When my best friend was getting married, I spent weeks on a speech for the occasion.
I was really proud of it. I even managed to talk about how we all worked in strip clubs without saying we worked in strip clubs, because the groom had guests and family who didn’t know he was a dj in the industry.
The morning of the wedding, mother of the bride was driving us to our hair appointment. I mentioned my speech in passing, and she WENT ON about how it’s so annoying when there’s “too many speeches.” She knew i was MOH, and specifically said that the BEST MAN could make a speech, but anything more is just too much.
I was so hurt and kinda flabbergasted, honestly. My importance in the wedding party is literally on par with the best man?!?! Not to mention that I was friends with both bride and groom before they were together, which the best man was not, and I was literally there for their final planning meeting.
So, while delivering my speech, I ad-libbed to include mother of the bride in a joke… it was basically about me and the groom teasing each other once in the past and he said
“Well, I knocked up your best friend!”
“And I didn’t kill you for it, so i guess you’re ok. Right, (mother of the bride)?”
It was a small thing but i felt pretty good about it.
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Classy
Sheesh… Weddings can be tough. I get what MOH’s going through though, those moms can be a handful sometimes! The bride’s mom probably just needed the focus off herself for once, ya know? Anyway, kudos to that clever MOH who turned it into a joke. That took some serious chops
Nice. I would have sprinkled in some things like,
“I know not everyone wants to hear a bunch of speeches…”
“What can I say about this couple that hasn’t already been said by the best man? Well, I’ll tell you…”
At least her caustic comment didn’t leave you speechless.
I can understand now why she didn’t want you to give a speech.
I don’t understand the joke or how it could be applied to the mother of the bride.
I don’t get it. Not the joke, though I don’t get that either.
You revenge for not getting to do the MOH speech was to add a nonsense joke that everyone was fine with but nobody understands IN YOUR MOH SPEECH?
If you got to do the speech how is this revenge for not doing the speech?
If everyone jokes about sex and is non-conventional and ok with that humor how was it revenge? Petty or otherwise?
I feel we are all dumber for having read this.
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Showed her
I’m on the mother’s side. There are way too many speeches at weddings. The only speech I believe is necessary is the host/hostess thanking everyone for coming. It’s possible they assumed you would say something off color. It also kind of seems like you wanted the day to be about you.
So, you mentioned in your speech how you worked at strip clubs, without mentioning how you worked at strip clubs. With friends like you, nobody would need enemies. I bet you’ve got a OF account as well don’t you?