My Wedding Speech

Last night I stumbled across my wedding speech saved on my computer and enjoyed reading it back so much that I thought I would share some of it with you. I'll leave out the boring 'Thank You' bits and what not as they are probably the same as all Wedding Speech Thank You parts, and I obviously didn't call him 'The Husband' during the speech. 

Apologies to everyone who was at our wedding and heard this speech first hand, you can just ignore this post!

I was really quite nervous before making the speech and opted to stand next to The Husband behind the bridal table, rather than behind the lectern. I found that once I started my speech with "I am really nervous, so please bare with me", the nerves started to drip away. I am all for both the bride and groom doing a speech at a wedding. I don't care that it is not 'traditional' for a bride to speak, why shouldn't she?!

"The date that it all began was Friday the 13^th of July 2007. Some may say that Friday 13^this bad luck but I clearly disagree.  The night that we met, I was working and The Husband was with Zok, his best man today, at The Long room.

The Husband, being the gentleman that he is, not without ulterior motives of course, offered to help me out and fill in a survey that I had been roped in to doing. Once he filled it out, he told me to make sure that I kept it for myself, rather than submitting it to the boss. He asked if he could call me and then I did not hear from him for nearly 3 weeks. 

*Insert 'Real Smooth' cat calls from the guests here*

 Whenever we would arrange to go on a date, something would come up and I would have to cancel. I don’t know what caused him to continue to bother to try and see me, but I am glad he did. I was running an hour and a half late for our first date, certain that he would not wait for me, but he did and took me to Crown Casino to get me drunk, knowing that I was still on P Plates, could not drink and drive, and would not be able to escape easily. 

*The Husband cannot believe I put this in the speech, he thinks it makes him look terrible!!!*

After our first argument, The Husband turned up unannounced at my house to talk things through.  He told me he had a gift for me, and being the girl that I am – I expected flowers, chocolate or, jewelry if he was really sorry.  Instead, he pulled out this…… A magic 8 ball.

 I thought to myself, what am I going to do with this? It does nothing for me!!

He told me to ask it anything.  I asked it the one important, albeit premature question, ‘would we get married?’ and the answer was “No”.

It didn’t offer me much clarity, but I am glad we proved it wrong and I should probably stop looking to it for guidance from now on as it is rarely accurate. 

*Throws Magic 8 Ball*

The morning that The Husband proposed to me, we had just finished eating a big breakfast and I was lying on the bed rubbing my full stomach and complaining that I was a fat cow, and instead of saying anything to me, such as "No, you look great!!", He came and got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. 

It took a good 5 minutes to believe that he was serious, and after I made him get back down on one knee and propose all over again, I said yes as quickly as I could. The fact that I was complaining about being fat proves that love is either blind, or has selective hearing. 

Up until today, the day that he proposed was the happiest day of my life.

We have been planning this wedding since January 2010, for 600 days exactly.

I didn’t think that I wanted the big white wedding, and whilst in Las Vegas last December I went as far as buying a white dress and trying to convince him to get married in a chapel by Elvis. He refused to do it, but after receiving the bill for the wedding, I am sure he is regretting that choice.  

As we did not read vows as part of our ceremony, I would like to promise some to you now, in front of all the people who love us:-

When you laugh, I will laugh

When you cry, I will cry  *This is where I really did cry during the speech*

When you sleep at night, I will be right there by your side

Wherever you go, I will follow

Wherever you stay, I will stay

I take you to be my best friend, my husband, my equal and my everything.

I promise to cherish you, honor you, love you, care for you, encourage you and bring you joy.

Whenever you are in need of me, I promise I’ll be there.

One constant in life, that I can guarantee you, is that I will be right there by your side.

Today has been the happiest day of my life, and I am certain that we will create many more happy memories together in the future. My life became better the moment I met you. I am so proud to be your wife.

I love you."

Did you do a speech at your wedding? If you are not married, are you planning on doing a speech?