Humorous Wedding Speech By A Student

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Good Morning everyone! Welcome friends, family, teachers, God our Father, and most importantly the St. Timothy graduates of 2017. I would like to start by saying thank you for the opportunity to stand here and address you all this morning. We sit here today on the precipice of the future. It is not a distant reality anymore. It begins here, and it begins today. We have a unique class sitting before us. Look at us! Strong, determined, witty, and almost always running on coffee. We rose this morning with a significant sense of freedom. I believe that the Class of 2017 can be compared to an orchard, containing many trees grown from branches with different roots. Some of us began our school life here, in Cochrane. Others began in different provinces, and different countries across the sea, like myself, who did not move to Canada until 2014. As the winds of time blew by, our roots came together to grow in unity through God to successfully bring us here today. The wind carried my sails here to Canada almost 3 years ago. To be honest, I did not know what to expect. Like the cycle of a growing tree, I was a sapling, …show more content…

Whether they could make it today or not, they deserve to be congratulated on their benevolent, candid, and sometimes audacious methods of picking us up when we’re down. Friendship is essential for success. Friends share our laughter, heal our sorrow, and support our goals. A quote from Sir David Baird, “Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm; to find shade from the blazing sun; to climb its branches to get a better view, and to swing from when we’re happy.” If you have not thanked your family, friends, and teachers prior to this moment, you certainly should after. None of us could have gotten here without them. They taught us how to be better people. They made sure we got to this day, and many of them are here now to see us transition into the next part of our

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