Woman in Australia annuls marriage after finding out 'fake Instagram wedding' was real

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 had been an elaborate ruse all along to marry her legally.

- Raul Dancel

The woman first met the 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 the 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, as well as a celebrant.

Her partner then told her she was there to help him stage a "prank wedding", designed to boost the numbers to his Instagram page. He had only 17,000 followers at the time.