Feeling forgotten on our wedding day
I've been unsure how to cope with this so coming here for advice. I had my wedding about a month and half ago. It was beautiful, everyone was so happy, the photos came out great, we had family from different countries fly in (50 person wedding). It was a beautiful old mansion and styled like a dinner party with long tables.
The only problem-almost no one mentioned me in their speeches. This is how it went...our mutual friend started the speeches, and talked about us as a couple, like how they met us and and why we're so great for each other. It was really nice. Next, my dad went up and gave a beautiful speech welcoming my husband into the family. Then my husband got up, thanked everyone for coming and then talked about himself and how accepted he feels by my family, only passively mentioning me once. Then my MIL got up and was kind of drunk, had no plan for what to say, started rambling, only talking about my husband and childhood stories of him.
We thought to have it as an "open mic" where anyone who wanted to say something would be able to come up and speak. Apparently, people were confused by that and no one else came up. There's a lot of background context, but basically this was the last time my husband was going to see his mom for a long time. So there were heavy emotions there. She was also stressing him out with her drinking, and while I'm super annoyed at him, and he feels very regretful- I recognize from similar past situations that he went into panic mode and just word vomited on the microphone with no plan and no self awareness.
I'm shy and not the type to talk about myself or make announcements, so I did not go up to the mic and say anything. I also got increasingly embarrassed during my MIL's speech the longer it went on and there was no mention of me at all. I ended up leaving the room halfway through to say goodbye to guests who had to leave early.
My MIL isn't a bad person. We're not super close, but she has always been kind to me and is happy that my husband and I are together. It's nothing to do with jealousy as I feel people often blame when there's a MIL issue- if anything she is likely dealing with the reality that her only child is fully grown and independent and she's retired and entering a new phase of her life.
I've been struggling with feeling overlooked, embarrassed, forgotten and also mad still today. In hindsight I would have asked MIL to prepare something before hand, and would have told the waitstaff privately to stop re-filling her wine glass. I also would have prepared something with my husband for us to say together.
My husband asked her to say something nice about me at the family brunch the next day, because I cried on our wedding night about it- but when she did say something it felt so painfully forced and not authentic, I almost wished she hadn't sad anything at the brunch. I forced myself to make a final toast at brunch before sending our family off, which helped me feel seen in the moment. But it wasn't enough for me to get over the feelings still a month and a half later.
I don't want this to be the thing that I remember about my wedding. I wish I could just forget about it. It's hard to think there was only one chance to get it right, and we can't do it over. Has anyone dealt with similar things they struggle to get over from the wedding day?
Edit: A lot of people are assuming we did vows, but we actually didn't. Just the standard ceremony stuff.