With a headline like this, how can you resist? On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding). “After he finished his speech, he received applause and cheers from one and a half tables and dead silence from the rest.”
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Just tremendous.
Hilarious, then sad. Great read!
Getting divorced, for me, has been one of the biggest empathy building experiences of my life. It totally sucked, and I don’t recommend it as a hobby, but it opened my eyes in the most meaningful way to the extent that any given person you run into on any given day could be in the middle of the worst week of their life. And you don’t really have any way of knowing.
But, god, what a great speech/story.
Maybe my marriage has survived because no one gave a speech like that...nah. My wedding would have been SO MUCH MORE fun with a speech like that (but not with a Super Mario theme, though I have been to a fun Weird Al wedding).
Love this . . . fascinated by the wedding toast as a form of public speech. They're my favorite part of a ceremony for everything detailed in this essay. They are rollercoasters and unpredictable ones at that, capable of delivering cringe, boredom or pure joy and humor. It's like an open mic night with much higher stakes. All compounded by the the fact these are mostly delivered by amateur public speakers and further complicated by the diverging opinions within the room of who the toast is really for - the couple, just one of the couples, the family, the friend in-groups?
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