True Stories Of People Who Were Left at the Altar Just Before Their Wedding

Being left at the altar is the ultimate heartbreak. Even after the invitations are sent, the guests have arrived and the cake is paid for, some people still get cold feet and decide to call off their lifetime vows.

And unfortunately, sometimes their spouse-to-be has no idea what they were planning before they walk out of their lives forever. These real-life stories were shared by the people they happened to after they were left by their significant others.

Whether they just couldn’t see eye to eye or their plans were derailed by other love affairs, they just couldn’t make it work in the end. And sometimes it took them years to get over the hurt, and months to pay for the wedding that never happened.

The Pastor Thought He Was Kidding

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My pastor once officiated a wedding. He had done all the premarital counseling for the couple, and they seemed good to go and fine. When they got to the altar, he did his opening prayer and welcome.

Then he gets to the part when he says, “Do you take this woman to be your wife” and the guy looked at her, back to him, and said “No.”

The pastor laughed a little and repeated the question, thinking he misunderstood, but the guy stopped him and said, “No, I don’t.”

So the pastor took the groom aside to a back room, where the guy essentially said that he couldn’t do it, that the bride and her mother had manipulated the whole wedding,

And he had been too chicken to stand up to her before, but that he couldn’t throw his life away. They brought in both families and had a very real conversation,

And then the pastor had to go back out and explain to the very uncomfortable congregation that there would indeed be no wedding today, that the guests could help themselves to some refreshments,

But that the rest of the evening’s events were canceled. Big ouch on that one. iRedditWhilePooping

“That’s Not Happening Anymore”

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A guy I knew did this. He was a nice, laid-back guy marrying a toxic person. Apparently, all his friends had been telling him to break it off from the beginning.

They had a final intervention for him the morning of the wedding, and they finally convinced him to just leave. He showed up at this festival I was at during what was supposed to be his wedding.

I saw him and said “Hey man, aren’t you getting married today?” and he had this kind of far away look and said, “Yeah, that’s not happening anymore.” Permalink

They Only Communicated Via Text

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My buddy was engaged to be married, and everything was going great up until about two months before the wedding. The bride freaked out about something very minor during a family vacation and stopped speaking to him.

They would text once a day so the other knew they were okay, they would say “I love you,” and she would assure him she still wanted to get married.

One month before the wedding, she called it off. They still hadn’t talked except for the texts. So he called all his people and told them the wedding was off.

Only, he forgot about one of his friends who had been on his fiancee’s list, as he was a mutual friend.

So the mutual friend still went to the wedding—and witnessed a jaw-dropping sight.

He found…a wedding. The woman had been seeing someone on the side, and still went through with the wedding but to a different guy, all on my friend’s dime.

He had left her in charge of cancelling everything. Ask_A_Sadist

Blame the GPS

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Well, I typed 46th street into the GPS, but it was actually on 64th street. MacDerfus