What’s the shortest marriage of anyone you know?

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Just being nosy, really!

How long is the shortest marriage you’ve seen and why did it end so quickly?

Hours... he cheated on his wedding night with a colleague of his wife's

Not as short as others here - it was a year. The couple bought us a toaster when we got married.. often when waiting for my toast I think this toaster has gone on longer than that marriage!! X

About six months. They had to wait until they'd been married a year before they could start divorce proceedings.
I had a weird feeling at the wedding that they'd be blissfully happy until they died of old age, or it would crash land and he'd be heartbroken, which he was.

Had the marriage annulled when they come back from honeymoon!! I was matron of honour I knew the bride had her eyes on someone else.. and the groom was a really dear friend of mine.. I've never seen either of them
Again .. and that was 26 yrs ago

Eek

28 days together for myself and my husband. Seven years to get divorced - good luck with that one future family tree researchers.

One of my ex friends had a destination wedding with a huge registry and we all spent a million pounds (approx) attending and helping and getting the fucking ice cream bar ready in summer in TUSCANY and yes I am still annoyed about it. We bought two fucking vases off the registry. If your marriage lasts less than two calendar months then refund your guests you bastards.

I actually wonder if I know this couple (the husband told her the morning of the wedding & she said she couldn't call it off by that point becase her parents had spent so much)! The only difference was that she told him to fuck off after the photographs had been done, and then stood up at the reception and said 'You're all wondering where my husband is. He's with his boyfriend. But we've paid for this party, so let's enjoy it.' And then she threw herself into celebrating what she called 'a celebration of how great I am'.
I have never admired anyone more. I think she knew deep down that something wasn't right well before the wedding, but put it down to nerves on his part. They're still friends now, because as she put it 'We still love each other. Just not like that.'

BiLs 1st marriage - 2 weeks, he arrived back home after the honeymoon, no idea why as it was 20 years before I met DH and DH was just a kid at the time. BiL was on his 2nd divorce when I met him. I went to his 3rd wedding though 😂

Married on a Saturday, all over by Tuesday. He was having an affair and she was at the wedding.
I was the bride

Christ that's horrendous. How is she doing now?

Does your ex's name start with a G? See my previous post for context.

she was widowed in her 20s, married again in her late 30s and has been happily married for a long time now - married a widower.

No

If they were living together in the ten years before they married, the courts would regard that as part of the marriage when looking at the financial settlement. So, rather than a marriage of a few months, this would have been treated as a marriage of around 11 years.

Wow. You win.

My work colleague’s husband met the other woman at their own wedding reception. She went to the evening do as a friend‘s plus 1.

I have no long his marriages lasted, but I once briefly worked with someone who was 24 and just about to get married for the 3rd time.

The (joke) rumour at the time was that he just really liked wedding cake.

8 years, because no longer in love. I guess I have lived a sheltered life as they are the only couple in my friendship group or family that have divorced

Well , I was going to say fourteen months, but I feel a bit inferior….still it’s an interesting story, if sad.

Friend of DH took up with a divorced woman, her marriage had only lasted a few months. She had a very young child from The marriage though. We met her at a dinner party given by another friend who was very hospitable and friendly. I went into the kitchen to give the hostess a hand with the puddings and she virtually pinned me against the breakfast bar whispering ‘that woman is awful! Why is x with her’

anyway he married her, they had a church wedding , full white dress virgin bride veil , given away by her DF. ( this was 30 years ago, when this didn’t happen very often, second marriages were in registry offices like Charles and Camilla. I don’t know how she managed it, she must have just either lied or bullied the church).

The reception was a curious event, no one except the bride and groom seemed to be at ease. It was all the grooms friends and just her family.

they had a child within the year. A few months later, he was living in a bed sit above a charity shop, had left his job and was just broken.

she had a powerful personality.

11 months.
They were young and so she was naive. Didn't click that his erratic behaviour and subsequent sacking from his job one month before the wedding was due to a secret coke habit. It all went Pete Tong pretty quickly after that.

I also know someone whose son died by drowning on his delayed honeymoon. They'd be married about 5 months, I think. Tragic.

Bil married in March and left her in July. But was married for almost 10 years as she wouldn’t consent to divorce so he waited 5 yrs then she moved to Ireland and generally avoided service of papers to avoid divorce.

Marriage in a registry office, as the ink was drying the registrar said congratulations Mr and Mrs X. Bride responded with "I am Ms Y, I am NOT Mrs X".
The 'happy' couple returned from a week's honeymoon - to separate homes.

I know 4 siblings who all had HUGE first weddings, all in their early 20's and not one of them lasted a year. It was really bloody weird! Like, you'd have thought the youngest would have learned some form of lesson from their older siblings?!

They have all married again with various levels of success.

One day, for my experience, as well. They got drunk in Las Vegas, went to a wedding chapel, got married, sobered up and had it annulled the next day. They both swear it wasn't consummated, although how they would know that is beyond me. Probably wasn't, though. I doubt either was functional.

Do you still split assets after a 6 month marriage?? Seems bizarre