Wedding Speech from the Bride – Inspiration and Examples

Marcus and I bought a house four years ago that the estate agent called 'full of character,' which we later learned meant no insulation, a chimney that leaned visibly to the left, and a bathroom last touched in 1974. I bring this up because that house has taught me more about Marcus than any date ever could.

We moved in the week before Christmas with no working boiler, and I distinctly remember sitting on the kitchen floor crying over a bag of frozen peas because the freezer had died along with everything else. Marcus sat down next to me, picked one pea up off the floor, and said, completely calmly, 'We'll fix it. One room at a time.' That's just who he is. He doesn't panic. He finds the next step.

We've torn up floors, repainted the same ceiling three times because I couldn't commit to a shade of white, and spent more Saturdays than I can count with our hands full of grout instead of each other. And at some point I realized it was never really about the house. It was about learning to keep going — with a project, with each other, with something that doesn't finish in a day.

— Wedding speech, the bride