Fucking T minus 24 hours FFS!!!
I added more last night.
Good afternoon everyone. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Gary, Alan's Best Man.
I would like to thank Jennifer, Alan and their families for inviting us to celebrate their marriage with them on this beautiful day.
The large turnout in this room is truly a testament to the love, that we together have for Jennifer and Alan as well as the love they have for each other.
Thank you to all those who have made it here today.
I am especially glad to be here on this occasion to celebrate this wonderful day with my friend.
Jennifer, I have gotten to know you since you met Alan and I am so proud of my Best Friend that he has married such a caring, beautiful, warm, loving girl like yourself. Ladies like you don’t come along too often in life and I mean the word “lady” in every sense, you are the perfect couple.”
I've known Alan for over 15 years (Look at Jen) Good luck. We met over our mutual love of music, More than just a long-time friend who has always been there for me, Alan is one of the finest people I have had the privilege to know. He’s honest, sincere, loyal and intelligent.
During our 15 years of friendship we have had good times, and great times, and yes, that does include Wednesday nights at Darcys, when you have a moment you want to ask alan about that.
I remember the first time we went to Norwich and we hired a boat out for the day. Alan was driving like a man possesed, all of 5 mph, nearly had me out of the boat a few times, we decided to moor up outside this pub, stop off and have something to eat. So i get out, moor up the boat and start wandering into the pub thinking Alan was following behind. Must have been in there about 2 minutes and thought it strange Alan hadn't come in yet, so i go outside and notice he is still sat in the boat, engine running, asked if he was ok he just said, i don't know how to switch the engine off, bit baffled i asked if he had removed the key out of the ignition, he had but boat was still running, so were both sat in this moored up boat scratching our heads wondering how to turn the engine off, almost 10 minutes must have passed when a couple got into their boat opposite, so Alan asked if they knew how to turn the engine off, turns out you had to pull out a lever that was right next to the ignition so, when alan finally managed to turn off the engine,he got a nice round of applause from the people sat outside the pub.
This is a guy who wants to drive trains!!!
Apart from being a brilliant artist, Alan has a bit of songwriting in him. Just going back to our love of music, there was a moment we thought we could be the next Lennon and McCartney, we'd write songs and record them, me on guitar, Alan on Bass and a drum machine. Alan was obsessed about putting an echo on almost everything we did which i've never understood to this day, to this day, to this day, to this day..
Over a few weeks We had about 10 maybe 12 songs when one day out of the blue, Alan had decided to send a CD of our songs to be reviewed, now these were pretty rough demos at best. About 2 weeks after sending off these songs Alan called me and asked if i'd seen the music reviews as our songs where on there, i'll be honest i was kind of dreading it but i was going to look anyways...............One and a half out of 5.......could have been worse.
That's where we thought, maybe were more Robson and Jerome than a Lennon and McCartney and called it a day.
That's enough from me i think.
I'd like you all to raise your glasses now and join me in wishing Jennifer and Alan all the very best on their marriage and may it be a very long and happy one.
To Jennifer and Alan, thank you.
I'd also like to propose a toast to the chief Bridesmaid and bridesmaids who i think you'll all agree look beautiful.
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