Wedding Spinoff

[RedAngie]

What is the shortest marriage that you know of? Either yours or somebody else's?

One cousin dropped out of college after her freshman year because she was pregnant. I think her parents were furious and refused to pay for additional schooling. And it appeared that she was forced to get married. This was in 1975 and the bride had just turned 19. It was a bare bones church ceremony: no music, flowers, etc. And there were two separate "receptions," one for the bride's family in her parents' house, and another for the groom's family. Anyway, that marriage lasted maybe a year and a half before they separated and eventually divorced.

Another cousin had a more elaborate wedding in 2002. I couldn't attend because I was living across the country at the time, but sent a nice gift. That one lasted maybe two years.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

I wasn’t alive at the time but my Aunt had a 1 week marriage.

 

[stsomewhere]

i worked for a photographer. the groom was caught cheating at the reception. the wedding album consisted of family portraits. i was not surprised. i went to high school with the groom.

 

[design_mom]

Shortest I know of personally was about 5 months. They got married in September and were divorced by Valentine's Day. The weirdest part was that they had been dating for about 8 years and living together for 3 before they got married. So it wasn't like they didn't know each other well before they got married. I'm still kind of shocked about that one.

 

[kimblebee]

A few months. It was my sisters sister in law. They got married in Mexico and went on a honeymoon a month or two later in Europe and by the time they came home it was over. Apparently the groom didn’t want to get married but didn’t feel like he could say anything because of all the money people were spending on the trip to Mexico.

 

[barkley]

i knew a few that only lasted a few weeks to a month at most. they were referred to as 'trial marriages' among the lds kids i hung out with early in college. these were young, healthy kids who had normal desires that their church didn't allow for outside of 'marriage' so since we lived in close proximity to nevada you would learn on a monday that one of the couples had eloped over the weekend. it was a kind of loophole in their faith as they saw it-they were technically married under 'man's law' so sex wasn't a sin as far as the church was concerned but since they hadn't been married at their temple and been sealed it wasn't an eternal marriage as far as the church was concerned so when they almost immediately divorced or annulled it was as though in the eyes of the church/their community it had never occurred. most never even cohabited after the fact and the marriages largely ended in annulment. it was like 'going steady' on overdrive.

 

[scrhsa]

One day. My cousin. Not sure how long she knew him though. Not long, I'm sure. Now she is happily married, this year, to a great guy. Took her many years and several rotten guys.

 

[powellrj]

My neighbor when I was a kid. They went together all through high school and married the Christmas following their high school graduation. They divorced the next day. The groom died last year and from his obituary he never had children and only listed the first wife as a survivor.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

DW's friend got married for the second time about five years ago. Unfortunately she died of a heart attack less than three months later.

As for marriages that went kaput, a friend and his wife broke up about a year after getting hitched. They were previously living together for about 10 years. I guess being legal didn't suit them.

 

[tvguy]

3 weeks. A friend met a nice lady, they both had come off 20 year marriages that had difficult ends, the other spouse cheating. They clicked, got married on a whim, and woke up 3 weeks later and both said to each other "what have we done!". So they filed for divorce before they got around to telling any of their friends they had gotten married. And as neither drinks, there was no alcohol involved in the decision to get married OR divorced. They are still friends 15 years later.

 

[Kitty 34]

One of my son's friends was married just over a week. What was kind of sad was the fact that it was a destination wedding so my son and all their friends drove many hours to get to the guy's wedding.

 

[ronandannette]

DW's friend got married for the second time about five years ago. Unfortunately she died of a heart attack less than three months later.

As for marriages that went kaput, a friend and his wife broke up about a year after getting hitched. They were previously living together for about 10 years. I guess being legal didn't suit them.

The shortest one I know of was also ended by the shocking accidental death of the young husband only weeks after their honeymoon.

 

[Katlyn]

A relative had a very short marriage, can’t remember exactly how long though. She divorced him when she found out he was gay.This was in the late 60’s.

 

[superme80]

My cousin got married May of 1999 and the marriage was over by early 2001.

 

[wenrob]

About three weeks. One of my DH’s coworkers. It was one of those meet, fall hard, move her whole family in scenarios. Everyone could see it was wrong except him. She’d tell him she was at the gym, an event for her DD, grocery shopping. Money was disappearing but groceries etc. we’re not appearing. He got wise and started checking her location. She was at the casinos almost all day. Threw her out and filed for divorce almost immediately. Clearly she wasn’t the brightest bulb in the box lying about where she was while sharing her location with him.

 

[tazdev3225]

My cousin had a large, expensive wedding - close to $100,000. Four months later he was divorced but in debt for several years to pay off the wedding. I had a feeling it wouldn't last long as his favorite wedding picture was of him and the groomsman bare butt at the urinals.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

My friend's brother's ended on the honeymoon with his death. He made one bad decision and it cost him his life.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I know of several short ones when I was a kid. But I don't know whether those were marriages or that they were bf/gf and my mother told me they were married.

 

[Darcy03231]

My grandfather was a photographer and I remember him mentioning that he had a couple return from their honeymoon and file for divorce.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Just under a year, one of DW’s friends. Her 3rd marriage.

She’s now back with husband #2 and quite content. Custody battles/crazy exes basically doomed them the first time around. Kids are older now, so it’s no longer an issue.