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Maddie & Jared -- August 21st, 2010
I'm still processing everything that happened over this long, impossibly crazy and incredible weekend...my best friend's wedding. Below is the speech I made at the dinner, as the Maid of Honor. I wanted to preserve it here.
Dear Jared,
Today, my best friend became your wife. You know Maddie inside and out, but I carry a few stories in my heart—these treasures. And on this day of days, I wanted to give them to you.
She is grace. She is filled with stories, a limitless ability to believe in dreams—yours, hers. She will be there for you when you can't even be there for yourself. She will believe in you when you can no longer believe. She will sing your story back to you when you have forgotten it. With her by your side—you can't forget it.
If Maddie was a story, she'd be the kind that changes your life. The one that teaches you how good people can be, how generous and kind, how courageous and compassionate. How extraordinary. You would read it a million times, and still find something new, that ridiculous joke, that sideways smile that always preludes trouble, that spell that comes along when you least expect it, teaching you how to believe in magic.
She is precious. My best friend. My soul sister.
Your soul mate.
I wish you every beautiful day, every perfect moment. A happily ever after.
Dear Jared,
Today, my best friend became your wife. You know Maddie inside and out, but I carry a few stories in my heart—these treasures. And on this day of days, I wanted to give them to you.
She is grace. She is filled with stories, a limitless ability to believe in dreams—yours, hers. She will be there for you when you can't even be there for yourself. She will believe in you when you can no longer believe. She will sing your story back to you when you have forgotten it. With her by your side—you can't forget it.
If Maddie was a story, she'd be the kind that changes your life. The one that teaches you how good people can be, how generous and kind, how courageous and compassionate. How extraordinary. You would read it a million times, and still find something new, that ridiculous joke, that sideways smile that always preludes trouble, that spell that comes along when you least expect it, teaching you how to believe in magic.
She is precious. My best friend. My soul sister.
Your soul mate.
I wish you every beautiful day, every perfect moment. A happily ever after.