Speech by Daren Wilson

Speech Type: Groom
Speech Creator: Daren Wilson
Speech Date: Jun2007
1. Intro

Finally after 12 years, I can say this…, it makes me the happiest man alive to be able to say ladies and gentlemen, friends and family, on behalf of my wife and I, welcome to our wedding and thank you sincerely for sharing this special day with us.

First of all I would like to thank Judy for her kind words. I know I'm supposed to be responding for my wife and I, but she's more than capable of speaking for herself, as she will prove in her own speech after mine.
Before I start with my thank-you's, have you all seen the “fun cameras” on your tables?

Please feel free to take photos throughout the day. I had a great speech prepared, but now that I am married my wife tells me what to say, so I'll have to give this speech instead.

Can I start my speech by welcoming the guests. Today, we are surrounded by most of our friends and family that have been important to us during our lives. Many have traveled thousands of miles, just to be here today from all around the world, and a special thanks to those and its nice to see you all again.

2 THANK YOU BRIDE
Susan, thank you for agreeing to marry me. I love you very much and look forward to the rest of our lives together. I feel very lucky. Susan is beautiful, smart, kind, caring,……… I would go on except that I can't read her writing, what does that say. – Pauselaughs
One of the best things about being a man is that weddings seem to organize themselves .

Clearly events like todays don't just happen. They take a considerable amount of hard work and organization and it would seem an appropriate point for me to ask you all to join me in a toast to Susan whose constant hard work and organizational skills has made this the celebration that it is.

Ladies and gentlemen please be upstanding, I would like to propose a toast : To Susan

3.THANK YOU PARENTS
Of course I haven't just gained a wife today, but also a family. Most of all, thank you for bringing Susan up to be the woman that I have married.
And on that note I'd like to thank Peggy for raising such an incredible daughter. I thank you for bringing such a beautiful and intelligent daughter into the world. I'd also like to thank you for making me so welcome into your family. I hope I can be everything you want from a son-in-law and I promise you I will look after Susan………………and of course do everything she tells me to!

Thanks Mum and Dad for bringing me up the way you have, for all of your encouragement and support. But most of all thank you for instilling in me whatever it is that convinced Susan that she wanted to marry me on that score alone, I think you can be justifiably proud of yourself: I am certainly proud to have you as my Mum and Dad. Thank you also for welcoming Susan into the family.

Presents
In appreciation for your support we would like to give our Mums a little gift. So mum and mum we have is a little pressy for you. Gift
Not forgetting you Dad we have a little something for you as well. Gift

4 THANK YOU BRIDESMAID
Susan and I, would like to thank you all very much for your cards, kind thoughts, and wonderful presents. I would also like to say how overwhelmed, I am, by how beautiful Susan looks, in her wedding dress and also how lovely the Judy looks as well, and what a fantastic job done by the girls. Also in appreciation of the help and advice Judy has given us we also have a little gift for you. Gift
Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding, I would like to propose a toast to the girls: To the girls.

5.Best Man
So, that's enough from me, it now gives me very great pleasure to hand over to my best man –– he's a guy that I've known for quite a while now, in fact since a group of boy's aged 11 used to compete against each in top class sports. But it was the mutual respective of football and Arsenal FC that drove down the competitive sometimes aggressive edge as class 1M always clashed with 1F. This friendship then lead us into adolescent times with plenty of fun and mischief further details can be had in the bar later, but I can honestly say that Ian's support and friendship over the years has been truly invaluable
I should perhaps just mention at this point that Ian suffers from a rare medical condition which makes him prone to embellishment. He often invents the most fanciful stories, which he sincerely believes to be true. I hope you bear this in mind when he stands up to speak in a few moments.

I'd like to ask him in a minute or two to give his best man's speech – and given this great build up, I appreciate it if he would take it easy on me…

Well I think that's enough from me.
Lady's and Gentleman …Now over to my lovely wife.