Speech by Daniel hunter

Speech Type: Best man
Speech Creator: Daniel hunter
Speech Date: 01/06/2014 11:06:32

​Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, I'm Danny the best man. It's such an honour to be chosen on this special day and I'd like to think I'm up here representing our whole group of close friends. James could've chose any one of the others but he didn't want the photos ruined. May I take this opportunity to say how wonderful Amanda looks today and also her bridesmaids and thank you all for coming along to this great occasion. ​ I first met James growing up in the streets of Cathcart. He was a man of many names back then- the ostrich for his weird running style, banana man for the way he used to be able to bend a football, nature boy for his love of nature and Dumbo cause you usually had to duck when he turned round! James has always been a loyal friend and great fun to be around. Over the years I've been taught several great things by James, the art of drinking-too much, how not to go chatting up a woman and how to count exactly how many miles I can get from £10 of petrol in a ford fiesta.  ​ For those of you that don't know, James has a keen interest in Bird watching- particularly at weekends in around Edinburghs bars and clubs. Early memories include the binoculars view from his room window to a particular birds window across the back. I've been sworn to secrecy about the name but I'll give a couple of clues, she stayed in ? drive and had a sister called ?. All joking aside as he's become older and settling down it's become more about the feathered variety. It's a subject that he keeps quiet about in front of all the lads for the obvious reasons but when you go on a lads holiday and a book named backyard birds falls out your suitcase you know your in for a serious ribbing! Birds was the theme for the hen party and home leg of the stag do. Amanda was dressed up as big bird, something I thought about for James although he's had enough of them in the past! We settled on the more appropriate vulture. I'd like to thank James's dad for his special efforts on the home leg, taking the time to get feathers for the punch line of his joke, donating his haiwaan shirt and shorts for James to get into and hiring the majician to make him, Dave and Findlay disappear after only a few hours!  ​ On the subject of the Hawaiian shirt and shorts most commented it was actually an improvement to what James usually wears on a night out. It beats the usual morbid black shoes, black trousers, white shirt and black duffle coat. The good thing is the duffle coats got big pockets to keep the keys of the hearse in! Another favourite is the Calvin Klien jacket he got in Florida about 8 years ago. Being a scientist he's conducting an experiment-to see if leather jackets ever come back into fashion!  ​ As James and Amanda are going on holiday on their honeymoon in the coming weeks I thought i would share a few stories what James has got up to on past holidays. Me, James and George decided to go on holiday with my family as I was recovering from an operation on my hip. It was the year Rangers made it to the uefa cup final and the semi final was when we were in Florida. We started drinking around 3 in the afternoon and carried on drinking till the early hours. While sitting at breakfast the next morning the silence was broken by a shout of ‘dirty bastards from the toilet by my mum. When looking in the bath my eye nearly got poked out by the present James had left overnight. To this day he denies it but the next day there was only one guy insisting on going to wall mart right away and looking guilty. A few years later another story emerged about James while on holiday in Australia. After another drinking session he was caught peeing on a guy during the night he'd only just met a few hours earlier. I'll let him explain why he was staying with a guy he'd only met a few hours earlier but that's the reason why he had a shite time in Florida and a pish time in Australia. ​ I couldn't have imagined James to meet a more beautiful, caring and intelligent woman like Amanda. You know what they say opposites attract. As well as pileing it on, he's punching above his weight! My only issue is she's persuaded him to move to Edinburgh with her and Ken! ​ It's been good James has managed to split his time between his friends in East and those in the west this weekend. From mingling in the posh St. Andrews hotels with the Edinburgh folk to living it up in the caravan park with all the glasgow crowd. It'll be interesting to see who has the best time, cause as the saying goes a glasgow stabbing is more exciting than an Edinburgh wedding. ​ All that remains for me to do is ask you to raise your glasses, stand and join me in wishing Mr and Mrs Boyle a long, prosperous and happily life together. Ladies and gentlemen please raise your glasses- to the Bride and groom.