WEDDING SPEECH

GREETING

• Good evening everyone and welcome.
• I must warn you, I am not very good at public speaking but I learned that you should picture the audience naked.
• I have been asked many times to give give a speech, this is my first at a geriatric wedding.

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• Ek and jy have been in a relationship for

WHAT IS MARRIAGE

• Marriage is the intimate Union and equal partnership of a man and a woman. It comes to us from the hand of God, who created man and women so they can multiply.
• Though man and woman are equal they are created with differences that allow them to give themselves and receive the other as a gift.

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• Isn't that beautiful.
• And this Union comes with a ready made family. those that think they know what intimate refers to' we don't only mean sex.
• So not only do I get a skoon ou I get a new brother and sister

MARRIAGE IS NOT

• 1. Marriage is not for sissies. It’s hard work. 2. Marriage is not about getting what you want all the time. It’s not a dictatorship. 3. Marriage is not rocket science. The principles it’s based on are really pretty simple. Kindness. Respect. Loyalty.

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• 4. Marriage is not unfashionable. It stays vital. 5. Marriage is not in and of itself stimulating. Since you are with the same person over a long time, the two of you can get in a rut. You have to keep things fresh. 6. Marriage is not about collecting things. The joys of marriage aren’t tangible. You live them.

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• 7. Marriage is not for the impatient. Some of the best stuff takes a while to develop. You have to stick around to find that out. 8. Marriage is not the place for criticism. For abuse. If it is found there, it will ruin any chance of true intimacy or trust and dissolve the hope that once might have

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• 9. Marriage is not a 24-hour repair shop. Your marital partner is not supposed to meet your every need. Some of those needs you may have to take care of yourself. 10. Marriage is not self-sustaining. It does not thrive on its own.

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• 11. Marriage is not boring. Two lives woven together can be quite exciting! There’s just something about watching someone very different from you, living their life in an extremely different way. Up close and personal. You learn from that. 12. Marriage is not without conflict. Knowing how to disagree and working through anger and disappointment is probably the key to lots of stuff going well.

MARRIAGE IS.

• 1.Marriage is the potential for an intense, deep and diverse intimacy. Sexual. Emotional. Relational. 2. Marriage is knowing someone has your back. Always and You have theirs. 3. Marriage is realizing that you have been seen in your worst times, with the "Sool kous and without your teeth" and that you are still loved.

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• 4. Marriage is sharing old jokes. Or some story that may be told over and over but it still makes you laugh ‘til you are left gasping for breath. 5. Marriage is getting teary-eyed together. 6. Marriage is thinking about the other one not being there anymore. And not being able to think about it.

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• 7. Marriage is getting irritated by the things that always irritate you. Have irritated you for 24 years. Will irritate you for 24 more. And tolerating it because the good stuff out way the bad. 8. Marriage is not being able to wait to get home to share something that happened during your day.

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• 9. Marriage is wishing you were the one having the operation. Or the illness. Not her/her. 10. Marriage is sometimes fighting. Trying to slowly learn to fight more fairly. To apologize. To listen. To learn. To find resolution.

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• 11. Marriage is about vulnerability. Giving someone the right to hurt or disappoint you. While simultaneously giving that someone the opportunity to bring you tremendous joy and laughter. 12. Marriage is a promise. A vow. To try the hardest you have ever tried in your life.