Sunday, June 27, 2004
Re: [famous_quotes] Wedding quotes
>Hi, I'm currently preparing for a wedding this coming december. I
>need wedding quotes. Can anybody give me some?
>
>Thanks, Emily
>
Here is my speech on my proudest day as father of the bride.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I will try to follow the advice that a university president
once gave a prospective speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an
Irish wake" he
said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one
expects you to say very much."
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I have never before
received so much advice on what to say, or rather on what not to say.
The
etiquette books outline what you should say then family and
friends tell you what not to say. These have ranged from the obvious,
You must
not embarrass your daughter, ight through to dire unnamed
consequences to be visited upon me by a certain guest if I asked him
to sing.But
no, for once in my life I am resolved to do the right thing.
First of all I must express my gratitude to certain people
today. And first of all to you all for all coming. Some have motored
over 200 miles
to be with us and I am pleased to have one guest from half
way round the world, New Zealand. I want to tank Derek and Thelma for
giving
me such a good husband for my lovely daughter, and to thank
them for all the practical help they have given us towards and on
this happy
day.
Parents are always concerned about who their child
befriends and then wants to marry. We are very thankful that our
children have all
chosen Christian partners from Christian families.
Education begins with our parents. If we have learned from them what
it means to love
and serve God , how to live together as a family, then we
have received the best possible preparation for married life in a
world where
marriage is increasingly devalued and scorned. So thank you
Derek and Thelma for all your help and for Adrian.
I should also like to thank the ladies of their church,
Oldfield Baptist for decorating the church and for the birthday tea.,
and also the
minister, Darren Hurst
Now there are lots of other people to be thanked, but I
have to leave those to Adrian in his speech. And it is to him, my
first son in law that i
now turn. To Adrian goes my warmest thanks for taking
Rachel as the new Mrs Little.However I have to say she comes to you
with a little
extra, namely father in laws advice. I don't think this can
be a bad thing because I have never heard a father in law joke, so
this must be a
serious matter too. After all I have had 26 years
experience of the life of this young lady, as well as 32 years
experience of marriage. So here
goes.
Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener...and
that is a positive thing.A man may be ignorant of his own faults, but
not if he is
married.Martin Luther said that There is no more lovely,
friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage.However, it is evident that There are two times
when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after
marriage.
Sigmund Freud wrote The great question that has never been
answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my
thirty years
of research into the feminine soul, is ``What does a woman
want?' Geoffrey Chaucer had given an answer 600 years before Women
desire
six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise,
rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. A more modern
feminine
perspective is this from Round the Horne where CELIA says,
: Oh Charles - a woman needs certain things. She needs to be loved,
wanted,
cherished,sought after, wooed, flattered, cosseted,
pampered. She needs sympathy, affection, devotion, understanding,
tenderness, infatuation,
adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man
your wife would have preferred. I can tell you now one sure and
certain thing about
Rachel, she prefers a man who does not embarrass her.This
is a lesson you must take to heard now. Failure to do so could have
dire
consequences.
Let me tell you a true story. It is July 1987 and 12 year
old Rachel has been at her farewell party at Christchurch School.
Father turns up to
take her home dressed somewhat less elegantly than I am
today. I was wearing a tattered pair of shorts at least ten years
old. Rachel asked to
go back into the dance to say goodbye to friends. I
followed her. Immediately she asked to go straight home . I said I
wanted to stay to
dance with one of the mothers there. No, says Rachel , You
are embarrassing me with those shorts. We left and for the next three
of four
years my daughter refused me any show of physical affection
whatsoever. no kisses, no hugs until the day she was walking out late
lamented dog and another hound attacked. I came to the
rescue, got a hug of gratitude and the past was forgiven.
So Adrian, beware. If you embarrass your wife you could be
in for a lonely time. Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is
responsible
for the maintenance work. All men should freely use those
seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly:
You
know dear, you may be right. To do this you have to learn
to listen My wife says I never listen to her. At least, I think
that's what she said.
Lyndon Johnson said I have learned that only two things are
necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having
her way.
And second, let her have it.
So I conclude with Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
That is what iIwill do now after I give you the toast, so
Please be upstanding, Ladies and gentleman, to the bride and groom
Rachel and
Adrian,
--
Graham J Weeks M.R.Pharm.S.
http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk/ Graham's Homepage
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>need wedding quotes. Can anybody give me some?
>
>Thanks, Emily
>
Here is my speech on my proudest day as father of the bride.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I will try to follow the advice that a university president
once gave a prospective speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an
Irish wake" he
said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one
expects you to say very much."
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I have never before
received so much advice on what to say, or rather on what not to say.
The
etiquette books outline what you should say then family and
friends tell you what not to say. These have ranged from the obvious,
You must
not embarrass your daughter, ight through to dire unnamed
consequences to be visited upon me by a certain guest if I asked him
to sing.But
no, for once in my life I am resolved to do the right thing.
First of all I must express my gratitude to certain people
today. And first of all to you all for all coming. Some have motored
over 200 miles
to be with us and I am pleased to have one guest from half
way round the world, New Zealand. I want to tank Derek and Thelma for
giving
me such a good husband for my lovely daughter, and to thank
them for all the practical help they have given us towards and on
this happy
day.
Parents are always concerned about who their child
befriends and then wants to marry. We are very thankful that our
children have all
chosen Christian partners from Christian families.
Education begins with our parents. If we have learned from them what
it means to love
and serve God , how to live together as a family, then we
have received the best possible preparation for married life in a
world where
marriage is increasingly devalued and scorned. So thank you
Derek and Thelma for all your help and for Adrian.
I should also like to thank the ladies of their church,
Oldfield Baptist for decorating the church and for the birthday tea.,
and also the
minister, Darren Hurst
Now there are lots of other people to be thanked, but I
have to leave those to Adrian in his speech. And it is to him, my
first son in law that i
now turn. To Adrian goes my warmest thanks for taking
Rachel as the new Mrs Little.However I have to say she comes to you
with a little
extra, namely father in laws advice. I don't think this can
be a bad thing because I have never heard a father in law joke, so
this must be a
serious matter too. After all I have had 26 years
experience of the life of this young lady, as well as 32 years
experience of marriage. So here
goes.
Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener...and
that is a positive thing.A man may be ignorant of his own faults, but
not if he is
married.Martin Luther said that There is no more lovely,
friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage.However, it is evident that There are two times
when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after
marriage.
Sigmund Freud wrote The great question that has never been
answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my
thirty years
of research into the feminine soul, is ``What does a woman
want?' Geoffrey Chaucer had given an answer 600 years before Women
desire
six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise,
rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. A more modern
feminine
perspective is this from Round the Horne where CELIA says,
: Oh Charles - a woman needs certain things. She needs to be loved,
wanted,
cherished,sought after, wooed, flattered, cosseted,
pampered. She needs sympathy, affection, devotion, understanding,
tenderness, infatuation,
adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man
your wife would have preferred. I can tell you now one sure and
certain thing about
Rachel, she prefers a man who does not embarrass her.This
is a lesson you must take to heard now. Failure to do so could have
dire
consequences.
Let me tell you a true story. It is July 1987 and 12 year
old Rachel has been at her farewell party at Christchurch School.
Father turns up to
take her home dressed somewhat less elegantly than I am
today. I was wearing a tattered pair of shorts at least ten years
old. Rachel asked to
go back into the dance to say goodbye to friends. I
followed her. Immediately she asked to go straight home . I said I
wanted to stay to
dance with one of the mothers there. No, says Rachel , You
are embarrassing me with those shorts. We left and for the next three
of four
years my daughter refused me any show of physical affection
whatsoever. no kisses, no hugs until the day she was walking out late
lamented dog and another hound attacked. I came to the
rescue, got a hug of gratitude and the past was forgiven.
So Adrian, beware. If you embarrass your wife you could be
in for a lonely time. Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is
responsible
for the maintenance work. All men should freely use those
seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly:
You
know dear, you may be right. To do this you have to learn
to listen My wife says I never listen to her. At least, I think
that's what she said.
Lyndon Johnson said I have learned that only two things are
necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having
her way.
And second, let her have it.
So I conclude with Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
That is what iIwill do now after I give you the toast, so
Please be upstanding, Ladies and gentleman, to the bride and groom
Rachel and
Adrian,
--
Graham J Weeks M.R.Pharm.S.
http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk/ Graham's Homepage
9329 quotes 633 topics, 2156 authors indexed, 769 links
http://www.donkeyworks.com/ipc/ Our church
http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Christiansquoting Daily quotes
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