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

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

    Bride makes kissy face while holding bouquet of pink flowers in front of wooden plank background
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    _buffy_summers The bride danced by herself to I Will Survive.
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    TexGrrl Bride had forgotten to write her vows. Groom said his, bride realized she had forgotten and told pastor to 'just use the ones in the book'.
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    C... When the groom asked "what?" when asked to repeat "as long as we both shall live".
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    Senseijcr | sang at the wedding. As I went through the reception line, the bride hugged me and said, "That was lovely. You can sing at my next wedding too!"
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    CHamsterdam The bride's vows were all about how much she loved him. The groom's vows were all about how he had to tolerate her. He sucked.
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    Sea_hag2021 They had two fights during the ceremony. One was during the vows, he was wearing sunglasses (outdoor wedding) and she ripped them off and said "you will look me in the eye when you say this." The second was during the ring exchange. He said he couldn't wear it because he couldn't wear it at work and
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    she said "well you aren't at work now, are you" Other highlights of the wedding: he wore jeans, a leather vest, no shirt; all the bridesmaids were barefoot; the ONLY drinks were bud lite in the bed of the pickup which was filled with ice (there were kids at the wedding but fuck their needs I guess); and a
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    motorcycle shaped grooms cake. People do not believe me when I say how redneck my family is.
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    laugo I showed up to photograph the getting ready part of the day, and the mother of the bride came up and said, 'The storm has passed! We're good to go!' I asked what she meant. Apparently the bride and groom got into a fight the night before (after the rehearsal) and said they were calling off the wedding... but never mind! They did not last a year.
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    These_Angle6098 Groom giving more attention to his mom than the bride
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    deafchihuahua The bride decided to wing her vows. She repeated most of what the groom said and then rambled on for another 10 minutes. It felt like she didn't want to be there and was stalling the ceremony. It was so uncomfortable.
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    They divorced about a year later. Found out from a mutual friend they started dating when she was in high school and he was a substitute teacher.
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    Super_Ground 96... The bride was barely paying attention during their vows, messed around rolling her eyes while the vicar was talking about love and god and whatnot (it was her church), and only lasted about 30 seconds into the
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    first dance before she went and danced with her friends instead. Turned out, to no one's surprise, she was already cheating on him. before they got married.
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    Timely-Fudge-18... When my cousin and his wife entered the reception to the WWF theme Let's Get Ready To Rumble. The marriage lasted two months.
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    Ok-Challenge-22... None of us had met my friends fiancee prior to the wedding. We all immediately knew, but especially when we were all hanging out after the ceremony and someone mentioned something during a story she (the bride) was telling and she yells "DO NOT INTERRUPT ME WHILE I AM TALKING!", and then goes back to telling her
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    story. Everyone froze, including her friends. My friend who married her claims thats the first time he really saw her true self (they only dated 6 months before getting engaged). Surprisingly the wedding lasted 5 (miserable) years.
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    AffectionateWeb... When I heard that the groom invited his best buddy and his gf to come on the honeymoon with them
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    ustation Former wedding DJ.. caught the bride making out with not the groom.
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    pixiepython The groom was crying, the bride said "I really hope these are happy tears", but something just told me that they weren't. They were separated 3 months later.
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    newtownkid My buddy was at a wedding where the couple broke up before the wedding ended, and when the cake came it devolved into a food fight amognst the guests. The mother of the bride was apparently just standing at the bar, weeping.
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    Creepy_Permissi... The groom's daughter announced at the reception that she got married to the brides ex boyfriend (groom is 45, bride is 25, daughter is 23, ex boyfriend is 25
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    gydot The groom said I guess. instead of I do.
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    hibiscus_runner When the matron of honor included in her introduction to the rest of the bridal party that she had "pledged to attend all of [bride's name]'s weddings"
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    Equivalent Shoc... When the bride only posted photos from the wedding with her family in them, not one with any of his family in it.
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    Strict_Bar_4915 The full, Broadway style, one woman performance of a dramatic song by the bride, to the audience and not the groom. They divorced 2 years later.
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    ChemistryOld1937 She cried and cried at the end of the night when it was time for them to go home. She just wanted to stay with us, her friends. She's married again now to an amazing guy and has a baby.
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    CatsMom4Ever When the bride's brothers were discussing what to do better at her next wedding, while at the reception. Marriage lasted 3 weeks before she left the jerk.
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    WinStark We were placing bets in the parking lot before the reception, and then the groom's mom introduced me to some family as "the one M should have married". I was married holding my infant, and M and I had never dated. Lasted about a year (their wedding, mine is 19 years and counting, happily!).
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    Lolaindisguise I wasnt her wedding guests. but my friend was showing me her wedding photos and in every photo she is facing the camera, even when theyre kissing. In some photos her hubby ia staring at her but again she is looking at camera. That's how i knew
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    Superb-Steak40... If the groom smashes cake on the brides face, even a little bit!!!
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    CptUnderpants- I was taking a break from the reception in a quiet side room when I overheard the bride outside: "He'll do for my first husband." It lasted 2 years, she left for a guy she had been cheating with for who knows how long.
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    Bride in white dress stands outside and looks skeptical, behind her an out of focus groom in cowboy hat, suit jacket and jeans pretends to lasso her
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