“What’s The Wildest Reason You’ve Ever Heard For Someone Calling Off Their Wedding?” (50 Answers)

Maybe more smart than crazy. But a friend called off her wedding a month before it was supposed to happen. They had dated for around 7 years or so. Everything was arranged and paid for, etc. She found out that her fiance was stealing money from her bank account and using it to gamble. She called her bank to investigate missing funds and they had pictures of him at the atm. She sold her dress on ebay and gave the engagement ring back to his best friend because it turns out the best friend was the one who had paid for it. About 3 years later she ends up marrying the best friend. I think she made a wise decision.

The groom was in a head on collision with a drunk driver. He spent weeks in a coma, when he came out of it he decided he didn’t want to spend the next several years becoming a neurosurgeon because life was too short. The bride bailed. He had to learn to walk and go through grueling PT. He went on to become an orthopedic surgeon instead. She tried coming back. He said nope. He’s now happily married to his childhood friend he’s known since kindergarten because she stuck by him and helped him recover.

My friend decided that he was gay the week of the wedding. He's now married to his best man, and it's a big joke among the rest of us... as in, I guess he really was the "**best man"** lol.

Every one of us, except him, knew he was gay since high school 30 years ago. It's so great that he's out now, he's so happy.

HIs fiancé went to his wedding, and he went to hers, so, it all worked out.

Going back around 10 years ago, I called my (now former) mate to ask him what he and the misses wanted for a wedding present as they didn’t have a registry; turns out I called in the middle of my mate calling off the wedding. He showed up to my place soon after to get some sympathy over it, but I ended up kicking him out and cutting him off entirely as soon as I found out why he called it off.

Turns out and he gave her a list of “rules” to follow once they got married. Some of the rules included:

-must drop out of uni
-not allowed to work
-no friends unless he approved of them first
-no contact with any males
-no having her family over
-must have full responsibility over all cooking, cleaning, shopping and laundry
-no social media on her phone, only allowed on her computer so he could monitor it
-must fully immerse in the 1950s housewife lifestyle and mindset.
-must be okay with him engaging in extramarital activities

She dodged a major bullet. Last I heard from him, he got fired for hotboxing in the company car on his work break, and lost his license the same day for the same reason. She’s thriving.

EDIT: just remembered another rule! No having a separate bank account.

A woman in my small town called off her wedding because she wanted it outside near some lilac bushes but that year they were late in blooming. She had a meltdown the day before the wedding.

Her fiance had second thoughts after that and broke the engagement.

Someome very close to me had to cancel the wedding when her fiancee told her that he wanted to have kids with someone of his own race, and that he did not think that she would not be a good parent to biracial children. I mean, that's his choice, but it's kinda weird that he suddenly realized that she is white six years into the relationship.

This woman said her ex fiancé’s mom was the reason. The mom wanted to center of attention and did not approve her son’s fiancé and was so stubborn. During the wedding ceremony, the mom told her son “It’s either me or her!” He looked at his fiancé and said to her, “I’m sorry” and took her wedding ring and walked away. My guess is he still gets grounded for coming home 5 mins late after curfew.

My grandma’s twin sister kept the wedding date, but switched grooms! Her sweetheart was thought to be lost at war, and he miraculously showed up over a year later, 2 weeks before she was due to marry another guy. My grandma (who was maid of honour) had to stand on the steps of the church and turn away guests of the first groom who hadn’t gotten the word. Many of them didn’t know that the bride had a twin, so they thought my grandma WAS her sister, standing there in a formal dress with a bouquet, claiming that the wedding was cancelled.

They’re 97 now and she still gets MAD at her sister when the topic comes up.

Oh, this one is a doozy. So, a friend of mine was all set to get married—venue booked, flowers arranged, the whole nine yards. A week before the wedding, her fiancé suddenly called it off with the most unexpected explanation. He claimed that he had been receiving "psychic visions" from his future self. According to him, these visions were warning him that on their wedding day, there would be a freak accident involving a runaway llama that would somehow end up destroying the entire reception.

At first, everyone thought it was just cold feet manifesting bizarrely. But he was dead serious. He even went as far as consulting with three different psychics to validate his premonition. To top it all off, he started obsessively researching llama sanctuaries and farms within a hundred-mile radius to back up his claims. My friend was heartbroken but couldn't see herself marrying someone so convinced that their future together would be torn apart by a rogue llama.

In the end, she moved on and found someone new, and as far as I know, there haven’t been any reports of llama-related wedding disasters in our area—yet.

Not wild, just sad. Couple planned a wedding and I was going to play for the ceremony, then a couple of months later I got a call from the vicar saying she's been diagnosed with cancer and they want to put it forward until only a few weeks time.

She didn't even make it that long. The wedding day was when they held her funeral.

Turned out the bride was actually super racist and didn't want the groom's black adoptive parents(the people HE thinks of as mom and dad) to be in any photos. she assumed he'd just be cool with this, saying stuff like "it's not your fault who you got adopted by, we can have your REAL parents in the photos". she also caused an endless amount of stress for the maid of honor, who is black, by getting light grey birdesmaid dresses that matched her wedding dress and then being upset that it looked white on her, and not allowing her to dye it a darker grey because then she'll "stand out even more". it's so crazy how long people can hide such their racism while also just assuming that everybody else agrees with it and being shocked when it's seen as a bad thing.

The groom (and some of his family) was arrested by the FBI for running a child abuse material ring.

The bride had no idea, but, of course called it off immediately.

Wedding was called off the same day because the bride had just had a baby that night and she did not know she was pregnant.
The groom was not the father.

Called mine off after my ex-fiancé ghosted me. I thought it was because I found out about his [substance] addiction. A few months later, his mom posted a pic on FB of him and a girl I'd never seen in my life, and their newborn baby.

It was called off the day before due to homosexuality. This was in 1999. They were both gay and were getting married for appearances. In retrospect, it's amazing how much things have changed in just 25 years. At the time, being gay was a serious persistent risk to one's personal safety, professional opportunities and often personal relationships. At the last minute, she decided that she couldn't go through with it.

Happy ending though, they're both currently living their best lives and America is doing a much improved, if still imperfect, job of not obstructing that. He just celebrated the fourth anniversary of his marriage to a wonderful man.

My dad called off a wedding before he met my mother. He was with this woman that really pressured him into getting married. Basically she just started wedding planning without a proposal. And my dad let it go too far. One night she and her mother were discussing what food was going to be served at the reception. So they asked my dad what he thought. "Roasted chicken or beef?" To which my dad replied, "I don't care which one you're having, because I'm not going to be there."

Edit:

Apparently she bought her own ring, too.

I was going to be a guest at a wedding and found out it was canceled 2 weeks before the date. The bride found out that the groom had gotten a significant discount on the price of the venue and she was insanely angry that anything at her wedding cost less than premium.

Keep in mind, this was her dream venue that she had chosen. She was just mad that her fiancé was “cheap”. Or something.

I was never super close to either of them, but the last I heard they never ended up getting married.

Wildest? Bride was caught in bed with her stepbrother the morning of her wedding. I don't know all the details, but it was apparently an ongoing thing between the two of them. Her maid of honor caught them and was so grossed out by it that she called the groom and texted him a picture.

Not only did that wedding NOT happen, but the fallout also ended her moms 20+ year marriage to her stepdad.

Canceled the wedding because he was catholic and she was protestant and they decided to have two ceremonies one at her church and one at his but could not agree on which one would be first.

Probably for the best if they couldn't even compromise on the wedding I hate to think the challenges they would have faced once kids were brought into the mix.

My friend’s fiance was finally meeting her extended family for the first time. Shortly after, he broke it off because she had a first cousin with down syndrome and didn’t want to taint his genetic pool. Absolutely ridiculous.