Never a Bride
Okay, this is is both brilliant and brutal! What do you do when you don’t want to marry someone but don’t have the heart to tell him that you want to call it off? You PRETEND to get married to him. We know you’re thinking, “Wait, what?” Hear us out.
The OP had a friend whose “ex-wife” went ahead with the big wedding but never actually signed the paperwork meaning they were never legally married. She was seeing someone else the whole time and when things didn’t work out with her “husband,” she finally told him the truth. That’s really selfish but at least it saved them from an ugly divorce and they got to keep all the presents!