Called Off Wedding?
By trickiwoo
@trickiwoo (2702)
United States
April 21, 2009 4:13pm CST
I was invited to a wedding that was going to be held next week. But just over the weekend the bride called off the wedding! This is the 2nd time that's happened to me! A few years ago I was invited to a wedding that was called off the night before it was supposed to take place! I thought that kind of stuff only happened on tv or in the movies! But now it's happened to me twice!
I work as a photographer, and I have a lot of photographer friends that shoot weddings. They've all been to hundreds and hundreds of weddings... and none of them have ever known of a wedding to be called off within days of the big date!
So now I'm wondering, is this more common than I thought it was? Or does this really only happen to me? Have you ever been invited to a wedding that was called off so close to the date that everything was already bought and paid for?
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11 responses
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
11 Apr 10
Well, it may be that the wedding was called off or it could be that they changed their mind about the photographer (if that was you). I think I'd rather call off a wedding than get married if I didn't feel it was right. If you were hired by the couple, then you might do like some ppl and put a cancellation charge in the contract.
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@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
11 Apr 10
Oh, I wasn't the photographer for this wedding. It was a family wedding and I was just invited as a guest. The couple called off the wedding, but still dated. They even still went on their honeymoon together... just as a vacation and not as a honeymoon! But they broke up a few months later. So I guess it's a good thing they didn't get married!
The other wedding I was invited to that got called off the day of the wedding was a friend's wedding. I was not the photographer at that wedding either... I was just invited as a guest.
@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
27 Apr 09
Yes this is common. Ive had some friends go to weddings and then come to find out they get all prepared by dresses n stuff and learn the wedding has been called off. Do you know the reason why it was called off? Maybe the bride got nervous n thought they were moving too fast and wasn't ready yet. But why go through all that hassle just to call off a week before? That's gotta be hard especially if the guests live miles away and already planned off work etc to come to it. How sad. But sorry this happened to you again. Hopefully there won't be a 3rd time!
@kel1483 (986)
• United States
14 May 09
When I was a kid one of my parents' friends called off his wedding real soon before it was supposed to happen. It was kind of funny, because they had already paid for everything, so the groom had an 'not getting married' party (since all the food and the place and everything was already paid for) and everyone I guess just went to the party. I was a kid so I didn't go and I'm not sure if my parents even did, but I remember that happening.
Other than that, I don't know of any others in my entire 26 year life haha. So twice in just a few years seems kind of crazy...but I guess for the couples sake it was probably better calling off the weddings than going through with them when it wasn't what they actually wanted after all.
@Rainegurl (2156)
• Philippines
2 May 09
I have a cousin who is getting married on October and my husband and I have decided to go even if it airfare costs a lot of money. They got the church and the reception already booked for October 28 but I learned this week that they were moving the date. I do not think that they have changed their mind about each other. I think it's because of a career move one of them has to make and they will be busy on October. It isn't as dramatic as calling off the wedding the night before. I have not experienced something like that yet 
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@Generis (145)
• China
22 Apr 09
My one colleague who has taken the wedding photos with her boyfriend and prepared to marry . But they broke up at last . After two months later, one her friend introduced a boy to her, and they began to call each other on phone about two months,after that she met each other by first time and though this first time , they began to marry with this boy . How it be done like this ? Easy break up and easy to marry with another one ? I don't know reason . But who knows if their decision is right ?
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@wondericequeen (7876)
• Hong Kong
22 Apr 09
Oh my god! I hope that won't happen to me, that would suck! I think calling off a wedding was definitely horrible. I haven't had that experience before but it's better not to have any experience like that because I would be upset.
@moonchild117 (1990)
• Philippines
22 Apr 09
I've never experienced this, but believe me, it doesn't happen only to you. There are really cases wherein either the bride or the groom gets cold feet and suddenly cancels the wedding. I heard a story once about a guy dumping a girl on the day of their wedding. What's worse is that he shows up in the ceremony venue, tells the bride and all the guests he's sorry, then runs off with another girl! Yep, that bad.
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@kprofgames (3089)
• United States
2 May 09
I think if they called it off then they were realistic. One of them wasn't ready. I had a friend of mine that thought about it, but she didn't. They divorced 8 months later.
I think if they're having doubts it should happen before they put on the wedding ring, not try to struggle through it because they set the date, paid everyone and still weren't sure. They have to do it for themselves, not everyone else.
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@prinzcy (32299)
• Malaysia
25 Apr 09
I only watch them in movies but this is the first time I heard them in real life. But something might happen that make them cancel off the wedding. Probably the bride or groom has an accident or they just realized, wedding isn't the one that they want.
But really, probably runaway bride isn't just a plot in a movie 
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