I was the Best Man
My brother had his wedding this week and I was the best man. Of course, the thing that made me most nervous was the toast I was to offer the newly weds. After all, this was the first wedding I’ve been to since my mom’s nearly six years ago, and I can barely remember that. I prepared by browsing a few different sites that offered advice on how to give the speech, what to say, the parts the speech should have, and a variety of toasts. After a lot of searching and reading, I was much better informed, and had picked up a few one liners I could use as best man, but I didn’t have any content to my toast. So I sat down and just wrote. Everything came to me and it was nearly perfect. Even though as I spoke the content changed a little, I thought that I would share my toast here as I wrote it.
I’d like take a few moments to congratulate Jay and Laura on their marriage, but first, for those who do not know me, I’m Alex, Jay’s Brother, and until a few hours ago, the only person here, other than Jay, with “Weingarten” for a last name. I am absolutely honored to be the first to toast Jay and Laura here today because, after all these years, Jay has finally admitted that I am the best man
I’d like to thank Mr and Mrs Foley for coordinating such a wonderful reception, and for providing my brother the love of his life. I can remember when Jay and Laura met. Nights when we would hang out together bullshitting about sports or video games, or whatever, quickly deteriorated to him locked in his room on the phone with some mystery woman. Then I met her. It was the night of his prom, so she was all dolled up looking almost as beautiful as she does now. And I understood why he didn’t care about watching sports or playing video games with me any more.
It’s always been a little hard to be Jay’s little brother. He left some huge shoes to fill. And I’ve tried my hardest to fill them, but if I am able to be half as lucky with love as he has been and find a wife half as amazing as Laura, I will consider myself blessed. So let us raise our glasses to Jay and Laura, may love permeate their souls, and bind them together in eternal happiness.
I took a lot of pic with Dan’s camera, most of which are uploaded to my photo site. If you have any photos, let me know so I can get you a log in so you can upload them and to share them with everyone else!