Ladies and Gentlemen: Greetings to you all!
I am the bride’s Dad. As a parent, and on behalf of Vivian’s Mom, I’m glad to say something from the bottom of my heart. Just now, when I held my daughter’s hand walking down the corridor I suddenly remembered the first time I held her hand. We were at the hospital, her mom and I both held her hands to welcome her to this world, to our family. She lived with us and grew with us. I remember when she was two and a half year’s old, she got scalded by boiling water because of my mistake. She got three-degree burns, yet at the hospital bed, she held my hand and said ‘Dad, I’m not in pain’. She gave me strength. I remember when she was at the age for kindergarten, I went to teach at a factory built
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I said it’s the teacher’s fault for not asking the right questions. Upon hearing my words, her cute innocent face filled with relieve. I remember, after school, when I held her high above playing a little airplane, and how happily we ran upstairs back to our home! She filled our lives with joy and happiness. I remember the time when we did not intervene with her decision to give up further study and to move to San Francisco for work following Mr. Glan. At the Thanksgiving Day in 2013, she sent us a letter to thank us for understanding. I remember when we read the letter, how her mother teared. At that moment we felt that she had grown up, and we were also growing and maturing. Vivian, from now on you would make your own decisions. Whenever we think about how you are leaving us and starting a new family we would become so reluctant to let you go. What Dad wants to tell you is that a marriage is not like one plus one equals two, but two halves make a one. After marriage, you two would need to lose half of your personalities in order to make a happy family. Marriage is not to possess another soul, but two souls forming an organic unity. Believe me, for I’ve
Good evening. I would like to begin by welcoming each and every one of you to this joyous and stressful occasion.
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen - I must admit, I am more nervous about participating in this wedding than I was as the groom (bridegroom) at my own wedding. Maybe it's because I have been married thirty years and I know what my son is getting himself in to!
Well, good afternoon everyone, for those of you that don?t know me my name is Lee and I?m Janie?s dad, and in keeping with tradition, it is my honor and privilege to deliver the ?Father of the Bride Speech?. Having to make this speech is one of the few opportunities in a married man?s life when he is allowed to do all of the talking...and I intend to make the most of it.
Distinguished guests, those of dubious distinction and those of no distinction, family, relatives, in-laws and outlaws, young and old, friends, friends of friends, freeloaders and hangers-on – let me extend a warm welcome to Meradith and Naren’s wedding reception celebration.
The family coordinator commented, “Kayla is 4 and could have possibly went to the More at Four program which is a federal fund preschool program within Durham Public school, but I am not sure they have space available.”
It is apparent from the opening few lines of this speech that the groom has an excellent relationship with the bride's parents and this can be really useful, not just in the future, for obvious reasons, but it can also make the speech more humorous. This speech is also a good example of using events in history that happened on the same date as a source of humor.
Thank you for your kind words, I am very proud to be your son-in-law; I hope I can live up to your expectations. I would sincerely like to thank you for welcoming me into your family, for bringing up such a lovely daughter, and for giving me your blessing to marry her.
The groom has used the wedding date as a source for funny lines, comparing their marriage with celebrity couples for comic effect.
I can still remember that small enclosed, claustrophobic room containing two armed chairs and an old, brown, paisley print couch my dad and I were sitting on when he told me. “The doctors said there was little to no chance that your mother is going to make it through this surgery.” Distressed, I didn’t know what to think; I could hardly comprehend those words. And now I was supposed to just say goodbye? As I exited that small room, my father directed me down the hospital hallway where I saw my mother in the hospital bed. She was unconscious with tubes entering her throat and nose keeping her alive. I embraced her immobile body for what felt like forever and told her “I love you” for what I believed was the last time. I thought of how horrific it was seeing my mother that way, how close we were, how my life was going to be without her, and how my little sisters were clueless about what was going on. After saying my farewells, I was brought downstairs to the hospital’s coffee shop where a million things were running
I sat in her room at her house with my Mom, Dad and Sister. She was asleep, curled up in a ball, rejecting any medicine we tried giving her. We knew her time with us was almost up but we didn’t want to admit it just yet. It was hard to look at her in the condition she was in: cold, skinny, and pale. My heart was aching and my mind was racing. I knew it wasn’t long before I had to say my goodbyes, but I didn’t want to face reality. Before leaving, I leaned over her hospital bed, hugged her tight, kissed her on her cheek, and said, “I love you.” She opened her eyes and said “I love you” back, with the strength she didn’t seem to have the entire day. That night, my heart was at
"So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." (John 20:25 NIV) "You should have been there!" Most of us have had that experience where we missed it.
I remembered one night getting on my knees and asking God to send me a child that will love me unconditionally and that I will love it and that know one could ever take the love that we both shared away. I also, remembered telling God that I would love this child forever, you know God granted me my wish it was on a Thursday evening on August 16, 1979 at 4:20 P.M. that my little angel was born she was a sweet little angel. She was very special my family, she was the first granddaughter, great-granddaughter and the first niece and her father’s first of his two children to witness coming to this world. I remember when she was just a week old I laid her down on her stomach in my bed, she tried to crawl. La Shundra, was very happy and loved baby, she was so special she touch the hearts of everyone that came to know her even when, she was at her worst until the day she died.
After I was checked for any diseases and defects, the doctors handed me to my dad who carried me in his strong, firm arms. However, I cried incessantly until I was placed in the hands of one special person. When I saw my mother, I stopped crying and admired her beauty. Her glowing brown eyes complimented her curly black hair and tan skin. However, her protective aura and gentle arms gave me a comforting feeling.
Hello everyone, may I have everybody’s undivided attention for a handful of minutes? First and foremost, I would like to thank every single one of you for coming to celebrate the life and achievement of Tori. Let all congratulate our "newly-born", Tori, on her 31st birthday!
When we were leaving very early in the morning last month, to take Tori off the college for the first time, my mom sent me a text. It was just four short words. “Love you. Be brave.” It was her prayer to me as I struggled to let go of my first child, to send her off into the big world and hope that she would embrace her new home, do well, but perhaps most importantly as a mom, that no one would break her heart and that she would be safe. I have pondered since that text as to why those words changed my entire day. Why I was able to drive to Chestertown that day, be there for the entire day, unpacking and taking in that we would go home with one less family member in the car and that our lives had changed dramatically in that moment. I