Best Man Makes Shocking Admission About Groom and Maid of Honor During Speech

After getting engaged, most couples spend a lot of time painstakingly planning their nuptials, making sure everything goes according to plan. Since to-be-weds are usually busy attending to their long list of wedding-related tasks in the months leading up to their special day, they often enlist a wedding party, composed of friends and relatives whom they wholeheartedly trust, to make the planning process smoother and more enjoyable. One couple’s best man and maid of honor ended up doing just the opposite at their friends’ wedding: Both of them delivered disastrous speeches that could have overshadowed the newlyweds’ big day.

According to a post on Reddit’s “Wedding Shaming” subreddit on December 17, 2024, a guest who attended said wedding—which took place in 2015—recalled the catastrophic moment nearly a decade later. For context, the Redditor explained that the affair celebrated her best friend’s older sister who married her high school sweetheart when both of them were in their mid-twenties. “Truly, two of the best people that I know,” the original poster added. She also set the scene, describing the event as a “classy” affair. “It was an absolutely gorgeous wedding in the bride’s parents’ backyard, which her dad had spent the better part of a year landscaping and perfecting for this occasion,” she detailed.

Yet, once it was time for the maid of honor and best man to share a few words and toast to the happy couple, things took a turn for the worst. According to the Redditor, the co-maid of honor—the bride’s best friend since she was five years old (whom the OP referred to as “P” in her post)—went first. The guest described the maid of honor as “s—-faced drunk,” so she spent the entirety of her speech slurring her words in between hiccups and “stumbling” on the dance floor. “The entire speech is essentially just incoherent inside jokes between P and the bride, which it seems that the bride can barely understand because P is slurring her words so badly,” the former guest recounted. To top it off, the maid of honor failed to mention the groom in her toast. 

After the maid of honor finished (and ended up changing out of her wedding attire into clothes she found in the bride’s childhood bedroom), the best man—the groom’s best friend since high school (called “M” in the post)—was up. He kicked off his toast with a heartfelt testament to his friendship with the groom and the groom’s relationship with his now-wife. The Redditor noted that the best man discussed “how he and the groom had met, how they had become best friends in high school, and how when the bride and groom got together, M knew that it was the real deal and that they would be together forever. Cue a hundred ‘Awwwww’s from the crowd.”

The mood changed when the best man then revealed that the groom could have married someone else: the maid of honor. “Because M decides to share with everyone, on the happiest day of his best friend’s life, that the groom originally had a crush on P, the MAID OF HONOR, and wanted to ask her out back in high school,” the former guest recalled. “However, another one of their friends had asked P out first, so the groom ended up asking the bride out instead.”

The entire crowd was caught off guard and didn’t know how to react. “The room is dead. f——. silent,” the Redditor remembered. “Everyone is looking around at each other in shock.” The best man, though, wasn’t fazed by the audience’s reaction. “M is giggling into the mic and finishes up his speech with something along the lines of, ‘Well, thank goodness everything happens for a reason! Cheers!’ and scampers off the stage,” the Redditor wrote.

What could have completely ruined the couple’s special day didn’t seem to derail the festivities or kill the mood, fortunately. The Redditor said the bride and groom were “unnecessarily good sports” and handled the uncomfortable speeches without getting upset. “But holy cow was everyone else appalled,” the OP added. Thankfully, the other co-maid of honor (the Redditor’s best friend) and the father of the bride delivered “wonderful toasts” afterward. “The bride and groom have been very happily married for almost 10 years and have 2 beautiful daughters, so all’s well that ends well, but GOOD LORD: if you’re giving a wedding toast, please read it to at least ONE other person before you get that mic in your hand lol,” the Redditor advised anyone reading this tale.

A few Redditors expressed their initial reaction when reading this story. “Holy s— lol the best man’s speech took an unexpected turn, wow,” one user shared. “I laughed out loud at that.” Another speculated that the best man’s speech was intentional, “that he was throwing shade at P and essentially telling the groom and everyone else that the girl twerking over there could have been the bride now and thank god that didn’t happen.”

Most of the comments section was filled with similar stories about wedding toasts gone horribly wrong. “The worst best man today I ever heard was one where the best man used to date the bride and he said something along the lines of ‘if I were really the best man, you’d think I’d be the one standing there next to her,’” a Redditor recalled, while another revealed, “Went to a wedding where during the toast, the MOH said, ‘I’ve known the bride a long time, and I’ve seen her go through a lot of guys, but at least she has a groom now!’”