--- title: Woman Burns Her Wedding Dress After Breakup description: A Texas woman burned her wedding dress after her fiancé revealed that he thought their relationship was 'a joke.' canonical: https://time.com/4803546/woman-burns-wedding-dress/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-02T18:52:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:10.384Z og:title: Woman Sets Fire to Wedding Dress After Breakup og:description: Burn, baby, burn og:url: https://time.com/4803546/woman-burns-wedding-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Sets Fire to Wedding Dress After Breakup twitter:description: Burn, baby, burn twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Woman Sets Her Wedding Dress On Fire to Burn the Memory of a Relationship Gone Wrong > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 2, 2017 6:52 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 2, 2017 6:52 PM UTC A woman from San Antonio, Texas found [a cathartic way to deal with the aftermath of wedding plans gone wrong](http://time.com/4756642/how-to-recover-from-heartbreak/): by burning [the white wedding dress](http://motto.time.com/4799598/problem-with-weddings/) that she would have worn to get married. According to her [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/khristella.joseph/posts/1714228101924735), Khristella Joseph initially tried to sell her wedding dress and other items for the wedding. When the wedding dress didn’t sell, she instead filmed herself setting the dress on fire as a way of closing a painful chapter of her life. Before lighting the dress, she doused the dress in lighter fluid and said a few last words. “I’m getting ready to burn this bad a—s memory,” she said. “There goes the end of the bad memory of a wedding dress somebody pays for and says that your relationship is just a “joke and they never loved or cared about you in the first place.” After setting the dress on fire, Joseph had some poignant final words for the union that would never be. ‘Well, there you have it,” she said. “It’s gone up in flames. 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