People Are Sharing The Fastest They've Ever Witnessed A Marriage End, And Some Actually Ended DURING The Wedding

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Reddit user PuzzleheadedSwim6291 asked, "What's the fastest you've ever seen a marriage end?" Within hours, over 2,000 people took to the replies to share their wild stories. Here are some that stood out:
1."I was a close friend of the bride. Straight after the ceremony, she grabbed me. She was crying her eyes out and said, 'Mike's not here! Mike didn't come! He didn't see me looking pretty in my dress!' Mike was her work boss whom she had a crush on. The bride hid away in the corner with the excuse of being tired. The groom partied with his friends. The bride and groom went on their honeymoon and came back separated. Mike left his wife to embark on a two-week affair with the bride, then returned to his wife."
—PhantomFairy
2."My mate lasted about 18 hours. His wife and mother got into an argument. His wife asked him to defend her. He said he wouldn't choose between his mother and his wife, so she left."
—Milled_Oats
3."I knew a girl who filed for divorce after three months when she discovered he had used her credit card to sign up for Ashley Madison. I can't remember what the charge was listed as, but it was a card she didn't use, so she was surprised when she got a bill for the month. That meant he had signed up just after they got back from their honeymoon. The divorce took three years, and they fought over everything, including a dog that he hated and a jet ski she wouldn't ride."
—billyrubin7765
4."I knew someone whose wife cheated on him on the honeymoon with someone she'd been chatting with online. She organized a meetup at the destination. I think it was two weeks."
—Annual_Reindeer2621
5."A good friend of mine got married at a lovely cabin in rural Northern California, owned by a friend of the bride. The wedding was great! The wife stayed behind to help clean up the next day, and immediately slept with the owner. The divorce followed a month later when he found out. People suck sometimes. Mine remarried an incredibly kind and smart person, and they have two adorable children whom I contemplate stealing every time I visit."
—acutehypoburritoism
6."My mom and my first stepdad were only married for a handful of weeks. I was pretty young at the time, so I'm not fully aware of the details. Still, I suspect the marriage had been an attempt to 'fix' whatever problems they had in their relationship before that point, which basically never works. They eloped to Vegas, and a couple of weeks later, my mom was explaining what an annulment was to me."
—AnalTyrant
7."At a wedding I attended, the bride got drunk at the reception and openly confessed to sleeping with the groom's brother the week before. He found out that night. The marriage lasted less than six hours. Divorce papers were filed before the honeymoon even started. It's still the most chaotic wedding I've ever seen."
—Key_Celebration9874
8."Wedding photographer here. I had a couple split up during the first dance."
—the_heff
9."My own, within three months. We got married, and it was like a complete 180°. Turns out his ex-girlfriend reached out to him around the same time, and he still had feelings for her. I found out because she messaged me on Facebook with the screenshots of their texts. He had promised to leave me if she'd get back with him. She agreed, so we divorced. She never got back with him."
—Grouchy-Emu3092
10."It lasted 12 hours. They argued about the wedding cake and never spoke again."
—Luminousmissxo
11."Before the reception ended. It turns out the bride and groom were in an open marriage per her request. The bride apparently had fallen for a third party and left the reception with that person instead of the groom. She'd had doubts before but had gone through with the wedding because her dad had paid for it, and he was traveling across the country to attend. Overall, it was a very shitty thing to do. The groom is a great guy and didn't deserve it. The bride was a friend of mine, but I haven't talked to her since. The reception was so weird. The bride wore a black dress and only wanted fast songs the whole night, no slow songs."
—chrisb8346
12."My brother's marriage ended during the reception. The bride's family had a fit when they discovered she had signed a prenup."
—whittlingcanbefatal
13."I know of one that lasted two weeks (and was actually over before that). They were high school sweethearts, but the bride tried to back out of the wedding, realizing her fiancé was and always had been controlling and emotionally abusive. Her mom and MIL convinced her it was just cold feet. She went through with it. On their wedding night, he gave her a 'this is how it's going to be now that we're married' speech about what he expected her to do/not do as his wife, and she left that night and didn't come back."
—wordnerdette
14."I went to a wedding in 2022 where the husband had been cheating for nine months before the wedding. The bride found out about five days after the wedding. They divorced. I went to another wedding the week after, where the groom had met a stripper on his stag-do and was meeting up with her pre- and post-wedding. I think she found out about six months after the wedding. All in all, I don't have a great wedding success rate. I think about 50% of the weddings I've attended have seen the couple divorce within a year, and about 90% have divorced in total!"
—LegendJG
15."A coworker got married and shared his wife's nudes on his WhatsApp story the same night while she was asleep. His wife left him the next day and filed for divorce a few days later. He ended up quitting the job."
—Engineerules737
16."The wedding cost $70k, paid by the bride's parents. It lasted five months."
—Clear-Weather-6060
17."A girl I went to high school with had a HUGE, beautiful wedding. Her parents were rich and got her everything she wanted. I thought it was strange how she hadn't posted any pictures of her wedding. I only saw pictures from what others had tagged her in. Two months later, she wiped her Facebook clean, changed her last name back, and posted a status that, before anyone asks, she was getting a divorce and would be leaving all social media. No idea how she's doing now."
—OppositeResponse6474
18."One week! After the wedding, the couple left on their honeymoon, and when they got back, the bride immediately asked for a divorce. It came out later that not only was her affair partner at the wedding as a guest, but that during the honeymoon, the affair partner broke up with his own wife to be with her. Two months after the wedding, she had already kicked her husband out of the house and moved her affair partner in. She and the affair partner got married almost a year later."
—MoonRevenge1992
19."My (former) friend's marriage lasted less than a year because he got nudes from his sister-in-law and then started extorting her for money. Additionally, it turned out he was messaging other girls creepy things."
—koyler
20."I ran into a coworker and her husband the morning after their wedding at the airport on their way to their honeymoon. She was in the restroom, and I told the groom congrats on the wedding, etc, and he said, 'Yeah, this one ain't lasting too long,' and then just smiled. About three months later, they were divorced, but I don't know all the reasons. They both were train wrecks."
—iwouldhugwonderwoman
21."I found out two days after I got married that my ex was having an affair with a coworker. His affair partner emailed me everything as soon as she learned we got married. Apparently, he promised to leave me and end up with her. I confronted him, he said we should go to couples counseling, I said fuck no, and I kicked him out. He told me it would be embarrassing for me to get divorced so quickly, but not as embarrassing as it was for him, because she told his boss, too, and he got fired. I'm also a lawyer and wrote our prenup, so I didn't have to pay the asshole any alimony 😎."
—allegro4626
22."It was my cousin, and the marriage ended the same day as the wedding. The wedding happened; they were clearly pissed at each other the whole time, and by the end of the night, it was done. They didn't separate for a few more months, but my cousin said afterwards that she knew then but was too embarrassed to acknowledge it on her wedding night."
—Rattimus
23."One of my mother's marriages lasted eight days. They were a couple for four years previously."
—Substantial-Lead-432
24."My own marriage ended after roughly three months. We were together for 10 years before that. I shouldn't have ever married her in the first place, but she insisted/swore she would 'do better.' She was horrible with money, to the point where she was making a six-figure salary and still constantly overdrafting her checking account. It made life extremely stressful."
—LesBonBon
25."Around two months. My friend was dating a guy for about six years before they got married. Then she found one of his drug stashes and started searching around their house. She found another three or four. The dude was hiding them like a squirrel. She blocked all funds and filed for a divorce immediately. I'm happy that she filed not after 10 years of marriage, but I'm still curious how she didn't find out that her boyfriend was on cocaine for six years."
—peachymarchi
26."They got married, and she never moved into the house they bought together. She stayed at her parents' house, over an hour away. They filed for divorce a month later. It took a few years for it to be made official. I seriously don't think they even met in person after the wedding."
—previouslyJayFace
27."After the wedding was over, there was a cultural thing where the bride and groom eat from the same plate. The bridegroom ate, but the bride didn't want to. It ended dramatically within the first hour of marriage."
—intr0v3rt13
28."A friend married an 'unemployed interior designer.' They went for a three-day honeymoon. He went to work the next day. When he came home, she had rearranged his house. Took down all his pictures and put up hers. The end."
—2sdrowkcaB
29."A friend of mine found his new wife upstairs in the honeymoon suite during the reception with another guy. It was annulled the next day."
—Mohrg
30."It lasted one week. I went to the wedding in Cyprus, came home the day after, and upon landing, the bride announced the groom's sidepiece had turned up at their home pregnant. Why the sidepiece waited till after they married is beyond me...but he left her for the sidepiece and is still with her as far as I know."
—RachaelBlonde
31.And: "Four weeks. The bride went to the bank to deposit their wedding gift money into their savings account. She asked for a statement and saw the account was basically empty. They'd been saving for a house for the seven years they'd been together. Turns out the groom had a secret gambling addiction and thought he could win all the money back before she noticed. I guess he didn't bet on her looking at the account, just adding to it."
—MaxGoldfinch25
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