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Have you gone to a wedding where an objection happened or runaway bride, if so what was the reaction?

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Few-Conversation6979 Mar 30, 2026 +63
Been to a few where someone should have objected.
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Dontfeedthebears Mar 30, 2026 +5
Hah, same.
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Fluffy-Ad6627 Mar 30, 2026 +60
My bridesmaid had a "go bag" for me and spent all morning trying to talk me out of it. My MOH was silent. I was distracted by wedding planning and blocking my own intuition for the sake of being married. I was divorced 3 years later. Turns out, he was definitely not a good person by any stretch of the imagination.
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Front_Target7908 Mar 30, 2026 +13
I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to call it off by the time the wedding day arrives. Sheer force of social pressure is a lot. I’m glad you’re out now 💙
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Fluffy-Ad6627 Mar 30, 2026 +13
I had lessons to learn - including loving myself enough to see my value. Then, eventually loving me more than him. I was also miss independent so it was embarrassing to tell friends what I had gotten myself into. But he was also hiding a lot. But the "ownership papers" helped him drop that mask in record time!
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nodestinationnoroute Mar 30, 2026 +3
Were your friends there to act as support? I feel the bridesmaid would have kidnapped you that day if legally possible.
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khandanam Mar 30, 2026 +1
Omg you too
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Brilliant_Tip_2440 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Girl, same. The night before I was sobbing in my mom’s arms and she asked if we should cancel the whole thing. I didn’t because I was embarrassed that we were throwing such a big party, but I had a pit in my stomach all day. We didn’t make it to our second anniversary. I’m happily remarried now and wish I had trusted my gut more back then, but I was really young and had a few things to learn. 
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allformslarry Mar 30, 2026 +40
I witnessed the flower arrangement in the church window catch on fire. Was definitely an omen. The couple was divorced within two years.
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uppamna Mar 30, 2026 +15
Bride hid in the back room of the venue crying after the ceremony and asked the wedding band to turn the music down. Marriage breakdown within 18 months
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b_wald81 Mar 30, 2026 +12
No. I made fun of the Best Man a bit in private after the ceremony (he'd fumbled the ring). Best I've got.
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Same-Acanthaceae-563 Mar 30, 2026 +13
Yes but it was your average toddler. We ignored it.
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Felcia_2020 Mar 30, 2026 +22
All the bridesmaids held glass lanterns with candles inside instead of flowers. One by one the glass shattered as the ceremony progressed. We were all in our early twenties and we were laughing so hard we couldn’t breathe. I’ll never forget it.
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Snoo15789 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I wish someone had stopped mine!
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TechieSidhe Mar 30, 2026 +1
I came here to say that. If someone one had stopped my both too young, too autistic, too socially and interpersonally inexperienced wedding to the male version of me, life would have been different. Might have been good, might have been bad. But a major life defining change during a major developmental time. I got divorced in 2004. We are close friends. I still talk to his parents. I knew most of his girlfriends and his second wife. I have babysat his kids. We both have dissected it objectively and decided that we really should have stayed gaming buddies and good friends.
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completelyboring1 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yes, I was a guest at a wedding where a man stood up and objected because he was in love with the bride. A few shocked gasps were quickly replaced by laughter - the couple had a history of pranking each other and this was a prank instigated by the bride - she hired an actor to play the pining lover.
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HRHCookie Mar 30, 2026 +1
She's lucky the officiant didn't stop the wedding
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completelyboring1 Mar 30, 2026 +1
No, she wasn't lucky; she planned it well in advance and everyone who needed to know, knew. But even if the celebrant hadn't known, there would have been no need - or justification - for the wedding to be halted.
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HRHCookie Mar 30, 2026 +1
There are unfortunately still many people in the world who don't have the freedoms they should. And they end up all over the world. So if for example someone was being forced to marry by their family and the person they were actually wanting to marry stood up in church as a last attempt to get them out of a coercive situation it would need to be investigated.
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Sunshinequeen090 Mar 30, 2026 +3
No, but I'd pay my way to attend one.
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cottonmercer666 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Here in the US, I don't even think that's an option anymore. Well, at least at all of the Catholic weddings I've attended and some of the courthouse/JP weddings. It's just pleasantries, vows, pronouncement, kiss, and party.
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No_Raspberry_8753 Mar 30, 2026 +14
You can’t just object to a wedding, you need a good reason for that. If someone is already married for example, but that’s rarely overlooked today.
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Gingereej1t Mar 30, 2026 +13
When we were getting married (in a humanist ceremony) the celebrant told us that if anyone objected, even to be funny, the wedding ceremony would immediately halt and could not be completed that day. We let our friends know that we would not be laughing if they did that, for this reason. In the end, it all went really well 🙂
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ActivePeace33 Mar 30, 2026 -1
That’s still perfectly legal, for the simple fact that someone can have a legal marriage with one person and religious marriage with another.
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No_Raspberry_8753 Mar 30, 2026 +5
A religious marriage can have legal merit depending on where you live, so that’s not necessarily the case. But either way people wrongfully think that you can just object to a marriage if you feel like it, which is simply not the case.
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ActivePeace33 Mar 30, 2026 -4
And the places where they have tried to limit it, do so in violation of the 1a and/or 14a. Religious people are protected by both, if their faith believes in plural marriages. Everyone else is protected by the fact that the amendment says “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” We can disagree all we want, but that’s what the law says.
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CloseButNoChicory Mar 30, 2026 +7
Have you really never encountered (until now) a listnookor who isn't from your country?
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culverrryo Mar 30, 2026 +3
This is not how marriage works
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ActivePeace33 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Show me how marriage works? There are all sorts of people with multiple religious marriages. The government can only control the number of active marriage certificates.
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SesshomaruApologist Mar 30, 2026 +5
Runaway bride?? I think I’d be in shock for a good 10 minutes before processing it 😂
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TechieSidhe Mar 30, 2026 +1
The universe tried to stop my second wedding. It felt like one of those things where you're trying to fulfill an ancient powerful prophecy and every possible force of nature tries to stop you. This marriage felt ordained. We went to look at a church in his area due to family travel capability. The key broke in the sanctuary front door. Our officiant did not show and we had to get our license signed and notarized after the ceremony date. The ceremony was improved. It was cold on the beach. But it was perfect in it's own way.
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JenSY542 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I've been to a wedding where practically no one thought the marriage would last, but no public objections as such. Couple got divorced about 18months later.
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thaaag Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yep, I went to a wedding where the bride actually ran off mid-ceremony. Everything seemed normal until the officiant got to the “If anyone has any objections” bit. Behind us, someone actually coughed. The groom stiffened, the bride’s face went white, and this guy - her ex, apparently - stood up and said, “I can’t let you do this.” Everyone gasped, half the guests pulling out their phones, half whispering “this is not happening.” The ex said something about “still being in love” and I'm lying, I just made up the whole thing. All the weddings I've ever been to have been very nice with very little drama.
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