Arranged marriages are an arduous set up at the best of times.

But what do you do when you physically meet your future partner for the first time and find them utterly repulsive?

Such a scenario presented itself to a Saudi groom.

The man agreed to the arranged marriage in accordance with cultural expectations.

However, upon seeing the face of his wife for the first time at the wedding hall in Medinah, he demanded a divorce.

Sort of like a ‘money back if you have the receipt’ clause.

Arranged marriages remain prolific even in the UK.

Although a divorce on the wedding day is the anomaly.

The groom reportedly told the distraught bride that he was sorry because 'she was not the woman he wanted.'

Apparently chivalry is a lost concept.

Remember the man who divorced his wife after she gave birth to an ‘incredibly ugly’ baby.

After being accused of cheating on him, the woman admitted that she had spent around £62,000 on plastic surgery before she met her husband.

To add insult to injury, said man sued his wife for not revealing details of her plastic surgery prior to the wedding.

Whatever happened to letting a girl down gently?

In another case, a man from the UAE divorced his bride by sending her a text message (a text message!).

Are real men facing a species extinction?

The reason cited for the divorce was an argument over wedding expenses between the two mother-in-laws.

From emotional marital issues to formal legislative ones.

Saudi Arabia has recently come under scathing controversy after forbidding its men from marrying women from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad and Burma.

With arranged marriages based purely physical beauty, it appears not even Saudi women are immune from this preposterous, toxic and patriarchal prejudice.