Wedding Toast - Best Man Essay -- Wedding Toasts Roasts Speeches

Wedding Speech - Best Man Afternoon everyone, firstly, the city council have asked me to request that, for health and safety reasons, none of you get up on top of the chairs and tables during my standing ovation. I'm sure you'll all admit this has turned out to be a fabulous wedding celebration, yet every silver- lining does have a cloud, and that is, unfortunately that you've all got to listen to me for a few minutes. I'd just like to start by thanking everyone on behalf of the Bride and groom, for sharing their wedding day, although personally I wish you'd all stayed at home, because things would have been a lot easier on me. I'd also like to thank you George, on behalf of the bridesmaids for your kind words and also my personal thanks for giving me the opportunity to dress like Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen and for finally admitting after all these years that I am the best man. This book tells you to start all speeches with a joke & I promise I'll start shortly. It also says that you are the most forgiving audience & you'll laugh at the lamest joke. Over the next 10 minutes I will be severely testing this theory. ...I was really nervous before hand, so I prepared a few lines - and having snorted them I'm feeling pretty good right now... I didn't think I was going to be that nervous but believe me this is not the first time today that I've stood up from a warm seat with a bit of pap... ...h, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then turn full bodied with age until they go all sour and vinegary, which inevitably gives you a headache. In all seriousness though George, it has been a great honour to have been your best man here today, but more importantly to have known you as a true friend of yours over the last 14 years. I sincerely wish you the happiest of marriages and may our friendship continue for many years to come. I started planning this speech a few weeks ago.... & it must feel like I've been delivering it that long. So it gives me immense pleasure, not to mention relief, to invite you all - well those who still can - to stand. Ladies and gentlemen, George and Julie!!