39. Her Own Initiative
Attended a wedding of a family friend who I grew up with.
Everything was planned with no passion and every wedding event or game or tradition was just put into the wedding just because “every wedding has that”.
So we had a rather heartless photoshoot with the couple (i was her makeup artist simultaneously because I do makeup for a living), a boring bouquet toss and at one point the couple (or rather the bride[zilla]) announced that her maid of honor (the groom’s sister) would hold a speech (which felt really boring).
Then she announced that the best man (the groom’s best friend) would hold a speech as well to which the best man just looked speechless because… he hadn’t prepared a speech and it wasn’t communicated to him that he would have to. (Again everything felt like it was only happening because “at every wedding that needs to happen”.)
Then out of nowhere the maid of honor, who had planned the whole wedding, whips out a speech on a piece of paper that she herself had written for him in case he hadn’t prepared a speech himself. In this speech, it was written that “the groom can be so lucky/happy that he has the bride in his life because back in the day he didn’t use to shower that frequently and now she is having an eye on that” (again… supposedly written by his own sister! When I think about it now, I have the feeling the bride wrote it.)
Everyone just looked so uncomfortable after this speech it was so bad. This wedding may have been planned like the perfect one but it just felt like they put every wedding activity into it just so they could experience it.