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"I hope this best man at least gave a decent gift! Writes Save the Date reader Corinne: I recently get married and our wedding was fantastic. Except for one thing: The best man&amp;#x27;s speech REALLY hurt my feelings! The best man lives abroad so I didn&amp;#x27;t meet him until our wedding weekend and I had no idea what to expect. My groom, who obviously knows him well, was concerned about the speech and asked to see it beforehand, but the guy didn&amp;#x27;t have his speech written. Fast-forward to our reception and the speech was AWFUL. He clearly hadn&amp;#x27;t thought about it beforehand and was totally rambling and unprepared. And drunk. He started off telling everyone that my groom and I fight all the time. (We don&amp;#x27;t.) And he used the phrase &amp;quot;epic battles&amp;quot; a bunch. It was humiliating. Fortunately another friend took over the microphone after five torturous minutes. At the time I had no choice but to laugh it off, but it was awful. After the wedding I told my husband how upset I was about the speech. He hasn&amp;#x27;t been to many weddings, so he didn&amp;#x27;t get just how out-of-line the speech was. I&amp;#x27;m hurt by how mean it was and that they guy couldn&amp;#x27;t bother to prepare a speech ahead of time or stay sober long enough to give one. So here&amp;#x27;s my problem: This guy is my husband&amp;#x27;s best friend, but he really caused a scene and offended me. (My friends are STILL talking about how inappropriate it was!) My husband reached out to his friend and told him how upset I was, but he hasn&amp;#x27;t apologized. What should I do? Here are my thoughts: You said yourself that your wedding was otherwise &amp;quot;fantastic,&amp;quot; so I think you&amp;#x27;re going to have to let this one go. I agree that this guy did a mean, hurtful thing. I think you had every right to be upset, and I applaud you for grinning and bearing it instead of freaking the freak out. But the speech is over. The wedding is over. And I&amp;#x27;m assuming this guy has packed his bags and traveled back to Douche Land, or wherever it is that he&amp;#x27;s living abroad. It would be great if he apologized, but based on what you&amp;#x27;ve told me, this guy probably isn&amp;#x27;t the the type to send an &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m Sorry&amp;quot; bouquet. And if you make your groom call this guy and demand an apology, you&amp;#x27;re just stirring up drama. Plus, an apology that you have to beg for probably isn&amp;#x27;t going to be all that sincere. The good news is, this guy isn&amp;#x27;t a part of your lives. He&amp;#x27;s not going to be watching the game with your husband when you get home tonight and you don&amp;#x27;t have to go to his birthday party or invite him over for dinner. Leave the past where it is and instead focus on enjoying the present. And don&amp;#x27;t let five rotten minutes ruin your memories of your wedding. If a friend brings up the horrible speech again, remind her of something super-fun that happened. &amp;quot;Yeah, that sucked. But we had a blast dancing all night!&amp;quot; If you let it go, I&amp;#x27;m sure everyone else will, too. Ladies, what do you think? Should Corrine demand an apology? Have a wedding-y dilemma of your own? E-mail me! More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! I Can&amp;amp;#8217;t Afford the Wedding I Want!&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! We Want to Elope&amp;amp;#8212;But How Will We Tell Our Families?&amp;amp;#8221; * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! Registering Is So Overwhelming!&amp;amp;#8221; Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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