It's wedding season, and some guests are thinking about planning surprises for the bride and groom.
But these sometimes turn out to be useless: appalling sketches, ridiculous choreographies, shabby speeches, slightly redundant slideshows… This is what can, alas,
germinate minds.
Our readers who have a sense of humor – or who demonstrate self-mockery – bear witness to these moments of disappointment.
We have all experienced this moment of loneliness.
The moment when you give a speech at the wedding of your best friend, and realize that you are having the biggest flop in history.
But most of the time, it is as a guest that one attends the fiasco of the performance of friends or family members of one of the spouses.
We then stifle a smirk, saying to ourselves “Shame!
Poor people ".
Even with good intentions, not everyone can boast of mastering public speaking.
Nor to be hilarious.
And some guests who have drunk a glass too many before going on stage end up being fine as coarse salt.
“As soon as he started talking, we all felt the discomfort!
»
Adrien, who responded to our call for witnesses, recalls with a smile the surreal scene he witnessed.
“One of the tipsy witnesses took the microphone.
He was obviously not at all prepared for the exercise.
As soon as he started talking, we all felt the discomfort!
He started to tell an old anecdote about the groom.
The latter, after spending an afternoon drinking cider, had had a dazzling explosion of shit in the middle of the street.
The situation may seem funny like that, but the parents and grandparents were appalled.
I believe that the groom and his best man remained on good terms despite everything.
The story does not say if they drank cider together!
".
Sometimes surprise speeches turn out to be poisonous gifts for the bride and groom.
And moments of intense embarrassment for their guests.
Christophe testifies to what he experienced at the wedding of a classmate: “It was common knowledge that this friend was far from being the most faithful man.
A very candid 16-year-old started the talk of her life.
First hiccup: his mother first asked him to wait for his father to come back from the toilet, all that at the microphone in front of 150 people.
Second discomfort: the teenager read his text very blue flower, which insisted on fidelity, honesty and respect in the couple.
Suffice to say that at the table of our 15 promotion colleagues, we were very embarrassed”.
Very bad idea too: the string of private jokes that make one of the two bride and groom smile at best,
“Humor is really too much of a joke”
Another pitfall to avoid: the revelations of compromising information.
Allusions to past conquests are a classic.
But not only.
Mélanie and her husband were entitled to it, when they thought they had everything well lined upstream.
“We had commissioned a friend to be the evening master, asked my family to sing a little song, prepared our own two-voice speech… We had obviously also planned a lot of alcohol.
During dinner, my in-laws give us an ultra-poetic and moving speech.
Our friends send the animations in Power Point and avoid embarrassing photos.
And all of a sudden, my little brother decides to improvise a stammer.
He takes the microphone, perfumes us with a breath of champagne, to say to my husband "I really love you very much… because you smoke!".
All my in-laws were unaware of it since for ten years, my husband had carefully concealed cigarettes, lighters and the smell of cigarette butts.
" Shame.
It is not uncommon for guests to engage in writing sketches.
But not everyone is Fabrice Eboué.
And the risk of wallowing is huge.
Not content with humiliating themselves, comedians of circumstance.
Antoine admits his bitter failure.
“At my aunt's wedding, my cousin and I re-enacted the different moments of the couple's meeting.
But we hadn't rehearsed much.
And improvisation, in the field of humor, is a profession.
As we struggled on stage, there was not a sound in the audience.
Not a laugh either, except that of my cousin from whom I had ordered a reaction, as fake as it was.
It was the longest 5 minutes of my life.
Me who considers myself very funny, it was a huge slap.
Humor is really too much of a joke, ”he concludes.
“No one ever told us about this great artistic moment!
»
The gallery of crashes is so long that one could write a novel about it.
How not to mention the silly songs, the quizzes on the boring bride and groom, the slideshows with borderline photos, the ridiculous choreographies...?
It is in this area that Catherine achieved a memorable poor performance with very good friends: “As I was a witness, I felt my wings grow.
What a mistake !
In general, I was satisfied to take part in the writing of a parody song.
But for once, I threw myself into a choreography on
Les Magnolias
of Claude François, embarking on my debacle three girlfriends and my husband.
Result: the latter sang out of tune and our choreography, barely rehearsed, looked more like a folk dance than a Clodettes performance.
And our costumes consisted of t-shirts bought on the fly that we had written rubbish on.
Luckily the guests had been drinking.
No one has ever told us about this great artistic moment!
".
But the nice thing about awkward moments is that you always end up laughing about it.
And that wedding films are used for “video-gag” evenings.
Company
Telework: "I only wore my underwear down", "My baby let out a huge fart"… They tell of their blunders during videoconferences
Company
Holiday club: “Herd of rednecks”, “disco under the window”, “cockroaches on the ground”… They tell their most rotten experiences
Company
Wedding
Family
Friends
Speech
Summer