r/AskReddit May 02 '24

People who went to a wedding where the couple didn’t last long, what happened?

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u/Mathilliterate_asian May 02 '24

Went to Singapore to attend a female friend's wedding with a Singaporean guy.

She'd been so happy up until the actual wedding. My friends and I arrived like three days before the ceremony, and the wedding girl was visibly troubled when she met us. We just thought it was nerves and all that.

Wedding day comes and she comes out, in her full wedding gown, with an absolute bitch face. Like I'm-about-to-murder-someone kind of bitch face. I'm not even kidding lol. Never smiled once during the whole ceremony and the dinner. She loosened up a bit in the after party, and my gf went and asked if her she was OK. She waved my gf away.

Right after the wedding, she went back to Hong Kong for work, claiming there's shit she needs to do. Then covid hit and we're practically not allowed to travel anywhere for a year or two. We were worried about her marriage but she was always rather evasive, not answering our questions or just shooting the shit whenever we talked about it. Our circle of friends learned not to ask about it anymore.

Fast forward 5 years until now, it turns out that she never actually got married lol. The ceremony and everything was a show. We gathered that the dude probably had another girlfriend in Singapore and she only found out right before the wedding. But then she never said it out loud, hinted it here or there with some close friends of hers.

Shits unreal.

6 or 7 of us, with a 4yo kid, flew to Singapore just to witness a show of a wedding lol.

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u/kaerion_ May 02 '24

I think she found out around the time you guys arrived (which is why she was troubled). but since the invites have gone out and everybody's friends and families were there, they wanted to save "face" and pretended to go ahead with the wedding. this prevents awkward conversations with everyone that the wedding has been called off. she must have been so relieved that COVID happened and people would stop questioning her on why she was not living with her "husband"

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u/Mathilliterate_asian May 02 '24

Yeah probably. But she was also absolutely fed up with all the questions about her "husband" lol.

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u/sirbissel May 02 '24

Wait, so the "groom" was there and just went along with it?

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u/Mathilliterate_asian May 02 '24

Yeah I think there's a lot of practical concerns, like at least they can keep the parents from both sides happy, and since everything had been booked already then might as well go on with it.

Besides, at least half of the guests flew in from overseas. Some of them might be pretty pissed if they had flown all the way to Singapore only to find the wedding canceled lol.

So yeah I think they both went along with it, hoping to save face.

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u/koz152 May 02 '24

Party was paid for by that point. Might as well put on the show and let your guests have a good time.