stueykins

For those of you who have tried to make out what I said during my “speech”.. this is what I originally wrote, it takes as long to read as it did to write so please forgive me any soppy stuff and corny bits… I just tried to write what I felt.. I fell short.. but the thought was there

I’d like to thank you all for being here to help us celebrate this day, I’d like you all to join me in raising your glasses in toast to Carole who looks stunning as bridesmaid, for doing all the bridesmaidy stuff so well, and handling with ease such a big job for such a small person .

I would also like to take a moment to offer a very special thank you to Pam and Dennis, for bringing into this world someone for me to love so dearly, and raising her to be daft enough to love me back.

But most of all I’d like to thank Wendy, I was pretty sure what to expect when I knew she’d be at my brothers wedding… after all, We’d met before… ok, so I was only 12 last time, but so what. Boy was I wrong.  Suddenly there she was, and I’m not sure whether I felt more like I’d won the lottery… or been hit by a truck. It was one of those moments you read about but never really believe, lightening, bells, choirs of angels and all the trimmings. And there was me… convinced she wouldn’t even notice I existed. In truth, until that moment I had only half existed. part of me had always been missing. The more time I spent with Wendy the more I felt that I had found out what was missing… or more to the point, WHO was missing, I didn’t fall in love with Wendy so much as discover that I had always loved her and was just waiting for her to show me the truth.

If all the world is a stage, and all the people merely players… I’d like to thank the writers director and casting manager for my part. I may never win an Oscar, but I will put everything I have into filling the role I have been given as husband to the real star of my life.

Finally I’d like to offer a big thank you to the best of best men, Ben,… but as Wendy has been uncharacteristically quiet for so long I’ll do the husbandly thing and shut up while she makes a better job of it

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