Wedding Toast
My bestest friend, Michell, was my wonderful maid-of-honor for my wedding. She gave an absolutely beautiful toast during our Wedding Reception, and I wanted to share it with everyone.
Michell --- you are truly a wonderful person, and I am very lucky to have you in my life. We've been through a lot, and I will cherish those memories for a lifetime. I look forward to the future, and all our new memories!
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Hello! I'd like to take a moment to say, Stephanie, you look absolutely beautiful today! And Bob, well, you don't clean up too bad either...
I am honored to stand here today with all of you as we witness my best friend Stephanie marry the love of her life and her very best friend Bob.
For those of you who may not know me, my name is Michell. Stephanie and I have been friends for about 7 years now, since she worked at the
I knew being friends with Stephanie would be an adventure right from the start. The first time we ever hung out together, neither of us had much money. We decided to just rent a DVD, get a frozen pizza and go back to her place. As I recall, the DVD player wouldn't work, and in our extended efforts to figure out the problem, we overcooked the pizza, so badly in fact, that it was too tough to cut with a regular knife and the pizza cutter was M.I.A. We ended up half cutting, half tearing the pizza into shreds with a pair of kitchen shears while watching re-runs of Friends. To top it all off, her beloved cat, Zelie, growled and spanked my rear every time I walked past his perch on the chair.
I'm happy to say, the first thing I bought Stephanie and Bob when they purchased their new home was a new, sharp pizza cutter, and Zelie and I have become quite special friends in the years since.
Over the years, many more adventures followed. From road trips to cruise ships, shopping sprees and ice cream quests, bizarre movies (I'll never understand Vanilla Sky Stephanie), nights at the ballpark, countless radio contests and more concerts than my bank account cares to remember. Even the occasional run in with unexpected public nudity. Whatever Stephanie and I were doing, you could bet it was an adventure—for us at least. She has been a great friend to me in so many ways, and has always been there for me when things were tough. We've come to know one another so well, that we have an understanding that goes beyond words.
But when Stephanie decided to get back into the dating scene, it was an adventure I was not prepared to follow her on. She always kept me included though, and I could expect my daily phone call or emails filling me in on the crazy guy she met the night before or the funny email another prospect sent her that day. Among my favorites were Chicken Fingers Steve, who, true to his name, would only eat chicken fingers or, when pressed, hamburgers, and
I knew Bob was different right away though, not because of what Stephanie told me about him, but because she didn't tell me about him at all. I had always got the low down on any other guy immediately; his age, where he lived, what he did for a living, things they talked about etc. But with Bob, I never knew he existed until after their first date, even though she had been talking to him for quite a while beforehand.
As she sat in my kitchen that day, telling me about their date the weekend before, her eyes had a little glow in them, and she had a funny little smile I had never seen before. When she paused 20 minutes after she began to finally take a breath, I quickly interjected that this guy seemed like a good one and she should keep him around! Frankly, since this was the first I had even heard of him, I was just impressed that he had floor seats to the Cavs! But I didn't tell her that at the time.
From then on, Stephanie and Bob were inseparable. It all felt right as it happened, it all feels right today, and I know that the life they have ahead of them will feel just as right in the future.
It can be hard to share your best friend with someone else, but I have been thrilled to share Stephanie with Bob. He has made her happier than I have ever seen her. All in all, I can see you both making a success of everything you do together, especially in your marriage. I know you have a wonderful foundation: not just lovers, but lifelong friends as well. The love you show each other is inspiring and beautiful and I look forward to seeing it continue to grow.
Stephanie, I want to say thank you for being my friend. You always make things entertaining and exciting. I am proud to be your friend. You're a giving person, you're always there if I need you, and I just love you to bits. Even though you made me give a speech today.
Separately, you are two special, remarkable people, but together you are complete. As you sit side by side through this roller coaster of life, remember to scream from the peaks, hold hands through the dips, laugh through the loop the loops, and enjoy every twist and turn.
For the ride is much better when you share it together. And it's a wonderful thing when two people who were made for each other manage to fall in love.
posted by WWLeaderStephanie @ 10/27/2007 09:30:00 PM
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