An Illinois woman named Desire White, 32, recently came forward to tell her 2012 love story about how she divorced her husband to marry her lifelong friend and best man at her wedding after he confessed his love to her during a toast to her nuptials.
“He said, ‘I remember the first moment I saw Desiree, I loved her. I fell in love with her. I knew she had to be mine. I thought she was the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen in my life,’” she told Kennedy News of the best man’s speech.
“He said, ‘She’s the best person I’ve ever met. I’ve never met anyone like 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 [White’s ex-husband], and we became friends,’” she recalled.
“[Bryant] then just said, ‘Love you both — congratulations.’ It ended there,” she added, noting that her ears “turned red” with embarrassment after his admission. A wave of awkwardness then overcame the room, White remembered, saying, “Everyone was kind of laughing — and then it got quiet.”
Ultimately, she said she was “confused” by Bryant’s confession, especially since they had a years-long platonic friendship.
“Bryant and my ex-husband became best friends, and because they were guys, they did a lot together. They did everything together,” White said, insisting that she did not harbor any romantic feelings for her friend during those years.
“I set Bryant up [on dates with other women] so many times,” she said. “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 didn’t really look at him in that way.”
“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. Bryant came into my parents’ house and froze and stared at me,” she recounted.
“I said, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ He said I looked beautiful. I’d never had a moment of him looking at me like that.”
White said later that evening, when the two shared a dance, Bryant said, “Why didn’t you ever give me a chance? I would have always taken care of you.”
“I asked him what he meant, and he said, ‘Nothing. I love you, I love [White’s ex-husband],’ ” she recounted. “Then he got quiet.”
White then recalled hoping she’d “misinterpreted” Bryant’s declaration of love and attempted to sweep it “under the carpet.”
“I’m sure it was because he was really drunk and lonely,” she recalled thinking to herself at the time. “I knew, up to this point, that he had girlfriends that weren’t working out, and he was kind of the third wheel.”
Then, to her surprise: “Bryant and I just kissed one day when we were hanging out,” said White.
“It was out of nowhere. When he kissed me, I didn’t stop it, then I kissed him back,” she added. “I was shocked that it was a good kiss. It felt good and natural.”
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Awwww I thought this was something scandalous but its actually kinda cute. He bogus for doing that at their wedding tho smh