Imagine standing at your wedding, basking in love—only for your best man to steal the spotlight with his proposal!
That’s exactly what happened to today’s anonymous guest. In this jaw-dropping episode, Christa dives into the shocking moment that turned a dream wedding into an unexpected showdown. From the best man’s ill-timed question to the groom’s furious reaction, this story is one for the books. How do you move on when your special day is overshadowed? And what happened after the proposal?
Tune in for all the unbelievable details, wedding chaos, and lessons learned!
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Episode Chapter Markers
00:00 Introduction
02:54 Setting the Scene: The Wedding Day Highlights
04:09 The Best Man’s Speech Takes a Wild Turn
05:34 The Proposal That Left Everyone Speechless
06:24 The Groom’s Explosive Reaction
07:59 Champagne and Chaos: The Aftermath
10:14 Wedding Guests React: Shock, Support, and Drama
11:44 How the Bride Feels About It Now
21:00 Reddit Story: Proposing at a Wedding
29:24 Exciting News and Future Plans
Must-Hear Insights and Key Moments
- The Wedding Day Bliss – A look into the beautiful, intimate wedding before the drama unfolded.
- When the Best Man Stole the Show – What started as a heartfelt speech turned into something unbelievable.
- The Groom’s Furious Reaction – He didn’t hesitate—his reaction left guests shook.
- The Bridesmaid’s Awkward Dilemma – What do you do when you’re proposed to at someone else’s wedding?
- How It All Ended – The aftermath, the emotions, and where they all stand now.
Words of Wisdom: Standout Quotes from This Episode
- “Your wedding day is supposed to be about you. How did it feel when it wasn’t?” – Christa Innis
- “I just have to ask—how did your bridesmaid react? Because wow.” – Christa Innis
- “I looked at my husband and thought—what the heck is going on?” – Anonymous Guest
- “We paid for this wedding ourselves, and then… this happened.” – Anonymous Guest
- “My groom wasn’t having it. He grabbed the guy by his collar and dragged him out!” – Anonymous Guest
- “My maid of honor handed me a bottle of champagne. She knew exactly what I needed.” – Anonymous Guest
- “Even now, I still can’t believe he thought this was okay.” – Anonymous Guest
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Blog Transcript:
Note: We use AI transcription so there may be some inaccuracies
Christa Innis: Hi there, thanks for joining me today.
Anonymous Guest: Thank you for having me, I appreciate it.
Christa Innis: Yeah, so, um, I want to start off by reading the confession that you sent me over on Instagram. And it says, my husband’s best man proposed to his girlfriend during his best man speech. And this, like, had my jaw dropped when I read it. This was when I was just like, oh my gosh, the T is crazy today. Um, I couldn’t believe that it actually happened to someone because we hear about these stories happening. And that’s when I posted a story asking everyone to send me their opinions. And so I asked if you would want to come on and share some more details to what happened.
And we’re going to keep you anonymous. We’re going to keep the people involved anonymous. But we want to hear a real life story firsthand because people people are like, wait, This actually happened. We’re going to get into people’s responses, but first things first. How are you doing after everything is said and done? I know it’s been, been a little while, um, but how are you doing?
Anonymous Guest: I’m doing as well as can be expected. Um, our wedding anniversary is coming up very soon in April, so we’re looking forward to one year of marriage, so yay to us. Um, when this happened, we were, well, stunned as can be. Um, how do I go into words about this one?
Christa Innis: Yeah, you know what, let’s, let’s not to cut you off, let’s go to the actual day. Tell everyone what kind of happened starting off. Um, You can talk about the highs of your wedding day first if you want, and if you want to get to that point, um, and then we’ll, yeah, just kind of go from there.
Anonymous Guest: My apologies, I’m sorry.
The Unbelievable Wedding Speech Proposal
No, you’re good. My best man was giving his speech. It was a great speech to begin with. Talking about us as a couple, then going on about, like, how it’s going to be even more special. He mentioned that he wanted to make this day extra special. So, he got to my bed. One of my bridesmaids, who was also his girlfriend at the time, he got down on one knee and he proposed.
And I looked at my husband and was like, forgive me, forgive me for saying this, but what the heck is going on? And he didn’t know what was going on. And of course, the bridesmaid, my best friend, well, one of my best friends, I should say, because everyone was like What was going on? Can we pause for a second?
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
Um, he was making his best man speech. He was so very romantic to talk about our relationship, everything. He kept going around the bridesmaid and one of My best girlfriend was one of the bridesmaids and he went toward her and he got down on one knee and he proposed to her in front of all of my friends and family.
And we had a very small wedding because we paid for it ourselves. We had maybe 50, 60 guests because that’s all we could afford. And me and my new husband were utterly shocked. My husband got up, he took off his coat. He grabbed the groomsman by the neck of the collar, back of his neck, of his collar, and dragged him outside.
The best man who still had the mic in his hand yells like, wait, I didn’t get an answer. And gosh, you could hear the best man. From the outside. It’s like, hey, wait a minute. And one of the guests grabbed the mic before you could actually hear what was going on outside. He’s like, wait, wait, wait. You could hear a little bit.
It’s like, what is going on out there? You could hear some ruffling and scuffling. I still don’t know what fully went on out there. And my maid of honor, God bless her. She brought me a whole bottle of champagne. And I love her for that. I just like, do you just want a glass of it? Nope. Give me the bottle. Give me the bottle.
Christa Innis: Wait. So, okay. So when he first got down on his knee, so I’m assuming, did you guys have like one of those head tables where everyone’s up front? Like sitting like bridesmaids and groomsmen. So did he get in front of that bridesmaid and get on his knee? And did it click for you right away?
Like that’s what’s happening? Or you’re like, what is he doing?
Anonymous Guest: Yes, and I only had one maid of honor and one bridesmaid, so I only had two people in my wedding party. So my maid of honor and a bridesmaid, so it was kind of even more awkward. So I had two party because that’s all we could afford.
Christa Innis: Yeah,
Messy Return to the Reception
Anonymous Guest: so so just a small party because I it’s just me my husband and my daughter and my daughter is Three and a half years old.
She is my light and This well now ex best friend Well ex friend I should say I keep calling her my best friend Because she felt like a best friend to me at that. That’s where I put her in my wedding party I wouldn’t want someone I knew that well in my wedding party And just like, why on that day, they came back in the park into the party.
He, his hair was messed up. His shirt was unbuttoned. Um, pants were Little ripped and this was a rental suit. What?
Christa Innis: Wait, so after your husband brought him out of the room into the hall was the bridesmaid just sitting there Or was she did she go out there too?
Anonymous Guest: Um, she was just sitting there. She had the ring on her finger So he put the ring on her
Christa Innis: finger before he got pulled out
Anonymous Guest: Uh huh.
Christa Innis: But she didn’t say yes at that point yet? No. No. Was she like, was she
Anonymous Guest: like waiting for something to happen? I, I still don’t know. I think she was going to say yes, even though they’ve only been dating for like three and a half months. Wait, really?
Christa Innis: Only three and a half months? And he thought the best time to do it was at his best friend’s wedding?
Pretty much. Yeah. So, and the other thing is too, it’s like, it’s your friends and family. It’s an intimate small wedding. It’s not a huge wedding where he’s already family. So his family and friends are there. They’re now expecting your family and friends to celebrate them.
Anonymous Guest: Exactly. Exactly. So I’m just like, what’s going on?
And I’m like, My best, my maid of honor is trying to calm me down. Like he came back to his seat. I asked him what is going on. It’s like, don’t worry. I took care of it. I’m like, what do you mean? You took care of it. It’s like don’t worry about it and I couldn’t figure it out like what do you mean you took care of it?
It’s like don’t worry about it for the rest of the night and I kept trying to figure out what he meant Until later on in the night and I noticed um his shoes he broke He broke his shoes, um, his rental shoes. He didn’t have the soles of his shoes on, he broke his shoes. And I noticed the back of his head, um, you know how the button ears have on the shirts?
The button ears on the shirt? Um, he broke part of his shirt on the button ear shirt. And on the back of his jacket, um, he broke the jacket. He ripped the jacket in half. So that’s why you didn’t have the jacket. So the groomsman had to pay for the jacket. Like, he tore his whole wedding suit apart. The groomsman ripped his jacket?
No, the, the, my husband ripped the jacket. He tore his entire wedding suit apart. When he pulled him outside? Yeah, he beat him up pretty much. Oh my gosh. I know he’s had his best charges, truthfully. So. Whoa.
Christa Innis: If he’s crazy. So then he comes back in with your husband and they act like, he acts like nothing happens.
He still goes up to his now fiance. She says yes, jumps up and down, right? Of course.
“This Is My Engagement Party Now!”
Anonymous Guest: My maid of honor told her to sit, to sit down. Like, this isn’t your day not to celebrate. Yeah. It’s like, do not make this day about you. It’s like, but this is my engagement par engagement party now. She thought we should make this day about her as well.
She said this is my engagement party now? Yes. What?! Yeah, it’s like, we should make this day about me as well.
Christa Innis: That is bonkers! Oh my gosh.
Anonymous Guest: Wow. I made a Yeah.
Christa Innis: That’s the thing, like, so I forgot to mention to everyone is that this, I made it into a skit, and so many people were like, oh, it’s not that bad, blah blah blah blah blah.
No, this is bad. This is really bad because not only did they not ask for permission, they, it was a small intimate wedding. They took that from you. You paid for it all yourselves. You invited people that you were like, these are close friends. We, people we love and we trust. And then on top of that, then they want to turn it into their own engagement party, completely negating any feelings you had about the whole situation.
Anonymous Guest: Correct. It was. And I was in tears. My maid of honor took me to the bathroom to, uh, dry my tears. Because we had like maybe 50, 60 guests. I rented my wedding dress because I couldn’t afford a wedding dress. And I know that’s stupid to say, but I wanted something, something I could have. So I bought like a little, I borrowed a wedding dress for the ceremony and bought a little party dress.
Mm hmm. For the reception, just a cute little something I got from the store. So, silly, my friend’s like, you should just spend money, but it’s like, you’re a single family. You don’t need the luxury things. Mm hmm. So, why not? So, I spent like maybe 200 on my dress, and my friend made the cupcakes for free. Mm hmm.
So. So. So. dried my tears. We came back. I came back out and she was gonna do her maid of honor speech. They were out there with our photographer doing photos. around, showing off the engagement ring, all this wonderful stuff, like, we’re engaged. They’re in front of the
Christa Innis: photographers getting photos taken?
Yeah. Okay, so I need to know, I know I’m kind of jumping the gun, but did they try to get those photos from you?
Anonymous Guest: My photographer wouldn’t release them.
Christa Innis: Wouldn’t?
Anonymous Guest: They wouldn’t. Oh, good, good. I mean, sure, that’s the one thing, because my photographer was also one of my friends, so she did my photography for like 150 for me.
Amazing. And she’s also my daughter’s grand godmother, so that helps the situation. Yes. Yay! For deals. You find the deals where you can get them. Absolutely. Take advantage of it, what you can find. And I was like, don’t do this today. So we all sat down, back to saying my maid of honor did her little speech and made fun of the situation, like made little jokes about him on the side that only he would get.
And it kind of irritated him. Irritated him a little bit. Like, you shouldn’t be saying these things about me. And just like, made little jokes. And then she knew my daughter was here. Well, was here. Was there. So, she grabbed my daughter from her little seat. Cause we made like a little kiddie table on the side.
For her to be part of the wedding party.
Christa Innis: So like
Anonymous Guest: a little kiddie table with like a princess, princess crown, everything like that. So she, and she came out, they did a little dance, they worked on together and it was just such a cute addition to the party. I love that. Like, and that just really made my day.
You
Christa Innis: need a maid of honor like that. That’s going to be like, hold on, let me take care of this. Exactly.
Anonymous Guest: And people, like, what’s with the, what’s with the little dance? The dance was perfect. What’s made it even better, like, she was dancing with my daughter. Daughter. I can’t talk today. I’m so sorry.
You’re okay. You’re good. She was dancing with my daughter and she had a glass of champagne and my bridesmaid’s little dresses they were just cheap little dresses they were like a purplish color and she went over to my other bridesmaid and she accidentally slipped and it fell on the dress it’s like oops and it was a little champagne it’s like oops sorry this slipped it’s like you ruined my dress it wasn’t on accident
Christa Innis: Yeah, I’m surprised, um, your bridesmaid stayed after that so she was like proudly walking around with that new ring and Acting like this was not her engagement party She had no shame about how it all went down Thought it was totally fine the way he did that after only dating for three and a half months.
I can’t even get over that To take that moment from you guys. Did you have any idea of? Like he was going to do this or anything I got feeling no, so you’re completely blindsided
Anonymous Guest: No, oh my
Christa Innis: god,
Anonymous Guest: the champagne. We just got for our little table. Everything else was just like Beer and little stuff you can get from the store.
That’s the one thing I splurged a little bit because I just wanted to think for me to celebrate.
Christa Innis: Yeah.
Anonymous Guest: So, so
Family Reactions to the Proposal
Christa Innis: where does everything like, okay, let’s talk about really quickly. How did your family and other guests that were there react? Did anyone say anything to you or did they make faces? Did they try to like move past it?
Like what went on with that?
Anonymous Guest: Well, on both sides of our family, um, both of our parents are gone. Okay, so my uncle, uncle’s aunt, they were really upset to say that. Yeah. Cousin, she wanted to teach him a new one. Let’s put it that way. And she does CrossFit on the side, so she could deadlift him in a second and throw him over something, a bridge.
She’s like, I know people. I can put a hit on here if you want me to. It’s like, please don’t do that. It’s like, I love you, but please don’t do that. It’s like, but this is your day. Please don’t put a hit on somebody. It’s like, but it’d be fun. It’s like, we’re not going to put a hit on somebody. Oh gosh, I love you, but please don’t, but it’s just like, it’s just, it’s thought that they cared about me and they stayed for the entire reception.
They left. It’s like, and at the end of the night, he’s like, can we get a ride with you guys? I’m like, no. It’s like, please know we’re going home with our family and going to enjoy a family night together.
Christa Innis: Yeah.
The Aftermath: No Apology, No Awareness
Anonymous Guest: It’s like, go do your own thing, please. Okay. And the next. Oh, I’m sorry. Go ahead. Um, next morning they said, you guys do want to go get brunch?
They wanted to go get brunch.
Christa Innis: So they had no idea still that they did something wrong. They were just living in their own la la land. Pretty
Anonymous Guest: much,
Christa Innis: yeah.
Anonymous Guest: What?
Christa Innis: After how
Anonymous Guest: you guys reacted? Yeah, they wanted to go get brunch. They want to go still go mini golfing, do everything that we have planned for next day.
Christa Innis: Without, did they apologize once?
Anonymous Guest: No.
Christa Innis: Not even for the timing? The timing wasn’t right.
Anonymous Guest: No, I’m still getting messages from her on other platforms, like, still, like, what’s going on, everything like that. Oh
Christa Innis: my gosh. So, how does your relationship stand with them today? I know you said ex friend. Does your husband talk to his friend?
Cause that’s really hard. I mean, that was his best man. That’s your bridesmaid. She’s asking you, like, what’s going on? Has there been any communication?
Anonymous Guest: On my side with her, no. He’s trying to open that wound back up. Cause this was his friend since 6th grade. Okay, your husband’s
Christa Innis: trying to open it back up?
Anonymous Guest: Okay. So he’s trying. I’m like, if you do, keep me out of it. Okay. Keep my child out of it.
Christa Innis: Cause what happens when they invite you guys to the wedding?
Anonymous Guest: They’re actually already married.
Christa Innis: Oh! They already got married.
Anonymous Guest: They got married on New Year’s Eve and they are expecting.
Christa Innis: Okay. Okay. So were you at the wedding or did they do a private?
Anonymous Guest: You were like, I’m not going close. So,
Christa Innis: okay. Okay. So no invite. They probably didn’t want to invite anybody because they were gonna afraid that karma was gonna get
Anonymous Guest: them in the back.
Audience Reactions: Outrage and Shock
Christa Innis: Oh My god Okay, so like I said earlier, I think I said this before I started recording but when this story when he first sent me this story I Opened it up to the audience to my followers to kind of said like their reactions So I want to read a few of these reactions and this was probably the most Responded to thing that I ever ever got I put a little question box people could submit things I would say I probably had like Over a hundred, 200 responses from people.
So these are their responses. I said, what would you do in this situation? Someone said, I would want my husband to address the best man, not make me be the bad guy. Someone said shocked and angry, not well. My anger issues could not. I would not be happy. I’m not a big spotlight person, but let the bride and groom have their day.
This person, who seems like an odd, odd response here, says overjoyed. I believe in sharing love as long as the girlfriend wanted a public proposal. I am so, no, don’t do that. If you want a public proposal, find a different spot. Um, This person says I’d wait until the initial hullabaloo was over, hullabaloo was over, and then ask them to leave.
Um, did you think about asking them to leave?
Anonymous Guest: Oh, I should, I should have asked them to leave, but I only had, um, What, if I had more of a wedding party? I probably would’ve, but, mate, I probably should’ve looked back. I probably should’ve had them leave. Just have my maid of honor and best man. Well, I didn’t have my best man.
Was, I just have the groomsman.
Christa Innis: Yeah,
Anonymous Guest: my groomsman was like, I want no part of this.
Christa Innis: I know it’s almost like like hearing story I’m like, okay like we can we can say he’s like super naive and did that but to then be a Trailing around using your photographer acting like it’s their engagement party Like that’s someone that literally wants to steal the spotlight from someone else.
They have like crept up jealousy or Anger or something where they want to make you feel bad. So I read that as just completely disrespectful. Um, okay. I’m going to read a couple more. It says my face wouldn’t say anything at the moment, but my, but later I would sure be asking them to leave. I would turn off the mic, ask them to leave.
I’d probably be too shocked to react. This person says a swift, a swift punch to the throat. It wasn’t, it would be an option. Um. It said, if they ran it by us first, maybe, but other than that, why, or other than that, that’s a big hell no. So I would say most people agree that that’s completely disrespectful and wrong.
There’s random people in there that are like, I wouldn’t make a big deal of it, but you didn’t make a big deal about it. You had a normal reaction to something that was kind of crazy. And like I said, If he was just kind of naive and maybe like, snuck off to the side and they did it where no one saw them and didn’t make a big deal.
Okay, that’s still not great, but it’s better, but the fact that they did it during a speech where everyone can see at a small intimate wedding and then parade around trying to get like private photos and all that and showing the ring off, it’s just terrible.
Anonymous Guest: Yeah, it’s one for the books. I always pictured my wedding as a peaceful day, relaxing, nothing like this.
Yeah. You know what? Once in a lifetime, it’s something I’ll always remember.
Christa Innis: Yeah, that’s true. How are, how are you today with everything? Like looking back on your memories, are you able to highlight the positive memories, like your amazing maid of honor, the amazing, like, uh, I know you talked about your daughter being involved in the wedding, so those are some really amazing moments to look back on and kind of block out the negativity.
Right.
Anonymous Guest: Oh, my daughter’s my lifesaver. My daughter and my husband are my godspens. That’s all I can say. They are my saving graces and I love them. Hm, my daughter more right now, but hey. I love my daughter more right now, but hey. Everyone has a favorite in the household. Yeah, yeah, I get that. And my maid of honor will always be my best friend for saving me that day.
I love that. And I think when all this happened, I was probably numb from shock. I probably was angry inside. Yep. I’m not gonna lie, I was probably angry. I just didn’t know how to react. Yeah, definitely.
Christa Innis: Well, I think so. Yeah. And I think here too is like, people hear these stories and they’re like, Oh my gosh, like weddings bring out the worst in people. But to kind of do a little spin on this, I think it can bring the best out in other people. So you saw a side of your maid of honor, like, wow, she really loves me, protects me and supports me. My husband immediately got behind my back, stood up against him, you know, like all these amazing people in your life.
Um, and it’s really unfortunate that happened this way, but True colors come out and it’s it’s a it’s sometimes a good thing that it reveals the true colors of people because you’re like You know what? I’m not gonna have someone like that in my life
Anonymous Guest: Exactly. Exactly. And I can’t wait to be my maid of honor’s maid of honor in her wedding in October.
So yeah. So since getting married in October, I can’t wait to do that job and hopefully we won’t have the same reaction.
Christa Innis: Exactly. Yeah. And you’ll know exactly what to do to make sure she stays relaxed and excited on her day and block out all the negativity.
Anonymous Guest: Negativity. Yeah. I just got to get to New York.
That’s the only place I got to get to. Exactly. And my daughter is the flower girl. So perfect. Perfect.
Christa Innis: Amazing. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming on. I know it’s like a hard story to like come back to and talk about, but like I said, I hope you’re able to like pull positives out it that you have amazing people that support you and love you.
And, um, thanks for sharing.
Anonymous Guest: Oh, no worries. Hope this helps other people in this situation.
Christa Innis: Yeah, absolutely.
Anonymous Guest: All right. Thank you so much. I do appreciate it.
Christa Innis: Yeah. Thank you.