Most thirty-somethings remember Britney Spears’ first marriage, which lasted only 55 hours. Back then, we thought that it had to be a world record. However, since then, many couples who are not celebrities have beaten that record. The record for the shortest marriage belongs to a Kuwaiti couple, who, in 2019, divorced afterbeing marriedfor a mere three minutes.
It’s hard to know for sure, but there were probably somered flagsfor these short-lived marriages during the wedding ceremony. Recently, people who attended such weddings where the couple didn’t last for long shared their experiences, as a netizen prompted them witha question: “People who went to a wedding where the couple didn’t last long, what happened?”
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During the reception the brides niece accidentally knocked over a drink that splashed the brides shoes and she back handed her in front of everyone. It caused a huge fight and the groom walked out right then.
The Groom had a quickie with a barmaid at the reception and the Bride came out to her maid of honour. Almost everyone at the wedding caught chicken pox from the ring bearer (who was clearly feverish) the food was horrible and it all ended with a mass brawl in the car park.
My very sweet and adorable cousin has epilepsy. We really liked her boyfriend turned fiance and they seemed like a great match. We were all confused when she divorced him a year after their wedding. Turns out after they were officially married a switch flipped inside him and he became very emotionally abusive and manipulative. He would hold her epilepsy medication hostage in order for her to do whatever he asked. He was so psychologically abusive. As soon as she gathered enough courage to leave him, it’s been amazing seeing her recovery to being her authentic, free self again after him.
Groom smashed the cake into the Bride’s face when she had specifically told him not too. I have never seen rage shoot from someone’s eyes like that before. She walked out of the wedding, and tore up the certificate. Called the whole thing off. Apparently there had been other red flags with the groom but this was the final straw sort of thing. Honestly, I’m happy for her. Groom gave me weird vibes the few times I’d met him.
The maid of honor sat down at our table, downed a shot, and said, “I give them three years.“Edit: They made it 2 years and 8 months.
From the first time I met him, I knew my friend’s exhusband was an insecure, controlling, arrogant a*****e. Interesting that my friend didn’t see it, considering what a strong and independent woman she is. Anyway, after he accused her of being in love with a coworker (she wasn’t), he spent a furious evening burning all of her stuff in the yard, including her wedding dress and a not inexpensive clarinet. She divorced him before their first anniversary. The bakery that did their wedding cake had a one year anniversary cake written into their contract, so she enjoyed that cake with her mom and sister, toasting to her divorce.
The bride and groom got married and within 3 months, the bride found out the groom was married and had kids in a different country.
A friend of mine found out a few days after her wedding, that her husband hadn’t been away for work a few months before their marriage as he claimed, but was actually with his side chick, that was giving birth to his child. Turns out the side chick had no idea either so they had a long talk about him before confronting him.She got an annulment due to the marriage having been entered into under false circumstances.
I attended two Disney-themed weddings, and both couples had gotten engaged at Disneyland, spent a fortune on Disney decor for the weddings, and honeymooned at Disneyland. In both cases, the women wanted the whole dream wedding of being a princess and they totally glazed over the reality of marriage and the flawed nature of their outlook on it. They wanted the wedding but weren’t ready for the future afterward. Both couples divorced in less than two years. My friends, who had a ceremony at the courthouse, have been together for almost 10 years now
I was bartending a wedding and the groom kept getting drink after drink. He was so drunk that I started making his drinks with water and he didnt notice. Next thing you know he is kissing a bridesmaid in the middle of the dance floor. His new father in law didn’t take kindly to this and proceeded to knock him the f**k out. They got it annuled.
Groom went missing between ceremony and reception. Bride found him banging the best man in the toilets. She smashed a glass in his face.
Groom caught bride cheating with the best man at the wedding, it had been going on for months. They Kept it together for the night so no one knew. They tried to make it work but only lasted 3 months.
The bride had a very Instagram wedding, which was quite over the top. She had two different dresses and a videographer who made it look like it was a film. It turns out the groom had been sleeping with the maid of honor for six months before the wedding, and it was found out when the MOH was crying, saying, ‘This should’ve been me,’ at the party afterward. The cake tasted absolutely incredible, though, 10/10
My friend is a wedding photographer in Australia and she had a couple where the groom was visibly recoiling from the bride in every photo. She couldn’t get a photo of him looking comfortable or happy around his bride. No idea what was going on but they didn’t last long….
My brother got married to a woman from Russia while in the army. The whole family thought she married him for a green card, but he was convinced it was love. They had their ceremony in a gazebo on a military base. It was a small gathering of family that traveled to it from out of state. His best friend since high school got ordained just so he could marry them. My brother was really excited. He wore a nice suit and the bride… well… she showed up in a bright pink track suit. They divorced a year later.
My friends mom got married to a trucker. Was a pretty nice guy, treated her well, took care of her financially.About a year in his other 3 wives from other states group called her to inform her that he was also married to all of them as well.They all divorced him at the same time. Nothing was even finalized yet and he was sitting at a bar drinking. A fight broke out between other people and he got shoved off his bar stool.Hit his head pretty good, went home to sleep it off and never woke up.
I’m not sure but the thank you card from my gift arrived on the day I found out they were divorced. 2 weeks at most.
They were both 35 successful lawyer and doctor. But had never spent the night at each other’s house.After the marriage they couldn’t agree who would move in with who. And filed for divorce after 3 months. No one knows why they even got married at all. I guess they felt like they were supposed to at that age.
Both my brother and sister had short marriages.Sister: husband turned up to the wedding high on crack. She fell in love with someone else.Brother: had a destination wedding on the top of a mountain that took half a day for the guests to hike including my dad who is missing a knee cap. They wound up with an open marriage, but the wife ran off with the “other guy” and their cat.
I live in a small town in switzerland, so everybody knows everybody. A couple was to marry on saturday. The guest came along and while they were greeted the bride excused herself. She left to s*ck of a former male friend of her ‘one last time’ and got caught. We used to joke about her ‘blowing of the wedding’. This thing happend years ago, but the both are still living in our town seperatively and i can’t unhear the story when i see them.
Uh, it’s me, I’m the couple.She started cheating on me like 3 months after the wedding (that I can prove) but I’m like pretty sure she was beforehand, at least emotionally. She cried at the altar, but not a sweet happy cry, it seemed like a really upset “I’m about to make a big mistake” cry. I remember thinking “this doesn’t seem right, whys she crying like that?” But she gave me no hints at second guessing the whole wedding at all so I literally had no clue until we were GETTING MARRIED. So we went through with it, she started cheating 3 months later, I found out about it 3 months after that, and we got divorced.
The father of the bride got extremely drunk and did a very long, rambling speech in which he revealed he’d done a background check on the husband and discovered they were cousins. He got booed and dragged off the stage, but unfortunately, things didn’t last long, as you can imagine
Tale as old as time.One of my roommates in college got engaged to a guy in the army after dating for less than a year. My roommates and I were so confused when she came back from Christmas break engaged.During our senior year the fiancé was deployed and my roommate became “best friends” with the bouncer at our local bar, spending days and nights with him but denying there was anything going on. Girl, our bedrooms are right next to reach other.Well when her fiancé got back one of his groomsmen had to drop out of the wedding so she INSISTED her new “best friend” be a groomsman.I declined the wedding invite because it was obvious how screwed up the situation was and I didn’t support it. Definitely made for awkward times as we still lived together up until the wedding. Myself and another roommate did try to tell her fiancé what was going on but he totally blew us off. I think he was in denial and just made excuses for her. They lasted 10 months I think.
The bride and groom got married at 20, and the bride’s dad asked her to return his credit card during his speech because she can’t use ‘daddy’s money’ now that she’s married. He then ran over and started cutting his OWN credit card while the DJ played ‘Rich Girl.’
The bride had a history of being extremely flirty and staying in touch with her ex. The husband was very conscious of this and constantly asked her where she was and who she was with. Even though the flags were very red, they had a massively expensive wedding. It lasted three weeks
Went to Singapore to attend a female friend’s wedding with a Singaporean guy. She’d been so happy up until the actual wedding. My friends and I arrived like three days before the ceremony, and the wedding girl was visibly troubled when she met us. We just thought it was nerves and all that. Wedding day comes and she comes out, in her full wedding gown, with an absolute bh face. Like I’m-about-to-mrder-someone kind of bh face. I’m not even kidding lol. Never smiled once during the whole ceremony and the dinner. She loosened up a bit in the after party, and my gf went and asked if her she was OK. She waved my gf away. Right after the wedding, she went back to Hong Kong for work, claiming there’s st she needs to do. Then covid hit and we’re practically not allowed to travel anywhere for a year or two. We were worried about her marriage but she was always rather evasive, not answering our questions or just shooting the s*t whenever we talked about it. Our circle of friends learned not to ask about it anymore. Fast forward 5 years until now, it turns out that she never actually got married lol. The ceremony and everything was a show. We gathered that the dude probably had another girlfriend in Singapore and she only found out right before the wedding. But then she never said it out loud, hinted it here or there with some close friends of hers. Sh*ts unreal. 6 or 7 of us, with a 4yo kid, flew to Singapore just to witness a show of a wedding lol.
Actually, I performed a wedding at a local bar.. we left about 10 pm. The newlyweds got drunk, started fighting, and were arrested, spending the night in jail.
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It turned out he was HIV positive and had another wife. She got caught banging his underage cousin.
My grandmother was married before she met my grandfather (this is back in the 50’s). I’ve only heard the story once or twice, but:She was 17, he was in his 20’s. She was dirt poor in Kentucky, and he had a job. They got married, and within a few weeks he got pretty rough with her. When she told her parents, it came to light that he’d been abusive for a while.Her dad and brothers didn’t know her new husband as well as they’d like, since he was going to be part of the family and all, so they invited him on a hunting trip.Anyway, there was some kind of accident, and the guy got shot. Since he’d been in the service and she was his widow, my grandmother got some veterans benefits for the rest of her life.Shortly thereafter (when she was 19-20) she met my grandfather and they were married just a few months shy of 50 years. One of the most compatible couples I’ve ever met.
Good mate of mine, totally weird vibe at the wedding so I knew something was up. He sat on the bridal table and smashed a bottle of scotch, she danced all night with her teenage daughter from a previous relationship. Turns out he’d picked up the iPad connected to her phone in the week before the wedding and saw all the messages from her karate instructor who she was having an affair with. His relatives were already en route from overseas so they went through with the wedding but never signed the paperwork!
A week before the wedding the bride walked in on the groom f*****g the dog’s stuffed toy. They went through with the very elaborate wedding and I’m pretty sure it’s because she wanted a wedding, not a marriage, in the first place. They anulled the marriage 2 weeks later. Her parents are still paying off the wedding debt and that happened 5 years ago.
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Groom met girl, fell hard “in love”, and pushed girl to quickly marry, he said “love of his life”.Three months later after they married, he left her, victim blaming and gaslighting all around.He leaves out the part where he emotionally beat her into the ground with “I’m just kidding” and “you know what I mean” kinda s**t.He didn’t really leave her after three months of marriage. He went back, and left for some other reason, and went back, and left for yet another reason. This went on for months, and the wife never even knew problems existed.He destroyed that girl.I hope she finds someone who doesn’t use love as a weapon against her.
Apparently the bride wanted an open marriage and the groom didn’t. It was me. I was the groom.Married in Feb, separated in May. The fella she was seeing on the side wifed her up for better or worse. Good on him, I guess. She was extremely abusive throughout the relationship, and from the inside I didn’t really see it until a confidante talked to me about it after it ended. I now have a partner who isn’t abusive and a wonderful child so I don’t feel like I lost much except for the mental and emotional toll of it all.
Went to a wedding that the bride’s parents spent $30,000 for. One month later, the husband got a better job in a city 90 minutes away. The wife didn’t want to move that far from her parents. They were divorced less than two months of marriage.
The relationship between the bride’s father and the groom was contentious from before the wedding. At it, one of the bride’s cousins’ +1 had a dress with a cleavage, and one of the groom’s cousins, drunk off his a*s, came to her and told her he wanted, ad verbatim, to suck her boobs.+1 tells her date, who promptly punches the groom’s cousin. This begins a full on family vs family brawl, that culminates with the groom punching the bride’s father, and this man taking his daughter away and keeping her away from her husband for ten days.It got annulled! Can’t imagine why 🤪.
It was an arranged marriage and she quickly went from independent girl boss to a slave for his whole family in a different country. You could tell at the wedding when his mates were all talking about him taking her virginity that night and how he’d gotten plenty of practice in before the wedding. Glad she got out of there, I hope her family understood.
Wedding was fine. But then the groom tried to throw the bride off the balcony of the penthouse apartment they were staying in on the wedding night.I know this because I was a bridesmaid and she called me and another bridesmaid and asked us to stay the night with them in their hotel room. Super awkward, but she assured us it wasn’t a sexual thing. Turns out she didn’t feel safe being alone with him. Rightly so.They hid it well in public, he seemed like a decent guy until then (from what I had seen. Obviously that wasn’t accurate). Why she married him I l’ll never know. I guess she was afraid of what he’d do if she said no.
Turned out the groom (who I was working for at the time) was banging the gal who played the violin for the music at their wedding.Not sure how long the marriage lasted, but it was pretty damned quick….couple of months at most.And it was a HUGE and very expensive wedding. I still feel bad for the bride. She was super nice, and he was such an idiot. I hope she got the wedding annulled and found someone who deserved her.I stopped working for the guy around that time so I never really heard what came of it, but I know it was over insanely fast.
One, the groom fd a bridesmaid at the reception, got caught behind the bar.Another, bride fd the best man in the limo on the way to the reception because the groom rode with his parents in the 2nd limo. The limo driver told the groom.
High school friend, and tennis partner. She fell in love with the highschool football jock that wanted to be a police officer. He got the job. And beat the brakes off my friend just 3 months after she had his child. She divorced him on the spot. She had enough. Looking back I can see the red flags he was flying in high school. I guess I just didn’t have the voice or knowledge to know better (I came from a s****y home.)She’s doing good now! And I’m happy for her!
It was a destination wedding. There were no bridesmaids and two best men, old colleagues of the groom he wasn’t really close to. They had three photographers - one that came as part of the wedding package, one the bride paid to have flown out with them, and one friend of the couple who took all the photos on his phone, but otherwise worked as though he had been hired for the job. No one had anything good to say about them as a couple. Her family weren’t invited, his family spent all evening b*tching about how awful the wedding prep had been since the bride cut so many people out of the wedding with just weeks to go (hence no bridesmaids, etc). The photographer who’d been hired to fly out sat with us at one point and offloaded about how stressful the whole day had been, calling the bride a ‘bridezilla.’ I’m not sure quickly they separated after but we never saw the wedding photos. I think it was a matter of weeks. We spent over £2000 to be there.
Several months before the wedding, they decided to (discreetly) open their relationship up to non-monogamy on the proviso that it would become monogamous again after the wedding day. The groom’s new ‘girlfriend’ attended the wedding, got a bit too drunk, and spent the reception loudly stating how upset she was and how she couldn’t bear to watch them kiss during the ceremony. It didn’t take long for the new wife to come home and find the girlfriend hiding in the primary bedroom ensuite
I was going to be “best man” at a friend’s wedding. We got together the evening before the wedding, and all seemed well. Then, at 7:30 the next morning, I got a phone call from my friend. He said that the wedding was called off, and he would call and explain later. He didn’t. It was two weeks later, I finally got a hold of his dad, and he said that his son was away at boot camp, and wouldn’t be coming back. I never heard from him or the bride again, so I don’t really know what happened.
There was a young lady working with me, who was caught texting her boyfriend on the wedding day. She had even sent him herself in her wedding dress.
The wedding was gross, just overtly sexual and shallow. She got pregnant less than a year later. He blamed her and beat the s**t out of her. She offered to have an abortion but he’s pro-life so that pissed him off more and he sent her to the hospital again. They’d been having unprotected sex since the wedding and everyone knew it so he was the only person who was surprised. They split up after the beatings but didn’t divorce until after she had 3 more children because they thought they couldn’t afford it. They had no assets or marital debt so they could’ve DIYed it, but neither of them were ever bright. He’s never paid a cent of child support (willingly, his tax returns go to her now) or met his son, who hates him.
Father of the child the bride was carrying (not the grooms) turned up at the reception. She left with him. Until then I had never seen a human so devastated.
Bridezilla snapped at the groom’s mom, and then YELLED at the groom when he told her not to speak disrespectfully to his mother.
He was a marine Corp officer, fighter jet pilot. She was smart, pretty and crazy. She admitted in the bathroom before the wedding that she cheated on him in college… no worries, let it go. They both had just graduated.His best man blew the speech in a way that Bukowski couldn’t have predicted or explained. It was a rambling of swear words and secrets best left in the back halls of dorms and pubs.
A few weeks later, the bride drove to her parents” house after work instead of her home and said she didn’t want to be married anymore and asked them to fix it.Another one, bride left months later because groom’s d**g use had quickly spiraled out of control.
My cousin got married pretty early into a relationship in her early twenties. It was a very simple wedding as not much could be afforded (they had the groom’s… 12 year old cousin (?) be the photographer because I was a bridesmaid).When cutting the cake, my cousin fed the piece of cake to her new husband and did the usual little show but didn’t make that big of a mess. It was his turn. He absolutely tried to smash it into my cousin’s face.They got divorced. I can’t remember how long after the wedding that was but maybe at least a year later?Now she’s remarried and seems very happy. They’re on holiday right now. I’ll be able to meet him in roughly two months.
My ex sister in law married a guy she hadn’t known very long and although that isn’t any reliable indicator of how long a relationship will last, I found it very disturbing that the groom stood with his back turned toward his bride while she walked down the aisle. One of his groomsmen had to tap him on the arm and whisper in his ear that he was supposed to turn around when the wedding march started. She was maybe only 3 steps away from him when he finally turned around to see her.Less than a year later he just came home from work one day and told her he had been with someone else since before they were married and she had to leave.
He was a laid back, depressed cynic, she was an over-enthusiastic over-achiever with Strong Opinions on everyone else’s life choices. They’d never lived under the same roof before (I suspect religion may have been a factor). Of course, she got pregnant immediately after the wedding and the kid was born just around the time they realized they couldn’t stand each other. Poor kid.
My step-sister in law got married when she was a teenager and her husband was young as well and a moron. I’m not even sure it lasted a year. I remember one thing he did was brake check cars multiple times causing crashes and needing physical therapy. I can’t imagine being that god damn stupid. I remember he and his friends drinking illegally at the wedding like they were cool but they just looked like f*****g clowns. I hated to see her marry an idiot like that because she is super smart and had goals and his goal was just to be a moron.
One of my closest friends was in a relationship for 10 years. They got married, she got pregnant. She didn’t want kids, he did. She got an abortion & they were married and divorced within a year after a 10 year relationship.
In contrast to some others here this couple lasted long, a full six months.Until she confessed to cheating on him. Repeatedly. With several men, for several years, sometimes with multiple men at the same time.Dude was a mess for a year after that.
The groom wanted an open marriage and the bride didn’t.
3 weeks. The bride who was a very good friend of mine had terminal cancer.
Seemed like the bride and groom both knew this wasn’t going to last long. They kept talking about how nice the party was but never about the excitement of being together and their future together.
Wedding was fine, but afterwards the groom got a job that required him to relocate (the bride would move over a bit later) and the she (a daily emotional alcoholic) was already giving him st for having a few female colleagues and when she moves there she wants to meet them, like she was really paranoid even though the groom is a decent loyal guy. Getting closer to her moving to where he was based, i overheard her (already drunk again) talking unjustified smack about her husband to her friend over the phone and was often quick to point out she’ll divorce him for just about any scenario. Anyway she moves in with him at their new place and not long after they got divorced. She does some travelling for her work and turns out she was f***g her driver. Marriage didn’t even last a few months.
The lawyers had to split up the cake.
She was way hotter than my cousin. By like a lot. She was also was nicer than him. Like a lot. So she left him. I still don’t know why she married him in the first place. She made more than he did/does. So it wasn’t looks, personality, or money.
One cheated. The cheater was given an ultimatum to either break up or stop talking to the affair partner then prove their love/devotion with marriage. It turns out marriage isn’t a good solution for relationship issues.
The bride disappeared during the reception and went on a bender.
Pretty boring, but among one person’s life goals was to be a parent and the other didn’t want children. That’s a hard bump in the road to ignore.
Nothing much, but the (very very crazy) bride’s family were religious wackos and made a big deal about pointing out their father’s law offices and all his rental properties.Also, one of the groomsmen (who I think was the bride’s brother) who got way too into the gambling when we were in Atlantic City kept trying to get us to leave the rehearsal dinner to find a casino (which were not legal in Ohio then).
Wife got pregnant unexpectedly. Her rich family freaked out, called in all their connections to pull a $100K wedding and reception within a few weeks.Wife had a miscarriage after 6 months. A year later they were divorced and their marriage annulled.Neither the wife nor the husband really wanted to marry but they caved due to pro-life family pressure. I think they would have made a go of it had they had the kid, but once that was out of the picture the marriage fell pretty quickly.
Bride had a very Instagram wedding and it was quite over the top. She had 2 different dresses, videographer who made it look like it was a filmTurns out the groom had been sleeping with the maid of honour for 6 months prior to the wedding and it was found out when the MoH was crying saying “this should’ve been me” at the party afterwardsCake tasted absolutely incredible though, 10/10.
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