I’m not the one who made it a poll question.
Pretty please? Your opinions on this are already well known all across the board.
I’m not the one who made it a poll question.
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Dio, can I ask you not to derail the thread?
I have done no such thing. My comment was perfectly legitimate. If you don’t want people to comment on the results of your poll questions, don’t ask them.
I must be a right bastard, I’m the only one who was prepared to “comfort” the Jiltee if she was hot.
Still at least I’m honest…
On this occasion anyway.
I’d move my car, deliver the news to the jiltee, and make the general announcement.
I really wish someone had helped me this way when I got married.
Hi there, Bastard #1. I’m Bastard #2. Pleased to meet ya.
My other choice was “I’d move the car.” Dealing with the bride and the guests is all on him.
'sup, broheims.
I’d move the car and deliver the news to jiltee, but only because it would make it easier to get up in her. Delivering the news to the rest of his friends and family is on him.
Fist pump!
What I don’t get, though, is why you’re willing to help your friend duck his responsibility to his fiancé. I can see being willing to make the announcements, just barely, but not delivering the news of the jilting. I can only imagine doing that if I also loved the jiltee and wanted to make sure she or he was given this news in the gentlest way possible.
My problem with this is that you’re abetting your best friend in being a jackass, which extends his jackassery to you.
I can think of several circumstances in which I would consider helping a dear friend do something illegal if I thought the act under consideration were moral. But the reverse doesn’t hold true.
How can you personalize what doesn’t exist? 
I’d move the car and tell the guests, but only after my BF tells his ex-fiancee the news.
Reception is still on, though, right? Because I think the jilt-ee needs to get really hammered. Plus, the hall and the caterer are paid for already.
Regards,
Shodan
My first impulse is to either talk and/or slap down my friend. Hope talking works, as he’s bigger than me and might take a heap of slapping.
Well, if I decline, will best friend dutifully break the news himself? Or will he call a cab and vanish anyway, leaving the bride-to-be to learn that (s)he has been jilted when best friend just doesn’t show up?
I’d try to talk him down first, then I’d move my car, deliver the news to the jiltee and make the general announcement. I actually wish that my best friend, for whom I was the best man, had done this on his wedding day. I’m guessing he does, too.
I think the situation changes if the friend leaves without telling the jilted bride or groom the truth. Once that happens, you are no longer abetting his dishonorable behavior by delivering the news; you are being a mensch.
Your friendship has no conditions whatsoever? Mine does, and that includes not breaking up with your wife-to-be in the most hurtful and publicly humiliating way possible just because you want to trade up.
What if the wife-to-be is a total bitch? It can happen.
Absolutely. But “breaking up with your wife-to-be in the most hurtful and publicly humiliating way possible” would be a cruel thing to do to anyone, whether or not they are a total bitch. I don’t believe I could remain friends with someone who could do that to another person and not make the maximum effort to cushion the blow.
Well, my hypothetical friend is clearly a callous idiot. He’s already botched his responsibility to think carefully about the whole “marriage” thing - at this point, I hold him in such contempt that I fully expect him to botch the leaving-at-the-alter thing as well. So, if my friend says that he’s too gutless to deliver the news, I’ll take him at his word and assume that he’d make a horrible, traumatic conversation even worse if he took a stab at it. Even though I don’t love the bride, your OP specified that I think she’s a perfectly decent sort - that’s enough for me to try and give her the news in a way that would let her keep a modicum of dignity.
By the way, can I punch my friend myself? Didn’t see that option in the poll, but I’d like to punch him after he’s made me clean up his mess. I’m not sure how well that would work - I haven’t thrown a punch since middle school - but I think I’d like to give it a go.