The engagement ring is on the finger, the catering is already booked, the wedding cakes have been tasted, and even the guests have received their invitations. But something suddenly goes wrong and the wedding is no more. Interestingly, this happens quite often. OMG Hitched reports that 20% of all weddings get called off after the engagement. But what can be the reasons?
One netizen was wondering the same thing, perhaps, when they decided to ask: "What's the wildest reason you've ever heard for someone calling off their wedding?" Former wedding guests came through with the most absurd, hilarious, and even heartbreaking stories imaginable. Over 2,000 people shared their stories, and you can read the most memorable ones below!
#41
I worked in catering and the craziest story we ever had was this:
The bride and groom were getting married on a weekday which was unusual enough (most of our weddings were Fri-Sun) and they were fairly young but seemed normal and enthusiastic during the planning. On the day of the wedding we let their vendors set up early since no other events were taking place. We didn’t know anything was going wrong until the wedding photographer took away one of the place settings off the sweetheart table and took pictures of just one by itself. Then he started telling the staff that the groom had cancelled. The ceremony in the garden didn’t happen obviously but the bride and her side still showed up for the reception it was a much smaller headcount than expected. Parking lot security told us that the groom showed up at the end of the night and almost got pummeled by her family and then they made out in her car.
They showed up weeks later totally together and wanted to see if anyone knew who sent their florist away. The florist was told by someone (our staff or that bigmouth photographer) that the wedding was cancelled so they just drove off without delivering the flowers. The couple was suing them for not providing the flowers. I think they had to go to a courthouse to actually get married but they acted like this was all very normal behavior.
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48points
#42
One of my friends called off her wedding because she found out her fiancé was leading a double life as a professional clown. She had absolutely no idea until she saw him in full clown gear at a kid's birthday party when she was there for her cousin's child. The shock was so intense that she couldn't go through with the wedding! Now, she's happily married to someone else, and she always laughs about how she dodged a pie in the face!
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48points
#43
I know of not ONE but TWO weddings that were called off because the groom was lying about everything to the bride and she found out. In one case, he was pretending to be in grad school full-time while actually just doing nothing and in the other, he’d been laid off for months but hadn’t told her and was just pretending to go to work.
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47points
#44
Someone said they couldn't get married because their partner was allergic to their cat.
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45points
#45
One friend's fiancé confessed he was only marrying her for a green card. Another friend canceled because she found out her partner had a secret gambling addiction.
43points
#48
My friend's fiancée left him because her friend said they were not a good match for each other's horoscopes.
37points
#49
Not super wild but it just sounds like the cheapest movie...my parent’s neighbours, living in the flat above my parents on the top floor, were about to get married when the lady ran away with the handyman who was repairing the roof...
Though it was sad for him it’s somehow a funny story that gets told every now and then, regularly that is. The guy found a new girlfriend some time later and is still with her. He moved to another flat though.
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35points
#50
Its been a whille since I heard this so I hope I get the details right. Groom found out the bride to be was cheating on him, I think it was with the best man. He went through with the wedding anyway and when it was time to do his speech he asked everyone to look for something under seats. It was a picture of the bride and best man together coming out of a hotel. He then proceeded to tell her he knew she was cheating and was divorcing her lol.
17points
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