She Kicked Her Best Friend Out Of Her Wedding After She Gave A Speech About How Love Isn’t Real At Her Engagement Party
This 25-year-old woman and her fiancé, Dave, have been engaged since March 2020.
But unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic struck less than one week after Dave popped the question. So, they were never able to have an engagement party.
Plus, they have not been able to get married yet, either, since Dave’s mom was not allowed back into the country due to a visa issue.
That’s why, to celebrate their four-year engagement, Dave decided to throw a surprise engagement party for her.
And obviously, her best friend Michelle was invited. Michelle is 24-years-old, and the pair had been best buds for nearly 20 years.
In addition to attending the event, though, her best friend was also asked to give a speech.
“Dave and her get along great, and I love her like a sister,” she explained. “So, I was very excited about her speech.”
Once Michelle actually started talking at her engagement party, though, everything went sideways.
Rather than sharing a sweet or at least positive perspective on love, her best friend just started quoting the popular cartoon “Rick and Morty” and talking about how love was not real.
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“I hate to break it to you, but what people call ‘love’ is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, babe, then it slowly fades. Break the cycle. Rise above. Focus on science,” Michelle said during her speech.
Now, at that moment, she was honestly super uncomfortable. But she really thought Michelle was just attempting to be funny.
That’s why she waited until after her best friend’s speech was over to ask what those statements were all about. To her surprise, though, Michelle stood behind everything and claimed that love did not really exist.
She was totally taken aback by that, too, and wound up just walking away. After all, she wanted to enjoy her evening– not get into an argument.
Her fiancé, Dave, also tried to lighten the mood. He pointed out how Michelle might have just been trying to brighten the mood since the engagement party had gotten a bit sappy– with a bunch of PowerPoints and other people’s speeches.
The very next day after her engagement party, though, Michelle reached out to her via text and still tried to defend the speech. In the messages, Michelle actually claimed that humans never mate for life and that it’s just “not in our nature.”
But honestly, she didn’t want to hear any of that. So, she asked her best friend to stop. Rather than taking the hint, though, Michelle just started going off on her. In fact, she even got accused of punishing Michelle for her beliefs.
This wound up continuing for a whole week, too. And by the end of it, she was seriously done. She ultimately told Michelle that she just needed some space. Then, after her best friend refused to respect her wishes, she was forced to take matters into her own hand.
More specifically, she informed Michelle that she would not be her maid of honor anymore. On top of that, she also admitted how she was not sure if Michelle would even be invited to her wedding.
“By this point, she had spent no money on my wedding except for a gift for the engagement party that I offered to return to her,” she clarified.
Since then, though, her fiancé’s mom has finally gotten an official date for a tourist visa. So, she and Dave have officially begun planning their nuptials, and she just feels guilty that Michelle is not by her side. After all, they always planned to do this together.
That’s why her mom thinks that she should consider reaching out and extending an olive branch.
But while she sort of agrees, she is also still pretty angry with her best friend.
“Michelle also has told everyone I abandoned her for my fiancé and what a jerk I am,” she vented.
Still, she has now been left wondering whether kicking her best friend out of her wedding over an inappropriate engagement party speech was the wrong thing to do.
Can you imagine your best friend giving a speech about how love is not real at your engagement party? Is it understandable why she doesn’t want someone who doesn’t believe in love to be her maid of honor anymore? Or do you think she should look past Michelle’s behavior because of their long friendship? What would you do?
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