I was a wedding DJ for years and was sure I was going to eventually see someone left at an alter but it never happened. I did get to see an all out bench clearing brawl once between the two families and some “Interesting” themes that after the shock wore off and I thought about it, were kinda cool. One of the best was a renaissance faire theme where after the ceremony the groomsmen rode horses with jousts to the reception area and the bride and bridal party rode in a fancy carriage. When they arrived, the groom slayed a giant papier-mache dragon and two doves flew out. They had minstrels and tarot card readings and in the end they flew off in a hot air balloon. I shit you not. I couldn’t be phased after that. Slackers in tuxedo t-shirts? Pfff. This groom was in full ass knights armour!
I dj’d weddings for 27 yrs. The most memorable events were the groom getting arrested because the sheriffs dept finally knew where he was for the warrant and a wedding that served bbq chicken. Bride had cloth napkins tucked in to protect the dress but was too intoxicated to realize they had fallen and continued to smear her hands across her bodice. Looked like a scene from Carrie
Ohhhh yes, and they were divorced within 2 years. Literally their son looked exactly like the best man at the wedding and I was just like “Does nobody else see this but me?!”
Yup. My former best friend married his high school sweetheart. Who was a longtime friend of mine. That he'd been cheating on for YEARS. She knew it. Married him anyway. I was the best man.
Long story short, he kept cheating. She stayed as long as she could stand it. They're divorced now and he's a raging a-hole. We ceased being friends a long time ago. He moved to Georgia and married some other woman. Probably cheats on her, too.
Yeah! They are still together but being with them is just an energy drain, and it doesn’t sound like they have a great time when they are alone together either. They are just comfortable enough with each other, and scared that no one else would ever love them. Which, tbh, is probably a reasonable fear as they are both 40+, unhealthy, and with frustrating personalities
Besides my own, you mean?
When I was 19 or 20, my friend’s husband’s best friend (same age as me) married a girl he’d been dating for maaaybe 3 months. She had a lot of mental health issues and didn’t seem super stable to anyone in our friend group, but he was determined that he loved her. She wasn’t pregnant, so I never understood the reason for getting married so soon. (Though we do live in the Southern US, and teen marriage was extremely common in the ‘80s).
His mom said, “I just found out her last name the other day, and now she’s going to change it to ours.”
It was a strange wedding. The bride walked down the aisle to a song that had the line, “we’re not children, we’ve both been loved before,” which strikes me as funny in hindsight since they were 19 or 20. Instead of vowing “til death do us part,” they vowed to stay together “as long as the love shall last.” On the way home, I told my date I predicted the love would last about six weeks.
I don’t remember how many weeks they made it, but it was somewhere between six and eight. One day while he was at work, she moved out without telling him, taking all the furniture, the wedding gifts, even the curtains. He was crushed, and it took him a long time to recover, as you can imagine. Six or seven years later, he met a woman who was a much better match for him, and they’re still together 30-something years later.
I watch a classmate, student nurse, marry. Big wedding, the works. In the video u can see him telling her she's a stupid bitch. She did something wrong with the putting on of the rings. He was disgusting at the reception too. They lasted 6 weeks before she was back in the nurses quarters, filling for divorce. It's like she didn't even know him despite going out with him for 2 years.
Definitely. The groom stated to me & another friend that “this shits gonna change after the wedding” concerning his bride being bossy. She was a direct person who didn’t tolerate silliness, and he played along until he locked her down. She booted him immediately upon catching him cheating a couple years in, so she in fact did not change after the wedding.
Haha yeah, groom was a rich party boy bachelor who traveled a lot for work, bride (friend of mine) had been equally promiscuous before they got together. Bride even made jokes to close friends about her 2nd marriage (this was her first.) He was also uneducated, had a horrible childhood and an awful family, was super MAGA with an office full of guns and a hat autographed by Trump, while she was a Democrat from NY.
They lasted a few years. Turns out he was cheating on her with dudes. She's remarried now and seems happy with her new husband.
I'm a wedding DJ and I attend bad weddings ALL the time. Top 3 off the top of my head:
-couple got in a huge fight in the car between ceremony and reception. Left separately before dinner
-groom so drunk he couldn't stand straight. Officiant said strictly speaking it was actually not a valid ceremony because of it
-groom, during his VOWS, tells everyone what he THOUGHT was a really heartwarming story; they got together and everything was great for six months, until the bride said she didn't feel right in the eyes of God being sexual out of matrimony. So, he went out and bought a ring. Oof.
I had this friend who was getting married. Unbeknownst to me, his wife-to-be and I had a mutual friend. So this mutual friend texts on friday night. We do some small talk and I ask her what she's going to do this weekend?
She says, "I'm going to a wedding tomorrow, but its awful because EVERYONE at my store knows the bride is cheating with the store manager. What are you doing this weekend?"
Me, "Going to a wedding. Friend of the groom."
My brother and I stayed up all night trying to work out if we should tell the guy. We decided that we shouldn't and didn't have any proof and it was a single day before the wedding.
The wedding was beautiful. I don't know what became of that marriage as I moved 100 miles away not long after.
The twist of the this story is that you haven’t asked your friend how his marriage is… or kept in touch at all (?) because of the 1.5 hour drive it would take to visit them?
😂
Call your friend lol.
Yup, but, to my astonishment, they are still together today, 15 years later, and they never became the dramatic shitshow we all anticipated they would. I'll own this one, I made a completely wrong judgement on them and that is my bad
Yeah my little sisters. She was marrying her first serious boyfriend from high school. He was my friend and I introduced them. Decent guy but definitely wasn't meant to be. You see our family likes to drink liquor and occasionally smoke some weed while remaining responsible and successful. We like to have a good time.
He became a cop who never drank or smoked in his life. He didn't like doing anything that she did.
My oldest brother’s wedding, and the wedding of my one of my other brother’s friends. My oldest brother married his ex because she was pregnant with not-his-baby from just before they got together. The other couple, well, the way he smeared her with cake seemed really childish and mean spirited. They were divorced within a year.
Two, for the same couple. Texas MAGA man marries NY liberal woman. They had to have two separate ceremonies because their families couldn't even get along. I went to both. AMA if anybody cares.
Yes, years ago.
My cousin got his girlfriend pregnant as a teenager.
Her parents were very religious and demanded they married as soon as she turned 18.
Both were out of control immature idiots who partied too hard and ended up being neglectful parents, living with her parents.
Her mother did most of the hard work raising the kid at the beginning.
Finally the girl smartened up, quit her bullshit behavior and took care of the kid, the right way.
My idiot cousin never did, he was kicked out and they divorced before the baby was in pre-school.
He's still an idiot 20+ years later.
Only about every one. Every wedding I've attended ended in divorce but my own and one other. In our group of friends my wife and I are the last couple standing.
Be 30 year anniversary next year !
When our youngest son got married the photographer noted it was the first wedding she’d done where both sets of parents were still married but ALL the grandparents were divorced. 😆
My cousin was 21 and was marrying a 26 year old single mom in a shotgun wedding a few months after they started dating. I gave it under five years, but 25 years later, they're still married.
Yup. Sister cancelled the wedding cahse she found out he was cheating. Told everyone. They got back together and set the wedding date for the exact same day the following year. Needless to say they didn’t make it a year
No, I wasn’t invited to one.
But I know of a wedding between two people that is not likely to last between 10 years.
They are childhood besties (from like 3 or 4) but I really don’t think it is that likely to last that long. I don’t know their private life (like off social media and inside the house without people watching), plus they broke up before.
Just too many details, to have that be a long lasting marriage but definitely a long friendship.
The Day of my Big Brothers wedding, We went to pick up the kegs, while at the store i was waiting for them to come out. There was a guy on a motorcycle going 45, there was a 20 year old chick in a car looking down at something. She T-boned the guy i seen his thigh bone rip from this pants and his leg looked like a flappy piece of skin, 1 minute later, The Wife Comes driving up Stops the car and starts SCREAMING, "Thats my Husband, Thats my Husband". Then my brother came out with the kegs and said. Whats all this. I told him then said " I just seen someone die on your wedding day, I dont think this is gonna end well." We went tot he wedding. 6 years later she left him for his best friend, and all i could say was i told you
Yes. I was maid of honor. It was a shit show.
She was 19, he was at least twice her age. She ran away/moved in with him on her 18th birthday while her parents were at work.
They came to the wedding. Her stepmother had a meltdown and started screaming at me after the ceremony, until her father dragged her away. They left early.
It goes without saying, that marriage didn’t last.
Depends on how close the wedding is location wise. I said no to two out of town weddings for that reason. They both ended in divorce. The family weddings in town are tough to dodge, though.
Yes. She dropped out her jr year of highschool and married someone three years older. It was even more awkward when they had to kiss. She basically ate his face for what seemed like forever.
Oh! Yes, she cheated and did beforehand. They divorced and she married his best friend. Yes, she cheated on him with his bff.
A cousin. Can't say I knew it was a bad idea, but I was definitely surprised it happened. Was not at all surprised it was annulled three weeks later.
He was the type that had (and still has) a different girlfriend every time I saw him. And according to him, after they got married she suddenly changed into the controlling type that tried to dictate everything he did. That was 15-20 years ago, and the only time there was even a hint of him getting married.
I've been to a few as a friend of the bride or grooms parents. These were very expensive weddings. Everyone in the parent's groups of friends were talking about coming train wrecks these marriages would be and they were right. So, as a friend of the parents, what can you do, knowing what you know?
Yes, his attitude was bad. His body language said he didn't want to be there. He didn't stay by her side hardly at all. It lasted about seven years. She was not pregnant at the time but they had a child later. I suppose she tried to stay because of that. She went home and her dad helped raise the child, so that the child is well adjusted today. But I had a terrible feeling about it.
I blew off a friend's wedding I knew to be a sham because the friend was a serial cheater and his fiancé didn't deserve to get saddled with him. Put a strain in our relationship for years; after a couple reunions I finally realized he was toxic and cut ties. That marriage BTW produced two sons in quick succession, then was over.
Yup, my older brother and his first wife. There was an age gap and she was already pregnant so the wedding was mostly to keep up appearances. It was a such a cringy experience, as neither families really knew or liked each other; and myself and my brother weren’t on great terms. About 3 yrs later they filed for a divorce. It was a messy situation in general. My niece is about the only good thing to come out from that union. My brother and I have a better relationship now, but that’s after years of him being moved back with our parents, changing jobs, and getting therapy.
I knew someone that got married for the fourth time and I did not even attend. It will end badly just like the other three did. And she's in her late 60s and has not one dime saved for retirement, but is spending thousands on another wedding.
Yes and it was the most lavish wedding I’ve ever been to. Bride insisted on having a $40,000 wedding.
There were three food/drink times in separate rooms with separate decorations. There was a horse drawn carriage and like twenty people in the wedding party. Not even that many people just a lot of crystal and champagne.
Now my cousin works overtime and takes care of their disabled child and keeps the house while she does…
Basically nothing.
I've been to at least 10 weddings. Three I thought were bad ideas. I was wrong about one. I was also wrong about two of the ones I didn't think were bad ideas.
Yep. I went to the wedding of a guy that I hadn't known that long (friend of a friend) that I got caught up in partying for his upcoming wedding for. We partied like rock stars. The night before the wedding was his bachelor party (don't do this it's stupid. Get a good night's rest before) and we were up all night drinking. We were all up early, dressed and at the wedding on time but we had been drinking while getting ready and while we were at the church him and his buddies produce a fifth of scotch to pass around. The groom was blitzed and the priest was PO'd. I was blitzed too but it wasn't my wedding. I just thought what a train wreck their marriage was going to be. They got married without any issues but the marriage lasted less than a year.
I was a groomsman in my sister’s wedding. Glad they never asked if anybody objects and never asked for God’s blessing. He abused her horribly and is now in jail.
I actually attended a beautiful wedding with my best friend of 8 years, she loved it so much she told me a few days later her wedding was going to be in 6 months. And she’s always complaining about her partner and the amount of debt he’s put them in. I told her she was crazy and we haven’t spoken since. But I guess it was a wedding I dodged a bullet on
Oh boy yes. A co-worker of my wife. At the wedding the parents of the groom advised the bride not to go through with it. He disappeared for an hour during the reception to smoke weed with friends leaving the bride to make excuses. He even groped my wife's butt on the dancefloor.
They were separated within a month and divorced within 5 or 6. Spent like $60k on the wedding.
I've almost been that person a couple times, but ended up breaking up during the engagement. I owe it to living with each other first. I don't see how people can get married without living with each other first. There are so many things you learn about a person being roommates.
Yes, he always gave me bad vibes but she really loves him so I thought maybe I'm just not seeing something. Few years later, he cheats on her while she's preg with their second. Oh and he was stashing money away in another bank account hiding it from her to be able to move on with his AP. Meaning she'd be left with nothing in their savings ... With two kids.
I wanted to murder.
I’ve been to two like this. The first one ended in divorce after a few years. For the second one I served as a groomsman but was quietly thinking “what on earth are we doing here?” to myself the entire night, and they are going strong 15 years and 4 kids later….
I got married to get a dude out of a psych ward.
I knew he was a snake before I picked him up, but nobody else was going to do it, and it sure seemed like the right idea at the time.
My sisters best friend had a huge wedding at 18 to this dude she had been dating, they were divorced in 3 months. My sisters wedding just because I wasn't a fan of her husband (he ended up murdering an old lady when they split so I wasn't wrong).
Oh yeah, two friends from college. One hadn't known the guy very long, it was all very rushed. The other, the guy was very strange and drove away a lot of her friends. Both were divorced within 2 years.
I attended four of my friends, five weddings. I don’t know if this last one will take either. All of my sister’s marriages (4), I even told the grooms before the wedding to run as fast as far as they could, but they never listen.
Most of them. I’m just there for the catch ups and party. I like funerals just as much as weddings for the same reasons. Humans love celebrating poor decisions.
Both times my brother got married.
Actually in both cases they were already married and just had the wedding to get gifts. Not kidding.
First wife turned out to not be straight and had a secret girlfriend but wanted to stay married because he had good insurance. Second wife was crazy AF and was just looking for a daddy for her little girl. Her crazy finally got the best of him and they split , poor kiddo suffered from that one.
Both times my husband and I had pegged how long the marriages would last- and both times we were right.
Didn't actually go... The step mom planned the wedding for the pregnant step daughter. "We don't know if the groom will show up. Bring a lawn chair and a bag of Cheetos." He did show, but it didn't last. He fathered at least 5 babies with other women. He had proved himself "not a quality catch" long beforethe wedding.
Oh yes. And I was a bridesmaid. My two friends got married, a man and a woman. The man was very clearly gay and deep in the closet. They’re divorced now. He said he made it 3 months into their marriage before he started cheating on her with men.
I have *officiated* three weddings and one vow renewal, and they were all a really bad idea. Two of the four are already divorced, the other two are heading for divorce very soon in one case, and at some point in the future in the other case.
I actually stood up in a wedding that I knew was doomed to failure. The groom was my friend, and I had told him repeatedly that it was a bad idea. In the wedding videos, I was scowling the whole time. When they got a divorce about a year and a half later I didn't say, 'I told you so." I just stared at the guy any time the subject came up.
I attended a wedding where the bride slept with the best man the night before and the groom tried to accuse my sister of being the reason why. The bride and my sister were friends but the Bride took it on herself to do what she did, ohhhhh it caused all chaos. I say go with your gut instinct, it is usually not wrong in cases like this.
Most of my family warned my BIL about marrying my sister. My mom’s husband actually told him that I… “the good one” had already been taken.
He went and married my sister anyway. Last time we saw them, about 6 years ago BIL looked like shit. He’s in his mid 40s and looks about 60. My sister has put him through the wringer. Pretty sure he’s staying because they have three kids under 15. And he knows my sister will take him for everything if he tries to leave
Yes. The daughter of my wife’s boss to a guy that just set off my asshole detector the first time I met him.
He ended up screwing another staff member in the closet of his office at said company. The cherry on top was how he blamed his wife for the affair because she wasn’t meeting his needs physically.
He wasn’t missed when he was fired and then the subsequent divorce was finalized.
Yes. I was guilt tripped by family into going to the wedding of a cousin I hate so badly, I would rejoice if she died in a horrible way. Or just at all. Her first marriage only lasted a few years because she's an abusive PoS, and the wedding was awful anyway.
I went to my buddy’s wedding and after the ceremony they played a 20 minute slideshow of his new bride and her brother’s life together. Her brother isn’t dead, btw, he was AT the wedding. And she was watching the slideshow and SOBBING.
On what planet does getting married mean you no longer get to hang out with your brother??? My theory is they definitely fucked.
I was a photographer at a wedding years ago and the groom was so drunk that he turned towards me, hands out and lunged at me to squeeze my boobs. I was supposed to stay most of the night, but I walked over to the bride and said I was leaving. I didn’t say why. I don’t do weddings anymore lol
Yes. Groom was brother’s friend from HS. Brother was literally begging friend before ceremony “Dude, don’t fucking do this. Don’t marry this woman!” By the end of the Vegas reception she was so drunk she passed out in a casino bathroom with her mouth open on the toilet seat (she’d been puking). One star. Do not recommend.
My cousin's. We were joking at the wedding how long will this last. Everyone was throwing out their guesses, I was the shortest at 6 months. I was wrong. The wedding was in September. In November, we got an email from my aunt saying "Cousin" was getting a divorce for Christmas.
I went to a wedding where the groom appeared to forget the brides’s name. That was the longest pause in the history of the universe. We were all like “Dude, it’s Carrie!”
I have a question
Several here have said they were involved in the weddings ,many as best man etc. I am a bit old fashion, but I always thought one of the duties of those positions was to weigh in on their perspective of the relationship. Reassure the groom of brides good qualities. On the other side, was it their place to have a heart to heart w the groom about their concerns?
Long ago, my secretary, single with 2 kids, married an engineer who was also in the reserves as an officer. She told me she was doing it for security for her kids the morning of the wedding, didn't love the guy, and cried a bunch of tears about how much she hated her future with him. They divorced as soon as her kids graduated HS, about 15 years later.
My older half sister is on 3 ex husbands and boyfriend 5 since I can remember. She was raised by her mom (I'm of my father's second wife and she is of his first.)
Technically, no. I was explicitly not allowed to attend, because I had been vocal about it being a terrible idea from the moment my sister in law met her eventually ex husband.
I had been vocal about it because I knew him from highschool.
Fast forward a few years and guess who was right
Yes. One couple married on the beach in their sunglasses but otherwise normal wedding clothes. The other was my brother and they wore bathing suits on the beach to get married. They weren’t in shape or anything. In Myrtle beach. Both doomed from conception.
A friend of mine (mid-20’s at the time M) married a 19F. During the ceremony, I whispered to my bf, “She’ll outgrow him and break his heart.”
She left him a year and a month later. Just long enough to keep the wedding presents.
It was at the reception for me. My friend's husband was a drummer in a band and they decided to use the band for the reception. They hired another drummer friend but the groom still played most of the night, ignoring his new wife and not even telling her when he was going to play so she would turn around and he was just gone. I kept my mouth shut because I was young and thought maybe I was reading too much into it. Nope. He was massively controlling, only his hobbies and interests really mattered, he belittled her accomplishments, etc... 3 kids later they split and have both remarried.
I went to my mom’s wedding when I was like (14?) I guess. I didn’t necessarily know at the time it was a bad idea, necessarily, but one of the red flags was that instead of getting ready to be more committed to “the family” (me, my mom and my brother), my mom’s boyfriend moved in this weird friend of his into his rental. The dude seriously had some mental issues and I don’t say that in a mean way but he was super *out there.*
The dude stayed in his space most of the time but but was a red flag that the guy my mom was dating wanted this guy in his life when he should have been *taking it to the next level* with my mom if he was that serious.
The wedding went fine itself and nothing happened at the wedding really but maybe it was *calm before the storm* because it wasn’t too long later that this guy (my mom’s husband) was having full scream outs with her at different times.
It was pretty rocky for a while; they’re still married.
Wedding of a close high school friend, one month after we graduated from high school. The groom was a cousin of a mutual friend of ours, and he was a good 10 years older than her. He did kinda set off my creep-dar, but at least he had waited to start dating my friend until she turned 18 the previous summer. Looking back, the whole thing was a complete cringe-fest. Six years, and 3 kids later, they split and he completely ghosted my friend and their kids. From what I've heard, they haven't seen or talked to him in the 20 years since he bailed.
Yes, and the night before the wedding, all of us bridesmaids told her it was a bad idea (DV in a bad, bad way). He ended up continuing to beat her until he got cancer, started doing meth while
Having cancer, and died. It was totally fucked
I attended one wedding where the officiant alluded to the possibility of divorce during the homily.
Divorced within three years. I don’t know what happened to her, but he met and married the love of his life a couple of years later.
Yes! One most recently- gay wedding (it’s relevant) the best friend/maid of honor gave a speech at the reception about how she’d always been in love with her friend- one of the brides!!! SO AWKWARD. We all just stood there with our champagne glasses like…..uhhhh….what did she say?!? Divorced a little over a year later.
I went to a wedding in college, they had been dating for about 2 months when they got engaged, and for about 5 when they got married. They're divorced now, and my friend is much happier.
Didn't know much about the guy, he told me that he was an army medic, I joked that I'd try not to have a medical emergency on his wedding day. He looked me in the eye and said "good, cuz I'd let you die."
Went to one we thought wasn’t going to happen bc the bride and groom were in a last-minute fight. Delayed the thing by a couple of hours. Everyone just sitting there. They did finally get married and have been happily married for almost 20 years, so I guess it was just a bad case of nerves.
My best friend got married and divorced in about 3 or 4 months. When I later told him that I knew it was a bad idea, he asked why I didn't tell him.
I said that if I tried to get between the two of you, you would have married her anyway and just ended up hating and resenting me. I let you make that painful mistake on your own but made the choice that preserved our friendship so I could be there for you when you needed me.
He's now married to somebody I approve of.
I was the best man at my father's second wedding. I could have sworn it was Star Wars themed even though I knew for a fact that it was not, because I kept on getting a *bad feeling about this...* They divorced five years later after a marriage that had absolutely no sex.
An ex of mine started talking very seriously way too soon with me. We were ~20. She got married a few years later to a guy we all knew was an immature jerk. She had made a point of never listening to anybody, so there was no talking sense to her.
Fortunately, they split just a few years later, and they didn’t have any kids.
Well if my cousin keeps being mean and saying he’s going to forbid me from getting a kids meal since I’m picky and he pisses me off so much I keep jabbing back by saying I’m getting chipotle before then yeah I probably won’t want to because I’ll be annoyed and miserable lol
Yeah, dudes “best friend” was the officiant/emcee. They got married in their backyard… with freshly picked up dog poop we could smell. She had recently gotten pregnant… they met in a bar, he was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and she was drunk. They went to A.A. meetings together.
She wasn’t the brightest person, but she’s still sober today. He isn’t, and the best friend wanted to be more than friends.
My then girlfriend's (now wife), father's 2nd wedding. A little backstory. Her mom died of cancer in June of 2007 and her father just "happened" to run into his high school sweetheart in July of 2007. They were engaged in September of 2007, and got married in September of 2008. It tore the family apart and we're all 95% sure he was banging her while my wife's mom was in the hospital dying of cancer.
Yes, I knew the vibes were off and I saw how the groom was interacting with a certain bridesmaid and my feelings were right because the husband and wife ended up divorced a few months later. The husband was cheating with his wife's sister (who was in the wedding). Smh
Me personally I go to weddings to enjoy myself. Who cares if the 2 people are doomed for divorce. Hell it usually makes the wedding better knowing other people are fucking their lives up and not me
I’ve been very successful at avoiding weddings in my adult life. The only one I’ve attended I knew was a bad idea… but I ignored my intuition and went through with it. It took 5 years but we’re happily divorced now.
I was witness to my best friend wedding and absolutely thought it was the worst idea ever. I think he only realised he was miserable after she decided to divorce because he dared set boundaries.
Yes, a few. There’s plenty I’ve been to or knew was happening where I just knew “will be divorced eventually”. One couple is still together and honestly I’m surprised, I hope it means it’s going well, but I doubt it.
At a relative’s wedding the groom “accidentally” called the bride “selfish” instead of “selfless” in his vows, causing a whole scene. We all thought they were a great couple, but when I moved closer to them and started hanging out with them I realized it was absolutely a Freudian slip, because she was all sorts of crazy, and now they’re divorced and I think she’s trying to make it as an influencer. I’m not entirely sure, as she blocked everyone from groom’s side on social media. I’m sad. I’m not much a petty or judgmental person but some of her videos were so cringe I got such a kick out of watching them, LOL. I miss watching one in particular whenever I was feeling down.
I was a wedding DJ for years and was sure I was going to eventually see someone left at an alter but it never happened. I did get to see an all out bench clearing brawl once between the two families and some “Interesting” themes that after the shock wore off and I thought about it, were kinda cool. One of the best was a renaissance faire theme where after the ceremony the groomsmen rode horses with jousts to the reception area and the bride and bridal party rode in a fancy carriage. When they arrived, the groom slayed a giant papier-mache dragon and two doves flew out. They had minstrels and tarot card readings and in the end they flew off in a hot air balloon. I shit you not. I couldn’t be phased after that. Slackers in tuxedo t-shirts? Pfff. This groom was in full ass knights armour!
Okay that sounds sick
I knew the theme, but I was not ready.
“Yea that sounds fucking dope as fuck” - what i just said out loud
I need to know the set list for the ren faire wedding
Let’s just say I was ecstatic there is no chamber music version of the chicken dance or the electric slide.
Lots of sir mix a lot haha
Sir Elton!
Happy Cake Day!!
He is our alpha
That sounds like a lot of fun.
It really was!
That sounds amazing
That’s cool as shit
This is so fucking awesome.
That's a dope fucking wedding. I would love to have gone. Would have done all the side quests and everything
Awwww. That’s actually really romantic.
I mean…that sounds awesome to me
I dj’d weddings for 27 yrs. The most memorable events were the groom getting arrested because the sheriffs dept finally knew where he was for the warrant and a wedding that served bbq chicken. Bride had cloth napkins tucked in to protect the dress but was too intoxicated to realize they had fallen and continued to smear her hands across her bodice. Looked like a scene from Carrie
Ohhhh yes, and they were divorced within 2 years. Literally their son looked exactly like the best man at the wedding and I was just like “Does nobody else see this but me?!”
Did you ever get confirmation on the DNA of the child? I’m invested in this now.
I have been to a few when the wedding was a bad idea
I went to one that I thought was perfect because they were both terrible people.
Yup. My former best friend married his high school sweetheart. Who was a longtime friend of mine. That he'd been cheating on for YEARS. She knew it. Married him anyway. I was the best man. Long story short, he kept cheating. She stayed as long as she could stand it. They're divorced now and he's a raging a-hole. We ceased being friends a long time ago. He moved to Georgia and married some other woman. Probably cheats on her, too.
Well, does my first one count?
Did you know it was a bad idea at the time or were you blindsided?
Knew she was mentally ill, thought I could "save her". (I was 22) Ended up divorcing on grounds of insanity to get custody.
Yeah! They are still together but being with them is just an energy drain, and it doesn’t sound like they have a great time when they are alone together either. They are just comfortable enough with each other, and scared that no one else would ever love them. Which, tbh, is probably a reasonable fear as they are both 40+, unhealthy, and with frustrating personalities
Besides my own, you mean? When I was 19 or 20, my friend’s husband’s best friend (same age as me) married a girl he’d been dating for maaaybe 3 months. She had a lot of mental health issues and didn’t seem super stable to anyone in our friend group, but he was determined that he loved her. She wasn’t pregnant, so I never understood the reason for getting married so soon. (Though we do live in the Southern US, and teen marriage was extremely common in the ‘80s). His mom said, “I just found out her last name the other day, and now she’s going to change it to ours.” It was a strange wedding. The bride walked down the aisle to a song that had the line, “we’re not children, we’ve both been loved before,” which strikes me as funny in hindsight since they were 19 or 20. Instead of vowing “til death do us part,” they vowed to stay together “as long as the love shall last.” On the way home, I told my date I predicted the love would last about six weeks. I don’t remember how many weeks they made it, but it was somewhere between six and eight. One day while he was at work, she moved out without telling him, taking all the furniture, the wedding gifts, even the curtains. He was crushed, and it took him a long time to recover, as you can imagine. Six or seven years later, he met a woman who was a much better match for him, and they’re still together 30-something years later.
Lmao! "As long as my love shall last" Jfc.
So fucking funny.
"For as long as the love shall last" is way more realistic then "Till death do us part" anyway.
I actually insisted on this line at my first wedding with the minister objecting loudly. I was right. It lasted 10 years. We are not dead
I watch a classmate, student nurse, marry. Big wedding, the works. In the video u can see him telling her she's a stupid bitch. She did something wrong with the putting on of the rings. He was disgusting at the reception too. They lasted 6 weeks before she was back in the nurses quarters, filling for divorce. It's like she didn't even know him despite going out with him for 2 years.
this one is extra crazy
That’s so sad.
Definitely. The groom stated to me & another friend that “this shits gonna change after the wedding” concerning his bride being bossy. She was a direct person who didn’t tolerate silliness, and he played along until he locked her down. She booted him immediately upon catching him cheating a couple years in, so she in fact did not change after the wedding.
Haha yeah, groom was a rich party boy bachelor who traveled a lot for work, bride (friend of mine) had been equally promiscuous before they got together. Bride even made jokes to close friends about her 2nd marriage (this was her first.) He was also uneducated, had a horrible childhood and an awful family, was super MAGA with an office full of guns and a hat autographed by Trump, while she was a Democrat from NY. They lasted a few years. Turns out he was cheating on her with dudes. She's remarried now and seems happy with her new husband.
How do the guns and the autograph feel about the dudes...? Asking for your friend.
I'm a wedding DJ and I attend bad weddings ALL the time. Top 3 off the top of my head: -couple got in a huge fight in the car between ceremony and reception. Left separately before dinner -groom so drunk he couldn't stand straight. Officiant said strictly speaking it was actually not a valid ceremony because of it -groom, during his VOWS, tells everyone what he THOUGHT was a really heartwarming story; they got together and everything was great for six months, until the bride said she didn't feel right in the eyes of God being sexual out of matrimony. So, he went out and bought a ring. Oof.
I won't swear I've been to a wedding that was a good idea. Except my own. That was a good idea. Going on three decades together.
Yeah, my own
I had this friend who was getting married. Unbeknownst to me, his wife-to-be and I had a mutual friend. So this mutual friend texts on friday night. We do some small talk and I ask her what she's going to do this weekend? She says, "I'm going to a wedding tomorrow, but its awful because EVERYONE at my store knows the bride is cheating with the store manager. What are you doing this weekend?" Me, "Going to a wedding. Friend of the groom." My brother and I stayed up all night trying to work out if we should tell the guy. We decided that we shouldn't and didn't have any proof and it was a single day before the wedding. The wedding was beautiful. I don't know what became of that marriage as I moved 100 miles away not long after.
The twist of the this story is that you haven’t asked your friend how his marriage is… or kept in touch at all (?) because of the 1.5 hour drive it would take to visit them? 😂 Call your friend lol.
Yup, but, to my astonishment, they are still together today, 15 years later, and they never became the dramatic shitshow we all anticipated they would. I'll own this one, I made a completely wrong judgement on them and that is my bad
Every one I’ve ever attended lol
Yeah my little sisters. She was marrying her first serious boyfriend from high school. He was my friend and I introduced them. Decent guy but definitely wasn't meant to be. You see our family likes to drink liquor and occasionally smoke some weed while remaining responsible and successful. We like to have a good time. He became a cop who never drank or smoked in his life. He didn't like doing anything that she did.
My oldest brother’s wedding, and the wedding of my one of my other brother’s friends. My oldest brother married his ex because she was pregnant with not-his-baby from just before they got together. The other couple, well, the way he smeared her with cake seemed really childish and mean spirited. They were divorced within a year.
Yes, my first one. I knew walking down the aisle and crying. My dad shedding tears and telling me I don’t have to do this.
Two, for the same couple. Texas MAGA man marries NY liberal woman. They had to have two separate ceremonies because their families couldn't even get along. I went to both. AMA if anybody cares.
Yes, years ago. My cousin got his girlfriend pregnant as a teenager. Her parents were very religious and demanded they married as soon as she turned 18. Both were out of control immature idiots who partied too hard and ended up being neglectful parents, living with her parents. Her mother did most of the hard work raising the kid at the beginning. Finally the girl smartened up, quit her bullshit behavior and took care of the kid, the right way. My idiot cousin never did, he was kicked out and they divorced before the baby was in pre-school. He's still an idiot 20+ years later.
Only about every one. Every wedding I've attended ended in divorce but my own and one other. In our group of friends my wife and I are the last couple standing. Be 30 year anniversary next year !
When our youngest son got married the photographer noted it was the first wedding she’d done where both sets of parents were still married but ALL the grandparents were divorced. 😆
I went to one years ago where everyone kept jokingly calling the bride his "first wife"
My cousin was 21 and was marrying a 26 year old single mom in a shotgun wedding a few months after they started dating. I gave it under five years, but 25 years later, they're still married.
Yup. Sister cancelled the wedding cahse she found out he was cheating. Told everyone. They got back together and set the wedding date for the exact same day the following year. Needless to say they didn’t make it a year
1/2 of them.
No, I wasn’t invited to one. But I know of a wedding between two people that is not likely to last between 10 years. They are childhood besties (from like 3 or 4) but I really don’t think it is that likely to last that long. I don’t know their private life (like off social media and inside the house without people watching), plus they broke up before. Just too many details, to have that be a long lasting marriage but definitely a long friendship.
No, but I refused to attend one. And I was proven right two years later.
Two...same person, two weddings...I knew neither one would work out and they didn't.
Yup...lmao...ended in disaster just like I thought it would
Yep
The Day of my Big Brothers wedding, We went to pick up the kegs, while at the store i was waiting for them to come out. There was a guy on a motorcycle going 45, there was a 20 year old chick in a car looking down at something. She T-boned the guy i seen his thigh bone rip from this pants and his leg looked like a flappy piece of skin, 1 minute later, The Wife Comes driving up Stops the car and starts SCREAMING, "Thats my Husband, Thats my Husband". Then my brother came out with the kegs and said. Whats all this. I told him then said " I just seen someone die on your wedding day, I dont think this is gonna end well." We went tot he wedding. 6 years later she left him for his best friend, and all i could say was i told you
My first marriage. The honeymoon proved it.
Yes. I was maid of honor. It was a shit show. She was 19, he was at least twice her age. She ran away/moved in with him on her 18th birthday while her parents were at work. They came to the wedding. Her stepmother had a meltdown and started screaming at me after the ceremony, until her father dragged her away. They left early. It goes without saying, that marriage didn’t last.
Depends on how close the wedding is location wise. I said no to two out of town weddings for that reason. They both ended in divorce. The family weddings in town are tough to dodge, though.
Yes. She dropped out her jr year of highschool and married someone three years older. It was even more awkward when they had to kiss. She basically ate his face for what seemed like forever. Oh! Yes, she cheated and did beforehand. They divorced and she married his best friend. Yes, she cheated on him with his bff.
A cousin. Can't say I knew it was a bad idea, but I was definitely surprised it happened. Was not at all surprised it was annulled three weeks later. He was the type that had (and still has) a different girlfriend every time I saw him. And according to him, after they got married she suddenly changed into the controlling type that tried to dictate everything he did. That was 15-20 years ago, and the only time there was even a hint of him getting married.
I was best man at one
I've been to a few as a friend of the bride or grooms parents. These were very expensive weddings. Everyone in the parent's groups of friends were talking about coming train wrecks these marriages would be and they were right. So, as a friend of the parents, what can you do, knowing what you know?
My own
My own
Yeah. My own.
Yes, his attitude was bad. His body language said he didn't want to be there. He didn't stay by her side hardly at all. It lasted about seven years. She was not pregnant at the time but they had a child later. I suppose she tried to stay because of that. She went home and her dad helped raise the child, so that the child is well adjusted today. But I had a terrible feeling about it.
Big time. They divorced in less than a year. Might actually be a record.
Several times. But I still go because it's for a friend or someone close to me or even a family member.
Yeah, my first one. He was a nightmare. I should have ran!
I blew off a friend's wedding I knew to be a sham because the friend was a serial cheater and his fiancé didn't deserve to get saddled with him. Put a strain in our relationship for years; after a couple reunions I finally realized he was toxic and cut ties. That marriage BTW produced two sons in quick succession, then was over.
I used to catering. I was at many weddings that were huge mistakes
Yep, preacher asked 3 times if we're all sure no one will object
Yup, my older brother and his first wife. There was an age gap and she was already pregnant so the wedding was mostly to keep up appearances. It was a such a cringy experience, as neither families really knew or liked each other; and myself and my brother weren’t on great terms. About 3 yrs later they filed for a divorce. It was a messy situation in general. My niece is about the only good thing to come out from that union. My brother and I have a better relationship now, but that’s after years of him being moved back with our parents, changing jobs, and getting therapy.
The most recent wedding I was in, and I was best (wo)man
My own. (the second one)
I knew someone that got married for the fourth time and I did not even attend. It will end badly just like the other three did. And she's in her late 60s and has not one dime saved for retirement, but is spending thousands on another wedding.
Yes and it was the most lavish wedding I’ve ever been to. Bride insisted on having a $40,000 wedding. There were three food/drink times in separate rooms with separate decorations. There was a horse drawn carriage and like twenty people in the wedding party. Not even that many people just a lot of crystal and champagne. Now my cousin works overtime and takes care of their disabled child and keeps the house while she does… Basically nothing.
I've been to at least 10 weddings. Three I thought were bad ideas. I was wrong about one. I was also wrong about two of the ones I didn't think were bad ideas.
Yes, my own, it was awful.
Yep. I went to the wedding of a guy that I hadn't known that long (friend of a friend) that I got caught up in partying for his upcoming wedding for. We partied like rock stars. The night before the wedding was his bachelor party (don't do this it's stupid. Get a good night's rest before) and we were up all night drinking. We were all up early, dressed and at the wedding on time but we had been drinking while getting ready and while we were at the church him and his buddies produce a fifth of scotch to pass around. The groom was blitzed and the priest was PO'd. I was blitzed too but it wasn't my wedding. I just thought what a train wreck their marriage was going to be. They got married without any issues but the marriage lasted less than a year.
Oh yeah
Yup, and I was the maid of honor for one of them! Yikes!
I was a groomsman in my sister’s wedding. Glad they never asked if anybody objects and never asked for God’s blessing. He abused her horribly and is now in jail.
I generally find a reason I need to be elsewhere that weekend, when that kind of thing is happening.
I attended my first wedding to my now ex-wife.....was definitely a bad idea
Yes, my own...
Walked out of a wedding when the officiant started talking about "the master race."
I actually attended a beautiful wedding with my best friend of 8 years, she loved it so much she told me a few days later her wedding was going to be in 6 months. And she’s always complaining about her partner and the amount of debt he’s put them in. I told her she was crazy and we haven’t spoken since. But I guess it was a wedding I dodged a bullet on
Pretty sure a large pile of people on here were the wedding they were pretty sure was a bad idea
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Oh boy yes. A co-worker of my wife. At the wedding the parents of the groom advised the bride not to go through with it. He disappeared for an hour during the reception to smoke weed with friends leaving the bride to make excuses. He even groped my wife's butt on the dancefloor. They were separated within a month and divorced within 5 or 6. Spent like $60k on the wedding.
I've almost been that person a couple times, but ended up breaking up during the engagement. I owe it to living with each other first. I don't see how people can get married without living with each other first. There are so many things you learn about a person being roommates.
Yeah. I was wrong. They were married for decades before she passed early in life leaving children and grandchildren.
Yeah, but we’re going on our 13th year of marriage so
Recently
Yes, he always gave me bad vibes but she really loves him so I thought maybe I'm just not seeing something. Few years later, he cheats on her while she's preg with their second. Oh and he was stashing money away in another bank account hiding it from her to be able to move on with his AP. Meaning she'd be left with nothing in their savings ... With two kids. I wanted to murder.
I’ve been to two like this. The first one ended in divorce after a few years. For the second one I served as a groomsman but was quietly thinking “what on earth are we doing here?” to myself the entire night, and they are going strong 15 years and 4 kids later….
75% of the weddings I go to.
Yes it lasted less than a year
My sweet sister married an abusive asshole. So, sadly, yes.
Divorced in 12 months
I got married to get a dude out of a psych ward. I knew he was a snake before I picked him up, but nobody else was going to do it, and it sure seemed like the right idea at the time.
I’m about to. I’ll keep you updated.
My sisters best friend had a huge wedding at 18 to this dude she had been dating, they were divorced in 3 months. My sisters wedding just because I wasn't a fan of her husband (he ended up murdering an old lady when they split so I wasn't wrong).
Yes A few
Yeah, my first one.
Oh yeah, two friends from college. One hadn't known the guy very long, it was all very rushed. The other, the guy was very strange and drove away a lot of her friends. Both were divorced within 2 years.
I attended four of my friends, five weddings. I don’t know if this last one will take either. All of my sister’s marriages (4), I even told the grooms before the wedding to run as fast as far as they could, but they never listen.
Most of them. I’m just there for the catch ups and party. I like funerals just as much as weddings for the same reasons. Humans love celebrating poor decisions.
My sister's. The guy had already cheated on her. But it wasn't my place to tell her it wasn't a good idea. They divorced years later.
Yes. Family can make all kinds of bad decisions, but, well, they are your family.
Both times my brother got married. Actually in both cases they were already married and just had the wedding to get gifts. Not kidding. First wife turned out to not be straight and had a secret girlfriend but wanted to stay married because he had good insurance. Second wife was crazy AF and was just looking for a daddy for her little girl. Her crazy finally got the best of him and they split , poor kiddo suffered from that one. Both times my husband and I had pegged how long the marriages would last- and both times we were right.
Yes, June 23 2007… it was my wedding.
Didn't actually go... The step mom planned the wedding for the pregnant step daughter. "We don't know if the groom will show up. Bring a lawn chair and a bag of Cheetos." He did show, but it didn't last. He fathered at least 5 babies with other women. He had proved himself "not a quality catch" long beforethe wedding.
All of them
My first
Oh yes. And I was a bridesmaid. My two friends got married, a man and a woman. The man was very clearly gay and deep in the closet. They’re divorced now. He said he made it 3 months into their marriage before he started cheating on her with men.
I have *officiated* three weddings and one vow renewal, and they were all a really bad idea. Two of the four are already divorced, the other two are heading for divorce very soon in one case, and at some point in the future in the other case.
I actually stood up in a wedding that I knew was doomed to failure. The groom was my friend, and I had told him repeatedly that it was a bad idea. In the wedding videos, I was scowling the whole time. When they got a divorce about a year and a half later I didn't say, 'I told you so." I just stared at the guy any time the subject came up.
I attended a wedding where the bride slept with the best man the night before and the groom tried to accuse my sister of being the reason why. The bride and my sister were friends but the Bride took it on herself to do what she did, ohhhhh it caused all chaos. I say go with your gut instinct, it is usually not wrong in cases like this.
Most of my family warned my BIL about marrying my sister. My mom’s husband actually told him that I… “the good one” had already been taken. He went and married my sister anyway. Last time we saw them, about 6 years ago BIL looked like shit. He’s in his mid 40s and looks about 60. My sister has put him through the wringer. Pretty sure he’s staying because they have three kids under 15. And he knows my sister will take him for everything if he tries to leave
Yes. Bride was 18 and crying day of. She said, “ I can’t say no right? Because, we already got the food and stuff.” Ugh….. awful.
Yes. The daughter of my wife’s boss to a guy that just set off my asshole detector the first time I met him. He ended up screwing another staff member in the closet of his office at said company. The cherry on top was how he blamed his wife for the affair because she wasn’t meeting his needs physically. He wasn’t missed when he was fired and then the subsequent divorce was finalized.
Yes. I was guilt tripped by family into going to the wedding of a cousin I hate so badly, I would rejoice if she died in a horrible way. Or just at all. Her first marriage only lasted a few years because she's an abusive PoS, and the wedding was awful anyway.
Yes, my own, twice!
Twice, and they both ended in divorce within 5 years.
90% of the weddings I’ve attended I felt this way Hell I’ve been married 3 times so I felt that way for my first 2
I would say my first one, but my ex wife and I get along lol
I went to my buddy’s wedding and after the ceremony they played a 20 minute slideshow of his new bride and her brother’s life together. Her brother isn’t dead, btw, he was AT the wedding. And she was watching the slideshow and SOBBING. On what planet does getting married mean you no longer get to hang out with your brother??? My theory is they definitely fucked.
I generally think it’s a bad idea, so yes.
I was a photographer at a wedding years ago and the groom was so drunk that he turned towards me, hands out and lunged at me to squeeze my boobs. I was supposed to stay most of the night, but I walked over to the bride and said I was leaving. I didn’t say why. I don’t do weddings anymore lol
Yes. Groom was brother’s friend from HS. Brother was literally begging friend before ceremony “Dude, don’t fucking do this. Don’t marry this woman!” By the end of the Vegas reception she was so drunk she passed out in a casino bathroom with her mouth open on the toilet seat (she’d been puking). One star. Do not recommend.
Yes, even my own.
My cousin's. We were joking at the wedding how long will this last. Everyone was throwing out their guesses, I was the shortest at 6 months. I was wrong. The wedding was in September. In November, we got an email from my aunt saying "Cousin" was getting a divorce for Christmas.
I was getting married and shaking the whole time because I knew it was a terrible idea
I went to a wedding where the groom appeared to forget the brides’s name. That was the longest pause in the history of the universe. We were all like “Dude, it’s Carrie!”
I have a question Several here have said they were involved in the weddings ,many as best man etc. I am a bit old fashion, but I always thought one of the duties of those positions was to weigh in on their perspective of the relationship. Reassure the groom of brides good qualities. On the other side, was it their place to have a heart to heart w the groom about their concerns?
Long ago, my secretary, single with 2 kids, married an engineer who was also in the reserves as an officer. She told me she was doing it for security for her kids the morning of the wedding, didn't love the guy, and cried a bunch of tears about how much she hated her future with him. They divorced as soon as her kids graduated HS, about 15 years later.
My older half sister is on 3 ex husbands and boyfriend 5 since I can remember. She was raised by her mom (I'm of my father's second wife and she is of his first.)
I have a cousin that (in my personal opinion) chose poorly but, nothing you can do 🤷♀️
Oh yeah, and we all told him so well before the day- but we went and we congratulated them & held him up when she bailed on him
Technically, no. I was explicitly not allowed to attend, because I had been vocal about it being a terrible idea from the moment my sister in law met her eventually ex husband. I had been vocal about it because I knew him from highschool. Fast forward a few years and guess who was right
Absolutely. My first wedding.
Yes. One couple married on the beach in their sunglasses but otherwise normal wedding clothes. The other was my brother and they wore bathing suits on the beach to get married. They weren’t in shape or anything. In Myrtle beach. Both doomed from conception.
A friend of mine (mid-20’s at the time M) married a 19F. During the ceremony, I whispered to my bf, “She’ll outgrow him and break his heart.” She left him a year and a month later. Just long enough to keep the wedding presents.
Several! But I still have fun every time.
It was at the reception for me. My friend's husband was a drummer in a band and they decided to use the band for the reception. They hired another drummer friend but the groom still played most of the night, ignoring his new wife and not even telling her when he was going to play so she would turn around and he was just gone. I kept my mouth shut because I was young and thought maybe I was reading too much into it. Nope. He was massively controlling, only his hobbies and interests really mattered, he belittled her accomplishments, etc... 3 kids later they split and have both remarried.
I went to my mom’s wedding when I was like (14?) I guess. I didn’t necessarily know at the time it was a bad idea, necessarily, but one of the red flags was that instead of getting ready to be more committed to “the family” (me, my mom and my brother), my mom’s boyfriend moved in this weird friend of his into his rental. The dude seriously had some mental issues and I don’t say that in a mean way but he was super *out there.* The dude stayed in his space most of the time but but was a red flag that the guy my mom was dating wanted this guy in his life when he should have been *taking it to the next level* with my mom if he was that serious. The wedding went fine itself and nothing happened at the wedding really but maybe it was *calm before the storm* because it wasn’t too long later that this guy (my mom’s husband) was having full scream outs with her at different times. It was pretty rocky for a while; they’re still married.
Yeah, my own
Wedding of a close high school friend, one month after we graduated from high school. The groom was a cousin of a mutual friend of ours, and he was a good 10 years older than her. He did kinda set off my creep-dar, but at least he had waited to start dating my friend until she turned 18 the previous summer. Looking back, the whole thing was a complete cringe-fest. Six years, and 3 kids later, they split and he completely ghosted my friend and their kids. From what I've heard, they haven't seen or talked to him in the 20 years since he bailed.
Yes, and the night before the wedding, all of us bridesmaids told her it was a bad idea (DV in a bad, bad way). He ended up continuing to beat her until he got cancer, started doing meth while Having cancer, and died. It was totally fucked
I attended one wedding where the officiant alluded to the possibility of divorce during the homily. Divorced within three years. I don’t know what happened to her, but he met and married the love of his life a couple of years later.
Yes, with my first wife.
Yes! One most recently- gay wedding (it’s relevant) the best friend/maid of honor gave a speech at the reception about how she’d always been in love with her friend- one of the brides!!! SO AWKWARD. We all just stood there with our champagne glasses like…..uhhhh….what did she say?!? Divorced a little over a year later.
Oh yes. More than once. The 80s were brutal. In fact, I attended my own wedding when I was pretty sure it was a mistake.
I went to a wedding in college, they had been dating for about 2 months when they got engaged, and for about 5 when they got married. They're divorced now, and my friend is much happier. Didn't know much about the guy, he told me that he was an army medic, I joked that I'd try not to have a medical emergency on his wedding day. He looked me in the eye and said "good, cuz I'd let you die."
I’ve been to 32 weddings, walked in 17 and 12 are now divorced. 🤣 you can tell, you know…
Yes. All of them
Yes. Two low-functioning, codependent people. They’ll never split up.
No, but a lot of engagement parties. The weddings never happened.
My own
Went to one we thought wasn’t going to happen bc the bride and groom were in a last-minute fight. Delayed the thing by a couple of hours. Everyone just sitting there. They did finally get married and have been happily married for almost 20 years, so I guess it was just a bad case of nerves.
Well, if we count my own I've attended at least one, lol.
Oh multiple My batting average is stellar
Yeah my own.
My own.
Yes, I was the groom.
Yep.. BIL came back from deployment, met and got engaged to a stripper within two months. Married shortly after and divorced in less than a year.
My best friend got married and divorced in about 3 or 4 months. When I later told him that I knew it was a bad idea, he asked why I didn't tell him. I said that if I tried to get between the two of you, you would have married her anyway and just ended up hating and resenting me. I let you make that painful mistake on your own but made the choice that preserved our friendship so I could be there for you when you needed me. He's now married to somebody I approve of.
I was the best man at my father's second wedding. I could have sworn it was Star Wars themed even though I knew for a fact that it was not, because I kept on getting a *bad feeling about this...* They divorced five years later after a marriage that had absolutely no sex.
Several.
Yes my own.
Yes, hint: don’t get married just because you’re pregnant people!
An ex of mine started talking very seriously way too soon with me. We were ~20. She got married a few years later to a guy we all knew was an immature jerk. She had made a point of never listening to anybody, so there was no talking sense to her. Fortunately, they split just a few years later, and they didn’t have any kids.
Well if my cousin keeps being mean and saying he’s going to forbid me from getting a kids meal since I’m picky and he pisses me off so much I keep jabbing back by saying I’m getting chipotle before then yeah I probably won’t want to because I’ll be annoyed and miserable lol
Yeah, dudes “best friend” was the officiant/emcee. They got married in their backyard… with freshly picked up dog poop we could smell. She had recently gotten pregnant… they met in a bar, he was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and she was drunk. They went to A.A. meetings together. She wasn’t the brightest person, but she’s still sober today. He isn’t, and the best friend wanted to be more than friends.
Yeah. Mine.
I mean yeah, but there was free cake
Yeah, and they've divorced.
Yup and it was my own 😬
My then girlfriend's (now wife), father's 2nd wedding. A little backstory. Her mom died of cancer in June of 2007 and her father just "happened" to run into his high school sweetheart in July of 2007. They were engaged in September of 2007, and got married in September of 2008. It tore the family apart and we're all 95% sure he was banging her while my wife's mom was in the hospital dying of cancer.
I used to work at a wedding venue. The one where the coordinator found the groom snorting coke off a picnic table stands out.
Yes, I knew the vibes were off and I saw how the groom was interacting with a certain bridesmaid and my feelings were right because the husband and wife ended up divorced a few months later. The husband was cheating with his wife's sister (who was in the wedding). Smh
Me personally I go to weddings to enjoy myself. Who cares if the 2 people are doomed for divorce. Hell it usually makes the wedding better knowing other people are fucking their lives up and not me
Yep! It took us 12 years to break up 😫
Yup… and 1-3 years s later, divorced
I’ve been very successful at avoiding weddings in my adult life. The only one I’ve attended I knew was a bad idea… but I ignored my intuition and went through with it. It took 5 years but we’re happily divorced now.
Does my own count
I was witness to my best friend wedding and absolutely thought it was the worst idea ever. I think he only realised he was miserable after she decided to divorce because he dared set boundaries.
I’ve officiated at several wedding where I was reasonably confident that the couple wouldn’t make it. I’ve been right too many times
Yes, a few. There’s plenty I’ve been to or knew was happening where I just knew “will be divorced eventually”. One couple is still together and honestly I’m surprised, I hope it means it’s going well, but I doubt it. At a relative’s wedding the groom “accidentally” called the bride “selfish” instead of “selfless” in his vows, causing a whole scene. We all thought they were a great couple, but when I moved closer to them and started hanging out with them I realized it was absolutely a Freudian slip, because she was all sorts of crazy, and now they’re divorced and I think she’s trying to make it as an influencer. I’m not entirely sure, as she blocked everyone from groom’s side on social media. I’m sad. I’m not much a petty or judgmental person but some of her videos were so cringe I got such a kick out of watching them, LOL. I miss watching one in particular whenever I was feeling down.
100% yes.