Humorous Wedding Speech: Eulogy For Father

First and foremost, I would like to thank all of you for all the time, love, prayers, and support for my family that you all have given over this difficult time. It means a lot to know how important my father, my best friend as well, has touched your lives in some way. I am not even used to him being gone yet. I am still in denial and I’m just imagining that he’s just on another business trip, as the hard worker he always was. When I was around three or four, before the divorce, I remember he’d go on many business trips and right before he was about to leave I would remove all of his clothes from his suitcase and climb in and zip it up. Unfortunately, seeing his clothes scattered in a pile right by his suitcase, he caught on pretty quickly and I hadn’t tricked him into taking me with him as I planned.

And me with my creative spirit sprinted to my room, grabbed my piggy bank and brought it back to him, desperate, and said “You can have it all, every cent, just please don’t leave me!” And every time he’d tell me that story he’d tear up and right now I’d give any piggy bank, any amount of money, anything to bring him home. My dad was my best friend, he’d do anything to keep me happy, always had my back, and we trusted each other with everything. We had our ups and downs and the downs were usually him just trying to teach me about life and I wish I had appreciated those moments a bit more. My dad wasn’t perfect but he certainly was honest, reliable, dependable, and would do anything to protect his