15+ Wedding guests who knew the newlyweds would break up ASAP: 'The groom said "I guess" instead of "I do"'

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Jan 9, 2026 5:00 PM EST

Some brides and grooms go into their first wedding already knowing they'll have a second and third wedding someday. This kind of observation is very honest, very funny, and kind of insane all at the same time. I mean, know thyself or whatever, but isn't the point of marriage to spend your entire life with this person because you're so enamored with them? If you're doubting the union with even one cell of your body, just straight-up do not even do it. If you go through with a wedding you know you'll divorce your way out of with haste, you're a divorce lawyer's dream client.

On the one hand, true love and blah blah blah. On the other hand, if you need to have a starter marriage in your 20s, you're in good company, since like half of marriages end in divorce, anyway. Maybe planning on having a few different ceremonies is actually just being honest with yourself about your capacity for love.

I love weddings so much, and I'd love to have just one someday. Since I'm singler than I've ever been in my life, I may have to give up on that dream for now. But many people still dream about their ideal wedding — who they'll invite, how they'll decorate, and so on.

There are some wedding trends that I hope don't live on. For example, the concept of "first looks." I don't really get the hype around these. It's usually the bride who's wearing her wedding dress, and cameras capture the reaction of friends, family members, and of course, the bride or groom, who are seeing her for the first time. After seeing a lot of these videos, I just don't think all of them are worth posting. If your Dad cries while seeing you in your wedding dress for the first time, that's sweet, go ahead about post away. But please don't make me watch another "first look" where the groom looks like he'd rather be anywhere else in the world than looking at his beautiful spouse-to-be. Some of y'alls husbands do not even appreciate your beauty, and they're not interested in pretending so for the camera! When scheduling first looks, it feels like the bride or groom is demanding an emotional response on demand, and not everyone will organically react to the sight of a wedding dress in that way. Let's knock it off with that one for now. I think if we can put our heads together, we can think of a good alternative. Clearly, as you can read below, some people need the ideas for their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weddings, since their first nuptials didn't end well at all.

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15+ Wedding guests who knew the newlyweds would break up ASAP: 'The groom said "I guess" instead of "I do"'

'As a wedding guest, what was your “this marriage isn’t going to last long” moment?'

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