My husband ruined our wedding day with two shocking words 70 seconds after we got married – I knew I’d made a mistake
YOUR wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life.
However, one bride realised she’d made a terrible mistake 70 seconds after she tied the knot after her new husband said two shocking words.
TikTok user explained how her wedding day was “ruined”, in a viral clip which has racked up over 150,000 likes.
She shared: “My husband ruined our wedding day, and this story has haunted me for like 11 years. I just want to tell it.
“I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted people looking at me as I walked down the aisle or anything like that. So we just went to the magistrate.
“We went to the magistrate, and everything was good.
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“I was feeling good and very happy. We had been married about 60 seconds when the judge said, ‘I love doing these ceremonies, and it would just make me so happy if you guys came back to see me in 10 years and let me know that everything is good.’”
When the judge said that, the bride replied that they would love to do that, and jokingly added: “Hopefully, I fit in the same dress."
She shared how it was her husband’s response which made her feel like she had made a mistake in marrying him just seconds into their marriage.
The TikToker continued: “That’s like a running joke—you hope you can still fit into your wedding dress.
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“My husband of about 70 seconds did not miss a beat and said, ‘Or smaller.’.”
The bride was shocked that her husband would imply that she could lose some weight, and said: “Talk about fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
“First of all, I died inside. I froze like a statue. I felt like I couldn’t even breathe.
“I didn’t quite realise in that second how bad it was.
“I was just staring at his face, looking for context clues. He wasn’t laughing. My heart broke.
“I looked at the judge—the magistrate—and he was floored.
“He said, ‘Son, you just got married.’
“That’s when I realised, ‘Oh, I’m not crazy. My intuition is correct. This is bad.’"
My husband ruined our wedding day, and this story has haunted me for like 11 years. I just want to tell it.
TikTok user @noiwontthanks
She added that she stayed with him for a decade, before her husband asked for a divorce.
The woman stated: “I stayed, but that’s a whole other video I’m not going to make.
“He convinced me that I was crazy and dramatic, and I’m none of those things, actually. He hated my guts from the beginning.
“Ironically, 10 years later—like that exact week—was when my husband said he wanted a divorce or whatever.”
In her video, she said that there’s a “staggering” amount of comments she has seen on TikTok videos about women realising on their wedding day that they made a mistake.
He convinced me that I was crazy and dramatic, and I’m none of those things, actually. He hated my guts from the beginning.
TikTok user @noiwontthanks
She continued: “We just need to maybe normalise this a little bit. This is my attempt at normalising it, and it's therapeutic for me.”
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Many people were quick to offer support to the woman, with one saying: “I cried in the bathroom before walking down the aisle. Shouldn’t have done it. Divorcing now after 16 years.”
Another added: “I knew the day of my wedding I was making a mistake and it took me 17 years to leave.”
Why it’s time to ditch wedding favours once and for all
By Josie Griffiths, Deputy Digital Fabulous Editor and bride-to-be
Josie Griffiths said: When was the last time you spotted something in a shop window or browsed past it online and thought “that would be the perfect gift for 120 of my closest friends, work colleagues, relatives and boyfriend’s mate’s partners I barely know”?
I’ll tell you when, never, because there is NO universal gift everyone is going to love - unless you want to bankrupt yourself buying Rolexes and Tiffany jewellery, and even then they wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.
So why do brides still pile the stress (and expense) of wedding favours on top of everything else we have to organise?
I’ve been to dozens of weddings over the past five years so when I got engaged, I already had a mental list of dos and don’ts for my own big day, and ditching wedding favours was firmly on it.
The cost of buying an individual present for everyone coming is huge, meaning many couples try and keep it in the under-a-fiver category.
But the reality is no-one wants a cheap, ill-thought-out keepsake - they’d probably rather one more free drink from the bar.
It’s not only that, wedding handbags are notoriously small, with no room to stuff an unexpected gift in, and catering waiters have a bad habit of whisking away the wedding favours when they’re clearing the coffee mug off the tables.
I bet none of my guests will even notice the lack of random gift on their dining table.
If you really hate the idea of not buying something for your guests, charity donations are always a nice gesture.
But the last thing your friends and family need is more random tat cluttering up their homes - so it’s time to save them the guilt of binning your Etsy-bought keyring.