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Wedding Speech for a Maid of Honor or Best Woman Essay

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Wedding Speech for a Maid of Honor or Best Woman

Good evening. I would like to thank all of you for attending this joyful occasion.

For those of you that don't know me, I'm Hanah's friend Erica, sometimes known as "Natasha" or "Hanah's foot taller twin sister". I'm sure you read in the playbill/program that I used to work with her in the accounting department. We hit it off from the start - both having a love for drama, we spent not only our working days together but every night as well. We got into trouble a lot for talking too much - so much that it became necessary to write notes, crumple them up and throw them at each other when no one was looking.

Through the years we kept in contact while she went away to College and I …show more content…

So when he asked her out for the next weekend she not only brought me, but also my husband and 2 children as well. "This wasn't a date!" she would say. He survived meeting all of us - plus my child barfing on me at dinner, but Hanah was still unsure of him. The next night they came over for dinner and Hanah broke one of my dinning room chairs, but he still stuck around. I thought - "Oh yeah, this guy likes her." I lit some candles for "ambiance" and the next day I was told she had booked the church.

A month or so later, I helped Ray get the ring and think up this completely romantic way of proposing: We were to dip the ring box in chocolate and put it in a candy box, take it to her school and then he'd propose in-front of her class. Well, I had forgotten to get chocolate to cover the ring box, so I melted some old Christmas candy: Hershey Kisses with almonds -( I DON'T suggest that to anyone ) it never hardened completely, but we put it in the chocolate box and went off to her school. Ray wanted me to come along and take pictures, but I had my kids with me - so we decided to wait for her to come out of her class. I had a video camera, my children were running around wild, Ray seemed to be pretty calm - just really giddy. Hanah finally came out and Lauren ran up to her, she saw the camera and started laughing. Ray went up to her and told her he bought this box of candy for her and Hanah was like: "But I'm hungry, let's get lunch." Not being

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