A CRY FOR ASSISTANCE- WEDDING SPEECH HELP!!!
I'm asking for a favor on behalf of my sister. Dale's wedding is tomorrow... she's the maid of honor so she has to give a speech. Normally Christina's speeches are comedy based- she's very clever and witty... but the groom is a dour sort of fellow, and doesn't lend himself well to comic speeches. So she needs some help. Can you guys volunteer your favorite romantic poems, phrases or quotes, which might be used for a wedding speech? |
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| Hmm.... how about something like from the Princess Bride: "Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us here togethaw today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam..." heehee Good luck. I think the crowd-pleaser speeches are the ones that have a little humour, a little sappiness, and a warm message at the end. ~Katie. |
I love that movie!!!! I've sent the quote to her 
anybody else??? |
| "Marriage, being a newlywed. Ahh yes. I've been happily married 5 years now (pause for a slow smatttering of applause). I've been married for 20.
"But seriously, I've been married for 20 years! (more applause) Seems like only yesterday....and you know what a lousy day yesterday was. "I can only hope that you are as happy as we are -- misery loves company. |
| THAT'S A GOOD ONE RON!
UNFORTUNATELY, IT ONLY WORKS IF THE SPEECH GIVER IS MARRIED... WHICH SHE ISNT... SHE'S SINGLE... WE'RE WORKING ON THAT  |
Looking for a happy blessed event type of speech, a humorous speech, or a my condolences speech?  |
| A happy one- the groom wouldn't appreciate the condolences, and the Mother of the bride wouldn't appreciate any raunchy humor...
She's getting closer... I got a rough draft from her. |
| I was kidding of course... LOL |
| I improvised the whole thing at my sister's wedding because, believe it or not, it was the first wedding I had ever stood up in. I didn't even realize I had to give a speech until someone mentioned it in the limo. Later that night my dad congratulated me for doing such a nice job "putting the speech together." I never told anyone I didn't prepare until right now. |
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STACE- YOU'LL HAVE TO EXCUSE ME... I'M SUCH A LITERALIST- IF THE SACRASM ISN'T OBVIOUS, IT GOES RIGHT OVER MY HEAD.... JILL- YOU'RE KILLING ME! MY SISTER DID THE BEST SPEECH AT OUR WEDDING... IT WAS A TOP 10 LIST OF WHY MIKE AND I ARE GOOD TOGETHER IT HAD EVERYBODY IN STITCHES! |
| She was asked, "knowing how she is". So, unless they've actually asked her to tone it down, I wouldn't worry about it. After all, there's ALWAYS something funny that happens at a wedding. Not many, if any, go as planned.
I'd tell her to be herself. Marriage is a serious thing, but without some humor it'd be hard to survive. Split it up, some humor about the bride, none for the groom, some for marriage itself, then end on a very serious note. Tell the groom to lighten up, you only live once. Come Oct. it'll be our 36th, and we're still laughing.  |
| I've read her draft- it'll be lovely. Dale's been having such family issues (can you say POWDER KEG?) over this wedding the more we, her friends, can do to make her event as peaceful and happy for her as we can, the better!!!
I'M EVEN GETTING MY HAIR CUT FOR IT... 
I'll let everyone know how it goes!!! |
| Short, simple, too the point and no huge personal stories...unless they are really really funny for the audience.
None of the "remember when"...(audience goes silence), "guess you had to be there, or that was a private joke...GROAN Save that stuff for private reminces. I think speeches are long, boring, and as a guest not fun to sit through. I like it when they say congratualtions, wish you all the best, love ya, and good luck, welcome to the family. What I did like one time was a video diary sort of, of both bride and groom, starting with their birth, through childhood, college...then as a couple, all the way to the wedding day....with digtal now you can include actual wedding pictures. It was very cool, set to soft music. At our wedding the best man, did not have notes, did not keep it short, and made absolutely no sense to anyone because he was thanking Rob for his support as he recovered from his bad car accident...and we could do nothing...he just went on and on. Thankfully everyone else just said their blessings, and a quick congrat's...It was horrible. |
| That's what made the top 10 list go so well- it was short, uproariously funny, and who doesn't like to poke fun at the bride and groom a little (i seem to remember jokes about being messy, and cat boxes...)
Our best man's speech was... not quite a disaster, but he had hard time with it. I felt bad for him... he tried really hard, but he was very shy, sorta stubmled through it, on top of which, his grandpa was giving him a really hard time (meanly, not jokingly) through the whole thing... which was very rude... Poor guy! |
| I WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW...
THE WEDDING WAS JUST LOVELY! AND CHRISTINA'S SPEECH WAS AWESOME! SHE EVEN MADE DALE (AND MY PARENTS ) TEAR UP!!!
MY HAIR IS NOW AT LEAST 14" SHORTER!!! THE GAL CUT IT A BIT SHORTER THEN I WAS EXPECTING... |
| What??? 14" shorter??
PICTURES!! |
Ok, so I know it has been a while, but I thought I'd update withafew pics from Dale's wedding. I'm sorry for the quality, my camera is stellar outside, but inside, not so much. I don't have good graphics editing software either...
this is a pic of my sister, Dale (my semi adopted sister) and me on the right... note the new hair. 
Here is all of my family from left to right: Mike, Me, Mark (groom) Dale (bride), my mom, my dad, and Chrisitina. She hated that dress, but I think it looked great on her! |
| Nice pic's kar....although a little dark..lol....LOVE your new hairdo! |
I KNOW  Maybe someone will take pity on me and clean them up a little? |
I can see enough to notice that you look great! The only picture I think I've seen of you is on the couch laying with Pip. It was a side view and your hair in a ponytail. You clean up nice...like me!  |
Iriskmj wrote: I KNOW
Maybe someone will take pity on me and clean them up a little?I fixed them both. Just grab them from the gallery when it's approved. |
Here we go! Soooo much better, thanks much Jill!
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| LOVE your hair! Very cute! |
| Very pretty, EVERYONE!!! |
| Do you have the original wedding speech? I was thinking of doing a top 10 list for my friends wedding but I can't think of a good topic sentence to start it |
| Oh Gosh! That was august 2004, so no, neither I or my sis have that anymore. But I can try to summarize what she said for you, to try to give you an idea!
She basically stood up and said that she knew how boring normal wedding toasts could be. She wanted to keep it short, and give everyone a who didn't know us very well a better insight into our personalities. So here was her top 10 desired wedding gift list for Mike and Karen. She went on to describe each "gift" she wanted for us, and why. I don't remember all of the "gifts" she came up with. My favorite two were maid service for a year (because I'm terrible at housework), and an automatic kitty litter box (so it would get done on a regular basis). I think she also included a video game gift certificate since Mike loves to play video games). I hope that gives you an idea of what she did! Good luck on your own speech. |
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