Woman in Australia agrees to ‘fake Instagram wedding’ but man cons her into legal marriage

A judge in Melbourne annulled the marriage of a woman to a man via an Instagram stunt. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH

Raul Dancel

UPDATED Jan 11, 2025, 04:47 PM

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A woman in Australia was asked by a man to take part in a “fake Instagram wedding” in a bid to boost viewership numbers but she later found it was an elaborate ruse all along to marry her legally.

The woman first met a man through an online dating app in September 2023, and the two began dating, the BBC reported.

Both lived in Melbourne at the time.

In December that same year, the man proposed, and the woman accepted.

Two days later, he asked her to join him in a “white party” in Sydney, where he said all guests would be in white. He told her to come dressed in white for the event.

However, when she reached the party venue, she was “shocked” and “furious” she said, to discover that there was no party. The only people there were her partner, a photographer and his friend, and a celebrant.