Worst Toast You've Ever Heard

@thefunbean....I don't think a birthday shout out is bad but this girl is 36! She doesn't need us to sing her the entire frickin bday song! I thought it was funny because it was so awkward but my husband was LIVID!

@Promike Oh, totally agree, that's so tacky to take over the toast to announce the birthday of someone else!! And the birthday shout-out will NOT include singing the entire Happy Birthday song. It's not a birthday party - it's a wedding.

All the ones I've seen/heard have been okay except for some inappropriate jokes that I can't remember! But, I am a tad bit nervous about my sisters (MOH) speech. She told me she will take some shots and wing it. I love her death, but she can be highly inappropriate and a little mean. I just hope it goes smoothly!

At one of the last weddings we were at, the FOB was telling a story about when the bride was in high school and the neighbor talked to him about what he saw in her window. FOB said he would talk to her and proceeded to tell us about how he told her she needed to find a new hiding spot for her bottle of tequila and bong. Grandparents were not impressed....

Ugh at a friends wedding the best man was literally so completely wasted that we have NO idea what he said. He was stumbling and mumbling and all we could do was watch horrified. It seemed to last forever .... no idea why the groom / someone didn't stop him at some point.

@Promike & @ funbean - I wish it was someone's birthday at my wedding so we could have sung Happy Birthday and made my JW parents uncomfortable. So do the birthday shout out. They need to stop trying to impose their religion on other people! -sorry JW's make me angry.

@thefunbean We don't all impose. I would completely not be offended if I was at a friends wedding and there was a birthday shout-out. I don't celebrate birthdays but I get that you do, no big deal to me. I would be a little uncomfortable with sitting there while happy birthday was sung. But I'm use to it. So again, not that big of an issue for me. Of course not all JWs are the same. That's sweet of you for thinking about their feelings

@SwoleMates2016 Thanks! I just wouldn't want them to fly out here for our wedding and then have to be uncomfortable at the reception. I think a simple birthday shout-out should be fine (I stand by no singing haha!).

@thefunbean No problem! I'm use to being the resident JW who answers all sorts of interesting questions, ha.

@Staci that was just one part of the toast. It was like 80 million stories about things they did together growing up and playing football in highschool, etc. Overall just WAY too long. Like pick a couple things, he didnt need to recap their entire childhood.

@Angela we were all dying after that. Poor FH just looked baffled and waived back at his dad. You could actually hear the facepalm from FFIL.

Not too bad really, but the BM at our wedding forgot his speech at home and just kept saying "Oh, man I forgot my speech. I really can't remember any of it. Oh man, this is bad." He finally did manage to throw out some pleasant comments about liking me and being glad DH and I were going to be happy together. It was his brain went "Quick! What do most BM speeches say? Just say something nice about the bride!! Make up anything!"

At my friends wedding, the FOB of the bride went on about how religion has to be a big part of marriage and life etc and they are both not religious at all. You could see that they were slightly uncomfortable. The speak also went on forever, I didn't hear most of it though, since I was sitting right next to a fountain.

I went to my cousins wedding in 2013 and his wife's MOH made a long, long toast and referred to herself as Jessica's "Homosexual spouse" (first time was funny) Then it got awkward as all hell, she kept saying it and making side comments that were uncalled for and even Jessica looked horrified. I was embarrassed for her.

At my younger brother's wedding, both my dad and older brother made an absurd number of, "Now you'll never get the upper hand/you'll never get the last word....' jokes. It felt like 1950, in the south, not 2015 in Baltimore-- I was pretty disappointed in them both.

At my friends wedding her fil's speech was a 10 minute long sing along where he invited his friend from work to sing too. She didn't even know the words to the songs. Ugh

I went to a wedding where the Brother of the groom started off with "Okay, this speech has a poop joke in it."

It did, and it was awkward.

We went to another wedding where the bride's dad did the ceremony and he kept saying things like he hoped the groom turns out to be as good looking as he (the dad) is in old age.. what?

At a wedding recently the father of the bride went on for over 10 minutes about random, unfunny stories about his daughter. Then the MOH turned to all the fiesta sitting behind her and was like "don't worry that my back is turned, this speech isn't for you anyway." What?