Groom's friend cracks an insensitive joke at the wedding, leaves bride feeling humiliated

It happened at the moment the officiant posed the traditional question to the audience after the couple had exchanged their heartfelt vows. "We were saying our vows, and when we got to the part where they asked if anyone objected, my husband's friend purposefully started coughing," the bride wrote in her post.

While some guests laughed off the prank and the ceremony proceeded, the bride was left feeling disrespected by the rude interruption.

She decided not to make a scene after the other guy's action. However, a few days after her wedding, she decided to talk to her husband about that incident and remarked how "it wasn't the right time or place for his friend to make a joke." Her husband told her he chose not to react to his friend's actions either because it could have caused a bigger mess. "I felt like what his friend did was not funny. So much money, time and energy went into wedding planning and he decided to make the moment about him," the woman aired her frustration.

Though her husband tried to convince her that his friend was kidding, the woman failed to find anything funny about the incident. "This friend is twice divorced and he's said before that he doesn't like weddings. So that adds to why I don't believe that behavior was just an innocent joke. I want to let it go, but I feel upset. I wanted to elope and have an intimate wedding and my husband wanted a bigger wedding with his family and friends just for one of them to turn around and do that," she concluded. 

Reddit community sided with the bride and criticized the man who decided to interrupt an important day in the couple's life with his pointless reaction. However, some people had polarizing opinions and thought the prank wasn't a big deal. u/catladays wrote, "That was a really nasty thing for him to do, but honestly, your husband is right. If he had called attention to it, it would have been an even more embarrassing scene that no one would forget." u/BagelwithQueefcheese mentioned, "What an attention-seeking bully. No wonder why he's twice divorced. I'd call him out the next time I saw him and then limit contact."

u/HeyDickTracyCalled noted, "Yeah, the bride has him nailed correctly. He doesn't respect marriage or weddings and wanted to get his little jab in. No wonder he's twice divorced, and he sounds immature and bitter. He's one of those dudes who kills his wife's patience and spirits through a ton of little microaggressions like that." u/ivypurl added, "When people make idiots of themselves, I'm generally content to let them do that on their own. I think your husband did the right thing at the moment. Maybe he could have had a word with him privately afterward (meaning after that day), but at that moment, I think ignoring him was the right move."