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An Australian lady filed a court petition to have her marriage dissolved, saying her husband had duped her into it by telling her it was merely a trick to increase his Instagram followers. The woman informed the presiding judge that she met her husband on a dating app in September 2023. The court has not disclosed her name.

After they began dating often in Melbourne, he asked her to attend a “white party” in Sydney in December of that year, instructing her to wear a white outfit in keeping with the event’s theme.

He was “shocked” and “furious” to see that the only other persons present at the party location were her companion, a photographer, the photographer’s buddy, and a marriage official, even though the young woman had accepted. Her partner pulled her aside and asked her to play the bride in a fictitious wedding he had arranged to grow his social media following.

“So when I got there, and I didn’t see anybody in white, I asked him, ‘What’s happening?’ and he pulled me aside, and he told me that he’s organizing a prank wedding for his social media, to be precise, Instagram, because he wants to boost his content, and wants to start monetizing his Instagram page,” the woman stated in the court.

The plaintiff was still dubious after the man’s explanation, so she called a friend to ask if acting as the bride would genuinely increase the likelihood of marriage.

They allegedly dismissed it with a laugh, stating that she would be okay because they would have needed to submit a notice of intending marriage beforehand.

She chose to proceed with the fictitious wedding even though she hadn’t signed any paperwork. The young woman in her mid-20s is shown excitedly portraying the bride, exchanging vows, and kissing in front of the camera in a court video.

She acknowledged that she did her best to appear authentic to her partner’s Instagram followers, but she claimed she never thought she would actually be a bride.

In order to help him secure permanent residency in Australia, the woman’s partner requested that she include him as a dependent in her application for permanent immigration two months after the “staged” wedding.

She informed him that she couldn’t add him because they were both immigrants in Australia and weren’t married.

At that point, she discovered that the “stunt marriage” was real and that, one month prior to their trip to Sydney, he had submitted a notice of intended marriage bearing her fictitious signature.

“I’m furious with the fact that I didn’t know that that was a real marriage, and the fact that he also lied from the beginning, and the fact that he also wanted me to add him in my application,” the woman told the judge in a Family Court.

The woman’s version of events was refuted by the husband, a man in his late 30s, who said that she accepted his proposal the day before the wedding and that they were married in a “private ceremony” in Sydney. He also mentioned that although the evidence in court indicated that they lived apart, she had moved in with him soon after they first met.

A Melbourne Family Court decided to declare the marriage annulled in October of last year because there were many inconsistencies in the man’s version of events, including why the wedding was held in Sydney rather than Melbourne, where they both lived, and why none of their friends and family attended.

“She believed she was acting. She called the event ‘a prank’,” the judge said. “It made perfect sense for her to adopt the persona of a bride in all things at the impugned ceremony so as to enhance the credibility of the video depicting a legally valid marriage.”

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