'A couple broke up during their $180k wedding': 10 Newlyweds who instantly regretted getting married

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 7, 2026 3:15 PM EDT

You can't plan a wedding day that's 100% perfect, but these couples had exceptionally wild wedding days!

Brides and grooms spend tons of time planning for their special days: they need to figure out vendors, catering, clothing, seating arrangements, a DJ, flowers, and like a million other little details. Makes sense that they want everything to go as smoothly as possible, right? 

And yet, sometime when things go wrong, it can make for some incredible memories. Maybe it's just something small-ish, like a DJ who plays a few hilariously bad song selections, or maybe it's the newlyweds trying to cut into a cake that's still frozen in the middle. Even these little mishaps can leave guests giggling, and the new couple probably won't be too mortified. 

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  • However, some of these weddings went so wrong that only like 1% of their ceremony went to plan. Like one bride (a bridezilla if we're being honest) who noticed it was starting to drizzle while she was about to say “I do.” Most of us would start bringing everyone inside. Even if the decorations get a little wet, you need to put your guests' safety and comfort first. This bride didn't think that way, though. She was determined to have her wedding outdoors, rain or shine, and things only got worse from there! 

  • Groom puts his arms on his bride's shoulders.
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    Groom puts his arms on his bride's shoulders.

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  • The classic "Ross saying Rachel's name at the alter" situation

    ShallotLittle6633 The bride forgot the groom's name and called him by the ex-boyfriend's name. The silence that followed was so loud I think I actually heard the marriage certificate self- destruct
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  • Wonderful_Price2355 Groom gave a speech about when he first started dating the bride and how her parents didn't like him.
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  • He mentioned dates and myself and a few others started doing math in our heads... They didn't like you because you were 21 and she was 16. KYLE!
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  • Bride and groom look on awkwardly while guests sing together.
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    Bride and groom look on awkwardly while guests sing together.

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  • This is the rain story I mentioned above, it is so good

    mrsheikh Posted this before: Went to a wedding that my wife and I said will not last more than two years. The wedding was in the backyard of the bride's house. They had all the chairs and wedding "arch"
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  • setup outside. They setup a plastic tarp running down the aisle to walk on. Just before the wedding starts, there are darkening clouds appearing. Should have been a sign to move the wedding inside, but they invited too many people to the d in thing.
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  • Just as they start the wedding, it begins to rain lightly. The father of the bride is walking the bride down the lane and slips on the wet tarp and falls on his a. Bride is now at the front, raining harder. People start to cover up with whatever they have. Some people start to get up too.
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  • Bride turns around and says to all, THIS IS MY WEDDING, NO ONE IS GOING TO RUIN IT, YOU BETTER ALL SIT YOUR DOWN! We all sit back down and the wedding resumes. It is now raining pretty good. The grass is now turning into mud. A few ladies in the
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  • Bride and groom smile for their wedding photos.
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    Bride and groom smile for their wedding photos.

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  • crowd and the bridesmaid's makeup is now running down the faces. My wife has taken my jacket as a cover from the rain. They finish the vows and kiss, and then everyone runs to the house and garage to get out of the rain. Oh, remember how I said the grass was now
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  • mud? Yea, lots of people slipped and fell in the mud on the way to the house. We got to the house, many people look terrible from the running makeup, muddy clothing, and soaking wet. A few of the women had to cover their chests and waists due to wet clothing
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  • becoming see-thru. Most of the men were loaning their coats to the ladies to cover up. Dirty looks all around. The wedding cake was outside, and now brought in. The rain made the decorations on the cake turn all runny and it looks horrible. The bride and
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  • Smiling bride and groom.
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    Smiling bride and groom.

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  • groom began to cut the cake and feed each other. The smashed the cake pieces into each other's faces....then began a food fight with each other. My friend's wife got hit in the face with purple icing cake on her face and dress. The priest got hit with and yellow icing on his white robe.
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  • There was nothing left of the cake to serve. Food being served was still frozen in the middle of the food and the stuff that was not frozen, was burned. The desert was supped to be the cake, but as said above, there was nothing left. There was a goody bag that people got on the way out.
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  • Had a lollipop, a coupon for ice cream cone at McDonald's, a pencil with the bride and groom name on it, and Halloween size M&Ms. My wife, whose dress was filthy, her makeup was out of whack, and her hair was a mess, said to me that she
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  • does not want to see those people again for 6 months she was so mad. The couple divorced 11 months later
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    It is just awful to watch a bride sabotage her own life just because she's trying to have the perfect wedding day. Many people who get married, and not just brides, but some grooms too, get this mentality that the day is all about them. And only them. And maybe their spouse. But its their big day, and they should have no expense spared. All of their wishes become other people's commands. They want everyone to bend to their will, no matter what. 

    Since regular life doesn't work that way, this often comes as a surprise to everyone else around that bride or groom -zilla. They find the entitlement really repulsive. This couple lost friends over this, made every guest utterly miserable, and their marriage didn't even last a year. Sheesh. 

  • Newlyweds walk down the aisle while it rains.
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    Newlyweds walk down the aisle while it rains.

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  • ImaginarySmoke991 A childhood friend had an outdoor wedding at a popular historic building/community center. Reception moved inside. Everything is antique. It's quite beautiful. The wild part was at the end. The parents of the bride would not "let" bride and groom leave for
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  • their wedding night/honeymoon until all the tables and chairs were put away. Family members and friends of both bride and groom (including me) hastily got conscripted to help out.
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  • Night ended at like 10 or 11 pm with bride leaving crying and shaking in anger while husband desperately tried to calm her down. All of us still there threw rice over them in the dark as they left for their ride to honeymoon suite. Bride's parents had no chill and still thought they were in the right.
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  • Bride and groom held hostage at their own wedding... by her parents.
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  • Wedding photographer snaps a photo behind the crowd.
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    Wedding photographer snaps a photo behind the crowd.

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  • Not the 4-tier cake!

    Sad_Exercise_5439 A child pushing the 4 tier cake off the table and it just going everywhere. Bride and groom were furious. Not super scandalous but wildest thing I've seen at a wedding so far.
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    This is why some people have child-free weddings! 

  • Blametheorangejuice I was a photographer and my best friend at the time did not want to have me taking photos, because I was the best man. Additionally, his soon-to-be wife absolutely loathed me (though she loathed everyone, including him).
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  • She instead hired her best friend and gave her something like a thousand bucks to take photos. This was in the 90s. The friend shows up. Mind you, she had zero experience taking photos.
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  • And, she has purchased several disposable cameras. For you young folks, most of those cameras had 800 speed film, which usually meant they were okay for mostly lifeless outdoor photos. Literally everything else would be super grainy and/or dark as sh.
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  • I tell them I hope they have a better plan, but the wife goes to bat for her friend while yelling at me. Okay, I think, good luck with all that. Two weeks later, of course, they come to me asking if there's any way to "fix" the photos she just got back from the WalMart photo lab.
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  • The wife is in tears. Of course, there is nothing to be done. I will never forget, though, the wedding taking place and her friend cranking that camera dial nonstop every few seconds. Click. Criiiick criiiick criiick click. Criiiiick crriiiick criiiick. Click.
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  • ChemistryPerfect4534 So many options. The spontaneous choreographed dance number doesn't even rank. I think it's a toss up between the wedding speech that started with, "I don't believe in the institution of marriage...", and the wedding where the
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  • groom's response to, "have no other woman before her", was, "I'll try", and the bride slugged him.
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  • $180k for a breakup mid-wedding is such wealthy person behavior

    middaytoker44 I used to work at a expensive wedding venue as a valet/waiter. I personally think the craziest thing was seeing a couple break up during their 180k wedding.
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  • therillard Someone dislocated their knee doing the Macarena and the bride was in tears because it k led the mood
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  • It's always unbelievably awkward when someone tries to make a dance happen, but all the other guests aren't into it

    GrandPriapus At my brother-in-laws wedding reception, his mom, sister, and two uncles all went out and changed into coveralls and no shirts and came stomping in like a jug band. They whooped and hollered around for five minutes. One of the uncles
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  • grabbed a microphone and berated the attendees for not "partying like rednecks". I think they thought everyone would think it was funny, but mostly people sat in silence which made the whole thing kinda sad.
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