The bride, who was a stranger to me, had apparently assigned me the task of helping to decorate the reception hall before the wedding. When I arrived to help, her mother, speaking in a scared whisper, warned me that everything had to be perfect, as the bride would be livid if it wasn't. I attributed this to wedding jitters and tried to talk with her during the reception, only to be met with an eye roll. I also noticed she hardly looked at the groom throughout the wedding and reception. Less than a year later, they were divorced. The groom later shared with me and Mahin that on the morning of the wedding, he was overcome with a sense of dread and spent hours sitting on his lawn thinking, 'I shouldn't go through with this.' Despite this, the wedding went through due to the money spent, the expectations of the many guests, and the presence of family from out of state. It turned out the bride had a reputation for being difficult and controlling, making it a question why he had proposed in the first place. Six months after their split, I checked the bride's Facebook to find her announcing her engagement to someone new. In the comments, someone jokingly asked if they had also set a date for their divorce.