Best Man Confesses Love to Bride To-Be, Now The Couple is Married With Four Children

Iesha March 30, 2022 News 1 Comment

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.

Though White’s former spouse’s identity is unknown, she and her ex sat together in shock as Bryant poured his heart out in front of them and their 200 wedding guests.

“[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 I met each other in class at high school,” White told Kennedy News. “I had a boyfriend at the time, and, because of that, I really wasn’t going to talk to other people.”

The three became friends after she showed Bryant a picture of her then-boyfriend, who he recognized as someone he shared lunch with.

“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.”

White, on the other hand, recalls Bryant’s expression of adoration when he saw her dressed up in bridal attire the morning of the wedding.

“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.”

Despite his adoring gaze, White went on to get married, but Bryant’s confession didn’t end with the best man speech.

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.”

White’s friendship with Bryant took a surprisingly romantic turn less than a year later when her marriage began to unravel due to her then-husband new adapted “totally different lifestyle.”

“When [my ex and I] broke up and divorced, I went through a depression and was really secluded myself. I just didn’t want to make an effort for anything,” she said. “He’d ask me to eat with him or hang out and watch a show. He was trying to be there for me.”

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.”

The two became lovers almost instantly. White got pregnant with their first son, Sawyer, and the pair married in 2012.

“Bryant] said, ‘I always wanted to marry you, and this isn’t because of the baby, but let’s start this family right,’ ” White gushed. “We were always friends, but when we were together [romantically], it was like nothing was hard to do anymore knowing we had each other.”

Now, White and Bryant are still married with four children. She said, “We love being parents. Twenty-year-old Desiree wouldn’t think she could be a mom of four kids,” she proclaimed. “She couldn’t imagine this is what my life would be like now.”