Woman Kicks Friend Out of Engagement Party After He Uses the Event to Propose to His Girlfriend: 'Dude, Seriously?'

Mar. 15, 2025

Stock photo of engagement party with friends.Photo: Getty Images/Peter Muller

In a post shared anonymously onReddit, the 26-year-old woman writes that she and her fiancé Jake recently celebrated their engagement after a three-year romance.

“My best friend, Lisa (26F), offered to help plan the party at a rooftop bar- super chill, just close friends and fam. Everything was perfect until…Midway through the night, Lisa’s boyfriend, Mark (28M), grabbed the mic during the toast,” she writes.

The post continues: “I thought he was gonna say congrats or whatever, but he starts this whole speech about how ‘love is in the air’ and suddenly drops to one knee IN FRONT OF LISA. Everyone starts screaming, phones out, the whole thing. Lisa’s crying, nodding yes, and the crowd goes wild.”

Stock photo of engagement party with friends.Peter Muller / Getty Images

But the woman writes that she was in a state of shock.

“I’m standing there holding my champagne like…this is MY engagement party?? Jake’s just awkwardly patting my back. Once the clapping dies down, I straight-up asked Mark, ‘Dude, seriously? You couldn’t pick literally any other day?’ "

Mark, she writes, “shrugged and said, ‘Come on, it’s not like you guys need the spotlight all night.'-exact words.”

“I lost it. Told him to leave, and when Lisa tried to defend him, ‘You too. Bye.’ They left, but now half my friends are on my phone saying I overreacted and ‘should’ve been happy for them.’ Lisa texted me, ‘You ruined what was supposed to be the happiest moment of my life.’ But like…HELLO??? This was MY moment!”

The woman adds that her own family is split over the situation, with her mom saying she “was justified,” but her brother saying she “looked jealous and petty.”

Her fiancé, meanwhile, is “staying neutral but thinks Mark was out of line.”

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Reddit users are not split, however, with many arguing that Mark was indeed out of line.

“Mark owes you half the money you dropped for YOUR party that turned into HIS party,” one commenter wrote.

Added another: “Ask Lisa if she wants to be married to a man who can’t even be bothered to PLAN AND PAY for his own proposal. What they gonna do about the wedding? Somebody’s bar mitzvah?”

source: people.com