
“I knew, up to this point, that he had girlfriends that weren’t working out and he was kind of the third wheel.” White and Bryant began dating not long after her divorce. “I’m sure it was because he was really drunk and lonely,” she recalled thinking to herself at the time. “Then he got quiet.”įollowing her big day of festivities, a confounded White remembered hoping that she’d “misinterpreted” Bryant’s revelation of amour and tried sweeping his avowal “under the carpet” in her mind. “I asked him what he meant and he said, ‘Nothing. White recalled that while boogying with Bryant, he said, “Why didn’t you ever give me a chance? I would have always taken care of you.” Later that evening, White shared a dance with him while her new hubby cut a rug with her maid of honor. Kennedy News and Mediaīride didn’t stop reception when wedding guest almost died in photoboothīut his unbridled unbosoming didn’t stop at his best man’s speech. White claimed she tried to sweep Bryant’s profession of love “under the carpet,” hoping his revelation was nothing more than a byproduct of his loneliness. Bryant, in turn, reportedly got drunk and then publicly professed his love for her.

His adoring gaze aside, White proceeded on to her wedding and got married. I’d never had a moment of him looking at me like that.” “I said, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ He said I looked beautiful. Bryant came into my parents’ house and froze and stared at me,” she recounted. “On the wedding day, I walked into the living room, right when I was done getting ready with my wedding dress on and my hair done. White claims she never had romantic feelings for Bryant during their friendship. I didn’t really look at him in that way.”īut White vividly remembers the look of affection that Bryant wore when he saw her adorned in bridal garb on the morning she was to tie the knot with his pal. “I’ve been on double dates with him and I always tell people I wouldn’t have ever dated the person he was then,” White assured, adding that, at the time, “He had a lot of growing up to do. “I set Bryant up so many times,” she said. They did everything together,” White said, insisting that she did not harbor any romantic feelings for her now-husband during their formative years. “Bryant and my ex-husband became best friends and, because they were guys, they did a lot together. The three formed a tight buddies bond shortly thereafter. ‘Best man’ dog steals the show at Michigan couple’s weddingĪfter showing him a picture of her then-beau, Bryant immediately recognized the kid as someone who shared the same lunch period as him. I fell in love with her,'” Desiree recalled her now-husband saying at her previous wedding. “He said, ‘I remember the first moment I saw Desiree, I loved her. Then I found out she already had a boyfriend and I thought I needed to find out a way to get her, but then I met and we became friends,’” she recalled. “He said, ‘She’s the best person I’ve ever met.

I thought she was the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen in my life,’” White, from Illinois, told Kennedy News and Media of Bryant’s best man’s speech during her 2010 matrimony. Well, such was the case for Desiree White, 32, who ultimately divorced her husband to marry her lifelong friend and the best man at her wedding, Bryant, after he confessed his undying love for her while toasting her nuptials to his then-best friend.

I prepared for weeks for my wedding – but threw it all away days beforeįirst comes love, then comes marriage - then comes the best man to steal the bride away from the groom at the wedding? My friends found out I am getting married - 2 years after my secret engagement I’m a ‘professional’ bridesmaid and this is the worst part of the job ‘Drunk’ wedding guest nearly sets venue on fire, keeps dancing
