We’ve all heard of “love at first sight,” but how about the opposite?

Over the weekend, a man in the western Saudi Arabian town of Medinah decided to divorce his new bride minutes after their wedding ceremony when he lifted her veil and saw her face for the first time for wedding photos. You know, because people who have never seen each other’s faces should totally take the step of getting married, this could never backfire. Oh, wait…

The groom reportedly rose in anger after first seeing his bride and shouted: “You are not the girl I want to marry. You are not the one I imagined. I am sorry, but I divorce you.”

At least he’s sorry.

While wedding guests tried to step in to resolve the situation to no avail, the bride reportedly collapsed in a fit of tears upon his exclamation—I’m guessing this wasn’t exactly what SHE imagined either.

Who ever would have thought there’d be a potential downside to a patriarchal culture that still believes in a wedding practice that sometimes includes marrying women off to men they’ve never actually seen?