it'd be extremely effed up to do that again, and then proceed to do the thing she swore she would never do...again...that seems extra special.

Groom hated the bride’s family, groom’s family didn’t approve of the bride. Very awkward at a wedding! Bride makes her promises (something along the lines of “I promise to try and be worthy of your family” etc) and we all raise eyebrows at each other. Groom’s speech is all about how much he has helped his bride change for the better and how he ‘made her what she is’. Eyebrows are practically falling off the top of my head at this point.
It’s been a few months so I guess we will wait and see...I just thought it was very controlling.

Bride and groom secretly marry, tell NO ONE because their relationship would cost him his job. They have a wedding 1 year later, about a month after she graduated (College, not high school). While at the reception we were playing a “counting game” which consisted of “How many groomsmen has the bride slept with?” Which was all 8 of them. The groom had slept with 3 of the bridesmaids so there was that too. Then we started the betting pool at the reception (which only played country music and served grits 3 ways with beer). I won the bet though, lasted 6 months after the ceremony. Which isn’t too surprising when the bride went home with the guitarist from the band playing at the reception instead of with the groom.

I'm at a poker table, Las Vegas, Labor Day Weekend. It's late Saturday night.

Next to me, lady, mid 20's, naturally pretty country girl. She's a decent poker player, having a good time. Had a second rum and coke, is done with alcohol and is now drinking diet Red Bulls.

Next to her, dude, mid 20's, in good shape, rough around the edges. He's a decent poker player, but he's drinking nothing but Jack and rocks, and he's getting loud. For reasons I no longer remember, I assume he works in construction.

It's about 11PM now, and these two have been married about 3-4 hours at this point.

She has a bad hand, doesn't matter, she's gone from pretty good, to breaking even for the night. He's dropped about $3-400 now, and I notice that a couple of players are keying in on him now.

12AM: He's getting louder, gets warned for swearing at the table. Everybody at the table is hoping to get a piece of his money when he starts going crazy.

1AM: He's down $1000 now. They are going to play all night. Their plane leaves in 10 hours, and they have no room at any hotel.

2AM: She's up $100, and is rock solid. She's gone from chatty to super-quiet. Hubbie is all over the place, and is dropping about $200 an hour to the table at this point.

3AM: I leave the table. I can't help wondering what possesses a 'solid 8+ of a woman' to marry this pathetic drunken mess of a boy. I can't imagine a world where he didn't do something bad that night, that she had to clean up.

And, looking back, I can't imagine a world where he doesn't do something bad, that she has to clean up, every few days.

At the reception my grandad stood up for the toast and said 'here's to the next one'. It was his 4th marriage and no, it didn't last!

At a wedding, the bride marrying this handsome guy often described as the "total package". My dad, a psychologist, sitting next to me, leans over and whispers in my ear: "he's gay". Groom came out of the closet one year later, they divorced.

Tl;Dr: My dad has amazing gaydar.

Groom smashed cake into bride’s face and we could tell she was furious. Spoke to boundaries, respect and lack of communication. They didn’t last a year.