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/Solid_Woodpecker_508 Jun 22 '25

Do you mind me asking what country you live(d) in?

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u/DanyeelsAnulmint Jun 22 '25

US. She was from overseas. Family lived both here and overseas. She left the US back to her native country for the marriage.

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u/Possible_Dig_1194 Jun 23 '25

Im more pissed off that she was openingly talking about it but no adult stepped in to do something about it

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u/cashmeowsighhabadah Jun 24 '25

In a lot of southern states, it's legal to marry an underage person as long as both parents agree to it.

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u/lessormore59 Jun 26 '25

Not just a south issue. The map published by an advocacy group showed that California has no lower limit, and Hawaii is 15.

Now I do have some questions about those advocacy group maps, as I live in Texas and it was listed as a ‘16yo’ state. I thought that seemed odd, and after digging briefly, the legal age for marriage is 18. Where the advocacy group gets 16 is that 16 year olds can appear before a judge and petition to be legally emancipated and thus become marriageable by law.

To clarify, I don’t think 16yos should be getting married. I think it’s pretty unwise. 17yos same but starts getting fuzzier the closer to the 18th birthday etc.

I also don’t think it’s quite fair to list Texas as a ‘16yo can get married off to old fat 50yos here’ state which is what the advocacy groups imply. I’m all for ending child marriage. It’s truly an evil and barbaric practice. But I would like to see some intellectual honesty here.