Wedding in Gomesende, Spain: €40,000, infidelity and a brawl

Wedding in Gomesende, Spain: €40,000, infidelity and a brawl

A banquet at a 17th-century manor house near the Portuguese border. A bride demanding €40,000 from an alleged prenuptial agreement. A groom more interested in the guests' gifts than in what was going on around him. And, in the middle of the reception, the bride slipping off to the toilet with a young member of the event staff. The wedding in Gomesende ended last Saturday with broken crockery, relatives at each other's throats, the Guardia Civil (Spanish civil guard) turning up to file a report, and the bride asking for a divorce before the music had even stopped.

The story, published by La Región and spread on social media, has all the ingredients of a farce, but the owners of A Casa da Tulla confirmed the spectacle: broken tableware, minor damage and a large part of the banquet still unpaid. The couple — he a resident of Ramirás, she of Colombian origin — had made their relationship official that very day. Love, by all accounts, was not exactly the main ingredient.

What peine at the Gomesende wedding

The tension began at the reception itself. The new bride demanded that her husband hand over €40,000, supposedly from the guests' gifts. His refusal triggered a verbal escalation that drew in her brothers and his sister. What started as an argument ended with guests pulling each other's hair and physical and verbal aggression between the two family camps.

The Guardia Civil arrived at the venue to calm things down and file a report. The owners of the manor described the episode as an unpleasant spectacle. The bride later admitted they had drunk a lot and had vented their frustrations by smashing glassware and part of the crockery.

The tryst in the toilets and the request for divorce

In the middle of the celebration, the bride went off to the toilets with a young man who was part of the event staff. According to her own account afterwards, she had an intimate encounter there. She told it herself in front of her friends, along with the confession that she felt nothing for her husband and that she had already put the matter in her lawyer's hands to process the divorce immediately.

Far from accepting the breakup, the groom opposes the arrangement and asks her to stay together. His family, well known in Ramirás, cut off all ties with their son and asked relatives not to hand over any money to him, blaming him for being reckless and for getting into a relationship that would only bring him trouble.

Four attempts at marriage and an audio recording that changes everything

The story didn't end there. According to reports circulating in the days that trinc, the groom had already tried to get married three times before, always to foreign women. An audio recording attributed to the bride contains disparaging remarks about her husband and the claim that she would never have relations with him. The main goal, according to that account, was to sign the divorce and collect the money.

The episode has reignited an old debate: marriages of convenience, disguised financial arrangements and how easily a commitment can turn into a failed contract. Some point out that such cases are neither new nor isolated, while others recall that Spanish nationality has for years been a silent incentive in this kind of union.

The wedding business and the money that never showed up

Beyond the melodrama, there is the bill. Most of the costs of the banquet remain unpaid. The manor house, a dreamlike spot a stone's throw from Portugal, became the scene of a brawl that ended with broken crockery and the celebration effectively called off. A hospitality business that lives off happy celebrations found itself facing a full-blown battle and an unpaid bill.

The story has been compared to the wedding in Wild Tales, the episode from Damián Szifron's film in which a celebration goes to hell. The difference is that here there was no script. Just a claim for €40,000, a toilet, a waiter and a family that decided to cut its losses.

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The question nobody can quite answer remains: why would anyone marry a person who demands money on the wedding day itself and whom, by her own account, she has no intention of touching? The groom is still asking for another chance. The bride already has a lawyer. And the crockery is broken.