re: My husband’s best friend proposed to his girlfriend during our wedding ceremony

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Man, weddings are too expensive in general.

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You think weddings are expensive? Try being married.

Trashy as frick.

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You think weddings are expensive? Try being married and having kids.

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FIFY

I wouldn't give a shite. I'd be happy for my friend. But my wife would kill someone.

John sounds like a piece of shite. I'd never speak to him again. Also, this story is fake as frick.

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have a hard time believing that happened.

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I'm fairly confident that these people are trash, and as such, I think this just might be possible. Here's why:

-child out of wedlock
-only started living with each other after the child was born
-bought a house together while still unmarried
-lived like this for "years" before they finally decided to tie the knot
-are apparently proud of their unconventional courtship
-spent 80k on a wedding (most people that do that are either loaded and don't care about money, or trash that happens to have more money than sense... considering she's not so subtly bragging about what they spent I'm going to assume the latter)
-apparently closely associates themselves with others who think it's cool to propose mid ceremony to their also pregnant before marriage girlfriend
-are uncouth enough to blast all of this out on social media in a plea for attention
-still seething weeks later over a ceremony that had almost zero significance because they've already been living as a married couple for quite some time, meaning this was nothing more than an expensive party

Yep. These people are all trash. Any one or two of those could be given a pass, but the combination is hard to excuse.

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Have you guys ever experienced a traditional Indian wedding? Guy I work with said they can get into hundreds of thousand. They are large, last for several days, and may include housing costs of many guests/family.

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Thats only for the upper crust of their society. There's no way a billion people are all having $100k+ weddings on the pay from answering technical support calls.

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I don't see why it's a big deal. How long does it take to propose to someone? 10 seconds? 30 seconds? A minute? So what if the bride wasn't main focus for one minute out of the whole damn day. Good grief. Why not just be happy for them and happy that something else great occurred on your wedding day?

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If it was during the wedding ceremony then I can see why the bride would be pissed. It doesn't matter how long it took them to do it, it is something that could have been done at another time. Personally, speaking for myself, if it happens it happens and there isn't anything that can be done to go back and change it so I wouldn't allow it to dictate the rest of my day.

That's just how I am. There are exceptions, but in general, I don't allow something that isn't within my control, to affect my attitude towards other aspects of my life, however; I do think it is disrespectful. My opinion on the money spent on weddings is based on logic (which doesn't always define reality. For example, if someone spends $10k on a wedding. I just think the logical thing to do is to go off and get married for much cheaper and use that money for something else, but to some people, it is worth spending that much money).

If someone has a wedding that they spent their money and time on, in order to celebrate their special day, it is disrespectful for someone there to use it as a stage for them to do something that takes the attention off of what is being celebrated. Like I said, I would not allow it to dictate the rest of the day, but I would think it is disrespectful and at an appropriate time, let that person know about it.

If it was at the wedding reception, it wouldn't be as bad, but this happened while they were getting married. In general, its disrespectful to interrupt anything while its going on. What if someone was getting their child baptized and right before the priest goes to pour water on the baby's head someone get's up and says "we want to let everyone know, we are having a child!"?

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My husband’s best friend proposed to his girlfriend during our wedding ceremony

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Get off my wave