A bride has been widely supported online for making the drastic decision to divorce her new husband a mere 48 hours after their wedding ceremony. The marriage ended because her spouse, named Jake, carried out a humiliating prank on their big day, despite her explicit warnings.
The Lead-Up to a Broken Promise
The woman explained that in the weeks before their wedding, Jake became fixated on online videos featuring wedding pranks. These clips often showed brides being embarrassed in front of all their guests. She immediately told him she wanted nothing similar at their own celebration. "I told him straight away that I didn't want anything like that at our wedding," she recalled. "He just laughed and said that he wasn't planning anything like that."
Despite this assurance, she noticed him making odd arrangements with his friends and taking unusual interest in selecting the wedding photographer and the cake. Hoping he was simply engaging with the planning, she allowed him to handle those details. On the eve of the wedding, she issued a final, stark warning: she would end the relationship immediately if he pulled any prank.
The Humiliation on the Wedding Day
The ceremony itself proceeded smoothly until the moment arrived to cut the cake. As the bride made the first cut, with the photographer poised to capture the moment, she felt a hand forcefully push the back of her head. "Suddenly I felt a hand on the back of my head pushing me face-first into the cake," she said. Her makeup and wedding dress were ruined, and the entire room erupted in laughter, led by her new husband.
Jake then declared that the photograph of the incident would be their official wedding photo. Enraged and humiliated, the bride slapped Jake across the face before fleeing to the toilets in tears.
Unexpected Support and a Final Decision
Her new brother-in-law, Frank, followed to check on her. He then confronted Jake, forcing him to offer a proper apology. Frank later revealed to the bride that Jake had a long history of sabotaging special occasions for his own amusement, a pattern their parents had always dismissed as normal sibling behaviour.
Frank told her she deserved better and offered to help her if she decided to leave. Empowered by this support, the bride filed for divorce just two days after the wedding, on 16 January 2026. Jake and members of both families called the reaction an overreaction to a "harmless prank," but the bride stood firm. "If he does something like this to me despite multiple requests not to... then I can't trust him," she stated.
Reaction on Reddit praised her decisive action. One commenter wrote: "You warned him multiple times and he felt it was more important to get laughs than be a trustworthy partner." Another added: "Divorcing him now will save you from dealing with more boundaries being broken."
