Groom speech - thoughts?

smcqis

I assume you copied most of this speech from another one, as i found another one very similar, exact lines used in places, oly it was for a Kelly

smcqis

Intro
Ladies and Gentlemen, family and friends, on behalf of my Beautiful new wife and I, welcome to you all.

Someone once said that a good speech has both a good beginning and a good ending. A great speech however keeps both of these very close together…with that in mind I will try to keep this as short as possible.
Now as is custom, there will be a few toasts during my speech, so please make sure you have a drink and don’t drink it all at the first toast…mentioning no names, Mum.

Events like today don’t just happen. We have been planning this wedding for some time now. Well, I say "we", Kelly did most of the work, one of the best things about being a man is that weddings seem to organise themselves. I can’t count the number of times I have been asked “how is the planning going”, only to blankly respond “yeah great, all in hand” secretly clueless. So to Kelly; my lovely new wife and everyone else who has helped organise today I would like to say a huge thank you.

Absent family & friends

Unfortunately, it’s not been possible to have everyone we love here with us today, but we know they’re here with us in spirit & they’re not only in our thoughts today, but more importantly they’re with us in our hearts.
So, with them in mind, would you please all stand, raise your glasses, & join me in a toast to absent family & friends.

Ladies & Gentlemen, “To Absent Family & Friends”

How we got together

This is the part where I am supposed to tell you about how me and Kelly got together.

I am not going to go on forever about it, so tough, there is a point in the speech dedicated for heckling and there is a complaints box near the door, suffice to say that we were best friends before and we always will be.

We have been together now for 3 years, and it’s completely flown by.

I can’t thank her enough for accepting my proposal, although I do think that a large part of her was just glad to be rid of her old surname.

Kel, I love you in so many ways and for so many reasons, you know me and understand me like no one else ever could, you make me laugh so hard and smile so often, you have a way of bringing out the very best in me, but mostly because you’re my very best friend, my soul mate. I love you with all my heart.
So can you all raise your glasses to Kelly Owen my beautiful new wife

Parents
Mine

I would also like to thank my Mum & Dad for their continued love, support and friendship. Thank you for raising me the way you did and for pointing me in the right direction. I am sure you will all agree with me that they did a fantastic job!

Kelly’s

I have to thank Kelly’s mum Karen for bringing up such a beautiful, intelligent & caring daughter. Kelly is a lovely person.

Karen you have made me feel like family from day one, and we would like to thank you for your continuing support,

As a token of our appreciation would Karen & My mum, please accept these flowers….

Kel’s Aunts for food

I have a couple more thanks to say, but I realise I have probably been going on a bit now so will try to keep it short.

We have some flowers here for Kelly’s aunts who very kindly prepared all of our food for us and saved us a fortune

Bridesmaids

I also can’t do a speech without thanking the bridesmaids, Sam, Danielle, Tracey, Amber, Mia, Abigail & Molly, you all look amazing and we have a little something for you to say thank you.

Pageboy

I can’t forget our little boy either, who looks fantastic, Oliver we have a little something for you too.

I think we should have a toast as well, “To Oliver and The Bridesmaids”

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 and I can honestly say that his support and advice over the years has been truly invaluable

Many people don’t know that Danny lives in a parallel universe which causes him to invent fanciful stories. He really does believe these stories to be true and I thank you for humouring him during his speech.

pjjafc

You could always put at the end

"its been an emotional day even the cakes in tears"

maggie111

This bit was really lovely

I’m sure you will all know that Vicky and I met in our first week of University – of all of the Universities in all of the world, the hand of fate took us both to Simon House in Southampton and we’ve never looked back. We’ve now been together for 11 years this weekend and in that time we have finished University together, travelled the world together, got our first proper jobs (if you can call Vicky's job that), bought our first house together and now finally we’ve become husband and wife together. Vicky, if we can squeeze all of that into 11 fantastic years then I can’t wait to see what the rest of our lives together hold for us.

And I personally would have that near the end, just before you hand over to your best man. It's clear you've worked hard and followed the traditions of a groom's speech so I could be suggesting the wrong place but it sounds like 'a closer'.

And well done.

MORPH3US

smcqis wrote: »

I assume you copied most of this speech from another one, as i found another one very similar, exact lines used in places, oly it was for a Kelly

As I said in post 7, I have skimmed three books on how to write it, looked at a few online templates and seen a few more on MSE that have been used in the past, then personalised it to suit... most of the above all used similar structure and wording anyway. Why re-invent the wheel?

LEJC

Good luck with your speech...I too got a bit of a feeling that I had read the basis of your speech somewhere else...and whilst I think its ok even good at times to use a tried and tested method something about it did make me think it was someone elses speech with the names changed...I like Maggie really liked the personal bit where you spoke about how you met YOUR bride...A wedding speech is a really personal declaration to your friends,family and bride...I think perhaps you should concentrate more on something more personal....(and no im not suggesting you share that with us)

You have obviously read the other persons post on MSE and so perhaps also have others thoughts on that speech..mine included..the only thing I possibly would add thou is hopefully Vicky doesn't have access to your mse account ...it would be awful for her to read the words of someone else...however well the wheel has been re invented

How much longer till your wedding?

Mrs_Moore_To_Be

I think its great - tear to the eye here...

ljbnotts

Oh bless, a tear here as well. Perfect in every way! Well done!

alexlyne

Has this been copyrighted?
Though my darling bride to be would demand to know who the hell Vicky was...

Silaqui

That's a lovely speech but make sure your wife doesn't mind being fawned over like that in public. I will be getting full disapproval rights over my blokes speech as anything lovey dovey like that and I'd be out the door till it was over!

Maybe show it to her and check that she's ok with it? Otherwise, fab - like the humour in it
xx