Speech by Tony Botting

Speech Type: Best man
Speech Creator: Tony Botting
Speech Date: Jun2005
First of all on behalf of the bridesmaids, I'd like to thank Andy for his kind words…… and I think everybody will agree that Haley, Ellie and Kerry look gorgeous and have done a great job in helping make today a very special event.
Jo can I just say you look absolutely stunning! And Andy, well, you just look absolutely stunned!
I was really nervous before hand, so I prepared a few lines- and now ive just had them I feel fine.

FORNICATION… SORRY, FOR AN OCCASION SUCH AS THIS, IT IS ONLY RIGHT THAT I START by giving a small insight to Andy.
I am going to keep this speech fairly short because of my throat Jo said that if I went too far she would cut it.
I hadn't met Andy when he was at school but I'm told he was an Ideal student who excelled in most subjects………..sorry that's not right ….he was an idle student who was expelled from most subjects”..…
So Andy….Where do you start. I've known Andy for around ten years, I first met him at the gym, we had just finished a workout and was taking shower when he glanced over and said “big old fella” I should known then he wasn't quiet right…to my knowledge he's always been lively bloke you rarely see him down always joking and laughing…I new that he was quiet a popular coz at the time he was into his clubbing and I would often hear him say that he was out that night and he would have a load of little fella's with him, I thought he's got a few mates.

Andy's first loves

Then as he got a bit older came his love of cars………….… BM's Audi's porches…And some of them were even his.

He also has a passion for Fishing…cant see the attraction myself. ….but whenever he can he's off with his mates, sometimes for a week at a time………..I heard him recently on the phone to one his mates,, a group of them had just been away for a week…..he spoke of his relief that he hadn't caught anything while they were away!!!!! Can't work that one out?
Then he turned to me and said you always mange to catch something when we go away!……………..but ive never been fishing?

Then he thought he would try his hand at Golf….So we booked a week in Tenerife, this is where I saw a new side to Andy, I discovered he had a hidden talent for pole dancing…..He's a natural. .we was in this gay bar…His choice. , where they had the poles for the dancing..In a flash he was up there doing his thing… then when I next saw he was at the bar chatting to a couple of nice boys .… Now id always had him down as a mans man, but I was wondering was he on the turn? As the went on he had a good drink, we managed to prize him away from his new friends, when we got back to the room, I had a nervousness that he would want to carry on pole dancing, as we lay there I thought he seems a bit unsure about wot way he was leaning I need to know wot way he was going for my own piece of mind, so I took hold of the nearest thing to me and just tapped
him on the bum lightly….like a rocket he was out of the room and straight in Daves room. …DOOR Locked.. I thought well that's answered that…
For a scary moment I thought it could have been me sat there today Jo.

On the last day of the break I saw a slight romantic side to Andy, we was walking round the town when we stopped at a jewelers.. they had some lovely single diamonds for sale, Andy told me he was going to get one for Jo…..Infact all that day he spoke of nothing more about how excited he was about getting home to mount Jo's ring.

AS A MATE
Andy is always there for you,.. always willing to help out ..always sharing your problems you might have… and I've had a few……….be it getting in to trouble he's there to share it with you…it might be financial he'll be there share it ….even relationship's ..I mean even when I met girlfriend Zoe we even shared her…………………………………………….problems that she was having with her new car. ………..As a friend I'm lucky to him &amp jo as close friend……………no one's got mates like I have and a lot of them are here today.
In amongst that came Ellie and Alfie..… so I think today is very fitting making the final piece of the jigsaw that is now the Peacock Family

Here's to the father-in-law's daughter,
And the mother-in-law's son,
Here's to the vows they've just taken,
And the married life they've just begun.
Everyone – Andy and Jo