A woman says she hired a fake groom and had a wedding photo shoot to get back at her ex after a breakup

• Sarah Vilard said she pretended to get married after a breakup in 2019.
• She says she hired a fake groom and bought a wedding dress to make the wedding seem real.
• Vilard made a TikTok about the experience, and it has over 2 million views to date.

One of the latest TikTok trends centers around reactions to breakups.

As Stephen Kramer Glickman's "Crazy" plays, a person tells their viewers how they responded after they got dumped, with some going as far as to create the illusion that they were seeing someone new.

But one TikToker says she took things even further, pretending to get married just three months after she and her ex parted ways.

Sarah Vilard says she faked her own wedding after a breakup

Vilard is a 24-year-old student from Germany.

In 2019, she and her ex-boyfriend, who she has kept anonymous, broke up.

Three months after the breakup, Vilard said she decided to try to "get revenge" on her ex by making it seem like she got married.

She says she bought a wedding dress, hired a fake groom, and had a faux wedding photo shoot.

Vilard had not shared how much money she spent on the fake wedding at the time of writing.

She said she posted photos of the fake wedding to social media to get her ex's attention after the shoot - and it worked.

"He found out through Instagram and texted me the next day and freaked out because he thought I was cheating on him while we were together," Vilard told Jam Press.

"That, of course, wasn't the case," she went on to say. "But he came to my house and wanted to talk to me afterward. I wasn't interested."

Vilard says she later removed her ex's presence from her social media, as well as traces of the photo shoot.

"I blocked him everywhere and set my profile to private and removed the pictures," she told Jam Press.

Today, Vilard says she is single.

"I'm happy to be able to focus on myself," she told Jam Press.

Vilard's TikTok has over 2 million views to date

Vilard shared a TikTok about her experience last week. The video quickly went viral; it has over 2 million views at the time of writing.

She also posted a follow-up video with screenshots of messages that Vilard said are from her ex after he saw the fake wedding.

Viewers had mixed reactions to the video, with some thinking Vilard had gone too far and others thinking she was a "genius."

"This level of dedication is either completely psychotic or absolutely genius," wrote one viewer.

"I think people think I'm crazy," Vilard told Jam Press of the reactions to her video.

But she went on to say that the experiences of the photo shoot and the video were positive for her.

"But overall, I've had mostly good reactions and over 5,000 people following me," she said to Jam Press. "I had fun planning this little project with my friends."

You can follow Vilard here.