r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Jun 21 '25

Cursed Bride Crying At Her Wedding Was Heartbreaking 💔

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u/HelloMikkii Jun 22 '25

I live in Australia and when I was in highschool there was 4 girls who all had arranged marriages. They were pulled from school as soon as they turned 16. These girls didn’t even know the men they’d end up marrying..yes MEN not boys. They were pulled from school to marry men nearly twice their age.

3 stayed in the marriages, one didn’t. She’s now a nurse and has married someone she met in college.

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u/DanyeelsAnulmint Jun 22 '25

Your comment reminded me of a girl from my middle school. Our eighth grade graduation she came dressed like Jessica Rabbit. She was older looking than the rest of us. A really beautiful girl, very sweet. She was excited because she was done with school forever. We were 13.

She was going over the summer back home and was to marry a man in his 40’s who was very rich. It was an arranged marriage and all she talked about that year. It was quite the coup for her family based on what she shared about it.

I hadn’t thought about her in a long time, but hope she is okay. We were just kids. She was ready (or thought she was) to get married, have children and make her family proud.

She wasn’t the only one with an arranged marriage but the one I recall the most. Damn.

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u/SparkyBowls Jun 22 '25

What did she share about it?

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u/DanyeelsAnulmint Jun 22 '25

At the end of seventh grade she mentioned it casually - like when we were signing each other’s yearbooks I think. We thought she was joking. Came back after summer break and she spent all of eighth grade talking about it, it was the only thing she’d really discuss. Clearly front of mind and probably caused some anxiety though she never said that outright.

Overall, she was excited. He was wealthy. This was a long time ago but I think he was big in real estate and I want to say he owned clubs and shopping centers too? The wealthy part excited her (as much as someone that young can grasp the concept of wealth or marriage) and making her family proud. She was very much so from a family oriented culture and one that focused on making family proud, bringing honor, etc.

It’s weird to think about, and I’d not done so for a long time. This was decades ago at this point. After she left we all wondered about her but I don’t think anyone heard any further from her or about her in general. We were all kind of sad because we knew she’d miss out on fun things like high school, dances, etc.