People Share Post-Wedding Drama Stories Of Groomzillas And Bridezillas

When you think of the perfect wedding, you think of flowers, a venue, an excited groom, and a happy bride. However, things don’t always go that way, sometimes the groom and the bridezilla are well…for lack of a better word, simply horrible. 

Read these stories shared by people all over the word about groomzillas and bridezillas who made life horrible for everyone during and after the wedding ceremony. I guarantee that a good number of these will shock you.

1. He never wanted to marry

I married a groomzilla. I bent over backward to make the wedding as magical as he wanted. I would have been happy in someone's backyard with a potluck.

He admitted in couples counseling 7 years later that he never really wanted to marry ME so much as he wanted a huge show and party.

Everyone liked and approved of me so he wanted them all to see he was making a good choice and be envious. He wanted them to be proud of him.

We used up most of the money I got from a car accident settlement. I could have put in a down payment in a small house.

He asked for a divorce in 2020.

PickanickBasket

My first wife was a Bridezilla. During the honeymoon, she realized she was married and the wedding day was history. She wanted the big wedding, which she had, not the marriage. 

The next two years were hell until she finally tapped out. I was young and stupid and the thought of divorce never crossed my mind. I don't know why it didn't. 

I guess I just assumed I'd be miserable for the rest of my life. 

When she told me she was leaving it felt as if the weight of the world was off of my shoulders. On a happy note, her parents were still paying off the wedding when we divorced. That's what happens when you allow your daughter everything she wants, including 2 wedding dresses.

Hansie68

I didn’t marry the Bridezilla, but I had coordinated her wedding. We had a death in the family (a 6-month-old baby) a few days prior to the wedding. I called the bride and told her the situation, and said that my assistant would be stepping in for me so that I could attend the funeral.

She told me to send my assistant to the funeral and that I had better be at her wedding. I told her I would be sending her a refund and that no one would be coming to her wedding. The groom ended up leaving her after this whole thing went down, suffice to say he really dodged a bullet there.

Human_9

My cousin is really shy. He basically married the first woman he dated. They had nothing in common. My cousin is composed, makes good money, and wants children.

The day before the wedding, his bride-to-be was barking orders at everyone for no apparent reason.

I just rolled my eyes. I left the wedding early. My cousin didn't talk to me for more than ten years.

Now they are divorced. It lasted much longer than I thought it would. My cousin looks like hell. Tired and sad with a big beer gut. I really feel for him.

[deleted]

I was not the groom but it was my friend

The couple separated about a month after the wedding. She told him that she knew before the wedding that she didn’t love him or want to marry, but she had planned her perfect wedding and couldn’t let it go to waste (it was a Disney destination wedding) so she waited till after to tell him.

They have a kid together, so still in each other’s lives, though sure it hurts to see her getting ready to marry someone new.

Cutielocks

I have performed a few ceremonies that came about because things fell through for whatever reason. Only one of which I had to walk away from. I had received a call from my SIL that one of her friends was supposed to get married and the priest had passed away the week before. 

They didn't want to change the date and move anything, so they asked if she knew anyone who could help out. I said, “Sure, when is the wedding?” It was supposed to be in an hour. I was on my way home from work where I had finished up an important meeting and was reasonably well dressed, so I called home to say I was going to be late. 

When I arrived, the "happy couple" looked at me and asked if I had proper priest vestments and I didn’t. The bride asked if I could go buy some and come back. I told her that I wouldn't begin to know where to buy something like that. 

The groom then told me that if I couldn't even try, then maybe I should leave and I did.

My SIL told me they cornered a priest at the church and told him he had to marry them or they would sue the church for a breach of contract and that it was the moral thing to do.

They divorced 9 months later when her "surprise" baby was a different ethnicity than he was. 

JuggleMonkey

My uncle married a Bridezilla. She's Jamaican and that's where they got married. (It was a long-distance relationship because he lives in the US) 

The whole time before and after they got married she was telling him how much she supposedly loved him while at the same time constantly verbally abusing him, saying things like I'll break your neck and I hope you die.

He gave her the benefit of the doubt saying how stressful the waiting period before she could get here was. (it was 3 years). When she finally got here she started to become physically abusive as well. Basically, she only married him for the green card. 

They got divorced after two years, per her request.

Junior_Zucchini2337

My ex-sister-in-law was an absolute Bridezilla. I grew up in the UK and come from a fairly big family, I have 6 older siblings. They’d been engaged for almost 6 months of a 24-month engagement when I left the country to go traveling through Australia and as a result, I wasn’t present for most of her craziness.

They set the date and sent out invites. I explained to my brother that I wouldn’t be coming home for it, among other reasons one of my other siblings was also getting married about 2 months later (neither had set a date when I left), I’d been saving for a long time to go travelling and I couldn’t afford to attend both and didn’t want to attend one and not the other. 

Both my siblings were very accepting of my decision, one day I got a Facebook message from Bridezilla asking when I’d be landing back in the UK for the wedding. 

I told her that I’d already spoken to my brother and thanked her for the invite but I wouldn’t be attending.

In response, I received a message calling me almost every name under the sun and telling me that if I didn’t attend it would break my brother's heart and I’d never be welcome in their home. I reached out to my brother and he apologized for her but put it down to the stress of the wedding.

They’d divorced before I made it home after my brother realized he was washing another man’s underwear. I was only traveling for about 2 years.

sticky_the_stick

After the wedding, the intimacy dried up. It went from a few times a week to a few times a month to a few times a year in the first 5 years. She stopped cooking, and cleaning and quit her job in the same time period.

 We had a daughter whom she barely paid attention to. Her mother came over when I was at work and as soon as I got home it was my turn. Fast forward 10 years. She tells me she wants a divorce. 

Shortly thereafter I find out she’s having an affair with the contractor I hired to work on the house. Later I found out she had been cheating for almost the entire marriage. We get divorced and she refuses to move out because she will have to get a job.

If she’s a bridezilla, run away. It doesn’t magically get better.

Neverinamillionyr

I married a bridezilla (I photographed weddings too so I should have known better), but she was hot so I guess I was in love right?

After 10 years of extremely passive-aggressive behavior and trying to control EVERYTHING I had enough. For four years she threatened divorce as a way to “adjust” my behavior. Finally, I had enough and filed for divorce myself.

I grew up extremely conservative and have been shunned by many people in my life, but I’m so happy now. She gets half my money and makes it difficult to see my kids, but I no longer have to feel bad about the small things in life.

I feel like I have a lot of things to say to people who feel trapped in a bad marriage because of tradition. It makes me so sad.

Snwbrdj

I married a groomzilla. After we were hitched he acted like he owned me. He wouldn’t let me use the debit card even though we both deposited into it. This was because he made most of the money.

It was so bad, that I couldn’t even buy McDs between jobs! He even got jealous when I went out to eat with my MOM without him. The marriage ended after 6 months.

Ghibli_ghirl

My best friend married a bridezilla. He gave up his shares in a restaurant he had worked in since he was 14 years old. He gave up his friends, who are family to him. He moved across the country to work two jobs (at one point three) to put her through med school. 

She cheated on him and blamed him for everything. She refused to talk to a therapist because she knew she was full of drama and she was wrong. 

Then, she sued him after the divorce.

STCThunder12

My brother married a bridezilla. She yelled at my mother for asking her where she wanted certain decorations at the reception site (there wasn’t a written plan so my mom had nothing to go off of). She never thanked my parents for financially contributing to the wedding.

She accused a bridesmaid of trying to upstage her by getting a spray tan before the wedding. My brother wanted me to be in the wedding party but she told him to his face that I was too pretty to be in the wedding party and all of her bridesmaids had to be less attractive than her. 

She stole my SIL's jacket in the middle of the reception- literally took it off her back- because one of the bridesmaids was cold (it was a night reception in the spring, the girl should’ve brought a jacket). The list goes on.

Well, they got divorced about a year later because apparently, her demanding attitude carried over into the marriage. Needless to say, the rest of my family had a little party when we heard about the divorce.

rootsinhell

A friend of my father was remarrying, it was both his and the bride’s second time around, both in their early forties and an arranged marriage. The guy was an utter groomzilla. He demanded that every event be at top-notch hotels with obscenely expensive catering and hired string quartets and whatnot for entertainment.

This was mostly paid out of the bride’s family’s pocket, I might add. The parties on the nights leading up to the main wedding event were opportunity enough for him to make a rather public idiot of himself, talking at the top of his voice and showboating the entire time. 

But the kicker came the next day when the bride was missing from her own wedding reception. Obviously, it was very odd and conspicuous, and the few relatives from her side made some noncommittal excuses about her not feeling well, etc.

Turns out, this guy had divorced the poor woman right after he’d had his wedding night fun. He said that he ‘didn’t like her enough’ (and that’s an almost literal quote). So he gave her the triple divorce thing, and that was it.

The marriage was officially over before the festivities even ended.

Pqrsthrowawayyyyy

My cousin comes from a not-so-wealthy area and has become successful himself after moving out of his hometown. His wife was extremely wealthy, even excessively. They married after a year of knowing each other, and boy was it a surprise to hear about the wedding plans. 

They spent +250K on the wedding, including catering by 5-7 different restaurants. Their food was from different cultures and cooked in front of you (think almost hibachi buffet style). They even had servers in tailed suits and white gloves serving Taco Bell after midnight once everyone was drunk. 

Once they got married, she was spending more money than he could make. She was getting mad because he wasn’t making enough, while she wasn’t working and they hadn’t had kids. They got divorced, and she gave him the ultimatum of getting his ring back or keeping the dog. 

He kept the dog. They finished the divorce papers exactly 1 year and 1 day after their wedding. 

Munsoon22

My stepdaughter-in-law was a textbook bridezilla. She lost 2 bridesmaids in the early stages due to her being a relentless bitch asking for unrealistic things. They then had to find people who fit the dress sizes of the ones who dropped out. 

She filed for divorce on their anniversary and then pulled it back. Then he filed a few months later and pulled it back. I ignore them both because they deserve each other with their pathetic immaturity toward marriage.

Wild929

My brother-in-law married a bridezilla. She made him spend something like 45k on the wedding and within a month she was cheating on him. They managed to somehow stick it out to have 2 kids but she left him for one of his high school buddies after 3 years.

They're divorced now but she's a huge disappointment and she ignores her kids most of the time now, leaving my brother-in-law to basically raise the kids alone and 1 of them is special needs.

Skadoosh_it

I married a groomzilla. We are talking about costume changes between the wedding and reception, yelling at the wedding planner, drag-out-all-night fights about whether we can add fruit kababs so people would maybe get enough to eat, and all that.

There was zero compromise; he made a lot of promises for things I had been wanting after the wedding and they never materialized, like a beach vacation and such.

Turns out, no compromise at the wedding meant no compromise anywhere else, so I left him after four years of marriage.

Best decision ever!!!

Affectionate-Sea-20

My sister was a Bridezilla. She announced a 2-year engagement and asked me to be her maid of honor. Then I got the opportunity to move across the country to pursue my career. 

It was 18 months before her wedding and her reaction to the news was "You're going to leave me here to plan my wedding all by myself?" Like I had signed away my right to have a life for the Honor of being in her wedding. 

She made us all spend hundreds of dollars on specialized dresses, the bachelorette party had a dress code and a steep price tag.

 For 10 years before her engagement I had consistently had blue/green/purple hair but knowing she is conservative I let the color grow out. I had natural color but a short bob with an undercut that she went on about.

In the lead up we talked every few days to discuss her wedding it was the closest we'd ever been and then as soon as she was married I got radio silence, and she even forgot my Birthday.

 Needless to say, we don't speak anymore so I have no idea how her marriage is going.

VincentVanGoghst

I married a groomzilla. He is a lovely sweet thoughtful man but boy did he lose it surrounding the wedding. I could have been married with about three special people there. He needed 200+. 

As far as I was concerned we could eat off paper plates and napkins and have a big bonfire to burn them afterwards. He needed personalized moist towelettes. You get the point.

He is a lovely person and I love him dearly but I will never marry him again.

cfishlips

I married a groomzilla. I wanted to elope because I didn’t like the idea of being stared at by people. He demanded a wedding of 200+. He had my parents build a giant gazebo on our farm and said he would help pay for building costs. 

Me and my dad built it by hand with our neighbor. He always “worked”. Don’t get me wrong he helped a few weekends but it was a year-long project. Shortly after the wedding, we retired to our hotel and he didn’t want to be intimate with me.

It did not bother me because I would think he would have had a long day. 3 months into a marriage that was not intimate, I walked into him banging our 60ish-year-old male neighbor. 

I opened my bedroom door, saw him being very intimate with the male neighbor, said I was sorry, I shut the door, got my dog, and drove home to mommy and daddy a state away.

Why did I say I was sorry and not yell? I will never know.

CrustyBaggins

My first marriage was to a bridezilla, she wouldn’t dance because she was “too anxious people would make fun of her” She tried bragging to my cousins during the dinner that our wedding was better than theirs (four of us got married in a two-year span)

She invited her “ex” boyfriend to the ceremony, and I later found out she had been sleeping with him both before and after our wedding. She took the money we had received as gifts and was planning on using it for a house down payment and spent it on random things and she still had a ton of debt she kept from me. 

I left her a year after and never looked back. Now I am happily married to a great woman. After the wedding, she spent money more quickly than she could make it. I ended up having to take on a second job and I already worked 50+ a week, just to cover bills.

She got into substance abuse and stopped going to work. She would go visit her “friends” in the evenings, and I found out later on she was going to her boyfriends. 

The final straw was when I found out what she was doing with the money. I didn’t know at first she was into substance abuse. Online payments of bills weren’t as popular when we were married so I would give her the money to go pay some during banking hours.

 One day I got pulled over and charged with no insurance on my vehicle. Turns out she was taking the money for bills and buying substances. When the notices for no payment would come in the mail she would hide them or rip them up. 

I handed her separation papers on our one-year anniversary.

[deleted]

I married a bridezilla. In the 18 months we were married, she was such an unfit mother (too many instances to list here), that when the divorce was finalized, I got custody of our kid AND the kid she had prior to our marriage.

She was a blackout drunk and cheated on me with several different men. The final straw was when I had to travel out of state to check on my grandmother. 

I came back a day early and saw used Marlboros in the ashtray, that was not her brand and I don't smoke.

I heard grunting and groaning in the bedroom. Yes, there she was and there he was, Devil's Triangle. I contacted a divorce lawyer the next day and finalized it as fast as possible.

Threedice

My uncle married this lady who was an insane bridezilla and put him into an enormous amount of debt because she wouldn't settle for any less than her perfect dream wedding. 

She had the marriage annulled after the fancy honeymoon and said she didn't want to be his wife but she always wanted to have her dream wedding. 

Lobi-Wan

My ex-fiancee was super normal until we got engaged. She went from a small simple wedding with less than 100 guests to a grand hall. She wanted to invite everyone she ever exchanged more than three words with. She wanted to import flowers and that made no sense. 

The final straw was when she scheduled an appointment with a real estate agent to SELL MY HOUSE to pay for the wedding.

Also, her family was loaded but wasn’t going to contribute anything.

I broke it off.

She got engaged again 1 year later to an attorney and didn’t read the prenup before signing. They got married and divorced 1 month later. She got nothing and is still alone.

edwadokun

I have been married for 14 years. She's definitely a pain sometimes but so is everyone else. I'm also pretty laid back so a lot of decisions I leave to her because I just don't care. If it's a decision I do care about, I make the decision.

Without her, I wouldn't have the 3 best kids on earth. She's an amazing mom and our kids have our best qualities. We have fun all the time.

I think she was a bridezilla not because she was a crazy person, it was more about making the moment right for everyone and making it a great memory. She had a relatively rough life with her parents and there weren't a ton of great memories.

I noticed she goes way out of her way to make great memories for the kids as she's always planning stuff for us to do with them.

I'm gonna keep her.

Jaymac100

My friend didn't marry a bridezilla but he dated this girl that posted engagement rings and such 1 month after meeting. Tagged on Facebook (circa 2014). They dated and got engaged in 2018 (July) and for 4+ years she posted everything about her wedding.

Four straight years posting wedding things (prior to being engaged). The two had nothing in common. They were both nice but she leaned hard left and he leaned hard right. 

We questioned both of them and asked how they expected to raise kids together with such different outlooks on life. 

Their excuse was "We don't talk politics so we never fight".

Well, now they're both single. She was so caught up in the wedding from the first day, she never thought about what life would be like after that.

Jack3moto

My ex wasn't as much a bridezilla, but our wedding was probably in the $20k plus range. She is very much a person who wants to appear like everything is going great and wants to hear about your gossip but doesn't open up about herself.

She cheated on me after less than 3 years of marriage. She seemed repentant and appeared to try. We had a couple of kids (that look just like me, thank goodness), and she cheated on me again.   

I divorced her which she is still furious about.

I'm now happily married again to a woman who loves me and treats me well. Honestly, didn't know love could feel this good or that I was worth this much.

Apocalypse31

My dad had a friend who married a Bridezilla. The groom asked my dad to be a part of his groomsmen and the bride insisted that if my dad was going to be at the wedding, he get a haircut. (After my dad's navy days he grew his hair long) 

His friend felt awful but still asked my dad if he would be willing to cut it. My dad says, no problem it's only hair and you're my friend who wants me to be a part of his wedding day; if this keeps the peace it'll grow back.

The day of the wedding my dad shows up to the church only to see one of her relatives is also a groomsman and has a long braid. The bride didn't like my father and was sure that he would refuse to cut his hair and wouldn't be at the wedding.

They're still married to this day but she basically drove away all of "his" friends.

[deleted]

My brother's friend almost married a bridezilla. 

At the wedding, during the reception, the groom put up the text messages of the bride's intimate chats with other men on the projector for everyone to see. 

Then he walked out of the wedding. 

HankToTheHill

She made me personally correct the wedding guest list and invitations to correctly address all of her Dr. Friends. She fought with my mom at the end of the night over who was going to take the envelopes home. There was so much more.

I ended up leaving her 9 months later. This was three years ago. It still hurts when I think about it. That wedding, ring and divorce financially ruined me but life has gotten better. 2020 was good to me. 

Randyh524

My wife and I used to own a floral shop and dealt with many a crazy bride. The most memorable was a bride who was adamant that she had fresh orchids for her bouquet and for the boutonnieres and corsages. 

We explained to her that was a sketchy idea because she was getting married in Northern Utah in February and there were two feet of snow on the ground. 

We told her again and again that if the orchids got exposed to the cold they were going to start to show signs of damage pretty quickly. 

We suggested that she use silk orchids instead (which would have been cheaper, too). She wasn't buying it.

Needless to say, she made her new husband drive her to our shop the morning after the wedding - on their way to their honeymoon - so she could yell at us because the orchids got damaged by the cold and we ruined her wedding. 

I could see her husband out in the car with the most sheepish look on his face. I think it was at that moment that he realized who he had just married.

BGRommel

I remember the night before the wedding, screaming at each other over my positioning of our wedding table decorations in the hotel function room. My sister-in-law had to come between us.

A few years passed. She became more controlling to the point where her own mother used to come on the phone and apologize to me, on her behalf, for the way she used to speak to me.    

We divorced after 5 years. I met someone new who taught me a lot about myself, what real love is, and about communication. I also bought the motorcycle I always wanted but my ex wouldn’t let me have it.

[deleted]

My cousin was the most obsessive-compulsive person I knew and she had a breakdown in the middle of the reception because the cutlery wasn't symmetric in the tables. She was definitely a bridezilla and at one point her mom threw a plate of cake to her face because she made her so mad.

She is currently in therapy and medication due to her OCD, her guy threatened to divorce her if she did not go to a therapist. She had to be hospitalized for a month. They are still together but she never comes to the family weddings anymore. 

She finds it "traumatic."

Adopttraumachild

I know of someone who was friends with my now ex-husband, who had a girlfriend who was extremely controlling and got super mad when my ex and I got engaged (August).

She then gave him an ultimatum to propose by New Year's Eve or it's over. She also saw my engagement ring and told him she wanted a ring bigger than mine. Unfortunately, he went through with it and got her a big ring by NYE which was A LOT bigger than mine.

 They then got married within 12 months (because as she said to me that's the way it should be done otherwise you'd NEVER get married. It was a HUGE wedding (350ish people) but the guy admitted they both didn't really want to go through with it but couldn't let the family down after all the money they put into the wedding (well over 100k I assume).

They separated and divorced within about 9ish months and she was a massive psycho to try get his stuff out of the house.

Bdwal

I was MOH at my best friend's wedding. She wasn’t a bridezilla but her husband was 100% groomzilla. He insisted that they spare no expense. $10,000 on his suit for the ceremony and another for the reception. $5,000 dress with $2,000 veil. $25,000 on food alone. $6,000 rehearsal dinner. Over 10k on flowers. 

They spent twice as much on their wedding day as she makes in a year. 

He wasn’t particularly mean but he insisted that they spend well over $100,000 for the day and now he verbally abuses her all day long so I suppose he’s just husbandzilla now. 

He even talked her into taking a loan out against her car to pay for the wedding expenses. He’s the worst. 

They’ve been married about a year and she’s currently working on an exit plan.

Amyteds

My best friend was an absolute bridezilla, her husband was a high school buddy. She was so bad I opted out of helping with wedding prep because I knew it would hurt our friendship.

The marriage lasted a couple of years, it was rough all the way through, she couldn't find any chill, so he cheated on her and then bounced.

Goodman-laltain

I had a friend that married a bridezilla, but no nightmare after-the-wedding stories. She was chill before the wedding, but a completely crazy person during the planning phases and setup.

She had the crazy psycho smile going for the whole thing. 

After the wedding, she went straight back to being super chill. I hung out with them recently, they have two kids now and are still happily married. 

It was super weird and completely out of character for her.

[deleted]

I was MOH for a bridezilla. But honestly, she had just been through a major death in the family and she threw her whole life into the wedding as a distraction. 

After the wedding, she became depressed. 

She’d lost a few friends through it and afterward, she apologized for all the crap she pulled. 

Her husband is a great guy for overlooking all the crazy and helping her through a hard time.

Squidkiosk

My brother married a bridezilla but thankfully they’re divorced now. Signs were there beforehand but he was just too in love to end it. 

If she had even a minor argument with anyone, him or one of us, she would respond with an email that was pages long. She was convinced he was cheating on her (he wasn’t) so she would follow him to work and as for the nurse she thought he was cheating with (he’s a doctor), she’d would drive by that poor woman’s house and take pics. 

She would provoke him on purpose, say hurtful/mean things hoping he would hit her and she would have a camera hidden in the room while she did it. (He never laid a hand on her, my brother is a good person). 

Her parents needed boundaries as well, wherever my brother and his ex would move her parents would literally buy a house in that area as well so they could be near them. Very odd family.

He stayed for 10 years because of his kids but it got to a point where he couldn’t handle it anymore. He initiated the divorce and she pushed it for 3+ years until it was finalized so she could get as much money out of him as possible. 

She STILL creates aliases online and leaves him negative reviews for his practice but they’re so hilariously fake it doesn’t matter. He got happily remarried 3 months ago and his wife now is incredible. 

She’s sweet, warm, considerate. We love her.  

Coffeecake09

My ex-wife was something else. Right before we left at the end of the night she full-out kissed the bridesmaid. 

One year later she left me for the above-mentioned bridesmaid. She had the wedding of her dreams. Just married the wrong person at it.

Groggboy

I used to work at a prominent wedding venue and dealt with MANY bridezillas. One that comes to mind spent half her evening yelling at guests for leaving at 11, and the other half weeping in the lobby about how everyone hates her.

I asked her husband to please comfort her as she was starting to encroach on guests from other weddings. He responded, “I’m not dealing with her”. When he came in to pay the bill a month later they’d split.

ConsistentAd9217

My brother-in-law’s bridezilla lasted less than a year (married at the end of 2012 and separated in 2013). They had two wedding parties. About 70 people in a fancy vineyard and then a huge party back in Toronto. We had traveled from New Zealand (almost the other side of the world). 

She couldn’t find the rings the day before the wedding. We went out to escape the meltdown she was having. Found out a few years later that she accused us of taking the rings.

No way I would spend 10s of thousands of dollars to travel to the other side of the world to take your rings. They were upstairs in the study, in a room we hadn’t even been into. She was nuts.

Luckily his new wife is way better. She’s lovely and we all get on well. My daughter was a flower girl at their wedding last year and I imagine this relationship will last much longer.

Keera1452

My uncle married his (now ex) wife after they had their first child. She pushed him into getting married knowing he was hesitant.

  On the day of their wedding, he was crying to my mum saying he didn’t want to marry her, and that she threatened their child’s safetyif he didn’t go through with the wedding. 

She was and still is a horrible, horrible creature but my uncle and her thankfully split after 20 years of unhappy marriage. 

He’s moved on, has a new girlfriend, and is happier than ever. She’s still going on screaming rampages at innocent staff in stores.

[deleted]

I had a friend who married a bridezilla. They were together for 15 years, then he spent almost $200k on a massive destination wedding (he had the sole income at the time). 

I don't know all the details, but they were divorced within 3 months after the wedding and he took all the debt. He never really talked about any of it afterward.

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