Wedding Speech from Parents – Inspiration and Examples

Ethan built his first fort when he was four years old. It was a duvet, two dining chairs, and a clothes peg holding the whole thing together, and he insisted I knock before entering. I assumed at the time it was a phase. It turned out to be a lifestyle.

Over the years the forts got bigger and more ambitious — there was a stretch where he'd built an entire corridor out of sofa cushions that nobody in the house was allowed to touch for three weeks. He's always had this gift for building something that felt safe, and then inviting in the people he loved.

When Ethan introduced me to Claire, I thought immediately: there she is — the one he knocks for. Claire, you carry a stillness that stops my otherwise restless son in his tracks. I've watched the two of you sitting on a kitchen counter at two in the morning, deep in conversation about absolutely nothing, and thought: that's exactly what it should look like.

— Wedding speech, mother of the groom