Bride tricked into marrying influencer in fake wedding

The bride comes – but the groom lies.

Most newlyweds get a shiny toaster or a few fat checks to celebrate their holy matrimony.

However, the troubled couple have just been granted an annulment at the request of an “angry” bride who claimed she believed her wedding was a social media prank rather than a legally binding union.

“He told me he was organizing a prank wedding for his social media,” the twenty-something woman from Melbourne, Australia, recently explained to a family court judge, The Guardian reported.

“On Instagram, to be precise,” the smitten bride continued, noting that the guy has 17,000 followers. “He wanted to grow his content and wanted to start monetizing his Instagram page.”

According to reports, neither she nor the groom, a bisexual man in his 30s from Melbourne, can be named for legal purposes.

But Judge Joshua Wilson agreed the girl was tricked into marrying the man in a “fake” wedding in Sydney in December 2023 as part of a visa scam.

He granted the bride’s marriage annulment.

The star-crossed couple initially connected through a dating app in September 2023. They reportedly had their first date at church the next day.

After three months of dating, the man proposed in December and she accepted, CNN reported. Two days later, she claimed her new fiancé invited her to a “white party” in Sydney.

However, when the woman arrived at the venue in a white dress – which she insisted was not a bridal gown – she was “shocked” to learn the man had “organized a wedding”.

“When I got there I didn’t see anyone wearing white and I asked him, ‘What’s going on?'” she told the court, adding that her new boyfriend assured it was nothing more than “a Simple prank”.

After agreeing to take part in the alleged stunt, the bride appeared to “enthusiastically” participate in the ceremony, based on footage from the wedding, The Guardian reported.

However, she insisted her enthusiasm was “completely an act”.

“We have to take action to make it look real,” she said.

The woman, who is not a permanent resident of Australia, was allegedly asked by the man to add his name to her permanent residence application, and it was eventually discovered that the wedding was in fact legitimate. If she says yes, filing may also increase his chances of becoming a permanent resident.

She claimed the groom told her he was not a permanent resident and that he “organized the wedding to help him”.

Bride is furious over scam and feels she was ‘cheated’ [to] From the beginning. “

The woman got even angrier, claiming she would not get married without her parents’ permission and presence, without a bridal gown or a reception.

But the groom denied their hasty “I dos” were all about numerical glory.

Instead, he reportedly testified that he came out to his bride as bisexual immediately after they met and that she was “cool about it” and moved into his home.

On November 20, 2023, he signed a letter of intent to marry just weeks before he proposed. But the bride denied ever seeing or signing the document, CNN reported.

Regarding the quick and simple nature of their union, the groom claimed the purpose of the wedding was to have an “intimate” ceremony before a “formal” ceremony later in their home country, adding that they “both agreed” to the circumstances. “

But Wilson wasn’t buying it.

The judge found it “unbelievable” that the bride would marry the groom “less than two days” after accepting his proposal, so he rejected the groom’s version of events and signed an agreement that the marriage was annulled.

“The applicant did not have any family members or friends present at the alleged wedding. She was very religious,” Wilson wrote. “Exactly why she would have a civil marriage rather than a church wedding, we haven’t figured out yet.”

“It makes no sense to me that she’s doing this.”