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An Australian woman married a man she met on a dating platform as a joke. The bride told the court that she only attended the event believing it was a social media prank, designed to increase the likes and followers of the man she met a few months earlier. was found, according to a report. The BBC.
According to documents published by the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, the unidentified woman was in her 20s 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” where all guests wear white, two days later. The woman did not suspect the invitation as the trip was pre-arranged and she had previously attended a similar themed party in Queensland.
However, once the woman arrived at the venue in a white dress, which was not a wedding dress, according to court documents, she did not see anyone else wearing the 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 mock wedding for his social media. Obviously, Instagram, because he wanted to share his content. Want to grow and start monetizing your Instagram page.
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She told the court that she played with him because Guru had told her that he could have been the reason for the video but he chose her so that she would not feel jealous.
The woman said she only found out the mock marriage was real and legal when she learned the man was applying for asylum. He asked her to add his name as a dependent to her permanent residency application. She said the groom told her he had “arranged the wedding to help her”.
In his ruling, the judge said it was “beggars belief” that the bride would marry the groom “less than two days” after accepting his proposal.
“The petitioner did not have any family member or friend present at the alleged marriage ceremony. She was religious,” read the judgment.
“Why exactly would she attend a civil wedding and not a church wedding ceremony? It just didn’t make sense to me that she would.”
