I’ve watched enough wedding movies to know that sometimes the speeches by the father of the bride or the groom’s man can easily derail the reception.
In this case, it was the maid of honour who made things a bit awkward for everyone.
A Reddit user took to the app’s “Wedding Shaming” page to share what happened at her cousin’s wedding that left guests clutching their pearls.
“I recently attended my cousin’s wedding, which for the most part, was fabulous - sweet poems, songs sung by the family, a beautiful sunny day and a lovely sunset. It was an almost perfect wedding were it not for the MOH (maid of honour),” she writes.
Before getting into what the MOH said during her speech, she shares a bit of background information about the bride.
“Now, my cousin has always been a bit of a tomboy - very athletic, very independent, and also very private. So I know nothing about her sexual orientation at all,” she shares.
She then continued to say that after the father of the bride and the mother of the groom made their speeches it was the MOH’s turn.
“First, she started telling the story of how ‘once upon a time’ she and the bride had been ‘engaged’, seemingly jokingly, while they were forced to hunker down in a foreign country alone together during Covid lockdowns,” writes the Reddit user.
“She continued to tell more stories of intimate moments between her and the bride, before getting emotional and saying: ‘I’m so glad you found [groom] who can give you everything in a partner that I can’t’”.
She adds that the room audibly gasped and that the bride looked uncomfortable.
“The room buzzed with gossip after she sat down. The collective embarrassment for both the bride and the somewhat intoxicated MOH was palpable,” she added.
She concludes her post by saying: “Choose your Maid of Honour wisely, folks.”
Shocked Reddit users responded to the post, with one commenting: “Indeed!!! I wonder if the MOH thought sharing all the private stuff would make her speech "touching" and special. And maybe she is so deep in her feelings that she absolutely didn't see how it would appear to others. People, please have someone review toasts/speeches!”
Another wrote: “That hurt my stomach! I felt that. The cringe. That maid of honour ruined the mood. I feel really bad for her, but what she did was wrong. I think she watched too many romcoms or was too drunk. She got a lot of guts to do that. Someone should have grabbed the microphone from her. And escorted her to her seat.”
“I’ve never cringed so hard at a story about strangers I’ve never met and will never meet. Good lord, how awkward,” responded another.
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