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Wedding Speech by Brother of Bride Essay

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Good evening everyone. Hope you are all having a great time. I will try to keep this brief as I am eagerly anticipating that part of the night when the best man humiliates the groom. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Craig, Rebecca’s oldest brother. The middle child Trent, is seat over there. He is going to love me saying that When Rebecca first asked me some weeks ago if I would make a speech today my first thought was WHY? But then as I sat down to put pen to paper and goggled wedding speeches last night, I was overwhelmed by strange feelings of happiness and pride for my baby sister and her big day. I have been sternly warned not to delve into any of her past relationships, her difficult pre- and post-teen attitude and her …show more content…

As some point we started to here the name Matt come into conversation but as I wasn’t living at home anymore, mum kicked me out at 25, it was some time until I had the pleasure of meeting this new young man. By the time I did it was too late. The cheeky bugger was already sitting at my seat at the dinner table. The bloody nerve of the guy! It appeared he had already won over Mum & Dad but Trent and I where immune to his cheap tricks and transparent charm. You see, we had seen them all before, we had used them ourselves. Saying Matt has a good appetite would be an understatement. I am pretty good on the tooth myself, but I have never seen someone put away as much food (and BBQ sauce) as Matt. Monday night dinner at Mum and Dad’s would never again see the existence of leftovers. This helped no end in getting into Mum’s good books. If you eat and like mum’s food, your in. Dad on the other hand was harder to crack. You see with no leftovers, what was he going to take to work for lunch the next day. Matt had is work cut out, or so we thought. Dad enjoys a beer after work and has the typical beer fridge in the garage. So when Matt came over he would always ask if anyone wanted a beer. Thus Matt became Dad’s personal 6 foot 7 beer wench. On the surface this looks like a win win situation. Dad gets a beer brought to him and in turn Matt gets in favour with Dad and gets to drink Dad’s beer. Very cunning indeed! The problem is that Dad had been a

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