A proposal is meant to be an incredibly special and memorable moment. Sometimes, people choose to keep this moment private while others like to share it with their loved ones. Unfortunately, because jerks need to be jerks at every opportunity, proposals can turn tacky and inconsiderate pretty quickly. As one Florida couple found out, you should learn to read the room before you decide to hog the spotlight, especially when you’re guests at a wedding.
Shared by The Sun on TikTok, the video shows to be a beautiful moment of a couple proposing. At least until you notice a bride is in the background and they’re guests at a wedding. He’s down on one knee and both his girlfriend and the bride are dumbfounded. The poor bride didn’t even have time to get out of her wedding gown.
Surprisingly, the bride tells the couple (who are also friends) that “it’s okay” he decided to propose at her wedding. Furthermore, the bride encourages her friend to “say yes,” which she does. It’s met with a ton of cheers, including the groom himself. Everyone seems pretty happy for them though, admittedly, her fiancé should know better. There are a million-and-one ways to propose, and this is not one of them.
On social media, the moment was immediately pinned for what it was: a disrespect.
“Proposing at a wedding is CHEAP!! As a bride, I’d send over an invoice,” read one comment with several hundred likes. Now that’s petty (and I love it!) Maybe he’s too cheap to come up with something original?
“I’m wearing white and announcing my pregnancy at theirs,” another joked. And don’t forget butting into their baby shower photos.
Another commenter went for the jugular by stating, “That was inappropriate and a pathetic way to hijack the attention from the wedding couple.”
What it ultimately did was take away from the bride and groom, the two people who should be celebrated. Even if you’re friends, doing that defeats the purpose of the celebration. And who proposes in public, anyway? That puts people in such awkward positions (and the bride even encouraged her friend to say yes). In school teachers called that peer pressure.
