Speech by Campbell MacFarlane
Speech given to a family oriented audience so had to be relatively careful as to the content in it.
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Speech Type: Best man
Speech Creator: Campbell MacFarlane
Speech Date: 10/12/2012 15:34:00
Ladies and Gentlemen, I just want to thank you all for coming today to help celebrate this wonderful day with Catherine and Iain. For those of you that don't know me I'm Campbell and I'm Iain's younger brother so I have to be careful what I say here…
This is the first time I've spoken at a wedding…well…except during other peoples speeches…
Let me start by saying it is my privilege and pleasure to respond on behalf of the bridesmaids and flower girls. I think you'll agree they have done a great job and look fantastic and are only rightly outshone by the bride.
As many of you are probably aware Catherine and Iain's storybook courtship began in a very, very romantic location…The Priory on Belmont Street. This place is renowned for being a hang out place for drunken wide boys and white stiletto girls so it was pure coincidence they met on that fateful night. We'll forget the fact that night how Catherine was looking lost on her own having lost Alison as Iain wandered up rubbing his hands…Enough said!
At the time I'm sure Catherine wasn't quite sure what she was letting herself in for with Iain's fascination for all things that go bang or ignite! When he was younger he used to always splice anything that had some form of explosive potential and even got the neighbours into such a state that they almost called the police after exploding buckets 50ft in the air…
Since then though Iain has progressed and matured somewhat…Catherine has learnt first-hand of this with Iain turning up after a weekend away stating with a grin: “honey I got a rally car this weekend”, or “honey I bought a shotgun”, or more recently “honey I got set on fire tonight…” Many of us thought Iain's stag do would never happen…He always seemed to be on other folks’, touring Europe and what not…I was organising Iain's and even trying to get a list of names out of him had to be the hardest part!! Eventually though we managed to get it sorted and had a blast…don't want to go into too much details in front of a family audience but suffice to say with Iain's history of going bang I can still smell the hair from that latest one as I'm sure a few of the members of the audience can relate. Who knows if you speak to the right people a picture may be kicking about too…
Having gotten to know Catherine over the last few years I can see that she's just the one for Iain, she makes a mean Sunday dinner and never complains when he asks for dessert! Also never complains when one of the three refugees pop round, myself included as we're just passing at meal time…Complete coincidence!
But seriously though they stuck together through Catherine's work down in Nottingham, Iain may complain the flights cost him a fortune however I'm pretty sure the sedative couldn't have been cheap to get her on that plane back up North to the Deeside Piper. A-team style milk springs to mind…
But looking at them tonight that perseverance has paid off and you can just see how lovely they are together. Not to mention she looks absolutely amazing tonight and this is only the beginning of their long and happy life together.
Iain, Catherine knows what she wants, she's not afraid to go and get it as is evident in her sporting triumphs, and today she's marrying you. That should make you feel really special. Especially seeing as when you first met you said you could run…What a lie!!! She soon realized this as soon as you started running up a hill just outside of the flat…We won't even go into your driving…You've always followed in the old man's footsteps, your fascination with cars and joining the oilfield and Dad asked me to pass on one thing tonight…you'll always be in his tail lights…
But seriously Iain, that decision you've made to marry Catherine is a good one. You've got someone who's beautiful, charming, smart, funny, loving and caring not to mention will run circles round you in a race.
And Catherine, you've got…well…you've got Iain…
Anyway I can see you're all getting hungry now and I started planning this speech a few days ago and it must feel like I've been delivering it that long. So it gives me immense pleasure, not to mention relief, to ask you to be upstanding for the bride and groom in a final toast to their future happiness together. To Mr and Mrs MacFarlane; may their life together bring them many happy memories beginning from the moment I take a seat!
To the Bride and Groom!!
