Bride’s Best Friends Go Viral for Recreating Iconic Scene from “Bridesmaids” at Wedding (Exclusive)

Two bridesmaids have gone viral for recreating an iconic scene from Bridesmaids.

In the 2011 rom-com, Helen (Rose Byrne) and Annie (Kristen Wiig) hilariously and awkwardly both try to give a speech to the bride, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), as they compete for her attention. Real bridesmaids Maddy DeVita and Quinn Coleman, both 27, replicated this spotlight-stealing scene at their friend Caroline Geithner’s wedding at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York on Saturday, Nov. 15, as seen in video on TikTok with more than 2 million views.

“The crowd was loving it,” Coleman tells PEOPLE.

While Coleman was preparing to write her reception speech, her boyfriend was poking fun at typical bridesmaid speeches, saying they “all sound the same” before mentioning the scene in Bridesmaids. Remembering that Geithner’s favorite movie is Bridesmaids, Coleman “just stopped” and realized she and DeVita had to recreate the speech scene.

“I just knew immediately we had to incorporate it into our speech somehow because she loves the movie so much,” Coleman says. “We’re both her best friends and we’re giving the speech together, so it just made sense that we would kind of take that ‘oh we’re competing for her love’ angle.”

DeVita was immediately on board with the comical joint speech idea, and pointed out how the “dynamic of [their] friendship” was similar to those of the movie characters. Like Annie, DeVita has known Geithner longer, since high school, but Coleman is just as close with the bride having lived with her throughout college. Naturally, DeVita played Annie and Coleman played Helen in their skit.

“We’ve kind of had in a very, like, funny joking way, like competitive, ‘Who’s closer with Caroline?’ So really, the scene lended itself to our personalities,” DeVita says. “We obviously tweaked it a little bit to reflect our actual experiences … we tweaked it to make it personal, but, the scene was really set up perfectly for it to just make a lot of sense.”

The bridesmaids rehearsed the speech a few times in the days leading up to the ceremony, and in the morning of the wedding day.

Another “absolutely perfect” detail was that Geithner texted her bridal party to watch Bridesmaids together before her wedding, still clueless about what was in store for her big day.

Luckily, “everyone close to” Geithner has seen Bridesmaids “knowing how iconic of a movie it is” to her, so DeVita and Coleman weren’t too concerned about guests not understanding their act of outdoing each other. As DeVita and Coleman interrupted one another and wrestled over the microphone, Coleman remembers Geithner “dying laughing” during the speech, immediately recognizing the Bridesmaids reference.

“She was she was on the floor, she couldn’t believe it. I don’t think she could have anticipated it being as funny as it was,” DeVita says. “Especially with just the way the room got behind it. She was like, ‘That was like the highlight of the whole day.’ I mean, not to make her wedding about our speech, but she loved it.”

The bridesmaid continues, “The majority of people actually did know exactly what we were doing. The people who didn’t were just flabbergasted and were like, ‘Oh, my God, are these girls actually fighting?’ And it was funny either way. We really got the crowd going.”

Wanting to really “nail it,” the women avoided reading off their script, especially at the end while singing “That’s What Friends Are For.” They also “practiced grabbing the microphone from each other and walking off and then coming back in because [they] really wanted to sell that part.” Coleman even spoke in Thai at one point like Annie did in the movie.

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DeVita and Coleman are glad the funny wedding moment “resonated with so many people on the internet.” They were “blown away” by the reaction as the clip garnered about half a million likes and more than 1,000 comments. TikTokers applauded the bridesmaids for their creativity and commented things like, “This is INCREDIBLE. The commitment to the bit.”

“It was something that we just wanted to do for our friend and make it special for her,” Coleman says. “So I’m happy that people kind of got that out of it.”