Wedding Speech
I hope you like it…. mind you it’s 9pm and i’ll probably re-revise this about 200 times before the early hours of tomorrow morning ….
Loving all your work
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I have thought long and hard on what to say on this day about the marriage of my younger brother matt, to his beautiful bride, Leigh. I?m really not sure if I?m going to get it right, but I?m going to try to share with you a few moments of my thoughts, and hopefully, one day, just maybe, I?ll be lucky enough to have someone standing up here making a speech for me.
When Matt asked me to be a part of the wedding party, I balked… I mean do you know how much it costs to hire this suit……. OK.. bad jokes aside 
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When Matt asked me to be a part of the wedding party I started to consider in my head what love means to me, and in particular, the way it affects us, the way it touches us, and most importantly, the way it chooses us.
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I have been blessed to witness some amazing relationships at work over both the short and long term. I have learnt, above all else, that love is hard work, dedication, honesty, reverence, patience and laughter. It?s also tears and heartache, bad days, weeks and months when nothing seems to be working and nothing seems right. I did find a common theme amongst all of these relationships: for love to work you need to work at it.
When I think of love I think we all think about the good times, of all the Kodak moments, of all the happy memories. But the reality of love is in the day-to-day, the sharing of moments, the personal and spiritual growth and the ability to see each other how nobody else sees you. When you allow yourself to love you give yourself to something you?re not really in control, merely a part of.
On the other side of my thoughts was the feeling that love chooses us, as has been proven thousands of times in the past. Cupid will string his bow, choose his target and you are captured under his spell. Of course cupids spell is more likely to be the smell of her perfume or the way she looks most beautiful in the mornings. It can also be the way he has brought home roses and shared his innermost thoughts on least expectation. Love chooses us because it?s more powerful than we are. Though to make love work you must work at it.
Love has chosen the both of you. It has cast it?s spell upon you and delivered you to each other. By what means you had the opportunity to meet we will never know, nor should we really ever ask. My only advice to you is to remember to put in the hard work, take the time and give yourself wholly, for that is the only way love can prosper.
Finally, I never thought about having a sister until I realised that I get all the benefits and none of the disadvantages. It?s the perfect situation?.. no bathroom stealing, no ?my brothers a stupid head? name-calling and definitely no strange boys being brought home that I have to try to beat up because they?re not good enough for my opposite sex sibling
Though, of course, and this does go without saying, I know some of Matt?s deepest and darkest secrets of which I?m sure I?ll be sharing a few with leigh at the conclusion of these speeches ?. Well, maybe after a few alcoholic beverages have been consumed!
Today I don?t lose a brother to a bride, I gain a new generation of the Joy family into my life. I can?t think of a better memory of this day for many many years to come. So without further adue, I welcome Mr and Mrs Joy, Matt and Leigh into all of our worlds.
May you remain as happy as you are today.
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