'We sat there stunned': Maid of Honor gives 'bizarre' speech claiming she 'hardly knows the bride,' guest speculate she's in love with the groom and friendship ends

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jun 21, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

If you have ever had to give a wedding speech, then you know how it goes: All of your friend's closest loved ones are watching you, you're holding up a glass of champagne, and proceed to relay some cute memory of the couple that you shared with them, talk about how much you love them, how their love will only grow, wish them luck, and then cheers! Boom. You're done. No need to embarrass anybody in the process. 

 

And yet… There are always stories about someone in the wedding party, like a bestie or close family member, giving some speech that absolutely annihilates the couple. Like, why do you have to relay the horrible story of the groom throwing up at some frat party in college during the speech? Or tell everyone how much of a gossiper the bride was growing up? Like, let them have ONE night. Lordy lord. 

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  • Here, we find a maid-of-honor giving a speech that is just simply bizarre. She knows the couple very well—the groom all of her life, and the bride all of the couple's relationship. And yet, when she gave her speech, she made sure everyone knew that she really doesn't know the bride at all… And that's it. 

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  • "Maid of Honor's bizarre speech claiming the bride was basically a stranger"

    Okay, I've lurked enough. Here's one of my wedding stories. It's not super out there but this is like my first ever post.
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  • The last wedding I went to was 2 years ago. The daughter of one of my mother's friends who I've known for maybe 20 years albeit from a distance. I don't know how old she is, somewhere in her 20s. I
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  • stopped counting years when I hit 40. She was marrying her BF who was a stand up guy and they shared a nice friend group The bride had a "Matron of Honor" and a "Maid of Honor". The "Matron of Honor" was a friend of
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  • hers who she had always been close with and who was married. The "Maid of Honor" was a friend of the bride and groom but, was a life long friend of the groom. She was asked to be "Maid of Honor" alongside the "Matron of Honor" for whatever reason.
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  • Everything is fine. The reception is fine. Then it's time for the speeches. The Matron of Honor gave a nice speech about love and commitment and happy futures. The Best Man gave a speech about love and growing together.
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  • The Maid of Honor, and I remind you that she had been friends with the groom her entire life and with the bride for several years, started by stating that she was surprised to have been asked to be Maid of Honor because "I hardly know the bride"
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  • and then spoke about them barely knowing each other for several minutes. Then she was done. That was the speech. My wife and I just sat there stunned. We had been to
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  • the bride's mothers house many times over the years and seen the Maid of Honor with the bride acting like old friends. They had vacationed together. We were sitting at the table with the bride's mother who sat
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  • there quietly for several minutes with a look on her face as if she was sucking on a lemon. Obviously we're all here because we've either all had an experience in common: wedding drama.
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  • Or at least love a good wedding drama story. It's unfortunate that so many people's wedding days are marred by other people's bizarre behavior or bad decisions.
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  • I don't know what or if anything happened between the bride and groom and the maid of honor after that. It's been a while now and I do know that they are no longer friends with the Maid of Honor. I could speculate
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  • that maybe the wedding speech has something to do with it but, I really don't know. I just thought this was a bizarre enough story to share.
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  • chicagok8 That's so sad and mean! would have been far kinder to decline giving a speech, or say something generic about love and commitment.
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  • BigJSunshine I bet the maid of honor was always into the groom, and this was some sour grapes bs
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  • SaliciousSeafoodSlut Honestly it would have been so easy to write a generic speech! Share a funny memory, say how lucky the couple is to have found each other, best wishes for the future, end with toast. People only remember the bad speeches at a wedding, anyways.
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  • PreOpTransCentaur Sounds like the kind of woman that hangs around waiting for her "turn," expecting every relationship the groom is in to eventually end and this one didn't. She probably doesn't know the bride, because she's only ever pretended to play nice for his sake.
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  • Isp2005 Did she have a torch for the groom? To me, that is a speech when she was playing pretend to like his girlfriend while secretly plotting how to undermine their relationship. Except this bride stuck and so she was not the consolation prize, she was nothing.
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  • brandonandtheboyds She definitely did. I'm a dude who has a best friend who's a woman. We're thick as thieves. I don't know her (now) husband all too well but we get along great when I visit them. One evening they asked to FT me and he ended up asking me to be one of his groomsmen. I was floored and honored. I, of course, said yes. Mostly I knew in my heart he was doing this out of respect of my friendship with his (then) fiancée. I had no speech to give as a simple groomsman but I was
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  • beaming the whole ceremony. Why? Because | was one of the first people to tell her to pursue him romantically and I couldn't have been happier for her to marry her special person and for my new bud to marry one of my closest friends. I can't imagine being jealous at all, let alone enough to embarrass yourself like the MOH in the post did.
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