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Grooms
Speech Example
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speech here as I used your site and others like it to write
the speech in the first place: It is really little more than 5
or 6 of your example speeches reworked, but it was very well
received. Thank you so much for taking the time to create your
site.
Grooms Speech:
[Introduction]
I was really nervous before hand, so I prepared a few
lines - and having snorted them I'm feeling pretty good right
now...
Ladies and Gentlemen, until today, April 21st has not been a
very historic day: I was hoping to give you all a short list
of fascinating events that had happened "On this day in
History", but not much has happened: A quick look on The
History Channel.com told me that on this day in 1918 the Red
Baron was killed in Action over France, in 1926 Queen
Elizabeth II was born, and on this day in the year 2001, you
attended this wedding reception and heard the finest wedding
speech of your entire lifetime, and my best man, Andrew, will
be making it.
I did, of course, have a great speech of my own worked out for
you today, but as I am now married, my wife has told me what
to say instead.
[Thank you - Parents]
Anyway, thank you Randy for those kind words, I am proud
to be your son-in-law, I hope I can live up to your
expectations. I would sincerely like to thank yourself, and
Barbara, for always making me feel very welcome when I come to
visit; and for giving us this wonderful wedding, and
reception. Most of all, thank you for giving me your blessing,
to marry your lovely daughter, Erica.
We would like to thank both sets of parents as we wouldn't be
here today if it wasn't for them. Thank you for all of your
love and support over the years. For all the advice you have
given us. For putting up with us and pointing us in the right
direction.
Thank you for all the help with today's preparations, the
flowers, the favors, the limos, the finance the list is
endless. I must also thank Randy and Barbara for bringing up
such a lovely daughter. In addition, due to the number of
phone calls between Erica and her mother, the phone company
would also like to thank you both.
Today also represents a great occasion for both my parents,
being the culmination of many years of planning of a different
sort. They have prepared me well, supported me through school
and college and taught me the difference between right and
wrong, but only so that I know which I am enjoying at any
given time!
[Thank you - All]
As for the rest of you. On behalf on my wife and I, we
would like thank all of you for coming here today and sharing
our special day with us. Especially those who have traveled so
far to be here.
I would like to thank you all for your presence in both senses
of the word, it's been like Christmas every day for about a
month now - always something new arriving, and Erica has been
checking the registry lists on-line, reporting each new gift
purchase almost as it happens! It will be hard to come home to
find just the usual bills and junk mail from now on. But a
huge Thank you for all the presents and for your cards and
kind thoughts, but most of all for the smiling faces I see in
front of me.
[Thank you - Erica]
I asked Laura a few weeks ago, how Erica looks in her
Wedding dress, she said looked wonderful, but that didn't
prepare me enough for when I saw her walk down the aisle. I
was overwhelmed to the say the least by how beautiful Erica
looks today.
I want everyone here, especially Erica, to know how lucky I
feel to be here right now. Erica is beautiful, intelligent,
hard working. The list of her good qualities is extremely
long. But, unfortunately I can't read her
handwriting - must be something to do with her being a doctor.
But seriously, to my wife, my bride and joy, thank you for
everything you have done. You know everything about me and
love me just the same. I have my faults, yet you still agreed
to marry me. I am extremely lucky today to be the one to marry
you - and I hope this is the start of many happy years
together.
We have been planning this wedding for over a year now,
although it seems like a lifetime. Well, I say "we", really
Erica did all the work, I just agreed to show up on the day!
Still I hope she's impressed by how well I scrubbed up for the
occasion. Any of you that know me, will know that I usually
look, as if I dressed in front of an aero plane propeller. So
a big thank you to all that have helped us, but especially to
Erica who has
managed so well.
[Thank you - Travis]
A special thank you to Travis Taylor, (My room mate in
College at Richmond) who could not be here today, but who is
responsible for introducing Erica and I way back in 1994.
[Thank you - Andrew]
I would personally like to thank Andrew for agreeing to be
my Best Man. He has been a tower of strength throughout the
proceedings. Well, that is to say he was there when we picked
out the tuxes. Haven't seen much of him since. Of course the
trouble with being the best man at a wedding is that you never
get to prove it.
[Thank you - Ushers]
Erica and I would also like to thank Eric and Glen for
being ushers today. Eric asked one lady if she was a "friend
of the groom" to which she replied, "certainly not, I'm the
bride's mother!" only joking, Barbara. But here's a special
thank you to Glen for agreeing to be my usher and doing such a
fine job considering the appalling job Dave and I did at his
wedding.
[Thank you - Bridesmaids]
A final and big thank you goes to our bridesmaids:
Meredith, Jen and Laura. Laura could not be here today as she
was giving birth to a 10 and a half pound baby boy - I don't
know - the excuses people will come up with not to attend your
wedding! But 10 and a half pounds is a lot of baby! - lets
raise a glass to Laura! To Meredith and Jen, we would like to
say how lovely you look and thank you for doing such a
wonderful job today.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please be upstanding. I would like to
propose a toast to the bridesmaids.
Well I could stand here and give you a load of stale old
jokes, but instead I think I'll leave that to the best man.
Ladies and gentlemen, Dr Andrew Mong.
Rob Williams
rob@taltech.com
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