1. Speeches Are Overrated
At this wedding, the Best Man and Maid of Honor who were married to each other. Best Man's speech was all about how hard it was to be married. "I've been married for a year and it feels like 100 years." Maid of Honor stands up to give a speech and just says "Ditto." It was so awkward and really brought the whole room down. Brother of the bride stood up and gave a nice impromptu speech about teamwork and having a partner to go through life with.
How happy the family was to have the groom join their family. Best Man and Maid of Honor were divorced within a year. Couple who got married are still married 30+ years later. I sometimes wonder if the speeches actually were helpful in how not to act as a couple.
designgoddess
2. Allergies
When she went alone on her honeymoon, because she booked a trip to the Caribbean despite her newlywed husband having a severe sun allergy
She was a good friend and they had been together for some years. They married young and it didn't occur to them that it would be strange if she went on the honeymoon and he stayed behind. He was a good guy and just wanted to see her happy and she really wanted to go on this vacation, because she had never left the country.
They separated half a year after the wedding and my friend, the bride, told me, that the marriage had been a way to prolong the relationship despite both of them knowing that it was already over some time before they got married. Kinda like a couple gets a baby to save a marriage. It really was just sad because they were a nice couple, but they stayed friends after separating.
And I can guarantee that she didn't cheat on him while away, they were both really loyal.
Short_Perspective72
3. Card Declined
I used to work at a David's Bridal. Bride came in with tons of friends, we did the Say Yes To The Dress Thing, and an hour later she'd standing there in $3,000 worth of stuff and doesn't have any money with her or in her account. She decides she wants to apply for the store credit card, I run it through the system, and she gets denied. She then calls the groom for his info (which, to be fair, people did all the time), and he tells her no. She threw a HUGE fit on the phone with him, standing on the bridal stage, literally demanding "WHY NOT? WHY?! WHY!!" like an actual child over and over again. I've never seen a 30 year old age backwards so quickly. She was just a brat. Literally stomping her feet in front of me, all her friends, and the other bride in the store. *I* was embarrassed.
At the end of all of that, she hangs up on him and her friend is like "I'm so sorry you can't get your dress" and the bride stops crying instantly and just goes "Oh I'll get the dress. I just have to do this at home and when he gets mad enough he'll come get it for me so I'll stop."
Speechless. Sure enough. Girl came back two days later with her man and he applied for the credit card and bought the dress. He was livid and silent, and she was smug as hell. Can't imagine they're having a happy marriage if they are still together.
Alsothebagel
4. Unplanned Expenses
My wife’s brother just got married this past May. Bride’s mother is a big DIY person and went a little nuts with extra flowers, table pieces, decorations, etc… Note I said extra, it was already decorated by the venue, she just took it upon herself to buy and add way more stuff.
Anyway, a few weeks ago she sent my MIL (grooms mom) an email with receipts of all the extra stuff she bought ($7,000 worth!!! ) and asked that she pay half since it was technically set up in time for the rehearsal dinner for guests to enjoy. It’s causing a huge rift between the newlyweds since the bride is taking her mom’s side.
WanderingRaindog
5. Is This a Performance?
My wife got invited to a client's daughter's wedding. The couple were both drama students. Many of the bridal party were drama students. The maid-of-honor's toast consisted of tearful declarations of unrequited love to the groom, along the lines of 'if it couldn't be me, I'm glad it's my best friend that's marrying you'. The best-man's speech was a lusty declaration of 'if it doesn't work out, call me, babe... like the previous time you called me.' Other toasts were similarly weird.
A guy at the table I was seated at was a friend of the bride and said to me that he was 'this close' to standing up during the 'speak now or forever hold your peace' thing. I'm still not sure if the whole thing was a bunch of emotionally fucked-up 20-year-olds, or one big piece of performance art.
Sharplescorner
6. Snide Remarks
I was the maid of honor. Me, the best man and the couple went into a separate little room to do the signing stuff. Bride excused herself to go to the bathroom and the groom started making pretty mean remarks about her cooking (something she's passionate about) to the officiary. She came back, heard they were talking about cooking family meals together and gave him the warmest smile, thinking he had praised her.
He scoffed awkwardly and changed the topic. That always stuck with me. He wasn't laughing with her but at her, behind her back. They lasted 7 months.
Kraken_of_beverlyRd
7. Fight! Fight!
I worked at a museum that also doubled as a wedding venue in the summers. As part of the wedding package, the museum would stay open after hours for the guests only so I’d just sit there and greet people basically. One wedding got particularly rowdy. Almost everyone was drunk, people were jumping into the fountain, someone vomited in said fountain. At one point, the bride is crying.
Turns out the groom and one of his groomsmen were screwing upstairs in one of the bathrooms. A fight ensued between the groom and the father of the bride and cops were called because it really got ugly. Entertaining for me but I felt so bad for the bride.
Iacrimal_
8. Wasted
At my boyfriend's sister's wedding, the groom got drunk before the vows and smoked weed after the vows. He was crossfaded as hell and made a fool of himself. When we went up to congratulate them after, she refused to be near him or take pictures with him. It was awkward.
After the speeches basically everyone left. Family was still around and they opened gifts. Someone gifted nice champagne and the groom tried to open it and dropped it and it shattered. Bride stormed off screaming. Groom got upset and started cussing out the air.
They still went to their honeymoon together in Florida and she got pregnant almost immediately. Maybe 7 months into her pregnancy she kicked him out because he slept with her roommate. They got divorced when their kid was 6 months old.
But it's for the best, the dude is a POS and wasted a lot of their money by being selfish on their day.
ambrosiadeux
9. Is This a Wedding or Business Dinner?
The bride and groom did the first dance then spent the rest of their reception completely apart from each other getting drunk with their own separate friend-groups. The only other dancing all night was the bride dancing with her high school friends, the father-daughter dance and the mother-son dance, during which the groom was crying.
The best man's speech didn't mention the bride at all and basically boiled down to "Groom, you're married now but our bond is older and stronger, all of our hunting and fishing trips together are the best thing in our lives, can't wait for more." Such a sad, desperate atmosphere. They made it a little over one year.
Drpeace
10. Sharing the Spotlight
I'm a wedding photographer and I have a few of these. One was where the wedding was all about the groom promoting his band. He even "sang his bride a song" that was literally just him showing off his vocal range with some classic piece.
She stood up and joined him on stage half way through and he looked annoyed that he had to share the limelight. They lasted about 2 years (he was sleeping with the other vocalist in the band).
ras1304
11. Surprise Twist of Fates
I showed up to the wedding of a friend of my husbands who I knew casually. When we arrived at the church the groom was very drunk in the parking lot - and getting drunker by the minute. I thought it was kinda nuts since it was a full Catholic ceremony which involved lots of kneeling and standing... I honestly have no idea how he made it thought that, but he did.
At the reception, he proceeded to continue the drinking party, while his new wife cried in the washroom. When it was time for the first dance he kind of stumbled around the dance floor despite a year of dance lessons. When it was time for him to take his new wife's garter off and throw it to the bachelors - he instead, did a strip tease type dance and got himself down to his underwear - in front of many elderly family members. People were shocked and talking and all in all it was a crazy show.
I gave this marriage a year or two tops. They, however, are still married 25+ years later.
gogomon
12. Fright or Flight?
My college roomie went on his honeymoon to Jamaica alone. The bride's family picked the resort and paid for everything. Only the bride refused to get on the plane at the literal gate, breaking down and crying and having panic attacks.
Turns out this had happened every time before for sports trips and family vacations, but they thought for some reason "this time it will work, she is married now"? And planned a honeymoon on an island?
Rather than throw away $10k in vacation the groom went alone. He said it was great. His wife wasn't mad but her family was, for some reason. They lasted nearly 5 years and split the best of friends.
Goobermcnutly
13. Always stand up for yourself, believe in yourself that you will surely scale through
My father in-law initially came at me with this bully attitude (pre-wedding) and he invited me to go shooting thinking I'd be worried about it, so I went. Sometime in the conversation I told him "I quit caring about what my parents said 8 years ago when I got thrown out of my house and having been taking care of myself ever since. To be honest, I'd rather get along with you but if we can't make that happen, that's even less I have to care about."
A lot of problems come from people not standing up for themselves, and it's impossible without that as well as the couple standing up for each other and having "this is our family" attitude. Fortunately, my wife cared more about our relationship than her parents. I still tolerate her dad and we're pleasant to each other, and he doesn't cross lines with me like he does with other in-laws. Wife and I have been married for over 20 years.
GrokFu
14. Being a Jerk is a Piece of Cake
The groom took the stupid cake smash thing to an extreme. The bride had given him his bite, and mushed a little on his chin or nose. He then took a piece and mashed it into her face so hard that I was expecting her to end up with a bloody nose. Cake and frosting got up her nose, in her eyes, down the front of her dress, etc.
The bride had to go get cleaned up, had her makeup re-done, and was ugly-crying within an hour of saying, "I do." He didn't care.
erik_working
15. Come to an Agreement
The woman who made my wedding cake is a friend of the family and when she was doing the consultation with us, she told us that one condition that she had was that we had to have a conversation about serving each other cake. We could do whatever we wanted - we could not do it, we could serve each other nicely, we could dab it on our noses, we could do a face-plant in the cake. It was our cake. But we had to agree on it together before-hand. We just cut the cake together but didn't serve it to each other.
Apparently she had seen more than one marriage that got off to a rocky start because the couple was not on the same page about cake and it was very important to her that her cake would not be a source of conflict in our marriage.
pudgy_ninja
16. Recipe for Disaster
I was kindly included in a last-minute plus-one to the wedding of a family friend who I'd never met before. At the rehearsal dinner (or the German equivalent, the Polterabend) the guests smashed ceramic and porcelain items on the ground. I was fresh in Germany, so this was all pretty out of context and frightening, but my boyfriend explained that it's a tradition - reminding the couple that life is sometimes difficult and you have to work together to clean it up.
The bride kind of half-heartedly motioned to the groom to sweep it up. He did a little bit, then just moved on to talk to his friends, leaving most of the shards strewn around the yard. Additionally, I don't think I saw the couple talk to each other once over the next three days of celebrations.
It was a gorgeous wedding, and I'm so grateful that I was invited (really good way to begin living in a new country), but it wasn't surprising to hear that they'd divorced a few years later.
bilobababy
17. Bone of Contention
A month before the wedding, the couple made an appointment with me - the church music director/organist - to plan music for the ceremony. Each made suggestions on music he or she would like.
But no matter how many pieces were considered and demonstrated, they couldn't agree on *anything*, and would get into heated arguments over processionals, recessionals, vocal solos, and prelude music - even though they were all good possibilities.
The bride and groom simply seemed indifferent to one another's wishes and needs.
In the end, based on what I heard each of them most wanting, I offered compromises in an effort to bring about peace - selections which they finally agreed to.
They were engaged, but showed no signs of being in love.
Back2bach
18. Wild Expectations
This reminds me of a problem on an agony aunt page I read once when the wife wrote in for advice.
So apparently the bride and groom were both virgins and waited for marriage in accordance with their culture, with the groom clearly spending all that time on Pornhub getting wild expectations. The shy, religious bride expected that their wedding night would be a sacred coming together of souls but the groom did not read the memo. He slapped her around, tried to do anal and asked to pee on her *on their wedding night*.
The bride was, obviously, absolutely horrified and kept making excuses not to have sex with him again (he said he had a wonderful time and kept asking when they could have round 2). She wrote in to the agony aunt wondering what kind of deviant she had married. I felt very sorry for her.
Undertheharvestmoon
19. Getting Cold Feet
Not a wedding moment as much as a bachelor party moment but my ex got married to a woman two years ago from a super conservative religious family.
We were still friends for the most part and I was surprised he asked me to be a groomsman but I figured, hey, always good to be able to stay friends with your exes - that feels like mature growth and closure.
He got really drunk at the bachelor party and at one point asked me if I ever had any regrets about us breaking up. And I said I had loved him but no - we had made the right decision in the long run. And then he told me that he sometimes wishes that we were getting married the next week and how his fiancée's family will never accept him. And then after an awkward pause, he said, "what if we just run away together?". Laughed it off as a joke and said we should rejoin the group. Then he said it again later again in a joke tone. And then a third time later in the night. We had been friends for years but only dated for like 6 months.
Turns out he asked the same thing to another one of his exes who wasn't a groomsman but was attending the wedding.
The couple is still together technically but separated.
Philophoicon
20. Moment of Revelation
I was the maid of honor, they seemed like the perfect couple, together for nearly 10 years and had this big, expensive, beautiful wedding.
Bride would have been happy with a small event but told me groom had a big family and had insisted.
Alarm bells hit when I sat with her parents in the front row and realised the groom to bride ratio was so massively off. The groom had three best men, as well as ushers etc. His sister and one best man read something during the ceremony (and then all three said long speeches about him at dinner). It was all about him.
The photographer was even his friends Mum, so she kept whisking away the boys for these ‘hilarious’ lads shoots.
The bride was ignored most of the day and in the evening he got too drunk, spilt a drink over her wedding gown and danced with his friends. It felt more like a big birthday party than a joint event.
I’d never seen that side to him, but I felt so sorry for my friend, it was like she was just there to be a prop to his plans and look good.
Three months after the wedding he began being emotionally abusive. A month after that he admitted he’d been having an affair for years, then left.
If I hadn’t seen the way he behaved at the wedding, I never would have guessed he had that in him.
My friend hasn’t been able to trust or date again yet and it’s been 4 years. However she has become an amazingly brave woman, who’s travelled to some amazing places alone and is now retraining to change careers.
I think she learnt never to be a backseat passenger in a relationship again.
Honestly the way she handled the whole thing, with such grace and determination makes me so proud to be her friend. She basically told him when he left that he would never see her, or hear from her, or about her again. She dropped all friends that had a connection with him (after he left) and made sure he would always live his life wondering if he made the right decision and what she was up to.
I really hope his dying thought is about her. And I know for a fact hers won’t be about him, she’ll find real love.
GRC2772
21. In Which the Groom Realizes He Doesn’t Know the Woman He Married
It wasn't at a wedding, but it was the first time I really sat down to talk to the couple. They came to town about a year after the wedding, and my wife (cousin to the groom) and I met them for drinks at one of the "cool" parts of "cool city". One of the first topics of conversation was what we knew about the *lifestyle* scene - a word which in this case means swinger.
Afterward, I pointed out to my wife that the bride seemed to have been rather openly and boldly flirting with her. My wife shrugged it off because I'm often pretty terrible at that kind of thing.
We met one more time, this time for a funeral. After the ceremony, we were hanging out in a hotel room drinking. The bride again seemed to be pretty openly flirting with my wife, and *this* time was going out of her way to show off her talent for bedroom knots. Again, the groom is there in the room.
I pointed out all of this again, and this time my wife tacitly agreed.
The two would divorce soon after. The bride, it seems, only discovered - or accepted - that she was a lesbian *after* she'd gotten married.
Withinthemedow
22. Show Me Your Friends…
Friend's wedding back in 2016, a somewhat nice affair for us given we were in our early 20s and all. I was a bridesmaid and really hadn't met the groom much prior. He was nice but quiet.
Day before wedding the bride, a long time friend, asked me to help babysit one of the groomsmen because he was a nightmare. Asked me, other bridesmaid, DJ, the works to help cut him off from alcohol before the ceremony, not to allow him to make a speech, keep him from hitting on girls, the works. He was an alcoholic douche with 6 kids and 2 DUIs but was the absolute best friend of the groom. Day of the wedding, best douche breaks into the bar, gets hammered, has to be dragged down the aisle, gets the florist drunk while they pretty much have sex on the dancefloor, and makes what I can only assume to be a speech during the father/daughter dance.
The bride was angry and stressed as well trying to get things to not be a total f-up. Groom blocked us from keeping him in check, wanted us to just let it go while he did everything the bride asked he not do. It was like a weird purposeful or intentional self sabotage thing. Douche also broke into the groom's private stash of homemade mead he'd made special just for the wedding, stripped his clothes, and ran through the parking lot hiding in bushes at 11 p.m...
Same night the couple text me asking if I'd want to be their third in their open relationship, which I find out later was mostly the groom's idea. I also found out later they got married pretty quickly because she suddenly needed medical benefits all the while he had been asking for an open relationship for the complete duration of them being together but she'd only acquiesce if he would marry her as well. Divorce finalized a year and a half later.
lilmidjumper
23. Disrespectful
My ex-wife had a taste for theatrics and wanted a choreographed dance number for the first dance. Wanted the whole wedding party involved, but there was no interest. I'd never danced (not even at a club), but was willing to take lessons with her with the understanding we would do something together so she could have her dream wedding. I sucked, but got through a few lessons of slow dancing. I can now awkwardly shuffle around, but don't expect anything crazy. The dance school wouldn't choreograph anything for us, so she promptly gave up.
When it came to choosing the song, she decided she wanted 'I Want You To' by Weezer (my favorite band and the song had just come out recently), which has like a jamboree feel to it. It is not a slow song to slow dance to. I suggested we choose something else, but she insisted we would just slow dance to it. I made her promise she wouldn't change her mind.
Sure enough, 30 seconds into the song she backs up and starts dancing a jig. I just stood there in disbelief fuming while she kept shouting and motioning for me to dance in front of all our guests.
To boot, we had set a budget, she exceeded it, then her parents decided to chip in 5K, and rather than use it to offset what we were over budget, she decided to spend more.
In retrospect, that should have been a huge clue that she didn't respect me at all. Cheated on me and ran off with some guy like a year later. Got 'remarried' before we were legally divorced. Her parents never did hand over the 5K, because they'd put a provision on it that we had to go up north for a weekend and take some stupid Christian financial planning course their friend ran. My ex was also an atheist and didn't want to do that, but knowingly spent the money we didn't actually have. Ffs.
theradiomatt
24. Pizza or Nothing
I was at a vegan wedding as a groomsmen, and about two hours into the reception I look around to see most of the guests all eating pizza. I was confused, pizza was definitely *not* on the menu that evening. The bride notices as well, and I overhear her as she goes to ask one of the guests where they got the pizza because it wasn't supposed to be on the menu.
"Oh, yeah, about an hour ago someone went around collecting orders for Pizza Hut and they ordered like 20 pizzas that just arrived, because the food here kinda sucked and we were all hungry for actual food"
I was mortified on behalf of the bride, but then snuck away and found a slice to eat myself, because they guy was right, the vegan dishes served here were terrible.
Namika
25. She Found a Cash Cow
When I was in college I went to a wedding with my girlfriend at the time during one summer. She and I had only been together for a few months, so it was actually the first time I had met the bride and the groom, and most of her family for that matter. I didn't really say anything to my girlfriend at the time, because I didn't know them at all aside from stories she told me, but I had a feeling like they wouldn't last very long.
At the reception, she spent most of her time just talking with her friends and didn't interact much with anyone else at all. He went around and tried to get time with everyone, but every so often I would see him with her and she would kind of not even acknowledge that he was there very much. When I walked passed her one time on the way to grab a beer, she was bragging to her friends about how much money the dress cost her and how he wanted her to get a cheaper one, but she wouldn't have it.
At one point of the night, I was outside smoking with some of the other guests and he came out the back and asked to bum a cigarette. He was one of those types of people that only smokes when they are drunk, which apparently wasn't that often for him since he was doing his residency at a hospital, so he was always really busy. The entire time he kept looking at the door and whenever it opened and someone came out, he quickly moved his hand holding the cigarette behind his back, because he thought it was her. It was like he was deathly scared of her and not like in a playful way.
It didn't surprise me when about a year later they got divorced. Apparently, she just kind of was taking advantage of him, staying home all day (she didn't work) spending thousands of dollars ordering clothes and shoes online using his money and credit cards she took out in their names.
edgar
26. Naivety or Romance?
A couple I’m close friends with have a friend who moved back home to her small, conservative town after college and all of a sudden changes her mind about her dreams of going overseas to do a PhD, and become and archivist.
Instead she starts posting about a new guy she’s just met and started dating. Three weeks later she posts that they’re *ring shopping*. About this time is when she starts bailing on commitments to her friends, becoming less and less available in friend group chats…she always has some excuse why she can’t meet up or hang out. Even when she’s bailing last minute on her friend’s bachelor party (that she planned). Three months after they met and started dating she posts that she and new BF are now engaged. None of her friends have met him still. Red flags, alarm bells, freaking sirens are going off to us. She sees none of them.
Three months after that she posts that they snuck off and got married. A full six months after they met. None of her friends have met him yet. And she’s still suddenly just not available for her friends. Instead of going to get her PhD in history or literature, she’s filtering through part time job after part time job at coffee shops, banks…
From the perspective of her friends…it looks fishy. It looks like she’s met some small town “good ole boy” who is isolating her from her friends and support while also rushing her into a marriage. She’s never been in a serious relationship and grew up very sheltered. It’s just…worrisome. She’s naive and easily manipulated.
I mean…if a new partner wanted to go ring shopping after three weeks I’d freaking run. But this girl is naive and thinks she lives in a freaking Jane Austen novel
So I’m betting either the marriage fizzles out when the excitement wears off or she realizes years down the road *after* having kids and settling in that she’s made a mistake. She has no means to support herself independently either so…ugh it just worries me.
She’s posted photos with him and her family has met the dude. There are wedding photos with both families pictured.
Mrminecrafthimself
27. Signs of Selfishness
My brother’s ex-wife. Throughout the exchange of vows, she was looking at everyone but my brother, making sure all eyes were on her. Later, she instructed the photographer (a family friend who was cheap) to “mingle” and get shots of people “being happy”. Within 10 minutes, she’d summoned the photographer back shouting, “Whose wedding is this?! I meant get shots of people being happy ***for me***.”
They broke up when she cheated on him. Apparently, that marriage she was desperate for was only good while it brought her attention.
storemaen
28. Fingers Crossed
My best friend's wedding was the next day and I told her about how I’ve heard several wedding photographers/videographers say that shoving cake in the face is almost a for sure factor that they’re going to divorce. She told me “oh yeah I told him not to but he probably will anyways” so we’ll see how this goes.
She put the cake in his mouth respectfully but, as expected, he booped her nose two or three times which wasn’t huge and they just laughed it off. I cried a couple times during this wedding because their love does seem very genuine so sorry if this wasn’t the update you were hoping for lol but I’ll give a one year update.
saltyass
29. Marriage of Inconvenience
I know a photographer who was offered to shoot a wedding on the Gold Coast, Australia. If you're from Australia then you know the Gold Coast while beautiful has a lot of jersey shore types living there, it's kind of like Miami but no celebrities and very very trashy. My friend is getting shots of every body getting dressed up at the same time because the groom, groomsmen, bride and bridesmaids are all getting ready in the same room. The groom decided to have his bucks party (bachelor, stag do) the night before so they're all hunger over as crap and snorting line after line of coke, something that is making my photographer friends job hard because she can't get any nice shots of the groom or groomsmen without these illicit drugs in view. The energy in the room is getting uncomfortable so the bride asks if they could take it easy on the coke and get a couple of nice photos. The groom yells "Shut up, witch" and keeps snorting.
The girl who got my friend the gig said they divorced like 4 months later.
Another friend of mine was pressured into marrying his girlfriend of like 8 years because she dropped an ultimatum, propose to me within a year or we're done. He does so they get married but of every wedding photo she posted on Facebook, neither one of them looked happy. They divorced barely a year into their marriage.
insane_knight
30. Whose Idea Was This?
This wasn't specifically a "wedding moment," but rather a "reception moment."
The couple in question had been married on some tropical island or another, and since the majority of their friends and family hadn't been able to attend the ceremony, they had decided to throw a "lavish" party upon their return. This had prompted the pair to spend borderline-absurd amounts of money on what might very well have been the tackiest celebration I've ever seen.
Imagine renting out the cafeteria at an elementary school, then hiring a celebrity (who happens to be a half-blind orangutan) to decorate it. Commission the services of an expensive caterer, but require them to serve only the sort of slop that you'd find at a low-rent county faire, citing the fact that "nobody likes fancy crap." Finally, enlist a disc jockey whose idea of an appropriate "first dance" song is "Freaks of the Industry" by Digital Underground.
Now, everyone has different tastes, and it might seem reasonable to assume that the newlyweds were getting exactly what they wanted. That was what I had been telling myself, anyway... until shortly before the "money dance" (the announcement of which was the first time that I'd ever even heard of the tradition), when I overheard a suggestive piece of gossip: The couple had apparently already argued about the amount that had been spent on the reception, with the bride claiming that the whole thing was a disaster, and the groom insisting that it was "classy af."
He had been so certain of this, in fact, that he had used his new wife's credit card to pay for it.
She had reportedly been rather upset when she'd found out about that, and had temporarily kicked him out of the house... which had prompted him to stay with an old girlfriend. *Something* untoward had allegedly occurred during the man's exile, but details were lacking, and his spouse had decided to forgive him. That was already bad enough, but the the rumor – at least as I understood it – was that the aforementioned "money dance" was supposed to help them recoup their financial losses, with the implication being that the future of their marriage was riding on them receiving upwards of thirty thousand dollars in a four-minute period.
As I considered all of this, and as I mentally added up the amounts being pinned to each partner, I found myself thinking "Yeah, this isn't going to last."
Ramsesthepigeon