Peach of a Speech

November 28, 2024 1:38 PM

Brother of Bride Wedding Speech (standing ovation) [June 2023] In which a very good and charming speech is given in a room full of friends and family, all of whom are quite attractive and wealthy, at an extremely gorgeous wedding. It is a mesmerizing nine minutes. Opinions may vary.

[I hope you'll pardon the editorializing,] but as a person who is unlikely to be either wealthy or surrounded by a large extended family in this way again (although I did attend large family gatherings up until about age 12 and we moved away - Do not recommend), I can't decide if I enjoy watching this video or if it just making me envious. I guess it felt a bit like watching the end of a romantic comedy, same idea? I thought other people might have an interesting opinion on some of that.

posted by Glinn (5 comments total)

Haven't watched the video yet, but I have witnessed myself, a few times, what a supportive, positive family situation looks like (whether well-off, genetically-blessed, or not)... and it underscores the fact that the family I grew up in fell short of that mark. Not cruel, not broken, but not fully-functioning either, despite our pretenses to the contrary. And the family cracks are harder to paper over as my Mom ages into dependence.

(sorry, just came back from a visit and it's fresh on my mind)
posted by Artful Codger at 2:38 PM on November 28

Those people are laughing waaay more than his speech deserves. It felt too weird, I quit out of bafflement after about two minutes.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:54 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]

The groom is a major player in international commercial real estate. Bride has a high powered job too. Which explains the gorgeous wedding venue in Italy, the top-notch videography (got all the reaction shots from the family including a perfect rack focus to another relative, to hit the best punchline in the speech!, that is VERY good visual storytelling and unheard of for a wedding video). And all the jokes about wealth (first class seats on the flight, gifting tennis tickets to the mom, fancy restaurants etc). In fact, there's so much money at this wedding there actually MAY have been a teleprompter in there somewhere.
posted by nouvelle-personne at 3:16 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]

Did he do that without cards or a teleprompter? Pretty good.
posted by Czjewel at 3:18 PM on November 28

This cements my studied opinion that weddings are soooo boring, regardless of how much money people spend on them.
In fact, they seem to be more boring when they're more expensive.
posted by signal at 3:54 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]