A short YouTube video (transcript) by dating coach Anwar White addressing three wedding behaviors he interprets as red flags for future marital problems. He lists (1) groom theatrics/pulling focus from the bride, (2) a maid of honor's toast that omits or avoids mentioning the groom, and (3) a groom pushing cake into the bride’s face — which he reads as violent/toxic. The clip closes with a request for viewer comments about signs they notice at weddings.
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This is so emotional.
Hey, girl. So, yes, this was a very emotional video, but maybe a bit too emotional now. My name is Anwar White. I'm a dating coach for black and brown women. And I want to go through the top three signs that I see at weddings that lets me know that maybe this marriage is not going to work. I go to weddings all the time. Most of my clients get married. I go to one of their weddings at least once a quarter. And thankfully, not many of these signs happen at these, at the weddings that I'm about to talk about. But I want to highlight for you exactly what I've observed. And so the first one is theatrics from the groom. If he is pulling focus and needs to be the center of attention on the wedding day and take it away from the bride, that's what the relationship is going to look like. So I know that that marriage is probably not going to work. That's number one. Number two, if the maid of honor, when she's doing her speech, her toast, is only talking about her friend, the bride, and nothing about the groom, I know something's going on with the groom and she doesn't have anything nice to say about him, so she doesn't say anything at all. That is a bad sign. It means that something's gonna come up in that marriage and it's not gonna go out. It's not gonna go well. That's the second thing. The third thing that I see so often is when a groom pushes cake in the bride's face. That gives me violence, that gives me toxicity, and that scares me, that gives me aggression. That is deep seated. And I know that that probably is going to represent itself in the actual relationship in marriage. So those are the top three signs that I see at a wedding. Let me know in the comments what signs you see when you come, when you go to a wedding.
