The bride's furious post-wedding Instagram post is true

The bride's furious post-wedding Instagram  post is true

Judge annuls marriage after  admitting wife cheated
A woman in Australia has  canceled her  wedding after  realizing a fake wedding ceremony she  attended for a social media stunt was  actually real.
The bride, who knew nothing, said her partner was a social media influencer who convinced her to  attend the ceremony as a  "joke" for his Instagram  account.
He only discovered  that the marriage was  real when he tried to use it to  obtain permanent residency in  Australia.
A Melbourne judge granted the annulment after accepting  that the woman  had been cheated into  the marriage, in a  ruling issued on  Thursday.
The strange affair began in September 2023 when the woman met her partner on an online dating platform. They began  meeting regularly in Melbourne, where they  were living at the  time.
In December  of that year, the man proposed to the woman and she  accepted.
Two days later, the woman attended an event with the man in Sydney.  He was told it  was a  "white party" — where attendees would  join in the white robe — and  he was told  she was wearing a white  dress.
But when they  arrived, she was  "shocked" and  "furious" to find other guests present  besides her partner, a photographer,  a friend of the  photographer and a celebrant, according to her  statement cited in court  documents. "So when I got  there and didn't see  anyone in white, I  asked, 'What's  going on?'" He took me  aside and told me that  he was planning a  fake wedding for his social media,  in especially on Instagram, because he  wanted to  promote his  content and start  making money on his Instagram page,"  he said.
She said she accepted his explanation  because "he was a social media  guy" who had more than 17,000 followers on Instagram. She also believed that a civil marriage would  only be valid if it  was performed in  court.
However, she remained concerned. The woman  called a friend  to express her  concerns, but the friend  "laughed" and  told her that everything was fine, because if it  was true, they would have  made a marriage  proposal earlier, which they  did not.
Calmly, the woman  attended the ceremony where she and her partner exchanged wedding vows and kissed in front of a camera. She said she was happy at  the moment that  she "played it" to  "make it look  real."
Two months later, her partner asked her to add him as a dependant  on her application for permanent  residence in Australia. Both are  foreigners. When she told him she  couldn't because they  weren't officially married, he revealed that their Sydney wedding ceremony had been  real, according to the woman's  testimony.
The woman  then found  the marriage  certificate and discovered a notice of intended marriage  that had been filed  a month before  her trip to Sydney - before they  were engaged -  and that she said she  hadn't signed. According to court documents, the signature on the notice  bore little resemblance to the  woman's.
"I'm angry that I didn't know  it was a real marriage, and that he also lied from the  start and that he wanted to add  to my application," she  said.
In his  evidence, the man  said they had "both  come to  terms with these circumstances" and that  after his  proposal, the woman had agreed to marry him  in an "intimate ceremony" in  Sydney. The judge ruled that the woman  had "misunderstood the nature of the ceremony  that was taking place" and  "had not  really consented to her participation" in the  wedding.
"She thought she was  acting." She called the event  a "farce." "It was completely logical for her to adopt the persona of a bride in all  circumstances during the  contested ceremony, to  strengthen the credibility of the video depicting a legally valid marriage," he  said in the  decision.
The marriage was annulled in October 2024.