I've been asked to be best man by someone who I don't really like and I didn't think liked me much either. I can't see myself doing it. Has anyone ever declined the oppertunity to be best man?
shouldnt you find out what the bridesmaids look like before declining?
if you really don't like him, you could go a long way to ruining the best day of his life...
and you'll have to organise his stag do.
Just forget his return ticket from wherever....
and I didn't think liked me much either
He doesn't and wants to see you squirm. Bastard.
😀
If you don't really like him and you think he feels the same about you why on earth did he ask you to be his best man in the first place?
+1 for the "forgotten" rtn ticket btw 😉
Maybe nobody else likes him either and you were the best option.
I don't know why he asked me, nor does anyone else who knows us. I told my girlfriend and she said he must be desperate, perhaps he asked other people first and they turned him down. I would make a crap best man, I'm boring disorganised and unreliable, I've quit smoking and drinking too.
I've quit smoking and drinking too.
Designated driver right there - enjoy the piss-up
How long since he asked you? If its today, then you still have the chance to lie convincingly, if not you've lost your window of oppertunity.
Yup - dead easy to have a hospital appointment that day...
Grow some and tell him no. When he asks why just tell him you don't like him.
If you do end up doing it, make sure your speach includes the following...
"Usually the bestman speach includes a bit about how the groom is a great guy...well I don't particularly like him so this bit was a challenge."
Actually, maybe that could be your entire speach.
He emailed to ask me, the email was sent 2 days ago but like I said I'm disorganised and unreliable, I didn't open my email inbox till this morning.
I would suggest that you develop a phobia about public speaking.
And possibly Tourette's syndrome.
just say: "no thanks mate, I'm too disorganised... and I hate giving speeches"
no feelings hurt and you get out of it.
then if he still invites you, it is time to fake a prior engagement.
Dave
Well at least you know how to start your speech 😉
Agree and then...
I'm disorganised and unreliable
Forget to turn up!
Get hammered and chat up the bride?
Why don't you just tell him you're flying out that day for a holiday?
Get hammered and knock up the bride?
FTFY
He asked you via email? Sounds like one of those manly bonding moments with your mates, over a few beers 😯
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Listen to Zammo.
what binners say WTF asks over email?
Add a link to this thread in your e-mailed reply.
Ha ha ha nice one 🙂
WTF asks over email
Someone who expects the answer to be no I'd imagine
Ask him not to go through with the wedding, as you have loved him ever since you met.
That may scare him off. May.
Just be honest and sound with him, even if you think he's a dick.
Everybody wins.
Emails get lost 8)
*accidentially* drop some liquid LSD in his pre-wedding breakfast cuppa tea.
Then laugh your nuts off, and he's tripping his off all throughout his wedding.....
I've been in exactly this position, agreed out of guilt, and regretted it ever since. If you don't want to do it, do yourself a favour and don't do it.
Church wedding?
Try refusing on non-religious grounds?
Other than that just tell him to f*** off.
And possibly Tourette's syndrome.
My best man developed that. It was ace!
Just ignore it and if he asks again just say you thought he was joking.
Thanks for the laughs everyone. I emailed him back saying I didn't want to do it as we don't really see eye to eye, I suggested his brother as a more suitable best man. He replied, his brother said no, as did 4 other people so I'm 6th in line to decline.
Jeez.
Email him back saying "that's because you're a c***"
lol
tell him you don't think it would be approprate after you had that affair with his wife, she got pregnant, wasn't sure if the kid was yours or his so aborted. "gosh, really, you mean she never mentioned it?"
this has the benefit that he'll probably never speak to you again and is pretty unlikely to ask you to best man at the next wedding (which probably isn't that far away if you do tell him)
haha...oh dear.
It's got to suck to be him right now.
6 declines? Really? That's pretty sad to be honest 🙁
Is he a complete nobjockey? He can't be too bad surely if someone's agreeing to spend the rest of their life with him. Or is she mail order blide? 😀
hehe, proper billy no mates.
I always thought that asking your brother was the cop out for people without a good enough mate to ask.... sounds like he doesn't even have family who like him!
That's quality. He's been turned down 6 times, including by his own brother?!!! He really must be a right ****!!! 😀
To be fair, my brother is getting married at the end of next month and I was dreading him asking me. Thankfully he didn't but it was touch and go considering I think he only has two friends.
One of the boss-men at my P/T job is a bit of a [s]sad lonely twit[/s] loner. When he decided to get married, he went round to his 'best mate's' house to ask him the best man question and the new house owner told him his mate had moved a year previously 🙁