Humor in Wedding toasts has to be carefully thought out and it must be gentle. When Nephew 2 married, nephew 1 (who was the best man) made a lovely speech. He wished the HC everything you would expect a loving brother to say and added at the end, ‘Also, thanks for getting married first. That’s taken a lot of pressure off me’.
That went down well with the guests Even the parents of the two brothers laughed heartily.
The lottery described in the link was, in my mind, the exact opposite. Did anyone who contributed to the pool stop to think about how the HC would feel about their marriage being treated like a basketball team in March Madness? Did anyone really believe that the money would be carefully preserved for 20 years?
I think not.
It’s good that there was blow-back on this. The idiot Best Man deserved what he got.