An Australian woman who jokingly married a man she met on a dating platform at his request has had her marriage annulled by a court. According to a report, the bride told the court that she had only attended the ceremony thinking that it was a social media ploy, designed to increase the number of likes and followers of the man she had dated a few months earlier. Was found. BBC.
According to documents published by the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, the unnamed woman was 20 when she met the 30-year-old man on Tinder in September 2023. They met a day after the match and started dating. The Melbourne couple soon began planning a trip to Sydney as the man said he wanted to take her there in December.
Once in Sydney, the man proposed to her and invited her to an “all-white party” two days later, where all guests wore white. The woman did not suspect the invitation as the trip was pre-planned and they had previously attended a similarly themed party in Queensland.
However, once the woman arrived at the venue in white, which was not a wedding dress, according to court documents, she did not see anyone else wearing that color.
“When I got there, and I didn’t see anyone in white, I asked him, ‘What’s going on?'” she told the court.
“He told me that he was organizing a prank wedding for his social media. To be precise, Instagram, because he wants to promote his content and start monetizing his Instagram page.
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She told the court that she played along with him because the groom told her that he could have called anyone for the video but she chose him so that she would not feel jealous.
The woman said she left when she learned the man was seeking asylum. She asked him to add his name as a dependent to his application for permanent residence. She said the groom told her he had “arranged the wedding to help her”.
The judge said in his ruling that it “beggars belief” that the bride would marry the groom “less than two days” after accepting his proposal.
“Not a single family member or friend of the applicant was present at the alleged marriage ceremony. She was religious,” the judgment read.
“Exactly why she would attend a civil wedding and not a church wedding ceremony is unknown. It didn’t make sense to me that she would do that.
