A sample wedding speech cannot provide for the myriad of circumstances and cultures, each of which demands a slightly different performance from a person who addresses the guests at a celebration. Nevertheless, there are some points that can perhaps be repeated across many cultural and value systems, and across the ages.
This sample contains only the three essential ingredients of a wedding speech. Thanks, a statement of intent and acknowledgments. These elements have always been important and probably always will be. In reality the speech would be longer and more witty
Ladies and gentlemen, let me first thank you all for coming to celebrate this day with us. Although we have been living together for ten years now, our wedding marks our commitment to our family of four.
Our commitment to each other has not wavered over the past decade. Our children have cemented our relationship and we have no reason to marry other than to make a full, public and legally binding statement of our spiritual union.
I am no longer Jean's partner, but her husband, and she is my wife. Being husband and wife means more to us than being partners. As partners we co-operated but retained our independence. As husband and wife we have given to each other the ultimate that we have to give, our independence. We have done that reciprocally, knowing full well what it means, and happy to do it. This is our cause for celebration.
No wedding speech can be complete without thanks to people who have been especially important in helping to make the day a special one for us. In particular we wish to thank our parents on both sides for being supportive and for stepping in to help financially though we have procrastinated for so long! And then there is my Grandmother, the sole representative of the previous generation. You are a special person here today Grandma. We hope you will enjoy the celebration and that it will show you how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
This sample contains only the three essential ingredients of a wedding speech. Thanks, a statement of intent and acknowledgments. These elements have always been important and probably always will be. In reality the speech would be longer and more witty
Ladies and gentlemen, let me first thank you all for coming to celebrate this day with us. Although we have been living together for ten years now, our wedding marks our commitment to our family of four.
Our commitment to each other has not wavered over the past decade. Our children have cemented our relationship and we have no reason to marry other than to make a full, public and legally binding statement of our spiritual union.
I am no longer Jean's partner, but her husband, and she is my wife. Being husband and wife means more to us than being partners. As partners we co-operated but retained our independence. As husband and wife we have given to each other the ultimate that we have to give, our independence. We have done that reciprocally, knowing full well what it means, and happy to do it. This is our cause for celebration.
No wedding speech can be complete without thanks to people who have been especially important in helping to make the day a special one for us. In particular we wish to thank our parents on both sides for being supportive and for stepping in to help financially though we have procrastinated for so long! And then there is my Grandmother, the sole representative of the previous generation. You are a special person here today Grandma. We hope you will enjoy the celebration and that it will show you how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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